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| Dec. 19, 2001 |
Thanks to Mikkel Funder for pointing me to a new award, the
"Great Site" Award!
Kudos to Western Massachusetts Railroads, for winning the Bronze.
Criteria changes:
- Current Updates: A top score will be given to sites
with a separate "What's New" page, as well as revision dates on every page.
- Bandwidth Sensitivity: changed best score maximum
size from 80k to 100k.
I really liked the engine sound on the Home page, but to cut down the size of the page
I decided that it had to go. |
| Dec. 5, 2001 |
To conform to the rest of the site, sub-menus have been added to all of the pages in the
Railroad Award Sites section.
The Paliz Bay Railway & Navigation Co. Featured Site has been placed on the
Discontinued page. The webmaster of the site hopes to bring it back at some time. |
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| Nov. 25, 2001 |
Congratulations to CHORINA, for winning the Bronze.
I have received no response from Train Exchange Awards so it has been placed on the
No Response page.
Amrail.com is no longer alive. Therefore the HEAVY HAULER Web Site Award is now listed as
Discontinued.
Model Train Webring code has been added to home page. |
| Nov. 20, 2001 |
The Valley Central Railway received an award back in August and has now been added to the Bronze Winners. |
| Nov. 18, 2001 |
Award submission has reopened. |
| Nov. 11, 2001 |
Congratulate GWR Modeling for winning the Silver,
and to the Western New York Railway Historical Society and the 71A Locomotive Group,
the new Bronze Winners! |
| Nov. 5, 2001 |
I'm sorry to see the passing of the Highball Award, a fine award program. It is now listed on the
Discontinued page.
On the brighter side, Roger Gilbert has started a new award program called the
Railroad Artists Award. It is listed
on the Active award page. |
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| Oct. 26, 2001 |
Award submission is temporarily closed until the middle or end of November. |
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| Sept. 21, 2001 |
We are living in troubling times. Patriotic graphics have been added to the home page. |
| Sept. 9, 2001 |
Congratulations to Rail Innovations, for winning the Bronze. |
| Sept. 7, 2001 |
The Smokin' Award has a new
Silver Winner - Train Gifs Station!
Kudos to UK Model Shop Directory, the new Bronze Winner!
A couple of changes were made to the criteria.
- I have concluded that I can only effectively evaluate sites written in the English language.
Therefore, the initial criteria has changed to reflect this.
- If a site is honored with the Smokin' Award it should be displayed within two (2)
weeks of receipt. If I receive no response within that time, the award may be revoked.
To reflect the change above, the Application page has been revised. Some
minor layout and verbal changes were added as well.
The color of the revision dates at the bottom of the pages has changed for easier reading. |
| Sept. 4, 2001 |
Sharpo's Miniature World is
the new Bronze Winner!
Revision dates have been added to every page of this site. |
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| Aug. 2, 2001 |
See Jim's Model Engineering,
a new Bronze Winner!
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| July 18, 2001 |
Congratulations to Dave's Trains, Inc., for winning the Bronze.
A 3.5 rating by Award Sites! has been
added to the Highball Award. |
| July 11, 2001 |
The point description, Current Updates, apply to updates made only to the
applicant's website. The description has been reworded to reflect this. |
| July 9, 2001 |
Congratulations to Robert's Lionel Trains Layout for winning the Bronze.
A list of Contacts for Trademark Permissions has been added
to the © & ® page.
I'm now asking award winners not to resize the Smokin' Award graphic on the
Application page. |
| July 7, 2001 |
See the new Bronze Winner, Friends of M30272M TPO Group.
I applied to be added to the Model Train Webring, but have gotten no response after waiting a month.
Fearing that this webring is no longer maintained I have removed the coding from my home page.
META copyright tags have been updated. |
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| June 27, 2001 |
The Nene Valley Railway
is the new Bronze Winner!
Railroad Award Sites has been updated.
- Chris Denbow's Golden Rail Award is defunct and placed on the
Discontinued page. But he has a new awards program, the
Highball Award that is listed on the Active page.
- I have received no response from Amrail's Heavy Hauler Award or from
Heartland Ohio-Rocket Railroad #1 Train Site Award so both have been placed on the
No Response page.
- The Soon to be Active page has been removed.
- I have found the OneWorld Awardvergabe. This German award appears to be
inactive and has been placed on the
No Response page.
Decimal points will be added to all whole percentage numbers on the
statistics table in the Winners section. |
| June 23, 2001 |
Things you may not know
about Copyright and Trademark Laws is now linked from the
Criteria section as © & ®.
Additional minor text and graphic changes concerning copyright has been made to the
Criteria page, the Application page
and the © & ® page.
To simplify navigation, the page you link to from the Criteria or
Winners sub-menu is highlighted. |
| June 13, 2001 |
The statistics table on the Winners page is now built in JavaScript
to automate the percentage functions. It looks the same but makes for easier editing. |
| June 12, 2001 |
See Steve's Railway Page,
a new Bronze Winner!
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| June 9, 2001 |
Along with the new domain the
Smokin' Award has a new email address: smokin@kvrr.net.
A statistics table has been added to the Winners page.
Congratulations to the South Jersey S Gaugers for winning a Silver!
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| June 6, 2001 |
Due to the closure of Railroad Depot's
free sites, the Smokin' Award has moved to smokin.kvrr.net.
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| June 5, 2001 |
Take a look at our new
Bronze Winner, the Summit Shadow Valley Line.
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| June 3, 2001 |
The Smokin' Award is back online and I'm catching up on my backlog of nominations.
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| Apr. 23, 2001 |
Application is temporarily closed. |
| Apr. 18, 2001 |
The Coding
Point Description has been revised. A score of 0 will be given to sites that make it difficult to access
the html code, such as those implementing a "no right click" script. Since their is no way to protect
information on a public website, I feel that disabling the user's right mouse button is more of an
inconvenience than a hindrance.
Two new Bronze Winners have been added, iRail and Minitrains. |
| Apr. 11, 2001 |
Chris Denbow's
Golden Rail Award has been upgraded to a 3.0 rating by Award Sites! |
| Apr. 7, 2001 |
The Smokin' Award has become a "Select
Member" with a 3.5 rating from Award Sites! A level banner has been added to the
Intro page, and a Select Member plague to the Last Word page.
A new Bronze Winner, U.K. Miniature Railways has been added. |
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| Mar. 24, 2001 |
A new award called the
Minitrains Award of Site Excellence has been added
to the Railroad Award Sites Active list. |
| Mar. 13, 2001 |
New headers have been added to the
Apply for Award page. And due to changes made to the rrdepot server,
the application form on this page was broken. It is now fixed.
Trademarks have been added to the Smokin' Award and the Railroad Award Sites logos.
A site description or mission statement has been added to the
Intro page. |
| Mar. 12, 2001 |
The
Railmaster's Best Site Award has been modified. |
| Mar. 5, 2001 |
Check out Newfoundland Rail Scenes,
our new Bronze Winner. |
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| Feb. 27, 2001 |
The Frames button on the
Intro page now shows the correct frame status.
The Golden Rail Award has gotten a facelift. |
| Feb. 15, 2001 |
A change has been made to the criteria.
Besides Netscape Navigator 4, I was using Netscape 6 to evaluate browser compatibility. I have now found that
the majority of Netscape users prefer Netscape Navigator, so I am now testing in version 4.08 of that browser only.
Also, I was testing sites in Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 4 and 5. A very small percentage of users are
using version 4, so I now test in IE 5.50 only. It will make it easier for me, as well as the applicant, if
I only test in the two most popular browsers. Please see Point
Descriptions for this change.
I'm wondering how you are finding this site, so I've added that question to the Applications
page.
Congratulations to TraiN'ternet for being the first Silver Winner! This site is well
on its way on winning the gold. |
| Feb. 11, 2001 |
The Winners page will be
broken up according to the award. Two more winners - Central California Rails and ebepe's rail world - have
been added to the new Bronze Winners page. |
| Feb. 9, 2001 |
As with any new site the bugs are being ironed out.
It has always been my intention that the minimum points to win the Bronze Smokin' Award were 70, not 71. This
has been changed on the Criteria page.
A bad link to the Train Exchange Awards on the Active Sites page has
been corrected. |
| Feb. 4, 2001 |
Congratulations to Chris Denbow's
train Gifs Station for winning the first Smokin' Award. His site can be linked to from the
Winners, page. |
| Feb. 3, 2001 |
A new page explaining copyright laws titled,
"Things you may not know about Copyright Laws," is linked from the
Criteria page. |
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| Jan. 27, 2001 |
The awards under Resources were split up and put on
separate pages. Resources page is now called Railroad Award Sites. The
Resources link has been relabeled to Award Sites. A Railroad Award Sites icon
is now offered to other award site webmasters to link back to the awards list. |
| Jan. 20, 2001 |
The Smokin' Award is open for business! |
| Jan. 10, 2001 |
Minor changes made to
Resources page.
"Back" links added to Point Descriptions page.
Revisions page added. |
| Jan. 5, 2001 |
The Smokin' Award is
finally in beta stage. All award site webmasters are asked to make comments. |
| Sept. 19, 2000 |
The Smokin' Award
("Coming Soon") is uploaded onto free web space provided by
Railroad Depot.
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