I went to an Elliott’s Hardware Store here in Dallas, TX on Sunday afternoon to purchase a new outdoor US flag and a Texas state flag. As a proud US Navy veteran I fly them almost constantly on my home. Not just for holidays. My wife and I have purchased our flags from Elliott’s for 20 years as they were of good quality. Not so anymore. The store was bought out by new owners (the reason they...
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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...
Continue reading...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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I think it went little noticed by most citizens. The U.S. Postal rates went up on January 27 by an average of 3% or so and a new class of parcel post was created. I guess it wasn’t big enough news to make major news channels. I am not at all upset about the increase. It is a fact of life that all government cost continue to rise. What bugs me the most is the...
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