Miscellaneous

This page is for loose bits of vbz-related information which I haven't yet put in a place where they will do the most good.

Useful Links

• This Is Broken: "A project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it."

Things to Fix

• search needs to work better in general; see this for helpful ideas. ** search should probably assume "and" rather than "or" for multi-word searches
  • exact matches should always be first in the lis
  • need to be able to search within certain scopes:
    • longsleeve, particular size(s), items in stock
• Broken "/all" pages:
  • vbznet:topics/0940/ says "All images for this topic and its subtopics are shown together below", but the 7 items in "traditional" are not shown
  • vbznet:topics/0017/all/ -- shows only 2 items, but vbznet:cat/mt/1056/ is not among them
  • vbznet:topics/1012/all/ -- not showing anything
  • vbznet:topics/1438/all/ -- not showing anything
  • vbznet:topics/0584/all/ -- where are the rest of the bears?
    • This issue is actually a bit more complicated than it looks at first glance. Intuitively, anything in the topic Grateful Dead Bears should show up under the Grateful Dead topic -- but Grateful Dead Bears is actually a subtopic of "Liquid Blue / series / item type", while the main "Grateful Dead" topic (0584) is under "item contents: subject: commemorative: Musicians". Probably what is needed is some way to cross-link topics, i.e. Grateful Dead Bears would become a virtual subtopic of 0584 Grateful Dead.
• http://vbz.net/cat/mt/aj/125/ -- needs to be deleted, because cat # has changed
• revise title-pages script to add title item types ("t-shirt") to keywords (just a change in a query should do it)
• some sundog shirts are s/m same size
• add to payment options
  • confirm before charging after this date:
  • cancel order if not sent by this date:
  • prefer to receive by this date:
• vbznet:cat/lb/14g07/ - don't show "add to cart" when none available
• zr-bob-5311: T2=small, T3=med
  • also, they show up in reverse order on the page
• Revise topic pages script to group items by type (currently works on "/all" pages, but not others)
• Allow catalog, topic, artist (& maybe other) pages to pull comments from wiki (for easier updating & customer comments)

Image Copyrights

I've been collecting the copyright notices on various items (mainly t-shirts), with the idea of eventually having the actual copyright owner and year displayed on the large and zoom images, rather than just "©2024" as is displayed now.

SD

• sd-nf-123 "psycle sam" (c) C. Kelsch 1991 / (c) GDP, Inc. – anyone know who "C. Kelsch" is?
• sd-nf-133 "saratoga" (c)GDP Inc. 2003 / Art: Biffle/Wood – who is Wood?
• sd-nf-186 "harvester" (c)GDM 1994

LB

• LB-11715 Dragons of the Deep: (c) 2004 Liquid Blue / Brian Fox
• LB-11817 Swansong: (c) 1975 Led Zeppelin
• LB-31772 Eqyptian: (c) 2005 Liquid Blue
• man with sticks - (c)1971 Led Zeppelin

MT

• monkeys in overalls - (c) 2002 Kayomi Harai / Applejack Licensing
• hearts - (c)2004 Amy Brown / The Mountain
• shih tzu - (c)2002 Barbara Keith / Applejack Licensing
• three horse portrait - (c) 2002 Bob Peters / Applejack Licensing
• fairy in forest meadow - (c) 2003 Linda Bergkvist
• companions of the hunt - (c) 2003 Hermon Adams / licensed by Artist & Repertoire(?), Ltd.
• MT-1019 pocket tiger - (c) 2001 Kayomi Harai / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1033 two rhinos - (c) 2002 Brian Jarvi / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1051 In Blue: (c) 2002 Sheila Wolk
• MT-1075 bengal tiger overalls - (c) 2002 Kayomi Harai / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1066 giraffe tie-dye - (c) 2003 Jan Henderson / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1069 Bear With Birds - (c) 2003 Greg Giordano / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1092 Polar Bears Lounging - (c) 2003 Jon Naito / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1093 graceful white wolves - (c) 2003 Jon Naito / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1097 Fox Cubs - (c) 2003 Jon Naito / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1175 black labs - (c) 2000 Nigel Hemming / Applejack Licensing
• MT-1240 birth path - (c) 2000 Carol Grigg
• MT-1241 last words - (c) 2000 Carol Grigg
• MT-1244 she walks with horses (c) 2003 Carol Grigg
• MT-1253 caltic cross dragon - (c)2002 Romas Kukalis
• MT-1277 Fire Wizard - (c) 2000 Meiklejohn
• MT-1309 pride's proud parents - (c) 2001 dino paravino / mill pond licensing
• MT-1326 Green Winged Fairy: (c) 2002 Mary Baxter St. Clair / licensed by Artist & Repertoire Ltd.
• MT-1333 purple winged fairy - (c) 2003 Mary Baxter St. Clair / licensed by Artist & Repertoire Ltd.
• MT-1341 Green Fiery Dragon - (c) 2003 Hewlin Designs
  • Linda Hewlin?
• MT-1406 spider - (c)2003 Michael Robinson
• MT-1455 midnight visit - (c)2003 Stephanie Law
• MT-1492 orangutan baby - (c)1998 The Mountain
• MT-1496 chorus line - (c) 1999 Wendy Wegner
• MT-1524 autumn mist - (c) 2001 Rosemary Millette / Wild Wings Licensing
• MT-1540 indian chief summoning - (c) 2003 Docken / Wild Wings Licensing
  • Russ Docken
• MT-1576 Cactus Kokopelli - (c) 2004 Harriet Peck Taylor
  • Jim Morris Environmental T-shirt Company - investigate!
• MT-1620 White Wolf Spirit: (c) 2005 Christy Wilcomb
• MT-1639 Horses Heading Home: (c) 2004 Diane Beech
• MT-1665 Horse Buddies: (c) 2005 Harriet Peck Taylor