A Marketplace for Home-Based Products

I have a sister-in-law who is very skilled and talented when it comes to home based crafts. I am looking over the website called www.etsy.com. Etsy is an online marketplace for buying and selling handmade goods. My sister-in-law is very talented in sewing, monograming, creating great ideas. I will be showing this site to her. The Webware 100 description states "...Users can create their own virtual shop fronts to sell almost anything they'd want. Etsy has an integrated search tool that lets anyone search the site for goods and services out of a centralized directory. Users can also get into the nitty-gritty and design the specific look and feel of their own shops. "

When you first click on the home page, you can click on many catagories of products listed on the left hand side of the page. Selections are by region, by product family, by hiloday occasion, etc.

Going through the Etsy website, I see they have a place to post requests for custom handmade items. Then sellers can post bids on the opportunity to win the business and make the requested crafts. This section is called the Alchemy section. If you want to see what has just been listed for sale, click on the Time Machine  and Time Machine2 pages.