![]() At this stage it's not capable of handling multiple products and it's not going to win this year's most impressive website award but I'm hoping it will be enough to get the job done. It's flexible enough for any unexpected changes and it will be able to provide up to date product availability information. I didn't want to go to that extreme straight away so after a crash course in HTML hacking and a weekend of playing around I managed to put together a webpage where I can customise the order to each customer's situation. I was already familiar with Blogger and found that people have used it to turn their blogs into web stores. ![]() I just wasn't sure about how much effort was going to be needed to pull it off. I listed all the things I wanted out of the system and it became clear that the best solution for me was going to be a custom website. The variety of different solutions ranging from using the email system all the way through to full on web stores is amazing. One thing about the retro computer community is that there is no shortage of examples. My biggest dilemma was what to do about an ordering system. I'm hoping that by delaying the product's availability and time spent sorting everything out has payed off as I'm all for providing the best product at the best possible price. When looking at packing options for the 4play card I was able to determine that if the packaging was no more than 2cm thick then I was able to use padded envelopes instead of parcels to cut postage costs in half or even more depending on the destination. Also one of my pet hates when purchasing goods is unnecessary high postage costs. For example, by removing the non functioning gold fingers from the card's edge connector resulted in savings of more than a quarter of the printed circuit board's production costs. Some changes resulted in small savings but others surprised me as to how much of a difference they made. The locally sourced rainbow ribbon cable is roughly three times the price of the other two.Ī fair bit of time was spent in trying to find cost reductions so as to make the product as affordable as possible. It's more than adequate for the 4play card but I'm happy to use the more popular grey AWM2651 cable if one prefers that option. Looking into it further I found that it has the same gauge, 28AWG, as the stuff I was sourcing locally except the insulation around the cores is reduced. ![]() Compared to what I was used to, it was more rigid and transparent between the cores. The only thing that concerned me at first was the rainbow ribbon cable I received from Futurlec. I put a few boards together so that I could get a few pictures made up for the blog, website, kit construction instructions and to test out distribution options. The printed circuit boards and parts arrived. ![]()
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