Bottle on a journey
Finally we got there. Yesterday, I launched my website in its new design. Starting here on www.tauerperfumes.com you will find the new pages. But wait!, wait!, do not follow the link yet. First a few more words on bottles and journeys.
One reason why building up an entire new CMS based website was: Getting the chance to be a little bit closer to my clients and folks interested in who we are and what we do. Other reasons were: Easier language maintenance, options to add fun stuff and add ons, flexibility in adding content and keeping the pages up to date.
Thus, while working with dry code and boring php and brain killing stuff that I do not understand but know how to use, I had visionary hallucinations and php code induced flashes of what to do next. One of these has materialized.
Thus, a bottle flew over the ocean, a 50 ml flacon containing the epically described “Hyacinth and a mechanic” trial. In a white box with a flyer, the bottle arrived at its first of a hopefully long series of stops. The bottle is on a journey. From one perfume lover to the next. Who gets it may try the fragrance and can send me feedback, critical comments or any other word of appraisals or disgust and I will publish the comments on my website, together with a map showing where the bottle was so far. Of course, I couldn’t help sending the hyacinth to an angel first…..
I hope the bottle will travel a long way, crossing borders and frontiers, from continent to continent.
Here you find the idea described and here is the first critic.
Fragrant greetings!
August 20th, 2007 at 9:35 am
Dear Andy, this idea is wonderful. Only a creative mind can come up with something like this. I like your new website design a lot. I have to say that I like it much better than the old design. It’s bigger and more informative.
Fragrant wishes!
August 20th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Dear Andy, your ideas-are delightful. How you have time to generate them? The new sight very much is pleasant to me. It has the charming person and… A former related soul.
August 20th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
Hello, dear Jenny, nice to see you here and thank you for your lovely compliment. I appreciate a lot. Fragrant wishes to you, too!
Dear Vladimir
Thank you so much for your nice words! I just worry that it my take a long, long time until you get a chance to sniff the Hyacinth and a mechanic sent, because the bottle travelled west … but who knows…one day it might turn east again! Fragrant wishes to you!
August 20th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
Dear Andy,
what a delightful idea!!!!!..your website looks good too..
August 20th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
Greetings from Zurich, Lavanya,
and thank you very much for your compliments. Have a wonderful day….
August 20th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
What a nice Web site design, Andy. And what a delightful idea of sending forth into the world a fragrant message in a bottle. Chaya is excellent at describing scents. She should do it more. She doesn’t have my address, so my praise is totally disinterested. :-)
August 21st, 2007 at 12:29 am
What a surprise, clicking on the usual link and finding - your new website. Congratulations. Besides the link to the blog being somewhat more difficult to find (that was probably just me at the end of a workday) I love it.
I am excited to hear about your new creation, as Hyacinths remind me of my mother who used to force them in the dead of winter on our windowsill. I remember loving the flowers and the smell as a child. Lovely description by Chaya, too.
August 21st, 2007 at 5:25 am
Dear Maria B.
Thank you! Chaya is indeed great, and an angel. she has my address, but I think my praise is disinterested…as far as the bottle on a journey is concerned. I have seen these flowers for too long now!
Dear Sabina
Thank you very much and also thank you for telling me about your difficulties finding the link to the blog. Hints like these help me a lot to improve where needed. Having worked on it for a long time, you do not see these issues anymore. Fragrant greetings
August 21st, 2007 at 11:29 am
The new website is beautiful- must have been a labor of love!
I was thrilled to participate, but poor Andy had to tolerate a week of computer woes before I could “spit it out”…
Thanks Maria, and Sabina.
I think that there are many who can run rings around me, with all their abilities-
And Andy, much as I love him, doesn’t pay me to write these, either !
[Otherwise, my candor might impoverish me…]
August 21st, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Yes , my dear Chayaruchama, I confirm: I do not pay in any way…except sending a few electronic kisses…but I think, this is ok, even with “New York Post standards”.
A kiss to my first commenter on the fragrance and thank you for your compliments on my website. It is true: I loved doing it.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:38 am
Congratulation on the new site. It looks great and easy to use and navigate. I’m excited about any news of your new creation.
August 22nd, 2007 at 5:21 am
Dear Gaia
Thank you very much! I can tell you there will be some news coming…soon!