Name wanted for website

[echnidna]

Over the years I have made a lot of tools to make life easier.
I smile a bit when someone comes up with a similar tool and shouts about "their" new invention that I built long ago.

I am thinking of making some speciality woodie tools based on some of my shop tools and marketing them online. One of my domains is ausmade.com.au so I could easily give each type of tool an individual web address, for example,

www.bowsaw.ausmade.com.au
or
www.shootingboard.ausmade.com.au
or
www.workbench.ausmade.com.au

But it could get unwieldy with an address like
www.productiondowellingmachine.ausmade.com.au

So I wonder if it would be better just to have a single name like
www.woodworktools.ausmade.com.au and have the tools linked from that.
though even that name's also getting quite long.

All comments or suggestions appreciated.

BTW none of the above sites exist yet so don't bother clicking on them.

[ozwinner]

www.Ivegotawoodie.com.au

WWW.woodificouldbuticantsoiwont.com.au

Al

[Auld Bassoon]

Hi Bob,

Why not a homepage for "ausmade" with an internal index (links) that take viewers to the relevant area. I cannot see the point of maintaining a specific "homepage" for every item that you might want to put up...

Cheers!

[Pat]

Wot Steve said

[echnidna]

The way I am setup theres no difference between maintaining one homepage with say 20 sub pages and 21 individual "homepages".

[Caliban]

The way I am setup theres no difference between maintaining one homepage with say 20 sub pages and 21 individual "homepages".

Then you'll have a webpage to one day clean up as well as your shed.

[bitingmidge]

My deeply held and heavily researched belief is as follows

I think all the domain names will end up confusing the unwashed, even though they are subdomains. Better to have one serious domain, and a clear directory page (like this one )

OK my pages aren't quite ready for public consumption either, I've just been mucking round with masked domain redirection, so if you go through that gateway, all pages appear as bitingmidge.com, all pages have a "home" button taking you back there for a redirect to the next bit.

I'll watch how it turns out Bob, because I could easily do 20 subdomains as well! If that's the case, there may be no incentive to go back to the main page and poke around??? Dunno.

The above hasn't helped me at all, so I'm guessing it hasn't done anything for you either. Sorry.

P

[ozwinner]

For your website, it seems to have a bug.

Al

[DavidG]

Ditto what Steve said.

[Auld Bassoon]

Bob; it's not for you - it's for the customers! You have to make it easy - and desirable - for them to buy your stuff.

A certain well known Telco here in Oz gets about 25,000 orders initiated per month on one of it's retail web sites - but less than 100 orders are completed (i.e. <0.4%) because it's too darn hard.

Think of it as if you were the customer.

Cheers!

[echnidna]

I was thinking the individual names might make it easier for the customers.

[sbranden]

I think you should go with the generic sub-domain like woodworking.ausmade.com.au. Something shorter again would be better. Remember that you don't need the www at the front.

cheers

shaun

[RufflyRustic]

Hi Echidna,

I think all the different domain names would drive me crazy. I prefer to remember that all the good stuff comes from www.ausmade.com.au i.e. one url and not from a number of urls.

cheers
RufflyRustic