It was a quiet blog week last week, what with our editor out of the office and in the field (this’ll be the last blog interruption for the forseeable future, though). It was not, though, a quiet week for Roberts Imaging. Last week saw the redesign of our main header (which I’ve tested in IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, but if it doesn’t work for you let me know and I’ll go poke around some more), and the introduction of our first site-wide free shipping offer.

First off the bat here let’s talk about our FREE GROUND SHIPPING. As of last week, all orders placed online at Roberts Imaging for over 100 bucks qualify for free UPS ground shipping to the contiguous 48 United States. Let’s go over the important bits of that again. One is that your order has to go through our online cart. If you get a live person involved (orders via phone or in store, for example), don’t qualify for this. And, it’s only UPS Ground, it doesn’t cover items which have to ship freight (freight items are a whole different ball of wax for everyone involved). And, for now, you Alaskans and Hawaiians aren’t included. For now, at any rate. This is new territory for us, so we have to wait and see where things go. Hopefully your intense desire to order from us is now hot and bothered by the idea of free shipping and you’re no longer even reading this but are right now ordering a hot new product (how about an Olympus E-P1?) online for your free ground shipping to the contiguous 48.

Next up is the new videos menu. If you look in the upper-right of the site, in the darker menu you’ll see a link for Videos. Hovering over this will present you with a drop menu filled with short videos from the various manufacturers about a variety of different products. It’s a neat new service and one we hope to see continue to grow and expand, since everyone knows we at Roberts think show is usually better than tell in our field.

More hot updates to come.