It’s often very difficult to find communion presents which say what you want them to say, in a tasteful and stylish way, but at Personalised Gift Ideas, we think we’ve got the designs just right.

Our new First Communion Glass Frames are engraved using advanced engraving techniques – techniques which take a long time, but are really worth the effort, as the results are worth every second of engraving time (see image below).

If you’re looking for a Communion Gift for someone, it’s nice to be offered a wide variety, something which we pride ourselves on. With ranges of Communion Bibles, Communion Jewellery, Plates and soon Mugs, there is no better place for your gifts this year.

Our new range of Communion Mugs are coming soon.. so keep an eye out in the next few days for the new arrivals.

All of our mugs feature the brightest of designs and are personalised for the recipient or even for yourself, if you fancy treating yourself!

Mug features:

• Colourful, in-house created unique designs
• Specially treated ’sublimation’ mugs, which mean that the process of sublimation will take maximum effect
• Personalised with a name, drink of choice, milk/no milk and the number of sugars which are taken

If it’s personalised mugs you’re looking for, then Personalised Gift Ideas is the place to go! With lots of different mug designs available including logo mugs, name mugs, photo mugs and tea/coffee mugs, there is no better place.

Showcasing advanced rotary engraving at its best, our BRAND NEW engraved Baby and Christening Crystal Jade Blocks are the newest additions to our website.

If you’re looking for a Christening Gift which is both ellaborate and extremely unique, then you need look no further than Personalised Gift Ideas.

Personalised Childrens’ Aprons

With such colourful designs and your child’s name on the front, these red trim, Childrens’ Aprons are the ideal stocking filler for Christmas 2010 – see your child’s face light up as they think about all the cookies they could bake wearing their new apron!

Personalised Childrens’ Mugs

We have a huge range of Personalised Childrens’ Mugs for you to choose from. Whether it be a photo mug you’re looking for, a Yellow Digger mug for your little boy, or a Personalised Pink Fairy mug for your little fairy, we have designs for all.

We’ve got lots of new designs in the pipeline and we’ll keep you posted!! Happy shopping!

It has been quite a challenge trying to come up with a popular venue for a diverse workforce who no longer accept that Christmas is just about letting one’s hair down – On the plus side we have lots of drivers!

Time is running out and so I open the dilemma to the floor – If anyone deserves a break at Christmas then it’s the UK’s No 1 Personalised Gifts Company … All suggestions welcome!

With Dawn (our Marketing Manager) away on business in London it falls to me to update our blog and tell you all about our new Personalised Teddy Bears.

Our super soft 10 inch Kohair Teddy Bears are beautifully personalised with any first name embroidered on the teddies hoodie as well as a message of your choice so whether as a Christening Gift, Bridesmaid Gift or any other Gift Occasion (such as a 21st Birthday Gift) it is clear to see their appeal.

We have currently added our fantastic little Teddy Bears to our Christening Gifts category but watch out for them soon appearing in many other categories.

Robert O’Rourke (Personalised Gift Ideas)

]]> http://www.personalisedgiftideas.co.uk/blog/new-products/291/personalised-teddy-bears-are-back-and-better-than-ever.html/feed 0 http://www.personalisedgiftideas.co.uk/blog/pgi-news/278/wedding-mugs.html http://www.personalisedgiftideas.co.uk/blog/pgi-news/278/wedding-mugs.html#comments Wed, 29 Sep 2010 08:38:35 +0000 dawnh http://www.personalisedgiftideas.co.uk/blog/?p=278 Are you getting married soon or know someone who is? It can sometimes be very difficult thinking of what to get the members of your wedding party as a ‘Thank You’ Gift. At Personalised Gift Ideas, we’ve got it covered!

Our design team have been beavering away, coming up with some more fabulous Personalised Wedding Gift Ideas for you all to enjoy. We are pleased to present our range of Wedding Mugs, each personalised for the members of your wedding party. Whether it be Mother of the Bride, Grandfather of the Groom or your Bridesmaid, we offer personalised Wedding Mugs which will be their cup of tea.

