Welcome to Tanela's Arts and Crafts Directory
This is a growing directory of Arts and Crafts related sites. Our Listings are consisted of Online Stores and Store Front Shops dealing in arts and crafts supplies, equipment, accessories, and handcrafted products. Also Artisian Sites. Under various categories like like Scrapbooking , Quilling , Origami , Stickers , Beading , knitting , Cross Stitching , Rubber Stamps , Needle Arts , Embroidery , Candle and Soap Making , Ceramics , Pottery , Quilting and Painting , Wood Working , Doll Making , Metal Crafts , Glass Crafts like Stained Glass and Mosaics . And much much more
Items under current development
If Anyone has a Request of a feature they would like to see, please send me an email or contact me via the contact form or just write in my guestbook with your idea.
As you can see, I want to expand and be much more then an Arts and crafts directory.
I know... I need to work on my spelling and grammar.
Some of thing I have done already and are in place.
- Enhance Website Page (your profile page)
- Displays Basic information - things like a description, addresses, contact info, store hours, site URL, Categories.
- Contact Form - As the name says... A form that people can use to request information.
- Your Email is secured , because it is never displayed, not even in Source view.
- Dynamic Pages - additional pages that are access via your profile menu
- Some of these pages are predefined to help you set them up faster
- Examples:
- News page, About us, Term, Announcement and anything else that involves chunks of TEXT to be displayed.
- Links Page - A place you can use to exchange links with others to help you raise your profile Presence in the web. Banners are allowed
- Gallery Page - A place where you can show off some of your Crafts
- You will be able to upload pictures, the system will automatically re-size them for you, keeping the highest quality without killing all the space in my server.
- Product/Image Page - Each picture in your gallery can have it's own product profile.
- Here you can describe, and talk about the craft item pictured.
- The hopes here is that for each product page/image you display it will get indexed in the Search Engines.
Other then that, these are some of the things I am working on at moment:
- Newsletter Feature
- Newsletter Manager - Allow you to create and publish newsletters
- Newsletter Subscriber - Allow visitors to your profile to subscribe and unsubscribe to your newsletters
- Craft Fair List
- Users will be able to post and share information about Crafts Fairs
- Projects Page - This area will Allow you to document with pictures How-to-Tutorials that u can set to private or share with Friends or just set it to public.... Great way to get people to link to you naturally.
- Help System - I am trying to make each function very simple for non web-savvy people. But certain things need a bit of Savviness thus am creating a Help system that will be tied to each function in system. So if you get lost, Click help.
- For now, just ask for HELP.. Contact me.... Am glad to help you set up your area
- CSS stylesheets - These style-sheets will allow you to customize the look and feel for your Profile.. Color, backgrounds, layouts. --- Pending
- Shopping Cart - Eventually I want to Allow you guys to sale your items via your profile. Will startout with Paypal, which is simple and secure. --- Pending
- This is a bit further down the line, sometime after I have galleries in place
- Will I charge? At moment am not think of charging to allow you guys to setup a shopping cart. Maybe will remain free to those that signup before the shopping cart goes live.. am not sure...am new to all this too.