Shame that the sizing per panel is not matching on the duffel bag so expect to do tweaks for patterns
and the Dopp Kit bag has issues too with the artwork looking squashed on the left and right layers
I love all the additions. But I have noticed that on the smaller pouch the front product image looks correct with the Initial being centered. But when I view the last image with the pouch open, it looks way off centered, This may actually deter customers from buying as they would probably feel like they wouldn't know if it was going to turn out right or not. Here is a link to one of the accessory pouches where it looks right in the first image but the last one shows it way off centered:
Also, it doesn't keep image placement when copying design from the front and pasting it on the back. This makes designing a bit difficult if you want the images to wrap around correctly. I found this completely so by using a square from the elements section for the pink part at the top. When I copy and pasted it to the back the square was almost at the top by the zipper.
Edited to add: The tacked on Product in the title also is missing the letter "h" in the word "pouch".
Working on my first accessory pouch and came to see if anyone had yet noted how off the preview of the bag open is. That's the view I want to use as default but it looks terrible if you have a monogram or such centered on it. 😢
I noticed on the bag you posted as an example, the breadcrumbs at bottom of page that show what category it was placed in shows it as a crossbody bag rather than a cosmetics / toiletry bag.
I thought maybe Z had them mis-categorized here but nope, this is what happens if you publish as one bag type, edit to tweak the design for another of the bag types and publish again - Just like the rest of the meta-data, it retains the category of the first bag type, too, so you need to manually change it to the appropriate bag type. I don't know how this effects search and people trying to navigate by product category, so just an FYI for you and anyone else using this way to publish on the different bag types - remember to check the assigned category before publishing.
I was trying to find more pouches to look at to see if they are all off-center so that's how i noticed as I use those "bread crumbs" a lot to find more of same products.
Sling bag backside insitu issue (right side view above) is upside down as you can see with the upside down letters H G F E D C etc - artwork correctly placed on the left hand layer
Hope I made sense🤣
this wasn't obvious to me until I used a dark solid background color for the mesh end of the large duffel bag:
please remove the paler splotches in the lower left corners below and behind the mesh (it doesn't give prospective clients the best first impression of the duffel bag).
Thank You!
The "indexing" is a bit behind on these. I navigated to duffle bags and sorted by Newest and the newest one listed is still same one from the very early morning hours of 3/23. Also, there are about half a dozen on the first page with no image, clicking them gets the Oops no product found page. They're all from the same designer too so something glitchy there the Creator may need a heads-up on if it's something they can fix on their end. (Been like this for two days since I started checking results to see if mine has shown up yet.)
More on Dopp Kit. The little flaps on the left and right sides, the design size on them looks different in different preview pictures. I tried to match the pattern as best as I could but on Front view the pattern looks small, Side view - it looks better but squished vertically. Very confusing.
For the duffel bags, the Left and Right sides have a different green guideline but in the previews they seem identical. I don't understand what the little green safe zone for the Right side is telling me?
That's very keen of you to have noticed! Both spellings are acceptable though the ...le version is apparently more British. The ...el version is used everywhere I checked on the US domain except for the product type automatically appended to the title where it's ...le. Regardless of which spelling they go with it's going to effect search results depending on how the searcher natively spells it. Hopefully Zazzle can code it to treat both spellings the same regardless of which spelling the searcher uses. On a side note, I just looked at the UK site to see if they use the ...le version there but duffels haven't populated on that domain yet, not even if you go directly to your store.
I know as a new product line this is all still a work-in-progess but trying to find one's way to JUST duffel bags is problematic right now.
If you go to Zazzle's Site Map and scroll down to Accessories --> Gym & Duffel Bags, that takes you to https://www.zazzle.com/c/gym+bags which shows only 62 products with only maybe half of them actually being these print-cut-sew duffels. If you click the category filter on that page you can see you are in
but if you go up one level to Bags, Gym & Duffels is no longer a category you can choose to get back to.
If instead you search for [duffel bag] you get this, 430 results many of which aren't duffel bags.
If from that page you click the "Shop by Category" choice at top of page for "Gym & Duffel Bags" you then get 354 results, which are all pretty much these duffels until page 3 where you then start getting other products types.
If you start from zazzle.com and use the left pop-out nav menu to go Shop by Category --> Accessories --> Bags, no matter which way you go about it you can't find a way to duffel bags, they are not included in the pop-out menu or cat filter.
I'm only seeing this now 🙂
And wondered what on earth a dopp kit is?
So I found this:
https://www.graveltravel.com/blogs/gravel-travels/what-is-a-dopp-kit
"Although the term "Dopp kit" is becoming obsolete, it's perfectly fine to call it that when referring to a toiletry bag. It's just that some people won't catch the Dopp kit meaning without a little background info."
Maybe I am not the only one who wonders?
