Kategorie: Harder Better Faster Stronger

It is done!
The last old product photos of the more then 330 toys we have in the YiffyToys shop have been replaced with new ones.
All photos should now show a perfectly white background and no shadows.
All photos are done with the same light setup on the same background.

We just made the German home page of the shop more mobile friendly.
The English one is not updated yet.
What do you think of it? Please tell us!

Mobile

The category foxes are now displayed below each other on mobile devices instead of rendering the same way as on a desktop.
Formerly the introduction text would take up more then just the first screen,
before the actual categories would be shown.

Desktop (new)

Since everyone is only interested in toys and lube,
the other categories have moved down.
Also the introduction text has been shortened

vs Desktop (old)

This is how it used to look up to this point.

To better find them,
we have added a new category „clearance sale“ for all the products, that are no longer being manufactured or that we will not restock.

We checked the statistics for the most often used search terms in the YiffyToys shop.
After removing an immense amount of failed attempts to hack the shop software via SQL-injection or Javascript-insertion,
we added a large number of synonyms.

Now you will find the results are where looking for when typing a number of common misspellings, synonyms, french or spanish words.

Of cause apart from the full-text search, there is always the advanced search,
where you can select species and features.
Sadly the shop-software doesn’t allow us to have search-ranges for the sizes.
For that we have created the „tiny“, „small“, „regular“, „large“ and „extra large“ categories.

As our categories grow with more and more toys,
we have found the need to subdivide them a bit more.
So as a first step, we have added two new subcategories:

• by species/canines/life-cast dogs
• by species/equines/life-cast horses

We also enabled „Anchors“ for the „canines“ and „equines“ categories,
so you can filter the long lists of toys to find what you are looking for.

We have made a number of improvements to the layout of the home page.

• The Brexit text is now more concise and uses up less space.
• The footer is not horizontal and does not cause excessive scrolling
• advanced search (often not found) is now prominently in the center
• We added a widget to display products that are currently reduced in price (if any)

Looks like we never got around to translate the decriptions of the size categories.
(So you all know what „tiny“, „mini“, „small“, „regular“, „large“ and „extra large“ mean for us.
We also updated them fron plain HTML text to the new design editor and made them bold, so they stand out more.

We are experimenting with integrating the ActivityPub protocoll (e.g. Mastodon) into the YiffyToys blog.
The integration is even tighter then what we did with Twitter.

You should be able to follow @YiffyToys@rect.al in the Fediverse.
The list of people who are following us is private and not shown to anyone else.

Status

We moved to a new instance and things are working now.

All emails from the YiffyToys.de -shop (and the english Yiffy.Toys shop of cause)
should now be cryptographically DKIM signed.
This is, so that no spammers can use our domains for faked sender addresses.
We also have a DMARC policy, so all email still arrived but we get a report about how everything is working from the receiving email sercers.
Once this has shown no problems for a while, we will change the policy to first quarantine and later reject all unsigned emails with our shop as a (fake) sender address.