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

1. Search Engine Optimization
   1. All of our pages are SEO friendly
   2. All of our pages are well indexed in search Engines
   3. At moment we have about 2000 pages index with google
   4. Also at moment we have about 300 Arts and Crafts Listings in our database
2. Listing
   • Premium, Express, Basic and Free
   • 5 additional links that direct the index user to specific areas of your web site
   • User Review
   • Logo, Website Image, Store Photo
   • Meaningful Anchor and Title tag on listing URL
3. Company/Site Profile
   • Contact Form
   • Map Links - For store front Shops (Google Maps)
   • Image Gallery Displayed

 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.

Listing Features

Your Listing

• 500 Characters to describe your site
• Direct Link to your Website
• 5 Extra Links for deep linking into your site
• Various Arts and Crafts Categories
• You choose your Anchor Tags
• Each Listing has an image. Thumbnail of website, company logo. Your choice
• Times Clicked displayed. (Must be logged in, to view)
• Listing Profile
  

Your Listing Profile

• Site/Store front Description
• Direct Link to your Website
• Site Contact information.
  
  • For Store front shops
    • Store Address
    • For store Front shops MAPQUEST Location Map and MAPQUEST directions
    • Hours of operation
  • Up to 3 telephones/Fax
  • Form is used to keep your email safe from crawlers
• Dynamic Pages
  • The Profile is actually just like a full feature website in it's own
  • Friendly URLS
    • http://www.tanela.com/profile/yoursite.html
    • Helps search Engines index page. and looks better then a bunch of "=", "?" signs
  • You can add pages like
    • About, Terms, News and much more to your profile
    • Contact Page
      • A form that allowed visitors to submit inquiries to you
      • The Form uses Image Captcha, to prevent Form Spam from being sent to you.
    • Links Pages
      • A place to display your link partners. banners are allowed
    • Gallery Pages
      • A place to show off images of your crafts
      • Clicking on a image will display a image page
    • Image Pages
      • Detail description of an item displayed from your gallery page

The Directory

• Niche Directory
  • Arts and Crafts sites ONLY
• Friendy URLS
  • example: http://www.tanela.com/cat/artsandcrafts/beading.html
  • Helps search Engines index our page. And looks better then a bunch of "=", "?" signs
• 5 Packages
  • Premium 12 Months
  • Premium 6 Months
  • Express (one time)
  • Basic (one time)
  • FREE