With a range of unique designs available, which are both quirky and colourful, you won’t be able to resist the temptation to buy one of our mugs for your wedding party. For those of you who are having a Wedding Weekend, these are great gifts for your family – imagine sitting round the breakfast table with everyone having their own personalised mug!

To view all of our Wedding Mugs, please click HERE.

While sending last week’s newsletter, not only did we come across the usual html import issues which occur on a weekly basis, we also ran into some difficulty once the newsletter had been sent to our customers. Quite niavely, we assumed that once the html preview and test worked in Mailchimp and in your own email account (ie. Gmail), then it would work in all email accounts.

Little did we know how different each email provider is – the difference between viewing html coded image banners in Googlemail and Hotmail is quite remarkable. It’s difficult to comprehend that the same html coded email can appear so differently to different people, depending on which email provider they are using.

This however was not the main issue…. our main issue this week was that of web browsers. Having tested our email newsletter thoroughly and with different email providers as well, we sent the newsletter, as normal, only to receive an email from one of our web designers ten minutes later. The screenshot he provided us with, showed our email as a blank sheet of colour, even after clicking on the oligatory ‘Display Images’ which will appear at the top of the email.

We were puzzled at first… we had tested the email… it had worked perfectly in all of our email accounts… why on earth was it not appearing? We were somewhat panicking at the fact that this now ‘blank’ email had gone out to thousands of our customers.

After puzzling over this for some time, we realised that our web designer was using the web browser ‘Chrome‘, we were using ‘Firefox‘ and most of our customers would be using ‘Internet Explorer’ to view our newsletter. Therein lay the problem. The code which we had used was not being viewed properly in Chrome and Internet Explorer, only in Firefox. A quick edit of the header and footer tags was enough to change this mixed up email into the superb newsletter we had originally created. We just hope that our customers weren’t too puzzled by the mixed up images.

***TOP TIP:*** If you’re coding a newsletter for distribution through MailChimp, make sure you use DreamWeaver to construct your code – MailChimp likes this format.

It just shows you, not matter how prepared you are and how much you test html code and test your newsletter, when using a mass-email provider such as MailChimp, the problems can be never ending until you are able to work in the format which MailChimp requires.

We are very pleased to announce that we are back in design mode and have just launched our new range of Personalised Childrens Placemats and Coasters.

We have 5 ‘girl’ designs on the website at the moment and our ‘boy’ designs are almost complete. Having a matching coaster and placemat is something which children will absolutely love to sit at the table with.

Keep an eye out for our ‘boy’ designs later this week!

It could be argued that the more products you have on your website, the better… however we are now of the opinion that it is perhaps in everyone’s interest (the company and the customer) to have a more select range of products. Minimising choice and therefore confusion is possibly a good thing for some online retailers, as when faced with a decision between 5 items, the customer may become bemused about which has the greatest benefits. If the customer has a choice of 2, surely the choice becomes easier, saving the customer time and offering a more pleasant shopping experience.

A good example is of Personalised Gift Ideas, which has a wide range of Children’s Money Boxes. We have just found out from our suppliers that some of these money boxes may be ‘discontinued’ in the coming months. We could view this news in 2 ways:

a) The news is very disappointing, as our money boxes are a great addition to our website and do sell very well in several categories

b) Take the positive from the situation: We are now able to streamline our range of Personalised Children’s Money Boxes and offer our customers a more select range of the money boxes.

Instead of having an extensive range of money boxes for our customers to search through, we will be offering a range of the most popular money boxes, making the online shopping decision making process far easier for our website visitors.

Do you agree with our opinions on this topic? Is offering a more select range far better than having a wide choice available? Or do you think that the more you offer, the more chance you have of encouraging website visitors to buy, therefore converting?

www.personalisedgiftideas.co.uk