Thread: Fine woodworking Web site

Yes I saw the promo on the latest FWW.

I've been meaning to join up. $14.95 US for one year has to be a bit of a bargain.

I'm sure it would be easy to download $14.95 worth of project plans without even trying.

(Memo to self: Join the FWW online site next week )

Hey

I love that site. With good broadband you can just clip on and watch streaming video.

xlnt

dazzler

Originally Posted by craigb

I'm sure it would be easy to download $14.95 worth of project plans without even trying.

I've definitely got my monies worth of those already .

Dave

Its great, I signed up about a month ago. Well recommended. Evenif you done have/dont want the hard copy mag the full price is still great value.
Albert

Has anyone signed up with only dial-up?

If so, how does it seem to run?
Cheers,
Buzzer.

Personally I use broadband but can tell you that vast majority of content is in pdf's and short movies.

For free you can access a number of articles and movie clips - in terms of size etc these are fully representive of the remainder of content so you can easily test it based on your connection - then decide.

Albert

I've been a member since it first opened and I can honestly say its priceless!!

Worth every cent in my opionion

GEt broadband then you can also enjoy the woodworking channel for free!!!

REGards Lou

I'm on broadband, too so couldn't comment about the speed on dial-up. However, I've found the most useful aspect of the site to be the huge catalogue of articles and projects.

The site is well-designed so it's not hard to find what you're looking for and downloading articles and projects in pdf form is no problem even with dial-up.

I'm a subscriber to the mag so the annual fee of $14.95 wasn't at all expensive.

I had a look and either I've missed something or the website says I already have to have a subscription for the magazine to get the one year online

Originally Posted by MathewA

I had a look and either I've missed something or the website says I already have to have a subscription for the magazine to get the one year online

Mathew, Try here

http://www.taunton.com/ecommerce/off...subscribe.aspx

Albert

I did but it says I have to enter a customer number

yeah if you are already a subscriber you need your number and you can get online access for 15 dollars a year, if you are not a subscriber, at the top it says 35 dollars for a year of online access. Think I will try the online access to see how it is, the site looks great, and although i do like having the actual magazine to look at, they do tend to start to get cluttered after a while and once have too many its hard to remember where things are. with online we can organize folders for different pieces/plans, articles, etc for easy access to print out if desired or just read through.

I'm wondering though, are the plans viewable after your subscription runs out? Or maybe you can only view online?

with PDF's you can lock out the ability to save to disk, print and/or copy text. These seem to be open. You can also include a password on the PDF to gain access but again these are open. So I see no reason why they wouldn't work once your subscription had expired.

Cheers


Dave

well im not sure if is only because im not a member yet, but i tried to save a video clip from there and it saved with a pdf extension, but for some reason when i go to open it, it tries to open in a webpage instead of adoboe, and then when goes to open it askes for login info. So im curious if they encode their files somehow that it would only open with an active membership? Ill look around the site today and see if there is any mention of how the files are. But if anyone has joined and then didn't renew the subscription online, were you still able to access all the files and videos you saved from there after expiration of you account?
thanks,
jim