After many a long night of niggling away at the details, the Toolemera primary site at Toolemera Press is finally updated and cleaned up. Errrant code is gone, everything is converted to CSS or at least it should be, layers when needed, extraneous html cast adrift, images updated, tables simplified and so on. The entire site has been pulled down from 1000 pxl wide to 980. Navigation has been fixed up a bunch and simplified in preperation for future plans and some sub-domains created even if you can't see them yet.
Glitches. I have no doubt there will be some. Maybe some images that don't do what they are supposed to do. A pdf or two that won't download or a text block that doesn't like IE. I checked against other browsers but given the amount of stuff there, the liklihood is some things crept through. Those things I'll correct as I find them or as those eagle eyed readers inform me of the errors.
Next up: sub-domains for Tool Chests and Tool Makers. Tool Makers will feature embedded frames for those makers who want to be listed. Instead of links, each maker will simply have their website embedded in the page. Once the visitor clicks anywhere in the page, the visitor leaves the Toolemera site and is in the maker site. I'll be in touch with all those currently listed as tool makers to ask regarding interest or lack of interest. There will also be a section for authors of hand tool related books. Yes, that includes Lost Art Press books. As before, for the Tool Maker section, I won't edit. If it pertains to hand tools and it's legal, it's ok.
Carpentry And Joinery For Amateurs by James Lukin is now live from the printer. At any moment, it will be live through Bowker and then to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and all the rest of those outlets. Within a day or so I'll have the Paypal order form set up.
This is the tweaked cover, which, if I must say so, I like much better than the untweaked cover. No, that's not a hot chili pepper, that's the Aldine Press sigil.
Other than that, it's on to more books and more tools. A very nice W. Woodward/Taunton plow plane is on it's way to me, the first of that maker I've seen in many a year.
It's been a very good year. Lots of books sold, quite a few given away for good causes of one sort or another and after a whole lotta books sent out to a local bookstore (for credit of course) I can actually see some of the basement floor.
Till next, Gary
