QUOTE: Originally posted by locomotive10 Daer Capt. Wounderful site. Glad you got rid of the Tripod Signs. Inform me of progress please. my e-mail adress is locomotive10@aol.com. Send me a letter! See ya Eh mate?
QUOTE: Originally posted by Goetz-von Hi Capt. C, Look forward to another visit when you've made some more progress. Please keep us updated. Kind regards, Goetz. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GARDEN-RAILWAYS-RAILROADS/ .
QUOTE: Originally posted by RhB_HJ Rich, Start page is good now. Next suggestion is: shrink the file size of your pictures. Going by the size of those puppies you should be able to get them to within 20k to 30k per picture at the max. Here's what they are at the moment: http://oddeseana0.tripod.com/nscaledepot3.jpg = 75K http://oddeseana0.tripod.com/nscaledepot.jpg = 104K http://oddeseana0.tripod.com/nscaledepot5.jpg = 202K http://oddeseana0.tripod.com/nscaledepot4.jpg = 331K http://oddeseana0.tripod.com/PremontTrackside.jpg = 977K http://oddeseana0.tripod.com/nscaledepot6.jpg = 251K http://oddeseana0.tripod.com/gardenclick1.jpg = 91K Running them through Photoshop, PaintShopPro or Photopaint lets you adjust for minimal size while retaining the best quality i.e. you sharpen, highlight, equalize etc. first and then save at the smaller file size. HTH
QUOTE: Originally posted by RhB_HJ Rich, By the looks of things (view code) Tripod adds the ad block to every page of your site. Except on the Start Page it didn't bump your code down by the required spaces. Can't see why, but that's one of the drawbacks with free Hosting. Brian Tripod http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ is one of those outfits that provide "free" webspace. I know them from 4 years back when I started out in webdesign. The software I was using at that time provided a "free" version for Tripod and people were having lots of problems, both with uploading as well as service outage.
QUOTE: Originally posted by RhB_HJ Capt C. What's with the pop-ups?? Oooops yeah it's Tripod. Just surprised me because my OPERA is set to display all the crud in the background (nope I don't usually get to see any of it, poor me [;)][:(!][}:)][;)] ) I have a suggestion: Being as your hosting outfit insists on placing ads at the top of the page, why not leave that space free? Of course if it were me I'd place a snarky message as a wall-paper gif i.e. "Yep this is what they call FREE space....!" The reason it bothered me right off the bat was your logo being obscured, not a good thing if it's a graphic link! Just two suggestions from someone who does webdesign on the side.[;)] BTW I was looking for your track plan, is it in the works?
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