Jack's Pattern Website Thread

[Jonny]

Jack,

Totally off subject but great disclaimer!!! LAO!!

Hey, ya gotta keep it light, right? "This website can be used as a flotation device" is my personal favorite line from it.

I also have the HTML page title coded to randomly display from about a dozen messages, mostly common errors with the machine. Good stuff!

[Jonny]

Some random news:

Since the 18th, even with only about 150 patterns online, there have been about a hundred people a day on the site, viewing an average of almost 20 pages each. Over 1200 pattern views have been recorded and 185 patterns have been downloaded. The most popular have been the last supper (23 downloads) and the 'little boy' pattern (9 downloads). Toss in a 10% bounce rate (the number of people who only hit ONE page on a site, and the national average is closer to 40%) and the metrics say people are very interested and digging it.

Also, my girlfriends 9 year old son who is familiar with my carvewright machine and loves it walked up to me at the computer last night. I was working on the site... he asks about it, and I explain what it's for. He asks "can everybody in the world see it?". I say yes. He says "Even people in Alaska?". Yup. "Can people in China see it?" he says. I say yes even in China. He shakes his head and says "This website is going to be a booming success!". I'm still laughing 24 hours later.

Thanks Ken and Parry so far for returning the screenshots so quickly and helping with the patterns! I'm uploading over 200 more later tonight, time permitting.

[Capt Bruce]

One more vote for watermarking the images to "protect" the spirit of free sharing among Forum members. Thanks again for your evident hard work on behalf of everyone here.

[Mikewiz]

Saw your site this morning. It's a great site! Thanks

[ajk]

I just saw your site. I can imange all the work that you have bee doing. Thanls very much for do all these work for alll of us.
thanks
Hilda and Ajk

[easybuilt]

Jack, Thank you for ALL your hard work!
It is great what you have done for ALL of us and improve our sharing.

[Digitalwoodshop]

The website and idea is GREAT...

I registered but the system stalled when I submitted my info... Will try tomorrow.

AL

[Jonny]

Thanks guys for all the feedback. It's really a ton of work, but several people have volunteered to help with the screenshots, renaming patterns, etc., so it's coming along quickly. If anyone else is comfortable importing patterns and taking screenshots for the site and wants to help, post here and I'll get you set up for as few or as many as you want.

Al - I see in the log files that it says "user Digitalwoodshop requested email reset - user does not exist". Try starting over with your registration, and if you have any further issues PM me and I'll look at it.

[Frederick_P]

Jonny,
Just stumbled on this now. Wow! You deserve senior membership status for this contribution! Bravo!!!

[Jonny]

Jonny,
Just stumbled on this now. Wow! You deserve senior membership status for this contribution! Bravo!!!

What's that? I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome cwpatterns.com is! *grin*

Ya know, it's a combination of things. I'm off work recovering from shoulder surgery. I ran out of wood to carve with and needed something to do. I couldn't even begin to contribute patterns that are a fraction of the quality that some of you guys do, so I'm just happy that I found something sorely needed that's in my skill set. My girlfriend is even happy, and reports that it's good to see me so motivated about something, as I've been sitting around the house grumbling about boredom and being unable to use my arm for many, many months.

It's really rare to see a group of volunteers that consistently give immeasurable amounts of valuable time to each other, displaying the patient and helpful attitude that I'm sure motivates many new CarveWright owners to get past the learning-curve of machine quirks and technical lingo so that they can turn out some really great projects. That website is you folks - I just sweep the patterns into a nice little pile.