| Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sat, 02 February 2008 12:28  |
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I hope I'm the first to say what a fantastic looking site!
And I put in my order for the Cervin seconds as well!
New month, more money.
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sat, 02 February 2008 12:51  |
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Many thanks... it's taken some fairly intensive Photoshop and CSS sessions over the last few weeks, while Dave has had months and months of shop development. So far so good though! Assuming we get through the dy without any serious technical hitches (and the last few, mainly IE6-related bugs are ironed out), I'll be sending a message to the mailing list tonight, with some more quite exciting news too!
Many thanks as ever for the order...
David@SHQ
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sat, 02 February 2008 13:30 |
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Ahhhhhhhh... Got it at last!!
I assume it's not fully live yet? If I click on the shop link from the forums I go to the old site, it wasn't till I clicked on the forums link on the old site that a new window opened, not to the forums but to the new site. (Or is it because I use firefox?).
Anyway.... Very swish! Congratulations. 
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sat, 02 February 2008 13:35 |
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Hi Grandad,
Those links are changing as we speak... The new site is fully live if you start at the home page.
David@SHQ
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sun, 03 February 2008 02:02 |
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The new design is gorgeous, easier to navigate and loads faster on my computer! Too bad I won't be able to buy any of the specials this month.
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sun, 03 February 2008 15:01 |
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I wrote this in another post, but, very nice Job on the improved web site David. A definite improvement to the function and appearance of the site. The placement of the floating checkout basket, however, is a bit annoying. It overlaps the item description on many items.
Liam
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sun, 03 February 2008 15:22 |
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hi david
great new look to your site definetly easy to get around and use hotlips69 
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sun, 03 February 2008 19:17 |
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I've noticed you've put the Cervin capri 15 deniers in chocolate on the Cervin stockings bit here as well!
If the seconds I've ordered endure quite well, I might try a couple of pairs of the chocolate ones.
The Gio chocolate RHTs felt very nice.
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sun, 03 February 2008 21:28 |
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Congratulations on all the website work .... may you go from success to success !!
Chrissy and Andrew
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sun, 03 February 2008 21:38 |
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Looks much fresher than before
But will it help the stockings ordered (before Xmas) turn up next week?  We'll see ... 
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Sun, 03 February 2008 22:13 |
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Looks great. One request though, can you move the forum links to the top of the homepage so I don't have to scroll down to click on them?
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Mon, 04 February 2008 02:35 |
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The link to the forums is now also at the top of the page in the masthead. Many thanks for the feedback!
David@SHQ
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Mon, 04 February 2008 08:11 |
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| David@SHQ wrote on Mon, 04 February 2008 02:35 |
The link to the forums is now also at the top of the page in the masthead. Many thanks for the feedback!
David@SHQ
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Thanks
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Mon, 04 February 2008 21:49 |
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Hi Liam,
Sorry about that. It's one of a raft of bug fixes that will be addressed over the next week or two.
Thanks for the feedback!
David@SHQ
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Tue, 05 February 2008 18:29 |
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Personally, I don’t know a thing about JavaScript, CSS, HTML and webpage design and/or tech. So, the visual aspect of a webpage ... is of course, all I can comment on. And, on the contrary to Jo’s excellent expertise ... I don’t “eat this stuff all day long.” That being said, all in all, it looks pretty good to me.
However ... right away, there's two (visual) things I noticed, today, and they are:
1) On the home page; at the very top upper left corner of the home page, where the two legs and stockings welts are, the light blue, vertical “S” shaped graphic border — betwixt the stocking clad leg and the main ‘STOCKINGSHQ’ & subtitle & page links — makes the right (foremost) leg look deformed, to me. 
2) At the top center (Gervin) stocking pic and ad … the black contrasting seams, seem to me — to be about as crooked (bendy & angled, not unscrupulous & fraudulent) — as I’ve ever seen in a stockings ad; rarities and seconds, or no rarities and seconds.
…. Is that being a little too picky? Probably. 
Nonetheless, I do like all the other new graphics, pic’s, darker blue colour and overall layout. Well done.
[Updated on: Tue, 05 February 2008 18:38]
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Tue, 05 February 2008 18:34 |
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| jac wrote on Tue, 05 February 2008 18:29 |
Nonetheless, I do like the other pic’s, darker blue colour
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I still think you should have gone for ' barely black ' instead of dark blue ... 
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Tue, 05 February 2008 18:52 |
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Can we make some observations? Is the cause of a campaign for more stockings wearing being over taken by a business plan? The shop takes prominance over the community aspects to the site and there is now a link to a tights shop that is the same company- pure fiction, I never thought I'd see the day stockings HQ sells tights, ok different web pages, but that's just design, same company, same shop, same staff, same warehouse? End of an era, but good luck with the new future- everyone deserves success and a decent living, but seems a shame to 'sell out' to tights wearers, unless we can see it as tights wearers unwittingly financing the stockings campaign? Odd strategy.
