charlieb wrote:
As the new webmaster of the Silicon Valley Woodturners club
I'd like to know what you look for on a woodturning club website?


Congratulations. I've seen your personal
site, and I'm sure you'll do a wonderful
job for them.

Are you willing to download a 3 or 4 meg PDF newsletter?

Yes, but I'd rather read it in HTML
That's my personal preference because
I'm never that fond of PDF. And yes, I
acknowledge that it's a ton more work to
do it that way.

Do you look for How To stuff or prefer to peruse plenty of photos
of other folks work?

Both, but I'm a very green newbie to
turning. I've seen Darrell's site and
I'd be using parts of that as a model to
emulate. His has a range of articles,
from relatively simple to more complex.
ie. Something for everyone.

But I think the real answer to this is
to poll the audience. Specifically the
SV turners. Sure it's worldwide but the
majority of your viewers will be from
the Bay area, and asking them what they
want will give you a pretty good idea of
how it should be laid out.

What about reviews of stuff - turning videos/DVDs, turning tools
and accessories, lathes etc.?

Different strategies can work out here
too. With reviews, you can hook up with
someone who does them and either copy
their work if they're agreeable or link
to them. The downside of that is the
dependence on them doing a reasonable
and fair job.

Another way to do that is to establish
reputations for people you know from the
club and get them to do all (or most) of
the reviews, if they're willing to do
that. Seeing a name I trust because of
past work is more likely to get me to
keep reading

Would like to make svwoodturners.org a resource for other turners.
You're input would be much appreciated.

charlie b

This may be simply a personal irk, or
just showing my age. But not much annoys
me more than typos, grammatical errors,
and poorly worded works. Spell check of
course, but that still misses some
glaring errors. If you can possibly find
someone who's willing, get all the work
previewed/edited/corrected before going
live. DAMHIKT

Good luck, charlie. I'm sure it'll be a
fine site

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