RubyXml.com
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About this site
This site is a portal of sorts to a set of CafePress shops I created to help fund the Ruby Web sites www.ruby-doc.org and www.rubyxml.com.
It is largely auto-generated from a set of Ruby scripts that fetch individual CafePress shop pages, parse out item details, and aggregate the data by product type. (No, it does not do that on every page hit; the scripts are run by hand when a shop is added or products change.)
CafePress makes it quite easy to set up a free store; all you really need is an idea and some decent graphics. The free sites, of course, have assorted limitations on the variety of images and products. There appears to be no limit on the number of free shops one has, so assigning one shop per graphic is a workable way to provide a range of products. Having a central site like this makes it easier to present what's available in one place.
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