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Model Forum / General / Railroads / October 2008I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy!
I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! The link is: http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ Have fun... > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is: http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... It seems a little lacking in content, and the first post ("In Regards to model trains.. what is a OO scale? Is it smaller or larger than an HO scale?") seems a little strange for a site about 00 models, especially sicne the answer appears to have come from an answer submitted by the public. It might be worth checking back in 6 months or a year, but right now it faily useless. >> I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! >> [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > It might be worth checking back in 6 months or a year, but right now > it faily useless. I was rather amused by the statements in the last paragraph, "It teaches you people skills" and "it teaches you monetary skills". As if any self-respecting railway modeller would CARE about such trivial matters as relationships and cost! > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is: http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... Yorton junction Video has disappeared off the face of youtube---- Not very enthralling on day 1 of the site being up. >> I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > enthralling on day 1 of the site > being up. Think his plan is to get lots of visits, brandish the numbers and get paid adverts. But as always on the web content is king and he has not yet put in the work. Mike On 7 Oct, 18:41, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael-gooden.info> wrote: > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is:http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... "The OO model trains scale is larger than HO. It is the size of the big Lionel trains." I thought most Lionel trains were 'O' gauge ? A web page not a web site surely ? Chris > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is: http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... Spam, flogging an e-book. From the web page: In Regards to model trains.. what is a OO scale? Is it smaller or larger than an HO scale? Posted by admin on October 6th, 2008 and filed under oo model trains | 2 Comments » The OO Model Trains scale is larger than HO. It is the size of the big Lionel trains. What???  SignatureMartin S. Nice modelling...good filming....crap website. Cheers Robt P. > Nice modelling...good filming....crap website. > Cheers > Robt P. " good filming " WHAT ? It would have helped if they had someone doing the filming and a n other operating the loco ! Chris On Oct 7, 6:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- gooden.info> wrote: > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is:http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... Good for you. Now, run along and play with your trains. MBQ On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- gooden.info> wrote: > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is:http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... Sorry if it looks spammy, i'm new at this whole website business. I've taken your advice and have changed all the post with questions into 'Qs and As' posts. They were questions I found asked that other people might be interested in. I've made the first post a sticky, the one on choosing model trains as a hobby. I had posted the information the wrong way round, so my best article was at the bottom, not the top! If you have any more advice, (or complaints :) ) please reply and help me build a great website! Thanks, Michael On 9 Oct, 16:33, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael-gooden.info> wrote: > On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > > Michael It's getting there .... Assume you are using some form of template for the site ? Can it be made a little wider ? Less downward scrolling ! Double check your facts prior to putting to 'print' On the basis of " a picture is worth a thousand words " use a few more plus diagrams e.g. describing scales. Group items together, Q's & A's, video's etc. Use your main page as a hub or index for the rest of the site Chris In message <dcfa7c4e-5b34-493a-8bcb-cb266d4c8cec@u46g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>, "me@michael-gooden.info" <me@michael-gooden.info> writes >I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > >The link is: http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > >Have fun... I notice that you have at least one contribution from someone in the USA on the site. Maybe you ought to think of putting something like this on the site, to avoid the possibility of confusion: Note for our readers in the USA: In the USA, OO gauge refers to models built to 4mm/1ft scale running on 19mm. gauge track. OO was popular over fifty years ago in the USA, but nowadays it is practically dead, as people prefer to use HO because so much is available commercially. This site is devoted to OO gauge (4mm/1ft scale running on 16.5mm gauge track) as used in the UK. Best wishes SignatureJane British OO, American and Australian HO, and DCC in the garden http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/railway/railway.html On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- gooden.info> wrote: > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is:http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... Thanks for the advice!!!! I have attempted to make the template a little wider, but it might not work... Grouping the different things together into categories is easy, however it automatically puts everything on the front page. I will make the categories section in the sidebar the first thing to be seen, as to simplify navigation. I have also moved the ebook sale offer down to the bottom of the sidebar, so I am only exposing my readers to it presuming they have taken time to read through the site. I hope you will find this more ethical... Oh, I have included that extra bit of info onto my fist stickied post, to help out Americans. Thanks again for all the help, Michael On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- gooden.info> wrote: > I've setup a new website specifically about OO Model Trains, enjoy! > > The link is:http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net/ > > Have fun... Does anyone know of any other websites specifically about OO scale trains? I want to trade links :) Thanks, Michael > On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- > gooden.info> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Michael Double O Gauge Association <http://www.doubleogauge.com> SignatureBruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney UK <snip> > Does anyone know of any other websites specifically about OO scale > trains? > > I want to trade links :) Never heard of Google?.... Duh! :~( Signature"You obviously couldn't get a clue if you rolled in clue musk and performed the clue mating dance in the middle of a field full of horny clues at the height of the clue mating season!" > <m...@michael-gooden.info> wrote in message > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > of a field full of horny clues at the height of the > clue mating season!" Hi Jerry I would like your opinion on this site ........ http://elecurrent.blogspot.com/ posted by 'Vicky' on the 9th My question is WHY ? It gets my vote as THE most BORING web site EVER ! Chris >I would like your opinion on this site ........ The content is lifted without attribution form Wikipedia, the most prominent thing about it is a large ad for a MMF scheme. It is spam, and I can't imagine why Google have not ToSd it yet. Guy Signaturehttp://www.chapmancentral.co.uk "To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:27:45 -0700 (PDT), Dragon Heart > <chris.bret...