The eagle eyed and sober amongst you may have noticed a change to the navigation bar over on readersheds.co.uk, it now has dropdowns yes we have finally entered the 20th century.

Basically its the start of a site redesign to make the site easier to use and make the all important sheds a bigger feature of the site.

Iam looking to do some of these things over the coming months.

1. Featured bigger shed photos on the homepage
2. Redevelopment of the shed backend – easier image upload, shed editing.
3. General clean up of the shed pages.
4. Comprehensive Shed  company directory in place of ShedRectory

Back to the navigation it now has the links to what I think will be of use to all sheddies.

• We have links to the This years Shed of year and all the previous winners
• All the sheds in each category’s at the touch of a button!
• The latest shed news from the Shedblog
• Quick links to people interested in buying sheds and a list of featured shed companies
• Social Media links  (like Facebook and Twitter) and contact information

If it’s missing anything , then please contact me or comment below.

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We now have 1300 sheds on readersheds!! wonderful and something i would never had dreamt when I started the site those many years ago, when shed of the year was not even caught in the spider web of ideas in the back of me shed.

The groundbreaking shed was

The WArkshop
Roy Hammans

East Hertfordshire
Workshop

It started off to be just a normal garden shed, but ended up being a deluxe bijou executive shed/workshop and brings the total number of sheds in our gardens to eight.

I do hope Roy Shares his other 7 sheds!

Roy will be the first person to get some I love sheds badges when we get them!, so get voting.

Many thanks to you sheddies old and new

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You may have noticed the panic in my eyes if you were near me the last 48 hours.

I had major issues with the readersheds shed server but hopefully it’s sorted now..(touch shed roof, turn around) and I am sorry for any inconvenience this has caused to you sheddies.

It also means I am a few days behind calculating the shed votes.

So the judges should get their emails with the shortlist tonight

Ironically I had a slight blip on the shedblog server as well..

Lucky they are hosted at different companies.. then I may have just given up on it all!

but it does give you a warning if you do run a website to make sure you have backups of everything (lucky I do, but 4500 images is a pain to FTP around the place)

so over the summer you may see some changes to readersheds

I may be dumbing it down to just concentrate on pictures of your sheds and your build details and may rewrite it from the ground up.. or even shed forbid go with an off the shelf system (if I have time to convert the data) but may stick with Coldfusion as I find it easy to write the code quickly

also thinking about using a thirdparty static hosting away from the main site – any recommendations? Amazon s3 is the first one I am looking at.

so thanks for your wossname and hopefully Shed Week will happen without any more hiccups!.

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I am pleased to announce we have a new sponsor for readersheds.co.uk and the shedblog.co.uk.

Walton Garden Buildings have taken on the mantel of main sponsor for the next 6 months on your favourite shed based websites.

Walton Garden Buildings were originally founded in 1878 by Edward Charles Walton and originally sold beehives. The company has grown considerably in size and stature since and now occupies a 23 acre site employing over 180 staff. They have now become one of the leading manufacturers of garden buildings and are always expanding their range of products and services.

Now in 2008, Walton Garden Buildings have become well established online with a dedicated team working to improve their online pressence and customer service.

Despite the changes in the company and their move online, Walton Garden Buildings are dedicated to supporting British manufacturing and also work with the Forest Stewardship Council to help promote responsible stewardship of the world’s forests.

Read more about Walton Garden Buildings here.

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Going away for a few days..

back next week..

so if you share your shed, dont worry It will be live when I return

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