Letters to the Editor
by Jennia Hart

I just love your website, so informative and lots of great stuff.  Scrapbooking is relatively new here in Australia, but I already belong to two 'Crop till you drop" workshops.  The www is a great wealth of information and I have spent thousands of $ on my new hobby.  Keep up the good work team.  Best wishes from 'down under'.

Lyn B., Australia 

I love the new format for this site, especially the actual examples!!!
Keep up the good work.
Elyce K. 

I want to say fantastic!  The site is the best (always has been).  You are all to be commended in your effort.  Please keep up the good work as I always find an idea or thought that keeps me going.  Maybe someday all the pictures will be in an album, as for now it is one day at a time, one picture, one page.

Thanks again.
Judy , Arizona

I have recently discovered your site and enjoy it more than you can know. Thanks

 J.K. Mulroy

The site is wonderful and so informative, not to mention the layouts are fantastic!  Keep up the good work! 

 Ann B.

I was at the scrapbooking expo today and learned of your website.  I have been on your site now for two hours.  It is the best website around.  Thank you.

Denise A.

I love the new look and content.  I have a couple suggestions for making it more user friendly.  These may be in the works and I have just missed them, but with so much new content it needs to be apparent what is new and when new parts of the magazine will be posted up front on the contents page.  Right now I have no idea if I should plan to visit monthly, weekly, or daily.  And I don't have a lot of time to look at everything frequently to see if it is new.  Could you post a publication schedule on the contents page (or as an item one click off the contents page)?  Graceful Bee does this so I know exactly when an article is being replaced with a new one (they also send me email updates outlining the new material which I find handy-could you consider doing that?)  The other thing I find lacking is representation of 12x12 format layouts.  While a lot of ideas are transferable, one photo 8.5x11 layouts do not translate to 12x12, making the CASE and other sections require a lot of extra design thought to translate successfully.  Not that it can't be done, but if the point is to copy a good idea to quickly get pages done, it defeats the purpose for us 12x12-ers.  I know I am always translating between the formats for my students, but without that I'd always be leaving part of my class behind.  Having a mix of samples will
help everybody find great ideas they can replicate quickly. I hope you find my thoughts useful.  I figured it would be better to let you know how a longtime site user found the new format and where it could be
improved.  I have no doubt the site will only continue to get better and add new features.  It is off to a good start.  Thanks.
-Denise C.

Response from Scrapbooking.com

Scrapbooking.com just added an email newsletter to keep our readers up to date on all of our changes. 

We will be featuring 12 x 12 layouts in addition to the 8 1/2 x 11 layouts. All of the pages on the site are pages that were created for our personal scrapbooks so the page layout size displayed is the size of layout that a particular scrapbook artist uses in their personal albums. In many cases a "one photo 8 1/2 x11 layout" can still be adapted simply by matting several photos and using the 12 x 12 or 12 x 15 size page. 

I love the new format! Where can I find a good guide on how to take decent pictures?

Becky

Response from Scrapbooking.com

We are glad that you like the new magazine format. Kodak has many articles on photography and the NYIP website is also a good resource. Scrapbooking.com will feature periodic articles on photography as well.

Your site is the best-organized site I have ever encountered. 
Congratulations and keep up the good work!

Joanne P., MN

Thank you!!!!   Thank you!!!   Thank you!!!   I have spent hours and hours at your site since a friend sent me the link on Sunday.  Now the 26 years worth of pictures I have left to do doesn't seem quite so overwhelming.   

Delirious in Delaware......Margie