Sandvox Website Profile: “constructivedisorder.com”

The focus is on original, idiosyncratic work in contemporary arts and crafts; on people expressing new ideas in woodworking, stone carving, quilting, metalwork, architecture and dozens of other fields - sometimes for money, sometimes (maybe more often) just to show what they can do. The site includes links to useful suppliers - places that sell the tools and materials you can't find at home centers.

I'm trying to create a showcase site, where people interested in creativity and contemporary arts and crafts can find links to exciting and unusual craftspeople, materials and how-to.

Although my site is essentially composed of links to other sites, none of these are paid links. I search the web every day for people who are doing some kind of original and unique work, then (with their permission), put a photo of their work on my site and link it to their site. I've put together a collection of fascinating web sites that are generally buried in the back pages of Google searches and combined them into a kind of story about creativity and unexpected ways of seeing the world.

I tried quite a few of the templates, and ended up with the one I'm using because it was simple, clean and let me do almost everything I wanted to do, although it sometimes took some head-scratching.

The Sandvox feature that made my web site work was the ability to use photos as external links. All visitors have to do is click on a thumbnail for a larger view, then click on the larger view to go directly to the external web site where the photo came from.