Thor

No problem at all. I hardly ever buy stuff like that especially not when it's readily and free available on the net. Actually it's quite simple to get a hold of Microsoft. A lot easier than contacting an immigrations officer if you need to ;-)

Just try this https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1345&bih=880&q=clipart&oq=clipart&gs_l=img.3..0l10.4136.6249.0.6746.7.5.0.2.2.0.121.498.3j2.5.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.61.img..0.7.508.HrmtZ9t1iCo Use the search tools to modify and different search terms.

Of I could vote for this post I would. One thing you should do is to put yourself in the position of your customer. He won't care a lot for your business colors but for comfort.

CSS stands for Content Style Sheet and as I just double-checked you can only take control on weebly if your are a so called power user. Are you a power user? You'll find that information here http://www.weebly.com/features/#!/ssl-and-seo. Right click anywhere on the page and choose "View page source" or whatever the equivalent option is with your browser. Yes, I have some expertise in this area as I had a life before leather ;-), but that's also the reason why I would stay away from weebly and all sorts of ready-built websites. Compare it to a western saddle. You can go to the local tack store and buy one of the rack or have one custom made by a guy who knows what he's doing. I would recommend you find some young college student, give him $500 and have a stunning website. Another option is to go and get one of the "Dummies" books on website building. If I'd be in your position I would get a hosting plan from hostgator.com or a godaddy.com, an easy to use WYSIWYG html editor, that'll do most of the stuff for you and you don't have to pay extra for standard features. I hate those rip-off guys. Sorry I got carried away... So you'll probably want to stay with weebly and here's a video explaining you exactly what to do with your image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLG11TNNUlA. This nice British fellow explains it in depth. The info you're looking for is at 3:05 minutes. So re-sizing a picture is fairly simple. First find out what your target size is and then open the picture with an image editor of your choice. That could be Gimp, Photoshop or whatever. There are two things you have to do. Change the dimensions and maybe the dpi. For internet pictures you don't want anything else but 72 dpi or pixels (whatever your program displays there). Now the dimensions are the ones you have been given by your website theme. Please review what I wrote about the dimensions of your banner. Regarding the "alt" tag feature. Don't get to fuzzy about it. Keep it short and precise, but also using common terms. I've seen people writing 5 or more sentences... That's not what you want. One sentence with a maximum of 8 to 10 words is the most you should do. Words like to, and, of, or... don't really count. Let's say your working on this picture: The ALT text could be: Blue gun (Model), Kydex holster, clips to belt or pants. The picture should also be re-sized to fit the box it's placed in. The picture is 639px wide but the box is only 495px That's like fitting a 1" belt into a 3/4" loop. It'll work but will take some time. OK I complained enough. Your site will and does work. On the bottom line that's all that counts, but visitors are picky and so are search engines. Think of them like of a woman coming to a house. If it's nice and clean, she'll like it and tell others. If not, she won't come back. A short note on keywords. There are good practices and bad ones. If you place a keyword in the keyword meta text - let me use the leatherwranglers stuff. <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Leather Wranglers, Paul Zalesak, Rosa Zalesak, Pabloz, leathercraft, tools, leather tools, quality tools, leather craft, leather craft tools, leather workshop, leather classes, teach leatherwork, leathercraft, knives, knifemaker, Albuquerque knifemaker, custom knifemaker, Zubi, leathercraft tools, finger carving, leathercrafting, tooling, leather tooling, hand-carved leather, leather carving, leather carving tools, swivel knife, swivel knives, Home of the SK-3, best swivel knife, SK-3, SK3, SK3 swivel knife, SK3 swivel knives, SK-3 swivel knife, Al Gould, Al Gould special, SK-3 swivel knives, custom swivel knife, quality swivel knife, quality swivel knives, swivel knife blade, anodized swivel knife, round knife, head knife, Tranto, Deeter knife, leather knife, leathercraft knife, skiver, skiving knife, Rhino head knife, pull-cut round knife, pull-cut, APT trim knife, APT, Mini Lui, Mini Sam, trim knife, most beautiful round knife, custom round knife, most beautiful round knife in the world, nicest round knife ever, awesome round knife, most awesome round knife, cordwainer tools, cordwainer knife, leather trade show, leatherworkers, leathercrafter, Doodles Designs Patterns, Floral Carving, diamond sharpening stone, diamond hone, DMT, DMT benchstone, bench stone, EZE-lap, swivel knife contest, swivel knife shootout, Billy Wootres, Wootres, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sheridan, uncompromised quality"> It works. Don't use the same word more than 6 times here. Double-check yourself. Stay with singular and don't use plural. Don't use your name in the keywords. That's useless. If that is anywhere on the site it will be found by Google. Especially if it is on the about or contact page. Now what most people don't do, and that's why there stuff is not high ranked in search results, they don't back up what they say. Meaning - if you have it in your keywords, it must be found in text body, description, help lines, internal links (they can and should also have a description).... This being said, I have to mention, that if multiple words are in the keywords and are not found on your site, it might be considered keyword spamming get the page to end of the line if not excluded from the index. There's a multitude of things that can be done. Read up on this here https://www.google.com/webmasters/ and find out what you can use for your business. I disagree with what Chain said about the font size. Well I don't totally disagree. For as long as you don't have a separate page for mobile devices I would keep it this way. It looks good on a mobile device like a tablet or smartphone. If one day you want to have one for ordinary website visitors using their computer and one for mobile devices, I agree with Chain. But that's a whole different story. Ok, I guess this gives you a lot to read up on and to look into. If I can be of any help, just let me know.

