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New Miniatures web site
Hello all!
I've been interested in making dollhouse miniatures for quite some time, and have been reading messages here for the past couple months or so. I've never known anybody else personally who liked to make miniatures. I've recently gotten more serious about it (including giving a try at selling some on eBay). I have just put some web pages up all about my Adventures with Miniatures! I put them up on the internet this morning. It's divided into 3 pages because there are so many images. I've also included on the web site a little Windows program I wrote to help me convert full-size measurements to 1:12 scale. My story can be found at http://lphrc.org/Mini I have a big web site with pages on all sorts of topics cross-linked, and I'd like to hear some comments about my newest section before I start linking to it from other pages on my web site. Rick Malvern, PA (see the third page on the web site for a preferred e-mail address) |
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"Rick K" wrote in message om... Hello all! I've been interested in making dollhouse miniatures for quite some time, and have been reading messages here for the past couple months or so. I've never known anybody else personally who liked to make miniatures. I've recently gotten more serious about it (including giving a try at selling some on eBay). I have just put some web pages up all about my Adventures with Miniatures! I put them up on the internet this morning. It's divided into 3 pages because there are so many images. I've also included on the web site a little Windows program I wrote to help me convert full-size measurements to 1:12 scale. My story can be found at http://lphrc.org/Mini I have a big web site with pages on all sorts of topics cross-linked, and I'd like to hear some comments about my newest section before I start linking to it from other pages on my web site. Rick Malvern, PA (see the third page on the web site for a preferred e-mail address) You're located not too far from me. I'm in central NJ. I checked out your website. I buy quite a bit from Cottage Industries. I think they have some nice things, reasonably priced. Comments on the miniatures section of your website: 1. I personally hate flashing, blinking etc graphics. It adds nothing to the site and it's very distracting. I suggest you use non-animated graphics. Also, your "making miniatures" graphic is larger than some of your photos. You might want to think about making that smaller. 2. Many of the photos aren't very clear 3. Use a webmail form instead of having your email addy on your site. I learned that the hard way after the spammers harvested my email addy from my site and I had to set up a new email addy. You're also using a real email addy in your posts and that's another way to attract spam. I liked your bookshelf clock and the cube puzzle was nifty. Carol S P Miniatures http://www.spminiatures.com |
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Are there some good places for miniatures in central NJ? I go there
once in a while lately: I have an uncle somewhere in central NJ and a sister who recently moved to Collingswood and sometimes I go to the Latin Mass in Berlin. Is there anything in the area you would suggest seeing? I've never seen anything from Cottage Industries for sale! It's been several years since I made things for them, but it would be amusing if you've bought something that I'd made. I appreciate your comments on my web site. I'll think about the flashy graphic. I like having a bit of activity on the web page, but maybe I could cut down on it. The thing at the top isn't a graphic! It's just text, with a bit of stylesheet embellishment. On the other hand, the e-mail address on the web page is a graphic! That's a little trick to make it unharvestable (is that a word?) by spammers. It must be copied by hand. It also makes it easy to change the e-mail address on every page on my web site at once, just in case the address somehow does get onto a spammers' list at some point. The e-mail address on my posts is not an e-mail address I actually use. G oogle groups requires a real e-mail address to sign up, but as soon as I posted a message with that address, the mailbox immediately started filling up with viruses! The e-mail address on the web page is almost the same, except it's rmkq rather than rmkg. Rick K Malvern, PA http://LPHRC.org/Mini "Carol" wrote in message link.net... You're located not too far from me. I'm in central NJ. I checked out your website. I buy quite a bit from Cottage Industries. I think they have some nice things, reasonably priced. Comments on the miniatures section of your website: 1. I personally hate flashing, blinking etc graphics. It adds nothing to the site and it's very distracting. I suggest you use non-animated graphics. Also, your "making miniatures" graphic is larger than some of your photos. You might want to think about making that smaller. 2. Many of the photos aren't very clear 3. Use a webmail form instead of having your email addy on your site. I learned that the hard way after the spammers harvested my email addy from my site and I had to set up a new email addy. You're also using a real email addy in your posts and that's another way to attract spam. I liked your bookshelf clock and the cube puzzle was nifty. Carol S P Miniatures http://www.spminiatures.com |
