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| Dec. 6, 2002 |
Congratulations to Micro Layouts for Model Railroads for winning a Silver award! |
| Dec. 5, 2002 |
The Under Construction and the Monitor Resolution criteria points have been clarified
in the Criteria section.
All menu alt attributes have been reworded. |
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| Nov. 26, 2002 |
Congratulations to the Southern E-mail Group for winning a Bronze award! |
| Nov. 15, 2002 |
An "Award Declined" line has been added to the statistics tables on the
Winners and AwardStat pages.
A new version (1.04) of awardstat.js is posted on the AwardStat page.
A definition of "ASCII" has been added to the AwardStat Output page.
All top, bottom, next and previous navigation buttons now have a slight 3-D appearance. |
| Nov. 12, 2002 |
New ONZCDA(TM) senior evaluator badge added to the Judge page.
New APEX membership badge added to the Ethics page. |
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| Oct. 28, 2002 |
The general criteria has changed whereby a site must
now have ten pages of content to qualify.
History has been added to AwardStat along with version
numbers.
Disqualifiers statement added to the "When to resubmit a site" section on the
Application page. |
| Oct. 22, 2002 |
A custom 404 Error page was added to the site. |
| Oct. 21, 2002 |
Congratulations to the Harmer Steel for winning a Silver award! |
| Oct. 18, 2002 |
Congratulations to the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway for winning a Bronze award! |
| Oct. 14, 2002 |
To make the Smokin' Award appear as a stand-alone AP, all links to the
Hook & Eye will open that site in a new browser window.
If all of the award number input values were 0 in the AwardStat
section, the calculation output primitive values. This has been corrected. |
| Oct. 13, 2002 |
The Smokin' Award has been upgraded to a 4.5 rating from Award Sites!
The old level banner has been replaced with a new one on the Intro page. |
| Oct. 4, 2002 |
Congratulations to the Enfield Town Model Railway Club for winning a Bronze award! |
| Oct. 3, 2002 |
Webmaster photo added to Judge page.
The awards on the Winners page
will now only animate when you mouse over them.
Minor spacing problems resolved on the Intro page. |
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| Sept. 30, 2002 |
A "Date Changed" column was added to the table on the
Criteria page.
Pages made friendlier for Opera and the browser statement
was revised on the Intro page.
If JavaScript is not enabled, AwardStat will no longer show on the
Intro menu. |
| Sept. 29, 2002 |
Congratulations to TrainNet.org for winning Silver, and to
the Southern Electric Group for winning a Bronze award!
2.0 Award Sites! rating removed
from the "Great Site" Award by webmaster's request. |
| Sept. 26, 2002 |
The banners were raised yet again on the Intro page. A new
WebsAwards banner and a browser compatibility statement were also added.
"Thou shalt" was enlarged and changed color on the Criteria page.
Most of the copy on the site is now aligned justified.
I recently found the deceased Railfan Freak Award. It is now added to the
Discontinued page. Also copy changes were made to the
Deutscher Eisenbahn Channel Awards on this page as well. |
| Sept. 25, 2002 |
The two award rating service banners were raised higher to the top of the
Intro page (To stay compliant with
Award Sites!
guidelines). |
| Sept. 24, 2002 |
Congratulations to the Stafford Railway Circle for winning a Bronze award! |
| Sept. 14, 2002 |
The Super Loco Award site is offline and the award has been moved to the
Discontinued page. OneWorld Awardvergabe has moved back
to the No Response page, but no award has been issued since
2000. |
| Sept. 8, 2002 |
The two award rating service banners were raised near the top of the
Intro page. The "Site Revised" link was also
changed to a smaller font size. |
| Sept. 6, 2002 |
All text throughout site is now a lighter color for easier reading.
Minor copy changes and criteria header links added to the Criteria page.
Section header links added to the Railroad Award Sites page.
"Under Debbie's List" added under the Absolut Project icon on the Intro page.
3.0 Award Sites! rating removed
from the Web Gem Award by webmaster's request.
All of the HTML coding was gone over and some corrections were made. |
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| Aug. 29, 2002 |
Congratulations to AC EMU Group for winning a Bronze award! |
| Aug. 25, 2002 |
Copyright notice for webrings removed and bnbform.cgi notice added to the Copyright page.
Color for active links has changed from white to a pale yellow. |
| Aug. 23, 2002 |
Congratulations to WCML Models for winning a Bronze award! |
| Aug. 20, 2002 |
The move to the new server has been successful.
