Collectible Treasures Emporium

Over 95% of our inventory is recyled, restored, or refurbished. Think Green! Shop our store.

WE ARE MOVING
our osCommerce database to a new webhost.
VStores offers FREE osCommerce storefronts.
We add new listings daily, so check back often.
The Gateway to our catalog will remain here!
WATCH US GROW!

For the past year we have been using Dot5hosting to host our osCommerce store. It was another learning experience. The hosting was inexpensive and you got what you paid for.... very little. The did NOT support the osCommerce package and the were constant problems with a corrupted database. Updates, addons, and improvements were my responsibility. What a mess!

I struggled to learn PHP and became quite good at html over the past year. After 11 months of struggling the database was corrupt once again and I was stuck with either hiring someone to fix it, or looking for an alternative solution.

After an extensive search, I found VStores which offers FREE osCommerce stores and provides you the opportunity to upgrade to an incredible premium store for a reasonable price. So here I am, once again, moving one item at a time to the new store. I pray this will be the wisest move that I have made yet. So far they have been extremely responsive to any question that I submit.

Collectible Treasures Emporium 
A proud participant of the Summer Solstice Fayre
Join the joyful madness of a mid-summers dream
Social marketing is a new & innovative way to market your site.
Join us!

The object of the promotion is to raise awareness of the myriad of smaller auction site venues and independent website traders across the globe by bringing many together in one promotional event.

Independent sellers and sites are asked to unite for this event in order to highlight the variety of shopping experiences available across the world wide web. A range of banners will be available to auction site sellers and owners and independent web traders for display on their site & auction pages promoting the event. A page will be hosted at Pheebay.com in order to co-ordinate the effort.

So get ready to join in the early holiday fun with a little midsummer madness and look around the sites to stock up on bargains for the Summer

For more information please visit Summer Solstice to Blue Moon (SS2BM) St Elsewhere Campaign Forum

The Victorian period was filled with angels, cherubs, faeries and enchantment. I love winged creatures and you will find them all over my site. I found this beautiful site with Victorian faeries that is absolutely enchanting. You will find exquisite greeting cards, stationary, coasters and much more at  http://www.feyarteoffaeries.com/bazaar/

1. Start with your entry page. Be sure to include a huge graphical logo, but absolutely no useful information.
2. In general, large unnecessary downloads such as background music (ideally totally inappropriate music), multimedia presentations and video files, are an essential element of the truly annoying site, so include six or seven on every page.
3. Very tiny text (SIZE=1) can be a great way to damage your visitors' eyesight. Unfortunately modern browsers include a font-sizing feature which negates much of the power of this technique. Webmasters can seize back control by mixing tiny (SIZE=1) and very large (SIZE=6) text on the same page.
4. Low contrast color combinations like yellow on white, or better yet, dark gray on black, have been proven to increase web surfers' aggression levels. WRITING EVERYTHING IN CAPITAL LETTERS CAN HAVE INTERESTING EFFECTS IN YOUR VISITORS' PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKE-UP. EXPERIMENT WITH switching between CASES FOR absolutely NO REASON, preferably EVEN IN THE midDLE of WOrds, TO REALLY WIND THEM UP!
5. Make sure absolutely every page positively requires horizontal scrolling. Frames can be a powerful technology for making people's blood boil. Be sure to use them heavily, and don't let users easily break out even when leaving your site.
6. For extra credit, combine this with horizontal scrolling and have the 'Home' button "accidentally" put the entire frame-set inside the smallest frame. Forms are most interesting when they don't work at all. Unfortunately, it won't waste much of your visitors' time if the form has only a couple of fields. Therefore make sure your form has at least 20 fields which must be filled out exactly right (add validation code), and wait till they've struggled through them all, before giving a CGI error.
7. Banners adverts are one of the most under-used technologies on the web. Some sites have only 2 or 3 per page. Show those sites how to do it right, by having at least 20 banners per page. Remember never use a text link when you have a chance to use a banner!
8. Sadly some hosts do not add pop-ups to your pages. If your web host is holding you back in this way, don't despair. After you've mailed your letter of compliant to the hosting company, add a little JavaScript to your pages to achieve the same effect.
9. Finally the old ideas are often still the best ones: Bad English is well-known technique that many webmasters are familiar with. Be sure to include a more than adequate number of speling misteaks in all your text, or for a really exciting twist make your sentences really long, with way too many clauses, a superabundance of overlong and unnecessarily obtuse terminology and gratuitous jargon, and unexpected changes from formal language into the a more colloquial style: as it this way cool example!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Exclamation marks are also good, the more the better!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
10. It has come to my attention that there are a few webmasters who actually want people to enjoy their site, bookmark it, and maybe even come back more than once. If you are a member of this particular minority group, you can of course do the exact opposite of these suggestions.

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I hope you enjoy my new site design. I love angels, faeries, butterflies and winged creatures. Please visit the Emporium Forum and feel free to advertise your site or post links to items you have for sale. You may even invite some friends and use our chat rooms as a meeting place to discuss ecommerce or just have a chat. You can even create a private room for that discreet romantic tryst. Don't forget to sign my guestbook before you leave.

Sharron