Luckily for me my friend Anne Beal offered to take over that part, checking out new sites and adding them to the lists. This helped free me to focus on the design and content of the site and to work at promoting it. With a move to a new hosting service and our own Domain I have been able to add a bulletin board system, a crafts quiz, a crafts survey and other interactive elements to the Crafts Fair, as well as opening The Crafter's Web Development Center to help crafts people develop and maintain their own independent web sites. The Crafts Fair continues to grow and vistorship steadily grows with it. It's a great feeling to hear in our guest book from people with such praise for what we offer here.
Many sites report that a majority of their traffic comes from their link here.
Throughout our history we have tried to keep all the services of the Crafts Fair Online free, however, as of February 2001 we have begun charging a small, one time fee for newly submitted sites. We hope this will allow us to add new sites more promptly and to further promote the Crafts Fair to bring more traffic to the sites we list. I am Steve Robinson, creator and webmaster of the Crafts Fair. I am a fine artist and craftsmen with a background in graphic design. I have at least dabbled in just about every craft there is, working in glass, wood, metal, leather, ceramics, fiber, plaster and plastics.