Thank you for the kind words. I'm still learning, probably always will. So Todd will be save for the next 20 years or so. He's been in business for a long time and it will take a very long time for me to get close to what he does. Actually his saddles are about the best my butt has been sitting in for now. I just found out how an album can be made and uploaded here, so I thought I'll add that for the scabbard with some comments from myself and hopefully some feedback of others. Album http://leatherworker.net/forum/index.php?app=gallery&album=2532

Currently working on this scabbard

Besides all the nice stuff, here is some critique you might want to look into. Please don't take it personal. It looks like a weebly site... I don't care too much for what you see in the front. I'm looking at your source code ... the ugly stuff. Put all your CSS in an extra file and have this linked. It can be on the page, but shouldn't. You've done that partially already. Same goes for the main scripting portion. In other words, there's a lot of stuff you don't want a search engine having to go through before it finds the important stuff. Your top banner starts a little slow which is caused by the not optimized graphical elements (pictures). Sizing the pictures to the banner will speed up this process as the script doesn't have to fit them in. For example: your using this picture http://www.phaselinedefense.com/uploads/3/2/2/2/32225077/5438774_orig.jpg which is 1085 * 534px. This picture is placed in here: <div id="bannerright" class="landing-banner-outer"> <div class="landing-banner-mid"> <div class="landing-banner-inner"> Looking at the specific portion of your CSS file #bannerright { width: 390px; height:240px; text-align:left; float:left; padding: 30px 40px 30px 30px; background:#333333; } #bannerright h2 { color: black; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; color:#bbb; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; } #bannerright div.paragraph { padding: 20px 0px; line-height: 140%; } #bannerright p { padding: 20px 0px; line-height: 140%; } you can see that this huge picture has to be placed in a small box, which doesn't change the actual size just the display. Therefore make the pictures you want to be displayed in your banner that individual size and your page will load a bit faster. Further, if you want to be found on Google (not on page 108 or further back) you should ad some text. Not only to your body, but also to the pictures. Search engines cannot see. All they do is read. However, it's a functional site. One of about 8 billions at this time. Therefore you want to stand out and use whatever you can and is allowed to stand out. Try to compare your source code to the one of leatherworker.net (the home page not the forum) and see what a difference a clean page makes. It may seem to be antiquated but keywords are still important and so is the "Alt Text" feature to pictures and so on. One more thing you might want to include is the Google webmaster stuff. Read up on it and you can optimize your site to your needs as you can see who's viewing your website for what reason and from which area and so on. Your site is a good start, just needs some improving. I hope my comments help.

Hello, after reading here for months and signing up for an account lately, I thought I should introduce myself a bit. My name is Thorsten and I'm currently living in Germany. Meaning I used to live in BC and still have a place out west and in Ontario between London and Windsor. That's why I'm moving around a lot. Keeps life interesting. The later one is where I got into leather crafts. Todd Bailey moved to the town and set up his saddlery. He's a second generation saddle maker master. Knowing him already from major horse events, I walked in the store, asked if I could look over his shoulder for a while and ended up helping out for about 2 weeks. I learned a lot about saddles I didn't know before and how they are made. I have to add that I'm a professional rider and thought I knew a lot about saddles and tack already - BS... Eager to learn something he offered to use his tools and showed me a few things. So this was the first lesson of using the swivel knife and the beveler. After that I wanted to bring something home and made this key fob. My head was still spinning while at home and I came up with my own design which I started on the next day in between tack repairs. The outcome was this: Of course I needed to have something for my wife as well and found a "Ladies Belt" in one of the old Stohlman books, Todd had in one of his many drawers... That kept me busy for a couple of days, as I only worked on it in between repairs and helping with making two show saddles he was working on. I liked it so much and the learning curve I had, that I decided to get the basic tools and more practice. A few month later I finished my first saddlebags. They were the best practice piece yet. Currently I'm working on a messenger bag and a scabbard. So I'm slowly working my way up to a saddle, which I'm planning to start some time this summer. I'm not so certain on what it should look like yet. Some kind of wade saddle with a bunch of tooling, bi-color, round skirt, equitation seat ... heated seat and a coffee maker as extras :-) Thus far I'm trying to learn as much as I can about leather, the tools, when, where and what to use and what to avoid. I'm always open for suggestions as I'm always eager to learn something new.

Excellent job! There isn't a lot I could say from a saddle maker's point of view, but let me make a suggestion from a professional rider's point. It is regarding the breast collar. I appreciate at least one keeper to avoid loose billet ends in my tack. These ones could even be shortened. Also maybe people would be interested to know where you got the parts from. The metal parts really look classy.

This Australien duster coat seems to be just right and isn't very expensive. Can be found herehttp://www.agelesspatterns.com/folkwear__4.htm. Hope it helps even though this post is pretty old.