These tutorials are set out in an easy to understand language … sometimes its a bit difficult to follow any official tutorials … and on the zazzle forum the same questions can be asked time and time again by all users but especially new comers … what I’m hoping is that this site will become a place to redirect those designers / artists to … just view the posts on the right or use the search feature .. if you can’t find the tutorial you need .. just leave a message
There are many helpful people on zazzle .. but theres not always someone on the forum when a question is asked .. so instead of having to wait and put off creating products until the question is answered .. they can now come here…
I will be building on this site with tutorials on the most common questions asked …
If you have a tutorial in mind that should be posted here just leave a comment below .. or on the zazzle forum if you’re a member….
you can also purchase some of my work on zazzle from the following stores
Ricaso Graphics / Ricaso UK / Ricaso Decks / Ricaso Intros
For many other things theres always my site
This is a really great idea! Especially for people like me who aren’t really computer literate. I always seem to come up with things I want to do, but don’t know how to do them! I am STILL indebted to you for showing me how to do an embedded link! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! Kathy
Ty Kathy .. glad to help
I have created two magnets. Can I create all magnets from one image upload and text add. Surely I do not have to do each separately like I have just seen, ex: round, one upload, rectunagular, another upload?
Is there something I am missing?
Like uploading all products from one image upload?
The only exception I can see is the size of product needs.
Thanks for any help,
smiles, cyndi/ByLightOfMoon
If the image you’re using on a square or round magnet works well on both then a customer can choose what style to have so you’d only need to create one .. however .. if the image doesn’t work on both you would have to create it for two different sizes / styles if thats what you want to offer.
You can only create one product at a time .. however if each of your products have something like text you want to keep on more then one .. as long as they are the same kind of product .. IE : if you’re creating more then one magnet .. you can make one magnet .. then go to that newly created magnet and hit the customize button ( if you allow customization ) and just change the image or text or whatever on that magnet you won’t then have to create from scratch … this is really useful if you’ve made text templates .. then you don’t have to go through the whole template set up time and time again
Hey
I was just looking at INSOMNIACS and found this link…VERY COOL idea…YOU are so great!
I see that on my Google (homepage) I have the London clock there and you are after four o’clock now! Geesh, you are ahead of us here in Michigan, US!
YOU have a swell evening…see ya at Zazzle!
Hugz,
Cherie
Wow. Came to thank you for leaving a comment on one of my products, and discovered this page…which I have just bookmarked. Like Kathy, above, I am a computer illiterate, despite have had a computer for ten years, now. I haven’t yet perused your tutorials, but if they are presented with the same care and clarity of thought as the rest of your site, I am sure they will prove to be very useful. Thanks for making it (them) available!
Congratulations on this blog. You are a great guy to do this for people!
Ty Cherie .. Tom and Holder ..
Great idea. I am still looking to see how I can feature other people’s products on my gallery so I can earn commission. One reason is that I am trying to feature products on a Squidoo lens, and the automatic product selection does not work very well.
Hi Tony … linking other peoples products and stores on your zazzle site won’t make you any referrals .. you need to link from OUTSIDE of zazzle to generate any referrals … maybe a blogger or wordpress site would be useful … or you could try a zblog .. from http://www.freezblogs.com/
hope that helps
Hello
What I would love to see is maybe something on mark up prices and how they work on market forces?
I am brand new to Zazzle. I really want to do a good job in setting up my store(s) up front, because I don’t want to have to redo it latter. You have some great tips here, though the HTML stuff is totally scary to me. I have a question. I’m confused about whether I should have multiple stores or multiple product lines under one store. I’m not even sure how to do either.
Here’s my first store. I signed up under my name, and then thought latter that I should title the store different. Now the username and the shop name don’t match. Should they match? Does it matter? I don’t get it.
Ooops, here is my store…I forgot the link:
http://www.zazzle.com/DianeCass
I am sharing your blog with other people at eHow.com who are interested in doing Zazzle.
Hi Diane … Welcome to Zazzle .. don’t worry about the css and html coding.. thats all optional to building a store .. if you’re not happy working with it .. thats fine .. as for the multiple stores .. that is a personal decision .. the categories / product lines .. work well and keep a store in order .. but if you feel you have a very different range of products ( and enough to fill more then one store ) you can easily open more then one .. just sign out of your first store .. then sign up just as you did for your first .. you will find a lot of useful information on the forum http://forum.zazzle.com/ theres a handy search feature at the top to see if your questions have already been answered .. zazzle is full with very helpful store keepers and will help you when ever you get stuck .. and ty for sharing the blog
These kind of tutorials, tips and information are more than not, better than the tips provided on the main site’s page. Alas, those from the users and bloggers are always the best information. Greatly appreciate your Zazzle tips and information. Keep up the great work.
Hello,
I just created a product line on Zazzle and ordered two mugs to check print quality. The printing was blurred and faded. I know that this is a problem with my files, but I’m not sure what I need to change. I’m setting the files up in Quark, converting to EPS, then converting these to TIF (CMYK). I don’t want to use Zazzle’s font set up because it’s not exacting enough. And I don’t have Illustrator or Corel Draw. I do have Photoshop. Can you give me any guidance so that I can get crisp text. My files look pretty good online, but they don’t print well. You can see them at david_delamare_art.
Thanks!
Wendy Ice
Hi Wendy … I always use RGB and not CMYK and I save as a PNG..
I use photoshop and they work fine .. also what size was the image you used? if you haven’t seen them yet heres the guide files and recommended sizes from zazzle
http://www.zazzle.com/mk/custom/guidefiles
http://zazzle.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/85
And heres some more info on how to get the best print quality
http://www.zazzle.com/mk/custom/imageguidelines
hope that helps
Much congrats, these are all well written easy to follow tutorials, you have a real talent for this kind of endeavour, I look forward to more, cheers,
Stevie
Thank you fastgearstore … really appreciate that
Hi – I just found this store and was looking through the above posts. Haven’t been able to get into the tuts yet. You mentioned using the Zblog for linking outside Zazzle. I checked it out. I noticed, though, that the latest posting they have for “NEW” is I think February or April of 2009 – same thing for the templates available. Is this service still a good system to use? Doesn’t look like it’s been active for over a year now. Thanks! I’m looking forward to working my way through some of your tuts.
Hi .. yes they are still a very good system to use .. I run several blogs off there including ” The best of Zazzle ” <<click
The person who runs the site is a fellow zazzler and knows whats important to us .. they now also have a new store builder site .. where you can get either a free or payed set up .. I've got one of those as well .. I love it and highly recommend it .. check it out here << click .. if you want an idea of what the site looks like and what you can do with it heres mine << click.. no coding no php needed .. its simple and effective to use