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As is the rising sun, death, or taxes, web site change is also inevitable. Whoa, there! This doesn’t mean that change necessarily has to be bad. In fact some of the changes coming up are good.
Much of this started while I was on holiday during the month of May 2003. Many of you may have noticed that my email was completely incapacitated (as is still is from time to time). To make matters worse, we also experienced a number of outages on the web site. Our former web host, Feature Price, went belly up just as we were beginning our holiday – perfect timing – so our availability was sporadic at best for a time. Fortunately, Atlantic.net took over and has been honoring our web hosting since. We had been very unhappy with recent changes at Feature Price so we were planning to switch hosts anyway. Although we have been happy with the fact we didn’t go off-line completely, we are still going to change hosts. Our service hasn’t improved much, you see.
This affects our site as well as the other sites I am currently maintaining and building so it isn’t quite as simple as opening a new account and uploading files. It never is. To complicate things further, the location of The Woodshop is moving. A two-car garage is the minimum space I think I would ever work out of any more but this particular two-car garage is proving to be too small. The shop will be moving into a 1000 square foot house that, complicating things even further, is over 100 years old. Yes, those several projects I have been preparing to share with you this summer will have to be put on hold. Fear not, new information on shop organization and building upgrades will be forthcoming for all those who are also shop building. I hope seven is a lucky number. I wasn’t prepared to be leaving shop number six so soon and, believe me, I‘ll have to be wheeled out of the next one on a slab.
If that wasn’t enough, there is one other plan I will be implementing this year. In concurrence with some new projects and reviews, I will be opening up a web site to accompany inthewoodshop.org. The new site will offer tools and supplies for sale that relate to upcoming how-to articles along with other items I find very hard to obtain. No, inthewoodshop.org is not becoming Amazon.com. However, I am entitled to make a buck as much as the next guy. The original site will remain completely non-commercial as I think too highly of my valued readers to subject them to slow loading banner ads, link boxes to big name affiliates, and those durn pesky pop-ups. I further vow to try my best to make the selection on the commercial side as unusual as possible and reasonably priced. Drop me a line if there is something you can’t find that you would like me to look for.
I know I am a long-winded bustard at the best of times, but I thought I should explain myself, and explain why new material isn’t going to be showing up as fast as it has the past couple of years. I want to reassure you that I am dedicated to providing a real source of information at inthewoodshop.org rather than just another links page. Again, if there are any comments you have, suggestions for the new store, or requests for information on topics I haven’t covered (and there are many of those), please send me an email and I will try to do the best I can. In the meantime, don’t spend all your time surfing the web. Life is good… work wood!
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