Notes & Links     

About us

A note from the owner of Ozeyarn - Juliana Ellis

Links to websites

Related to Knitting and Yarn

• Knitter's Review - "experience the world of yarn", a fantastic website on just about everything yarn-related.
• 'Yarn' Magazine -  a new Australian knitting, crochet and needlework magazine.
• Australian Creative Knitting -  a nice Australian knitting magazine.
• The Stitchguide - the place to go if you're learning how to knit.  They have great "how-to" videos and patterns and things.
• Knitty - www.knitty.com is full of articles, techniques and patterns.
• The Needler Network - a directory for the Art of Needlework.
• Knitter's Universe - a great US magazine just on knitting, and a really great website.
• Crochet Fantasy Magazine - Crochet Fantasy's site offers unique new styles in the latest fashion yarns for you to update your wardrobe.
• YarnWorld.com - Learn about various kinds of yarn including Red Heart, Lion Brand, Rowan, Bernat, Plymouth, and many more.
• Wool Works - Wool Works is a non-commercial, volunteer-run site full of information for handknitters.
• Socknitters - is a great site, mailing list and chat for anyone interested in knitting socks by hand.
• NSW Knitter's Guild - The website for the Knitter's Guild of NSW Australia.
• Knitting About.Com - a comprehensive knitting portal site, full of patterns, tips, links, and more.

...and more to come.  Send us a link to your favorite!

General

• xe.com - the World's Favorite Currency Conversion Site
• OzForex - Another great exchange rate website
• Currency Converter - a great site for easily doing currency exchange rates

Some handy conversions

US dollars to Australian dollars (AUD) - multiply by 1.052  (rough estimate only)
Australian dollars (AUD) to US dollars - multiply by 0.95  (rough estimate only)

Grams to Ounces, simply multiply the grams by 0.04
Ounces to Grams, simply multiply the ounces by 28.35

Yards to metres - multiply by 0.91
Metres to yards - multiply by 1.09
Inches to centimetres - multiply by 2.54
Centimetres to inches - multiply by 0.39
Celsius to Fahrenheit - multiply by 1.8 and add 32
Fahrenheit to Celsius - subtract 32 and multiply by 0.55

Recent Changes...

April 6th, 2008 - Added new books and yarns. Updated homepage.
June 9th, 2007 - Added new books and yarns. Updated CMS to 4.0.
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August 9th, 2002 - Initial Launch website placed online.

Website Notes

Our website is designed to be simple and easy to use.  Yarn products are on the left column, and simple tabs across the top show our Contact details, FAQ page and other information.  These two navigation areas are always visible, so you can quickly jump from point to point.  We also have an integrated shopping cart, secure credit card transaction system, and reliable delivery to make your shopping as safe and straight forward as possible.

This website was constructed using EziMerchant Professional and Microsoft FrontPage, running on Windows XP.  Many product images were taken in our own studio set-up, using a Canon PowerShot S100 digital camera, or scanned using a Canon MPC100 or Dell A940.  Edits and touch-up were done with Microsoft Photo Editor 3.0, Image Composer 1.5 and Adobe Photoshop and PhotoDeluxe.  Final resize and thumbnail files were created via ezimerchant's own image re-sizer tool.  Site icon was created with a freeware icon editor.  Survey online form services provided by Response-O-Matic.  Currency display and information service performed by JAZconvert.  Payment gateway services performed by DirectOne.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to our great assistants, Caroline Magson and Sue Pattinson, who both help to keep the business running smoothly.

Thanks to Hugh Pattinson for his expert advice on eCommerce and internet marketing.  Also for making his many reference books available and for his pre-launch review of our business plan and this website.

Thanks to Bob Burns for his review of our business plan, and for all his financial advice, past and present.

Thanks to Meryl Harris for reviewing our business plan and her advice on website content and helpful editing suggestions.  Thanks also for helping assemble our sample cards.

Thanks to Jean Ellis for her user testing and also for helping assemble the sample cards.  Thanks to both Meryl and Jean for being caring grandmothers, giving us the time to get Ozeyarn ready for business.

Thanks to Mary Mara for testing of our sample card, product and presentation advice, and other product details.

Thanks to our numerous suppliers for their fabulous yarn products, for they are the reason that Ozeyarn exists.

Thanks to our many other family and friends for their support; Eva Harris, Kathryn Knoll, Susan Bell and her family, Sue Gulikers, Charlie and Terez Manger, Lindy Reinhold, Deb Patterson, and Christine Brown.  Thanks also to David Ferguson at OnTechnology/EziMerchant and Richard Mann at DirectOne for all their technical help.

This website is designed and authored by David Ellis