Three hundred links

A site's usefulness is never measured by the number of links it maintains. If the number of links was what mattered, Wikipedia and Google would be among the most popular websites today. What was that, you said? Oh, ok. So Wikipedia and Google ARE very popular sites.

Anyway, whether or not this site is useful, you can decide for yourself, but we have reached a notable milestone in that according to Google's count on our Custom Search Engine, we are now linked to and indexing 300 sites with more to be added soon.

***Speaking of links, have you put a link on your site to this one yet?***

Although the directories have become a large part of this site, they really are not the focus. This site isn't about amassing huge numbers of links or even linking the whole known hand tool universe. The main goal of this site is to help new hand tool woodworkers get started and to encourage more people to get into hand tool woodworking.

Even though the site has reached a major milestone, I believe it still falls well short of its real potential in encouraging new hand tool woodworkers.

As part of the ongoing effort to better serve new woodworkers, I want to fill out the "Getting started" section of this site. Over the next few months, I will be enlisting your help and suggestions for that job.

One more thing. If you are interested in adding the Google custom search box that appears on the home page to your site, send me an email, and I will see about helping you with it. So far, it has been the most underused features of this site. I believe it has immense usefulness, but regarding this feature, the question still remains to be answered, "If you build it, will they come?"

P.S. The honor for the 300th site goes to Khalaf Oud Luthiery. Go on over and check it out. It is really a unique site.

Luke Townsley
www.UnpluggedShop.com
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