Good News!
We're developing a fresh, shiny new website for you to enjoy! Unfortunately, this means that our website here has stopped receiving our usual care and attention while we prepare to launch something more mobile and search savvy, as has been requested by customers. Our new website will be available at this same address, and will feature a large number of new books available for your perusal. Look for this to be available no later than the end of summer!
For the time being, no new books are being listed on this site. You can visit our latest items for purchase at our eBay store.
Thank you, and we hope to see you again soon!
Technical details, for the terminally curious...
This is currently a professional in-house project, happening between our regular book selling, making it more of an organic process than quick turnover. But it IS happening this year. This choice is more a need than just an upgrade, as our current service just doesn't make the grade.
What website provider has driven us from their services? Highwire, built by the reclusive people at inkFrog. It worked well for a few years, when they still offered support for the service. Somewhere along the way they cut back support staff, and made access to the forums nigh impossible denying even peer support for their product. But when the website search function stopped working we knew the change was imminent. Our customers need to be able to find the books they want! It was bad enough that the templates were clunky and cropped the photos, lame that the service was half-hearted, but the price was a good fit for our humble operation and it worked.
Who knows why they decided to back away from this great idea of a product. It has the makings of a competitor with the big boys. But a website provider that won't provide a phone number or contact email is going to have some issues. Because eBay values inkFrog, we tried that service to help with our transition. Unfortunately the communication and support there was only a tiny bit better, once we passed the initial sales setup.
We're very excited about working with our new webstore platform, and hope that it makes your shopping at Panoply Books an effortless and pleasing experience!
