Survey 2012 – answers and giveaway winnerAnketa 2012 – odgovori in giveaway zmagovalec

Now this seems kind of fitting – post no. 1.400 is all about answering your questions, talking about your suggestions and giving away prize to one of our readers. :happy:

Let’s get started … there is a lot issues to go over. :cute:

1. Design, colors …

Some of you love the colors, others don’t like them, some of you find our site charming other see it like “kids highschool project”. :biggrin: I hope you see where I’m going with this – it’s basically impossible to satisfy everybody. We all have our color preferences so at any given time, there is bound to be at least third of you who will dislike it. :silly: Those of our readers that have been with us from the start know that every once in a while we change the look of our blog. Blog design usually reflects our mood with spice of current season. We don’t really have time to play around with graphics, but I can tell you that I seriously doubt that our blog will ever look “professional”. We “talk” to you the same way we would have to our friends, not as impartial observer writing for magazine … that is why blog has more “at home” look. :wink:

We will be making text darker and background lighter as some of you reported that you’re having difficulties reading the text.

2. Navigation

Yeah – we missed Previous/Next post buttons too. When we updated the theme, they went missing. We searched for the “bug” for a while, but then gave up. When number of you commented on the fact, we put it high up on our to do list. We spent hours searching for the problem, only to find out that they obviously removed that option … so we manually added the code.
Majority of you find Parokeets blog to be easy to navigate through. :thumb:
We would love to put 10 previews on the front page, but it would considerably slow the loading time, so we opted not to. :sigh:

3. Watermark

This one come up couple of times. I already talked about the issue so I’ll just reply to few direct suggestions:
– if we put WM in the corner of the photo it would be simple to crop it out … seen it happen a dozen of times.
– frame is there because 90% of users never cites where is the photo from … sad, but true;
– inner watermark makes our photos undesirable for companies to “borrow” them and at the same time tells you which of the Parokeets ladies is the author. I try to make my signature as sheer as possible … except on the swatches of products that are usually the target of “borrowing”.

4. Mobiles

I must admit I don’t have problem reading our blog on my mobile. We looked into the possibility of some kind of smart-phone theme last year, but none really appealed to us. But things change quickly in this field, so somebody could be making the perfect thing right now. :silly:

5. Giveaways

I agree with you – more smaller giveaways would be great. But there are two problems – time and shipping costs. We’re trying to solve time issue with new giveaway form and shipping costs with ads.

6. Skincare

I see this is something that interests you so hopefully you’ll soon get to read more about the subject. I see that many of you have sensitive skin and as I can really relate to that, expect to read more about oily and sensitive skin issues. Hopefully other Parokeets ladies will have time to write something about products for dry skin.

7. Foundations

Lots of brand request, skin types … all of those will be addressed in our Project foundation series … staring soon. :cute:

Individual answers:
– Alessandro nail polishes should have sticker on the cap with the name and number … if there is one – sometimes they’re without (especially the older ones);
– feel free to answer our forms in Slovenian and Croatian or Serbian language;
– have no idea what is meant by “make better interaction with the readers”. Further explanation would be very welcomed;
– tab with popular posts is on our WL, but we can’t use automatic one as lots of old giveaway posts would show up and we have no time to add another manual task to our already loooong list;
– same thing with photo gallery – would love to have it sorted by color but shudder at the amount of work it would take;
– video gallery is as it is because it’s handled by plugin … if we wanted to make any kind of sorting … more work;
– archives with individual posts? I’m afraid that is not possible with 1.400 of them. It would be more prudent to search by the categories in the menu;
– if you’re logged out ~once a month, then that is OK as it’s safety feature, if you’re logged out all the time, then something is not working as it should – it could be cookie/browser conflict or maybe something else. I don’t have enough info to solve this problem;
– if you get notice that you’re previously logged in with that email, you can contact me (from the specified email) at blog(at)parokeets.com and I’ll delete the email from database, so you’ll be able to use it for direct login;
– you can find me on Pintrest, but I doubt blog will get its profile there.

