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[David Stranz]

For your meals on wheels site, depending on what you are using for a web development tool, you could create a login that gives certain users access to additional pages. Those without a login in will only be able to see the public content.

That's pretty much the idea, but I'd like to hide from the public the knowledge that there is a private side to the site, just for security reasons. So there won't be a "Login" button or "Board Portal" link on the public-facing site.

We're using WordPress along with Elementor to implement the main site. I'll be talking with the developer about how to implement the private side of it. I'll be taking over as admin after he has finished the initial implementation.

 

[Jim Grieco]

Here's one way to do something similar to what you describe:

Let's say you have 3 domain names: ours.com, his.com, and hers.com for example. Your combined site is ours.com, with sub-pages for turning-specific stuff at ours.com/his and bath stuff at ours.com/hers.
You can set up, in your domain name service provider, a CNAME record for his.com that points at ours.com/his, and a CNAME entry for hers.com to ours.com/hers.
So anyone pointing their browser at his.com will actually end up at ours.com/his. etc.
If you don't want to own 3 domains, you can setup the CNAME on a subdomain like his.ours.com.

For example, to show you how it works: my website is dlwoodturning.com. I own another domain, shotbarrels.com with the CNAME record "https://dlwoodturning.com/shot-barrels/" which points to a page about my Shot Barrels. I use dlwoodturning.com on my business cards but put shotbarrels.com on the "care and use" cards I give out with Shot Barrel sales. (I could have also setup a CNAME on shotbarrels.dlwoodturning.com, without having to own another domain, but I didn't do it that way)

Hope that helps

First - cool shot glasses
Second - nice website and work

I appreciate the suggestions. However, I'm thinking just to have a one page site that gives a person the choice to go to the soap website or mine. I really do not want to have it all bunched together. It can get confusing since they are so different.
For tax purposes we want to keep the biz name live and running with the webpage and social media. Otherwise, we will be getting separate business cards etc. moving forward.
*Hope I am explaining this correctly

Thanks

 

[David Stranz]

However, I'm thinking just to have a one page site that gives a person the choice to go to the soap website or mine

Then just re-implement the home page so it contains two clickable photos or something similar; one photo is for the soaps and clicking it leads to a set of pages for your wife, the other is for woodturning and leads to your part of the site. Unless your site completely mixes the two parts of your business, this shouldn't be so difficult. Why don't you post the link to your site so we can have a better idea of how hard this might be?

 

[Lou Currier]

Then just re-implement the home page so it contains two clickable photos or something similar; one photo is for the soaps and clicking it leads to a set of pages for your wife, the other is for woodturning and leads to your part of the site. Unless your site completely mixes the two parts of your business, this shouldn't be so difficult. Why don't you post the link to your site so we can have a better idea of how hard this might be?

Agreed

 

[Doug Rasmussen]

Careful Odie. Getting close to the edge of a political comment here, which I hope we can avoid in this section of the site.

For a few years there, my sales on Etsy was about 100/year, but since the downturn of our economy creates the conditions where there is less disposable money, my sales for the past two years is closer to 50/year. This year looks to be about the same.

I don't recall ever such a connection between the economy and politics as we seem to have right now. I do think the economy itself is a valid subject for discussion. Should you buy that foreign made lathe you've been lusting after before the price goes up 25% due to tariffs? Should you plan on recovering some costs of your expensive hobby equipment by selling turnings while discretionary spending may be on a down turn?

I found it interesting that Odie's sales had dropped by half prior to the now current economy. While the last economy appeared to be booming there were unsettling predictions of a recession which never materialized.

The next few years may be tough times for artisans in all fields.

 

[Bill Blasic]

Covid an the initial response to it murdered the economy and now, guess what?