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This site is about working with hand tools as a hobby and is dedicated especially to computer programmers, scientists, clergy, business administrators, truck drivers, CEOs, undertakers and those of all professions who need to get out more and get a life doing something relaxing with their hands. That is what Therapeutic Woodworking™ is all about.
My name is Luke Townsley and UnpluggedShop.com is my hobby site. I am not new to woodworking, but I am new to working with hand tools. In part, this site represents my journey.
If you want to use power tools occasionally, or turn your woodworking hobby into a business, we won't throw you out, just remember to relax and keep the fun in it!
Please feel free to email me or leave a comment if you have any suggestions or find any problems with the site. Please add us to your RSS aggregator or favorites and stop by for a visit occasionally. Also, if you have a woodworking website, we would really appreciate a link back to us.
Luke
have the external link open in a new window so you can easily return to the page on your site
Like the format and the aggregator
Thanks for your compliments and suggestion. I hope you enjoy the site.
Regarding the links issue, I understand that is a rather sticky issue for a site that has as many links as this one. Generally in a case like this where I am somewhat unclear as to what action to take, I defer to those who have spent their lives studying these things.
In this case, a web usability expert whose writings I have found very useful, Jakob Nielsen, has strongly preferred for many years to have links open on the same page. Also, I can't find it, but I seem to recall reading some time ago that the same method is a W3C recommendation.
My suggestion, first of all, is to use a good browser like Firefox or Opera that has tabbed browsing and then right click on the link and open it in a new tab. I guess IE7 also has this feature, but I don't consider it to be a good browser since it is still missing some basic functionality and has some pretty nasty bugs that web designers have to work around.
If you were to look over my shoulder when I am surfing, you would see that I often have ten or more tabs open in Firefox, my browser of choice.
Actually, I just looked, and I have exactly ten open right now!