@o2.co.uk> said in [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > "To every complex problem there is a solution which is > simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken Are you refering to my site???? I have only used a small bit of Wikipedia's content, and I have left the attribution in place???? >> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 19:27:45 -0700 (PDT), Dragon Heart >> <chris.bret...@o2.co.uk> said in [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > Are you refering to my site???? I have only used a small bit of > Wikipedia's content, and I have left the attribution in place???? I think they are referring to http://elecurrent.blogspot.com/ but the comments don't make any connection with what is showing there ;) Re - YOUR site. Fixed width display may be easy for style, but it's a pain when selecting a larger font and displaying on a wide screen monitor. I just get a column one third the width of my browser and very long :( SignatureLester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/lsces/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php >Re - YOUR site. Fixed width display may be easy for style, but it's a pain >when selecting a larger font and displaying on a wide screen monitor. I just >get a column one third the width of my browser and very long :( Plus it violates accessibility guidelines. Guy Signaturehttp://www.chapmancentral.co.uk "To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:45:35 +0100, Lester Caine > <les...@lsces.co.uk> said in [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > "To every complex problem there is a solution which is > simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken Accessibility standards? Never heard of em :0 I will try and make it a bit wider. And thanks for all the help guys, it is really nice to see people actually like to contribute to other peoples projects... >Accessibility standards? Never heard of em :0 http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ In Ye Olden Days there was a free "Bobby Standard" tester, but I always used my own Bob Standard, i.e. running it past Bob, my bike mechanic, who is webmaster for Reading Talking Newspaper and is completely blind, he uses a screen reader. Guy Signaturehttp://www.chapmancentral.co.uk "To every complex problem there is a solution which is simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken > >Accessibility standards? Never heard of em :0 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > mechanic, who is webmaster for Reading Talking Newspaper and is > completely blind, he uses a screen reader. A simple test is to view the page in lynx. Igf it still makes sense, you should be OK as far as screen readers go, especially if your code passes an [X]HTML 4.0 strict validator and has a correct Doctype. This will also help ordinary browsers witht he exception of IE6 and lower. >> >Accessibility standards? Never heard of em :0 >> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > A simple test is to view the page in lynx. Igf it still makes sense, Tpyos always crop up at the worst possible moment! :~( > you should be OK as far as screen readers go, especially if your > code > passes an [X]HTML 4.0 strict validator and has a correct Doctype. > This > will also help ordinary browsers witht he exception of IE6 and > lower. Which rather makes the test useless considering that IE6 is still the most used (I won't say popular...) browser. Regarding accessibility, another thing to consider is colour vision problems - probably more important in some ways than screen readers - there is a plug-in for Photoshop, Paintshop, Gimp etc, that will render a screen-shot into pre-defined images of how the page will be seen by those with colour vision problems - trouble is, I can't remember it's name! >>>> Accessibility standards? Never heard of em :0 >>> [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > pre-defined images of how the page will be seen by those with colour > vision problems - trouble is, I can't remember it's name! Is there another plug-in for people with memory problems? ;o) (kim) > >>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:25:16 -0700 (PDT), "m...@michael-gooden.info" > >>> <m...@michael-gooden.info> said in [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > (kim) Why would we need that? Michael Goodne http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net On Oct 21, 7:06 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- gooden.info> wrote: > > >>> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:25:16 -0700 (PDT), "m...@michael-gooden.info" > > >>> <m...@michael-gooden.info> said in [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > > http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.net <snip blantant domain spamming> Look you pizzle head, are you trying to get your web shites domain nuked, you will if you continue to spam Usenet, go away, learn how to build an accessible web site, learn something about the sites supposed content so tat you are not wrong, and then Google will take care of the rest. Signature"You obviously couldn't get a clue if you rolled in clue musk and performed the clue mating dance in the middle of a field full of horny clues at the height of the clue mating season!" > <snip blantant domain spamming> Lighten up Jerry. It was just a joke about memory problems. (kim) >> <snip blantant domain spamming> > > Lighten up Jerry. It was just a joke about memory problems. No, it was blatant spamming made to look like a joke, he could have made the same joke without quoting his domain. > >> <m...@michael-gooden.info> wrote in message > >>news:ac467c5c-e644-4ed7-9c4d-7d485e6837d6@d1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > No, it was blatant spamming made to look like a joke, he could have > made the same joke without quoting his domain. Where did I quote my domain? And anyway, http://oomodeltrains.hmmetro.not is a great site!!!! :) And I'm sorry if I offended you Jerry, please feel free to post what you think I should have said in reply to my memory problems? > On Oct 21, 7:06 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- > gooden.info> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 38 lines] >> >> Why would we need that? LOL! Good one! (kim) > On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- > gooden.info> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > I want to trade links :) This is the UK. 00 has the by far the largest following in the UK. I very much doubt you have anything to offer one of the more comprehensive and longer established 00 websites. You are needed about as much as the chimney on Bachmannn's new Standard 4! (kim) >> On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- >> gooden.info> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > (kim) You could use those as back door flowerpots outside railway worker's cottages on a 1920s GWR layout - or not. Greg.P. >> On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- >> gooden.info> wrote: [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > >(kim) Don't hold back, Kim, let him know exactly how you feel about his site. SignatureJane British OO, American and Australian HO, and DCC in the garden http://www.yddraiggoch.demon.co.uk/railway/railway.html <snip> >>> Does anyone know of any other websites specifically about OO scale >>> trains? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > Don't hold back, Kim, let him know exactly how you feel about his > site. Well seeing that the OP doesn't know the difference between "OO gauge" and "4mm Scale" or their correct use I would go as far as saying that the OP's web-shite is going to be more like a noisy generator in the middle of the quartet at a afternoon tea-party as far as usefulness is concerned! SignatureWikipedia: the Internet equivalent of Hyde Park and 'speakers corner'... On 11 Oct, 19:11, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- gooden.info> wrote: > On Oct 7, 7:41 pm, "m...@michael-gooden.info" <m...@michael- > [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > > Michael |
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