Turns out that computer scientists have appropriated the term “dovetail” to describe complex calculations that run algorithms, the math that lets us search the Web for information. My analog brain doesn’t totally comprehend how this all works, but I love the way that the Web allows me to find information fast, at any time of the day.
We’ve learned that woodworkers rely on the Internet a lot, so we’ve restructured the way we work, dovetailing the efforts of our editorial team with the online group to produce a greater variety of content in different media. Part of that process included redesigning our Web site to make it a more powerful research tool.
At FineWoodworking.com, you can interact with an active community of woodworkers via Knots, our online forum. You can get in touch with our authors as they file updates on projects in their Web logs, or “blogs.” You can see videos that tie in to the current issue. These and other features such as our index, gallery, and portions of the Tool Guide are all available for free.
If you become a member of FineWoodworking.com, you can read the current issue online and have access to 30 years’ worth of content. The member site has more than 1,000 articles on subjects such as design, project plans, techniques, product reviews, and profiles. We’ve also amassed 150 how-to videos and are adding more. If you’ve balked at becoming a member, the good news is that we lowered the price of membership recently.
Starting with this issue, we’ve added a Table of Contents page inside the magazine to let you know what’s new online. In the coming months we’re going to try out a number of new online features. The aim is to offer woodworkers of all stripes high-quality content in the magazine and on the Internet.
And in case you’re wondering about the future of the print version of Fine Woodworking, fear not. At the end of the day, I still like flipping pages.
Anatole Burkinis the publisher of Fine Woodworking.
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