I too miss Mamy’s flowers, Goga’s lipsticks and Maestra’s makeup and nail combos. To bad that days are not longer, so all of us would have more time for the blog. :sigh:

Google Docs are becoming more and more unreliable, so we’ll probably stop using them altogether. 40 of you answered in Google form while it was still available and 22 in WordPress plugin. Random.org chose no 45 as our winner.

So this cute prize …

… goes to …

iadoreparokeetspageandicanfindalotofusefulltipsandtrickstomakemy
beautycornerbetterthankyyougirlsforyoureffordandtimehugsandkisses

Congratulation! Please send us email with password and your address to blog(at)parokeets.com.

Same goes for few other readers who wrote very useful and extremely detailed answers and will be also getting little something in the mail:
– Itsthesmallthingsthatmakeushappy
– wannabeatranslator123
– MasterOfPuppets

Thank you so much for your answers – they really mean the world to us. :ahug:
Kakšno lepo naključje – post št. 1.400 je namenjen odgovorom na vaša vprašanja/komentarje in podarjanju darilc. :happy:

Najbolje, da kar začnemo … kar nekaj tem je treba predelati. :cute:

1. Dizajn, barvna shema …

Nekaterim so všeč izbrane barve, druge jih ne marate preveč, nekatere dojemate naš blog kot šarmanten, druge ga primerjate z “otroškim projektom”. :biggrin: Verjetno je vsem jasno kam pes taco moli – nemogoče je zadovoljiti vse. Vedno bo vsaj tretjina takih, ki jim ali ne bo ustrezala barva ali pa kaj drugega. Za razliko od prejšnje ankete, vas ni bilo 3/4 proti barvi ozadja. :silly: Tiste, ki s te z nami že od začetka, ste imele priložnost videti že nekaj naših preobrazb. Dizajn je odraz našega trenutnega počutja + ponavadi je kakšna povezava s trenutnim letnim časom. Prav veliko časa za igračkanje z grafiko nimamo, lahko vam pa rečem, da naš blog zelo verjetno ne bo nikoli izgledal “profesionalno”. Ko sama pišem poste, dojemam bralke kot prijateljice in na tak način tudi delim svoja mnenja in občutke. Zato se mi tudi zdi, da je “domač” izgled bolj na mestu za blog. Če bi bil Parokeets portal, potem bi bila zgodba (in ton postov) verjetno drugačna. :wink:

Zagotovo bomo potemnile črke in osvetlile ozadje, ker vas kar nekaj ima težave z branjem.

2. Navigacija

Tudi me smo pogrešale Prejšnji/Naslednji post gumbe. Po posodobitvi teme, sta gumba na 1x izginila. Kar nekaj časa smo iskali napako, nato pa rahlo obupali/pozabili na to. Ker vas je kar nekaj omenilo, da pogrešate to opcijo, smo premaknili težavo na vrh seznama. Po nekaj urah iskanja, smo ugotovili, da so to opcijo kratko-malo izpustili. :undecided: Kodo smo ročno spet dodali in sedaj lahko spet nemoteno “surfate”. :biggrin:
Večini je stran dobro pregledna. :thumb:
Z veseljem bi na prvo stran dodale več predogledov, vendar bi to upočasnilo blog, tako da … :sigh:

3. Vodni žig/watermark

Uh, tole smo pa že nekajkrat predabatirali, tako da bom odgovorila samo na nekaj direktnih vprašanj:
– če dodamo WM samo v kot fotografije, ga je preveč enostavno odtraniti … na žalost že velikokrat videno;
– okvir je nujno potreben, ker 90% tistih, ki fotografijo uporabi, ne navede vira … žalostno, a resnično;
– notranji vodni žig je zaslužen za to, da si določene blagovne znamke, večkrat enostavno ne prilastijo naših fotografij + istočasno olajša delo bralcem, ker točno vedo katera Parokeetka je avtorica. Že nekaj časa se trudim, da so moji notranji žigi dokaj prosojni … razen pri swatchih “rizičnih” podjetij.