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"Rick K" wrote in message om... Are there some good places for miniatures in central NJ? I go there once in a while lately: I have an uncle somewhere in central NJ and a sister who recently moved to Collingswood and sometimes I go to the Latin Mass in Berlin. Is there anything in the area you would suggest seeing? I've never seen anything from Cottage Industries for sale! It's been several years since I made things for them, but it would be amusing if you've bought something that I'd made. I appreciate your comments on my web site. I'll think about the flashy graphic. I like having a bit of activity on the web page, but maybe I could cut down on it. The thing at the top isn't a graphic! It's just text, with a bit of stylesheet embellishment. On the other hand, the e-mail address on the web page is a graphic! That's a little trick to make it unharvestable (is that a word?) by spammers. It must be copied by hand. It also makes it easy to change the e-mail address on every page on my web site at once, just in case the address somehow does get onto a spammers' list at some point. The e-mail address on my posts is not an e-mail address I actually use. G oogle groups requires a real e-mail address to sign up, but as soon as I posted a message with that address, the mailbox immediately started filling up with viruses! The e-mail address on the web page is almost the same, except it's rmkq rather than rmkg. Rick K Malvern, PA http://LPHRC.org/Mini The only thing worthwhile in my area is Princeton. Beautiful town, good restaurants, no mini shops. I sell quite a few things by Cottage Industries. They have nice, reasonably priced, accessories. You can put in a phony email addy on your newsgroup posts. You don't have to use a real one. There is a downside to using a webmail form. You would not believe the number of people who don't think to put their email addy in the form or spell it incorrectly. I haven't figured out how to make it a requirement and to be able to check whether it's a valid email addy before it's submitted. I also ask for a phone number so that if the email addy doesn't work I can call them. Most people put in their phone number. On the plus side I don't have to change the webmail form if I change email addys as it goes through my web hosting server. The thing at the top of your pages which is not a graphic is still a bit large and colorful for the page. Good thinking about making your email a graphic rather than a real email but I bet some people try and click on it and when it doesn't work, they don't bother. There are a number of not so savvy computer users out there. I'm not a professional web designer, I just did my own site and I tried to do it from a user's point of view. As a user, I hate a lot of extraneous graphics, blinking stuff, music or cute cursors. Most people don't like it. I emphasize the products I'm selling by trying to have very good photos. My site is plain vanilla and boring but it does what it's supposed to do which is sell stuff. I have been tempted at times to jazz it up but have decided to leave it alone. The last time I tried to make it fancy, I had webtv users complaining that it wasn't working for them. Carol S P Miniatures http://www.spminiatures.com |
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I appreciate your additional comments.
I rather like the flourish at the top, but I have reduced its size. I also eliminated most of the animated graphics, keeping them only at the bottom of the page at the link for the next page and things. I've used web forms and believe me I know how often people put down their e-mail address incorrectly! I fixed the e-mail graphic so that now people can click on it and it's a link to send me e-mail -- using a combination of a few tricks so that it can form a link without the e-mail appearing on the page at all, so it's almost impossible to be harvested. I use the same technique on almost all the pages on my web site. BTW, I've changed the address of my miniatures web page slightly. It's now at http://LPHRC.org/rmk/Mini Rick K Malvern, PA e-mail: rmkq at the domain above. "Carol" wrote in message hlink.net... The only thing worthwhile in my area is Princeton. Beautiful town, good restaurants, no mini shops. I sell quite a few things by Cottage Industries. They have nice, reasonably priced, accessories. You can put in a phony email addy on your newsgroup posts. You don't have to use a real one. There is a downside to using a webmail form. You would not believe the number of people who don't think to put their email addy in the form or spell it incorrectly. I haven't figured out how to make it a requirement and to be able to check whether it's a valid email addy before it's submitted. I also ask for a phone number so that if the email addy doesn't work I can call them. Most people put in their phone number. On the plus side I don't have to change the webmail form if I change email addys as it goes through my web hosting server. The thing at the top of your pages which is not a graphic is still a bit large and colorful for the page. Good thinking about making your email a graphic rather than a real email but I bet some people try and click on it and when it doesn't work, they don't bother. There are a number of not so savvy computer users out there. I'm not a professional web designer, I just did my own site and I tried to do it from a user's point of view. As a user, I hate a lot of extraneous graphics, blinking stuff, music or cute cursors. Most people don't like it. I emphasize the products I'm selling by trying to have very good photos. My site is plain vanilla and boring but it does what it's supposed to do which is sell stuff. I have been tempted at times to jazz it up but have decided to leave it alone. The last time I tried to make it fancy, I had webtv users complaining that it wasn't working for them. Carol S P Miniatures http://www.spminiatures.com |
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