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Hello.

Around 1996 the first ScotClans.com website was set up. We had set up the website to promote our CD Rom of Scottish Clans and Tartans. The site however took on a life of it’s own and while Educational CD Roms were not the future the Internet certainly was!

Our little back room business ticked away quietly over the years but the readership of the site grew and grew. In 2003 I took the step of taking over the ScotClans.com website and turning it into a proper portal for Scottish clan information. What I didn’t want to do was go down the route of plastering the site with advertising – we wanted a good clear information structure and rather than wasting space letting people try to sell you things you didn’t want we decided to use the ‘clan shops’ to allow you to buy things you did want.

Since then the site has gone through several facelifts, the volume of information on the site has increased well over ten fold and we have begun to build relationships with many other complimentary sites to create a Scottish social network. We have always tried to maintain that 50 /50 balance of information and retail and at the last count our 7, 000 odd pages are more or less on that mark.

We are now on the verge of a massive change to the ScotClans website

Over the last year and a half we have been working on a complete redesign of the site – the amount of content available is about to increase again along with the number of ways you will be able to browse and interact with the site. The redesign gives us new scope for the future and will also allow us to work much more closely with Clan and other Scottish societies, these are exciting times.

And this is where you come in….

A large website like ours is a hungry animal – Sales are buoyant but to get to the next stage and to realise our dream for what ScotClans could be we need to give it that little extra push. ScotClans depends on its retail sales to support the research and design staff. The better the sales the more we can put back in and the sooner we can get to our goal. ScotClans supports local crafts people many of whom depend on our business. By supporting us you are also supporting them and keeping traditional Scottish crafts alive.

Help us to keep these Scottish traditions alive at their source, help us to keep one of the largest Scottish clan information resources in the world growing and improving. Help us by finding your own ‘little piece of Scotland’ and making it yours – Our shop is never closed and our door is always open!

Rodger and Amanda Moffet, ScotClans

Hello.

Around 1996 the first ScotClans.com website was set up. We had set up the website to promote our CD Rom of Scottish Clans and Tartans. The site however took on a life of it’s own and while Educational CD Roms were not the future the Internet certainly was!

Our little back room business ticked away quietly over the years but the readership of the site grew and grew. In 2003 I took the step of taking over the ScotClans.com website and turning it into a proper portal for Scottish clan information. What I didn’t want to do was go down the route of plastering the site with advertising – we wanted a good clear information structure and rather than wasting space letting people try to sell you things you didn’t want we decided to use the ‘clan shops’ to allow you to buy things you did want.

Since then the site has gone through several facelifts, the volume of information on the site has increased well over ten fold and we have begun to build relationships with many other complimentary sites to create a Scottish social network. We have always tried to maintain that 50 /50 balance of information and retail and at the last count our 7, 000 odd pages are more or less on that mark.

We are now on the verge of a massive change to the ScotClans website

Over the last year and a half we have been working on a complete redesign of the site – the amount of content available is about to increase again along with the number of ways you will be able to browse and interact with the site. The redesign gives us new scope for the future and will also allow us to work much more closely with Clan and other Scottish societies, these are exciting times.

And this is where you come in….

A large website like ours is a hungry animal – Sales are buoyant but to get to the next stage and to realise our dream for what ScotClans could be we need to give it that little extra push. ScotClans depends on its retail sales to support the research and design staff. The better the sales the more we can put back in and the sooner we can get to our goal. ScotClans supports local crafts people many of whom depend on our business. By supporting us you are also supporting them and keeping traditional Scottish crafts alive.

Help us to keep these Scottish traditions alive at their source, help us to keep one of the largest Scottish clan information resources in the world growing and improving. Help us by finding your own ‘little piece of Scotland’ and making it yours – Our shop is never closed and our door is always open!

Rodger and Amanda Moffet, ScotClans