4. Mobilniki

Moram priznati, da sama nimam težav z branjem Parokeets bloga na mojem mobilnem telefonu. Že lani smo iskali primerno temo za pametne telefone, vendar so bile vse bolj kot ne čudne. A pri hitrosti s katero se razvija to tržišče, je čisto možno, da ravno sedaj nekje nekdo razvija popolno aplikacijo. :silly:

5. Giveaway-i

Se strinjam – več manjših giveawayev = več dobitnic = več nasmejanih obrazov. Težavi sta 2 – pomankanje časa in stroški poštnin. Prve težave smo se lotili z giveaway aplikacijo, stroškov pošiljanja pa smo se lotile z oglasi.

6. Negovalna kozmetika

Področje za katerega vlada kar nekaj interesa. Kar nekaj vas ima moj tip kože (občutljiva/problematična/mastna do mešana), tako da se lahko poistovetim in mogoče napišem kaj pametnega. :silly: Če bo vse posreči, se mi mogoče pridruži še katera izmed Parokeetk s suho kožo.

7. Podlage

Uh – ogromno predlaganih znamk, finišev … še dobro, da se bo “Projekt podlaga” kmalu začel. :cute:

Individualni odgovori:
– Alessandro laki imajo nalepko z imenom ponavadi na pokrovčku … starejši so brez imen;
– v vseh naših formularjih lahko vedno odgovarjate tudi v slovenščini;
– niti sanja se mi ne kaj je mišljeno pod “slaba interakcija z bralci” … dodatna razlaga je zelo zaželena;
– tab z najbolj branimi posti – bi z veseljem, če to ne bi s seboj prineslo ogromno dela. Avtomatična opcija vrne nazaj veliko starejših giveaway postov, ki so seveda neaktualni (bom pa pogledala, če je kaj novega na tem področju);
– podobna težava je tudi s sortiranjem po barvah v foto galeriji – me kar zmrazi, ko pomislim koliko dodatnega dela bi to prineslo … seznam je pa že zeloooo dolg;
– video galerija je takšna kot je, ker je zanjo odgovoren plugin;
– individualni posti v arhivu – s 1.400 posti bi bila to precej nepregledna zadeva;
– če vas odlogira 1x mesečno, potem gre le za varnostno odlogiranje, če pa vas odlogira vsakič sproti, potem pa tukaj nekaj ne štima. Ali je piškotek, brskalnik … Na žalost imam premalo informacij, da bi lahko raziskala zadevo;
– če se vam pokaže obvestilo, da ste s tem emailom že logirane, me lahko (z dotičnega mejla) kontaktirate na blog(at)parokeets.com. Bom izbrisala vaš mejl iz baze, tako da ga boste lahko ponovno uporabile;
– Nina je krasno razložila kaj pomeni simbol odprte posodice na kozmetičnih izdelkih, tako da vabim tisto, ki jo zanima ta tematika, da si prebere temo Rok trajanja kozmetičnih izdelkov: upoštevati ali ne;
– bloga sicer ni na Pintrestu, lahko pa tam najdete moje galerije.

Tudi jaz pogrešam rožice naše Mamy, Gogine šminke ter Maestrine kombinacije makeupa in manikur. Če bi dan imel več ur, bi vse z veseljem več pisale … za povedati imamo pa še veliko. :sigh:

Google dokumenti očitno niso več stabilna opcija, tako da jih bomo najverjetneje povsem opustile. 40 vas je odgovorilo še v Googlovi anketi, 22 pa v WordPressovi. Random.org je za dobitnico nagrade izbral št. 45.

Tako da gre naša nagradica …

… v roke …

iadoreparokeetspageandicanfindalotofusefulltipsandtrickstomakemy
beautycornerbetterthankyyougirlsforyoureffordandtimehugsandkisses

Čestitamo! Prosim, če nam pošlješ email z geslom in naslovom na blog(at)parokeets.com.

Enako velja tudi za 3 bralke, ki so se zelo potrudile in napisale obsežne in poglobljene komentarje. Tudi ve boste dobile darilce:
– Itsthesmallthingsthatmakeushappy
– wannabeatranslator123
– MasterOfPuppets

Najlepša hvala vsem za sodelovanje – vaši odgovori in nasveti nam izredno veliko pomenijo. :ahug: