I wonder if someone from the US can help me check the spelling at my new website? I’m from Sweden so I don’t know how to spell in this language.
My site is located at www.thrutherockies.com
Contact me at contact@thrutherockies.com if you find something that is not spelled in the right way, or just looks strange.
Works for me!
You’ve got a great start there. It looks very professional so far.
Electro,
Looks good so far. You really are going to have to “come out of the box” [swg]
Tom
Hmmm. I am running IE6 and cannot get the link, which appears to be a true link, to work unless I copy and paste. The others on this thread all change to the white hand when I place the cursor over them.
Does the link appear to work normally for the rest of you?
In any event, I like what I see, Electro. You might consider increasing the height of the picture atop the home page, or else put some sort of border around it. As it is, I keep wanting to scroll up to get the heights that must be spectacular in that gorge.
What do you think?
I had to copy and paste.
I think to fix the link all you’d have to do is type [ url] [ /url] before and after it, only without the spaces, and it should work.
Everything so far is spelled correctly.
Website looks good to me. Keep up the good work.
Though I am curious, How did a guy in sweeden find out about the comparitvly small reagonal RR known as the Rio Grande?
James.
It should be through the rockies, not thru the rockies! [}:)]
(Just kidding!) [(-D]
Looks great!
-George
Electrolove,
I PM’ed you a couple of suggestions. Great site. I really sensed your enthusiasm for the DRG&W. Nice graphics, pics, etc. Can’t wait to see the bridge when it is complete. Keep up the good work.
FT
I am using IE 7 and had no problem entering your site. You are off to good start I would say, keep going , your doing just fine… BTW, I was watching the TLC channel on TV here last week, the show was on MEGA Engineering projects, and the show was all about the big RR tunnel project in Sweden. The previous two attemps had failed, but this new engineering team looks like they are going to succeed. Do you have an update on this tunnel?
I changed the link to url instead of link, that works. Thanks.
Not a problem. I noticed it works now.
Again, nice job on the site. I model maine, but your site had me thinking about it for a half a second!
electro, very nice [tup].
And, I learned something, a tip, from visiting your site already. Those metal angle brackets you display on your work bench - what do you use them for? Looking at them it appeared to me that they could be used to hold the walls of structures together firmly at 90 degress when gluing !
Something like this - http://www.ares-server.com/Ares/Ares.asp?MerchantID=RET01229&Action=Catalog&Type=Product&ID=60304
Regards,
Tom, I use these angles just to make the CD case heavier. I use the edge of the case to get the styrene angles in the right position.
Looks great!
The picture of yourself is a bit dark though.
Can not wait to see it finished!
Good luck.
Thanks for telling me about the dark picture. It’s fixed now.
electro:
Overall, the site looks great … clean, friendly, and attractive.
I found your text font, however is rather small, and the black text against the green background with squares on it is really tiring on the eyes.
Are you using CSS to control the fonts? If so you can make the text blocks a solid color that’s the same green as your background, thereby removing the distracting graph paper squares from the text.
I’d also experiment with font colors. A very light gray or very light yellow in a larger point size would be much easier on the eyes.
The other thing to be thinking about is all those pages full of photos will take forever to load on a dial up connection. That’s why most sites with lots of photos present a thumbnail page and then you click the thumbnail to get a popup of the individual photo. Loads much faster on dial up.
But all-in-all a great start to a very attactive site!
P.S. Photos on mac default to a higher gamma setting, and so look lighter on a mac. I found many of your photos are still too dark on a PC. If you get a chance, you might go visit a friend with a PC and have a look at your site. Any time I look at one of my sites on someone else’s computer, I always see lots of things I need to improve that I just don’t notice on my own computer.
My site is updated, I have changed the ‘Pride of the Rio Grande’ section to display thumbnails. But they are not clickable yet but they will be. I will do the same with the Hanging Bridge section.
I have also changed the color of the background squares so the text will be easier to read. I hope it helps.
I will soon have the possibility to sign up for a newsletter that will be sent every time I made a update to the site (maybe once a week). The function is not finished yet, but if you want to sign up anyway, send a mail to contact@thrutherockies.com with the subject ‘newsletter’.
Electro,
I like the site. It has a great layout. Like Joe said, you may want to adjust your text size and colors. It is a bit hard to see on the dark green background. I just sent an e-mail to contact@thrutherockies.com with a few spelling a grammar corrections for your Royal Gorge section.
Eric