It has been a wild and crazy weekend on the Nonuttin’ front.  Actually, it started about 2 weeks ago when our long planned separation of the Nonuttin’ website into Canadian and American sites began counting down to the actual split which began on Friday. 

It all began as a wonderful idea with all sorts of plans of how the sites would look, how they would function, what writing would need to be different and more.  I began learning more than I wanted to know about search engine optimization and how much re-writing I would have to do of many parts of the website and product pages so that the search engines wouldn’t see duplicate content.  Then the writing began and it’s been an ongoing process for 2 weeks.  Blech!  So much for all of the glamour.

We’re almost there.  You may have noticed that the site has been down temporarily since Friday and since we’re still not done despite working through the weekend, it will be down at least Monday as well.  But…

I’m really thrilled with the 2 stores with 2 separate currencies and the cleaner look.   While many US customers who are close to the Canadian border are familiar with Canadian currency, we were confusing a lot of Americans with how they would be charged.  Not a problem any longer!

We’ve also set up shipping charges that are clear cut BEFORE you start your order and we’re offering the lowest FREE shipping amount we’ve ever offered:  $125!  I’m sure that will make many of you happy.  Cherry fruit chips have been permanently reduced and Canadians can finally see their t-shirts  and lunch kits again since they were removed due to US  Customs issues.

If I can only see the computer screen from my red-tinged blurry eyes, a newsletter will be coming out in the next few days to those who don’t subscribe to our RSS Feed outlining all of the changes (argh, more writing).  Maybe I’ll put my head down on the computer keyboard for just a minute, it looks kind of comfortable, the keys are flatter than I thought, zsdfzdfzdfzdfkjdszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz