ArtSpots Forum Topic - suggestions: human-friendly urls, default print price markup

Egypt Urnash

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:42:05 -0000

Kick ass! Now once my next coding mood strikes, I can integrate AS prints into my website with insane ease. Thanks!

Babbage C. Cheetah

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:10:56 -0000

Just as an update, human readable URLs now exist. :) http://egypturnash.artspots.com/image/10966/absinthe-teaser-p18 You can also do: http://egypturnash.artspots.com/image/absinthe-teaser-p18 And if someone should forget what the image is called exactly, this will also deliver decent results: http://egypturnash.artspots.com/image/absinthe This also works with prints. http://egypturnash.artspots.com/print/14141/4-of-pentacles All the same features as above. :)

Egypt Urnash

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:16:17 -0000

Cool! No surprise that default pricing goes in the 'future implementation' bin; that's gonna require some serious interface design.

Babbage C. Cheetah

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:42:10 -0000

Short answer: Yes. :) Long answer: There will be human-readable URLs soon, not just for prints, but for images in general. Although it will most likely be http://egypturnash.artspots.com/image/4-of-Pentacles This will happen sooner than later. It would be cool to set default prices, and everything else you mentioned. :) Not sure how soon that will happen though. But expect human-readable URLs within a couple weeks.

Egypt Urnash

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:32:57 -0000

I've been really, really impressed with Artspots' print setup so far. Now that AS is not a furry-only place, I'm becoming quite tempted to put my backcatalog up, and direct viewers on all sites (including my own) to AS for print purchasing. Good paper and the ability to take my Illustrator files = win. One thing that makes me quail from doing this is the fact that all the URLs are something like http://egypturnash.artspots.com/product/view_print/14141 - a completely arbitrary number that I can only derive by cut-and-paste from the browser, and might accidentally attach to the wrong image! If the URL was something like http://egypturnash.artspots.com/product/view_print/4ofPentacles then I could easily deal with a large mass of prints, and even make my own site link to the AS print automatically. It would also be cool if there was some way to set up defaults for non-standard prices. If I decide that I think AS's default prices are too low, I have to edit every price for every size, by hand, and remember to do this every time I upload. I suggest having a panel for setting up default prices for prints. Possibly even a way to say 'I always want to offer prints on this paper and that paper' rather than picking them each time. (Bonus points for letting us change the prices of multiple images that're set to the defaults, and for popping up a note that says 'Hey, we have a new kind of paper available!' when we upload a print and say 'offer my default set of papers, sizes, and prices'. Extra bonus points for coming up with a way to have several sets of favorite paper/sizes/price settings we can easily manage and assign to a print: this is my default, this is 'cheap trading card', this is 'giant poster on awesome paper only', etc.)