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Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

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Re: Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

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Just a note: On your website, numpad keystrokes are rejected as not numbers. Win7, FF32

Same issue on Ubuntu Chrome. Definitely annoying and made me assume that it's broken. Better to avoid validating the input until the person either blurs or submits, imho.

Re: Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

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Great idea! Framing is an incredible hassle for exactly the reasons you describe. Would be cool to partner with small artists to pass out discount codes on physical cards they could include with rolled & shipped art.

For the future -- provide exact specs on the acrylic you're using to front the pieces (and consider offering museum glass in the future). UV exposure is critical depending on the placement of art and, perhaps ironically, particularly for the more inexpensive pieces people may be wanting to frame with your service that may have been printed using materials more prone to fading/etc.

Also, when you eventually offer additional matting colors/textures, put together a sample pack (using the cut scraps) that can be mailed out. Mats, particularly colored mats, look very different when actually adjacent to a piece of artwork than viewed on a screen (much more so than most framing material).

Re: Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

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when entering dimensions the warning box for it being too high or too low will not close. I can't figure out how to do it?

I am using Chrome.

Possibly check for if the cursor is in the box as well as if the value is outside of the range. If the range changes or goes back to 0 and the cursor is not in the text field, have the warning go away?

Re: Why I took on building a better way to frame any poster, print or photo

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This looks fantastic, but I have one request: I do all of my own photo matting, and would love to have a 'power user' interface that would let me simply specify the size of the custom frame that I need.

Right now, it's not obvious to me how I can simply say: "I need a frame that has a 18x18" opening," or whatever.

Let me do this and I will happily spend $200 on your website today, and will probably keep doing that every month or two in perpetuity.

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