I love receiving email almost always. If you've got a suggestion or a helpful hint for me, please feel free to drop me a line! I need feedback in order to improve, so your constructive criticisms are always welcome.
Once in a while, a lost soul will eat a bowl of Grouchy-Os for breakfast and decide that it's a good time to try and transform the Very Merriest into the Very Miserablest. Your ideas on how to improve my site are ALWAYS welcome, but please, be nice to me! I'm always happy to hear suggestions - but send actual suggestions. You can't email me a letter that proclaims, "You suck pond water," and expect me to be happy about it, and I really don't consider statements like that to be "constructive criticism." They're just mean.
Before you press the SEND button, pause a moment and try to re-word your missive so that it's not so acerbic. Because if that email reaches me, you're only going to accomplish two things:
1) You're going to hurt my feelings and we'll both feel bad about it.
2) After I calm down, I'm going to pick on you for being mean to me.
And nothing good ever comes from those two things, so be nice. I like nice, and I'm sure everyone else likes nice too. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice back to you. We'll all feel really good about each other and pretty flowers will grow in our hair.
So, with this said, the other day I received a less-than-politely worded email from someone who told me that my website was so difficult to use that she would never, ever shop with me. It was written with quite a bit of hostility, and offered no suggestions on how I could improve the site to make a better shopping experience for her.
Now, here's the good part, and the part where I pick on her for being mean to me. The person who sent this email has her own website, and advertises her services as a psychic.
A PSYCHIC.
Does anyone else find as much humor in this as I do?
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I, too, had a little trouble getting to your menu from the "verymerryseamstress.com" page, but I do not have any desire to distress you... There is no link that plainly states "go to Menu"/ I spent a few minutes stupidly re-reading the webpage, then finally (duh) clicked on the only link offered, "custom estimate form" - even though i certainly did not yet want an estimate on anything at all - i just wanted to find your verycool blog. After that, it was easy. Finding you again, after having forgotten to check back in forever, is just lovely. Shane on Madame Psychic for dissing you. Hope she hears a squeal of feedback in her next reading.
xxoo
From the Very Merry One: The "menu" (for lack of a better phrase) is located on every page of the website* and can be found in the left column of every page. All those links are the main categories and will direct you to every possible sub-section of the website.
* there is only one page that does not have the menu links - and that is the welcoming page: http://www.verymerryseamstress.com/
To enter the site, simply click on the one of the two links directly in the center of the page - (where it says "ENTER") Each visitor can choose whether or not they want to see a FLASH intro or go straight int the HTML site. Those two options are listed on either side of the word ENTER.
Hope this helps.
Posted by: supermomj9 | November 20, 2006 01:09 PM