Hi there. I’m midway through a redesign of the site, and have been thinking of incorporating a forum – a simple bulletin board. Do you folks think that would be useful? Any comments on features I should have or that I don’t need? Please let me know in the comments of anything you’d really like to see.
I tried to incorporate a house registry and calendar into the last version of Hewn & Hammered, but they weren’t that well-thought-out and people didn’t use them (and I hardly ever added events to the calendar). But people are always emailing me questions about remodel projects, or asking to identify a particular maker’s mark, things like that – I thought maybe the forums would be useful. But I’m open to suggestions.
We have a relatively new Arts & Crafts Movement forum happening here: http://www.getphpbb.com/phpbb/?mforum=mission if people are interested. This is being run as a completely non-commercial forum (except for the ads which we are trying to pay to get removed, but in the meantime they keep the site free to run). If this is inappropriate to post this, then delete away.
Stonecat
Not inappropriate at all! Thanks for letting us know.
JLT
Thanks. Sorry about the gross url address (it looks like it split over two lines, copy/paste the whole thing) but hopefully we’ll clean that up with a short and snappy name, sometime soon.
Stonecat
Until then, you can use tinyurl.com to make a short easy temporary URL.
i wish you allowed complete posts including links and graphics on the newsreaders
Hi Lotusgreen. I’ll do that if you like. I just hoped more people would come to the site, because they don’t click the ads through the newsreaders. However I will try it for a week or so and if my ad revenue doesn’t substantially decrease then we’ll keep it that way. JLT
cool! thanks!