Day 2 - in which I get frustrated and Alex does amazing things

So I got that pretty little bookshelf image up yesterday (see below), only to discover that it doesn't size very well so I've had to go back and start doing each "size" manually. At least I now know the process of putting the images together (i.e. what layers in what order) but it's still going to take a while ... especially because my computer apparently finds photoshop a little too intensive to support and tends to crash the program after an hour of me working (and not saving as I go).

Meanwhile Alex has got the barcode scanning thing down to a "T" for almost everything.  It even works when the barcode is partially obscured by the seller's barcode or the residue of the seller's barcode.

About the only thing we really struggled with was having one book's barcode return details of two books - two quite distinct books. (Unless somehow, unbeknownst to me, Tales of Beedle the Bard and The Appeal are actually the same book!)


So he's now onto the next thing. Showing details of items once they've been selected. Thank you to both Sharyn and Regi who spent this morning "listening" to me trying to work out what order the details should go in. As well as what those details should be.  Here's how it currently looks with cover image, title, subtitle and author details populated.

We've got several more things to fit in there still but it's exciting to see this start to come together. Hopefully there will be more to post soon.