The community aspect for stockings wearing enthusiasts sharing photos and arranging events has been taken on by other sites with a different ethos now anyway.
Stockings HQ has always been a great shop with great service so a more up to date shop is great and we'll continue to shop here.
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Tue, 05 February 2008 20:07 |
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| sheffcouple wrote on Tue, 05 February 2008 18:52 |
The community aspect for stockings wearing enthusiasts sharing photos and arranging events has been taken on by other sites with a different ethos now anyway.
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There have always been sites specifically for sharing stocking photos - though I wouldn't call 'em for ' enthusiasts ' per se ... more for ' picture collectors ' and swoppers ( whichever interpretation you want to put on that )
But SHQ was never about being a picture-collecting site ... it was ( is ) a discussions site, with various forums ...
I doubt there are any other sites out there supporting the ' Community ' aspect for stocking wearing enthusiasts to any degree - certainly not in comparison to the SHQ Community.
If there were, we surely would have heard of 'em on here, time n' time again ..... and the only ones I've ever seen ' advertised ' anywhere on here are purely of the picture collecting / swopping variety ( apart from maybe SSSH! which appears to be of minority appeal,membership and very much ' underground ' ... ).
Business surely has to take presidence over pleasure ..it's not a hobby running SHQ but maybe it's the business-side that attracts the vast majority of people to the SHQ forums these days? So one aspect of SHQ compliments the other; and if they sell tights under another name - so what? I don't see anyone staging protests outside Dept. Stores because they have the cheek to sell both
In fact, confirmed tights wearers may well now be intrigued to sneak a visit to ' The Dark Side '  now there's a link ...and may give stockings a try! There's always a chance of ladies ' converting ' of their own free will y'know .......and definitely NO chance of any ladies here ' converting ' the other way ....... So where's the problem ??
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Wed, 06 February 2008 00:04 |
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I reposted one of my messages as there was a typo in the earlier version, and asked for the one with the typo to be deleted.
Now I see that all of my messages were deleted. I hope you kept a record of those searches as they provide a key measurement.
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Wed, 06 February 2008 21:25 |
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Those of us who have been here from the start have seen the place evolve, orginally as a spin off from a picture site with pay-for membership (avoiding a term there that might not go down well with the current ethos but pictures was the start).
Agreed other communities are smaller, but the folk at stockings and heels are significant, for example.
Back then it was very much about a community led by some enthusiasts campaigning to raise the profile of stockings to stop them disappearing, giving people access to stockings as a shop was natural but always as a fight against the ever onward spread of tights in society, we don't complain about what other shops sell, we just chose to reward this place with out patronage for its stockings only policy and superb service. Then, through its own success, it becomes a full time job for one person, then several, it needs to pay its way so the business model must come first, and now tights sales are part of it, which I totally understand, just seems so far from the original little site all those years ago and seems its success have destoyed its original ethos a bit?
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Thu, 07 February 2008 09:56 |
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Time for a whinge ... I for one fail to see what a bunch of soft porn "boudoir" photos do to promote the wearing of stockings in daily life and thus their re-incarnation as normal item of clothing. 99% of the photos linked at the moment seem to fall into the above category and thus reinforce the negative image of stockings being a slightly pervy bedroom item.
Having said that I'll say again that the new site looks very good.
I've no objection to the selling of tights (especially as it's on a different site) and why not put a link? Granny likes to wear tights to work and I'd rather get to choose them and have the profit go to Pure Fiction than for her to go and buy her own ugly T**co Values. As usual Pure Fiction puts out good quality and good choice at reasonable prices. ... So there!!! 
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Thu, 07 February 2008 19:24 |
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I would suggest that as far as stockings wearers are concerned any lady or gentleman that decides to wear stockings of any kind has my seal of approval. It can only help to promote the wearing of stockings far and wide whether its in the bedroom or out and about in daily life , people should not be so quick to criticise others who wear them for whatever reason they see fit.
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Thu, 07 February 2008 22:49 |
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Good evening my argumentative little friend nice to see you have eaten the collins dictionary again
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| Re: Fantastic looking new site - David! Well done! |
Thu, 07 February 2008 22:58 |
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| No trousers please wrote on Thu, 07 February 2008 22:49 |
Good evening my argumentative little friend nice to see you have eaten the collins dictionary again
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I'm always happy to send out dumbed down versions of my posts, if it's of any assistance ...
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