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The Hobbyist Machine Store Blog

I created a new information blog for my eCommerce site, “The Hobbyist Machine Store” I am putting more effort in providing a small computer controlled machine tools (CNC) to my customers and I need a place separate from my personal web sites and blogs where I can concentrate on customer facing information. I have tried to not be commercial in my existing sites including here in Rambling Dan but it is hard to walk that...

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The New THMS Look, Bombed

In my last post I explained how I updated my The Hobbyist’s Machine Store website using WordPress and a plug in store software call WP e Commerce. The plugin is published by some blokes in New Zeland. I was extremely pleased at how the new layout looked and spent considerable time in loading all the products into the web site. I spent some cash for the Gold update package. There were some quirks in getting...

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A New Look for THMS

THMS is “The Hobbyist Machine Store”, an e-commerce website that I have operated for over six years. I offer replacement steel gears for a popular line of machine tools and also offer the complete line of Taig Tool micro-machine products. I have used several e-commerce store software products. The first one was much too difficult to maintain and had some serious limitations. The second product has been my mainstay (X-Cart) actually designed and maintained by...

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KautzPhoto.com Expanding

I am not the only Kautz on my twig of the Kautz family tree with a passion for photography. My daughter Shelley is a professional photographer and is currently expanding her personal web site KautzPhoto.com. Yes, she really earns her keep as a full time photographer. I’ll leave it to her to tell her own story as Dadio (that’s me) may tend to brag on her. Let me just say that her work is first...

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