Jan 3, 2016 — As mentioned in our New Years post, we’re experimenting with new tools for better shopper support and feedback. To invite feedback, we’d like to provide more insight into what we do here at Day of the Shirt. So we’re committing to posting a weekly update about what we’ve done to make Day of the Shirt better.
When t-shirt merchants change their website layout, we have to change our scripts that keep Day of the Shirt updated. Otherwise we might show the wrong design, price or sale. Over the past week we’ve fixed our scripts for Qwertee, Olyfant, and The Yetee.
We increased the base font-size from 14px to 16px to make reading easier on the eyes. Also, we added a light-gray background to the “zoom” and “info” buttons that overlay t-shirt designs; this makes those buttons visually distinctive on white backgrounds. Lastly, we discovered that the website footer would sometimes float in the middle of the web-browser; it shouldn’t anymore.
Alert shopper Amanda let us know that while there were plenty of designs featuring classic Star Wars characters, there weren’t any designs with new characters from The Force Awakens. Fortunately, some were found on TeePublic.
If you discover something missing or needing improvement, please let us know: [email protected]
Jan 3, 2016 — Happy New Years from Day of the Shirt! It was a big year for growth in 2015 and we’re looking forward to a t-shirt filled 2016. Here’s a quick review of the past and teasers of the future:
Last year Day of the Shirt grew a lot. We added many new t-shirt merchants (now featuring 64 daily/weekly t-shirt sales), and received a lot of new website visitors. On the bad side, we’ve had a few website outages, and stale sales and coupons which we fix as quick as possible (thank you if you’ve emailed us about problems). But back to good, I’ve spent a lot of time making adjustments and improving the accuracy and reliability of our sales and coupons. We’ve also been experimenting with new tools for better shopper support and feedback.
Now towards 2016! We’ll continue making tweaks to the website, email newsletter, and RSS feeds. I’m working on new features to customize and filter the list of t-shirt sales: find what you want and ignore what you don’t. More merchants now have flash-sales and coupons and we’ll be raising visibility on those so you always find the best deal. Lastly, we haven’t forgotten about the mobile app(s), so expect great things on that front too.
As always, we’d love to hear from you. Email us at [email protected]
Thank you for being part of Day of the Shirt this year and beyond.
Ben and Angelina
The Day of the Shirt Team