A big thank you to Awardsville for reviewing my site.
I was not getting a lot of hits from the webrings so they have been removed. This also has
the added benefit of cutting down the load time of the Intro page.
The old "Page Top" and "Page Bottom" graphics looked like scroll buttons and have been
replaced with new ones.
Next and previous page links have been added to the Criteria section.
The point tallies at the beginning of the definitions on the Criteria page
and the Definitions page were confusing to some and have been removed or
moved to a separate column.
Minor text changes have been made throughout the site. |
| Aug. 13, 2002 |
The "Great Site" Award has a 2.0 rating with
Award Sites!.
So as not to conflict with the new window that may be open on the Ol' Hook & Eye the
AwardStat new window was renamed. |
| Aug. 11, 2002 |
Thanks to Debbie of Mesweet's Awards
(rated 5.0 with AS!) for the suggestions.
The new window that opens when making an AwardStat
table is color coordinated to match the rest of the site. A "Close Window" button has
also been added. |
| Aug. 10, 2002 |
Congratulations to London, Brighton and South Coast Railway for winning a
Bronze award! |
| Aug. 9, 2002 |
Reworded error messages on the Apply page. |
| Aug. 8, 2002 |
The British are coming! I have had a deluge of UK sites lately. Some fine examples are
the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society, a Silver
winner, and London and North Western Railway Society, a
Bronze winner.
I am honored to be a member of APEX, the Association for Positive Ethical eXchange.
A badge has been added to the Ethics page.
A Link page was added to the
Railroad Award Sites section for those of you
wishing to link to this resource.
Copyright and Privacy Policy
pages added to site. Links to these two new pages and to
Revisions and the Webmaster's email address were added to every page.
"Page Top" and "Page Bottom" links added to every page.
Answering the age question wrong on the Apply page will
bring up an error page as the railroad-related question does. Return links to Apply
were added to all application error pages. |
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| July 26, 2002 |
Congratulations to the UK Heritage Railways for winning a
Bronze award!
I have received several applications that were not railroad-related.
Apparently, some award seekers don't even bother to read the basic
criteria! The question "Is your website railroad-related?" has been
added to the form on the Apply page. |
| July 21, 2002 |
Congratulations to the N Gauge Society for winning a
Silver award! |
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| June 21, 2002 |
The Smokin' Award is open for business again! Criteria has been thoroughly gone over and
redone, so please review the changes made in the Criteria and
Descriptions pages.
Tracks have been laid on the © & ® page.
Due to closing, the Railroad Web Ring has been removed from the Intro page. |
| June 13, 2002 |
The changes to the criteria are going slower than expected. But I hope to accept applications the
middle of this month.
I have graduated my training with ONZCDA and am now a qualified evaluator for this fine awards site.
A certification badge has been added to the Judge page. |
| June 7, 2002 |
New graphic dividers added to the Descriptions page. |
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| May 29, 2002 |
A Key Resource Site banner from Award Sites! has been added to the
AwardStat page. |
| May 23, 2002 |
The Smokin' Award is back from vacation and working on "Remodeling" the site.
New header graphics added to the Criteria, Winners
and AwardStat pages.
Changed bottom menu spacing on all bronze and silver winner pages to match the spacing on main
Winners page.
Selection rectangle removed from AwardStat option in the left menu.
Standardized coding by using CSS to color award bullets on the Criteria page.
Fixed a few dead links. |
| May 22, 2002 |
AwardStat Added!
AwardStat is now officially open. This addition is
reflected in the menus throughout the site.
Congratulations to Welcome to HillGrove for winning a Bronze award!
I am honored to be an evaluator for the Otakou Creative Design Award. A badge has been added to the
Judge page.
Fixed horizontal scroll bars from appearing in the menu frame when the browser window is shortened. |
| May 16, 2002 |
The Smokin' Award is on vacation until the beginning of June. During this time, I hope to revamp all of
the criteria. |
| May 8, 2002 |
All references to StatCode have been changed to AwardStat. |
| May 7, 2002 |
Welcome www.eisenbahnwallpaper.de, a new award that you can
apply for!
The Smokin' Award is rated 10 with WebsAwards!
A banner is now displayed on the Intro page.
Some people were having problems with the Application Form and setting the
"Frames" button on the Intro page. This was caused by the many aliases that
are connected to the Smokin' Award site. A JavaScript routine will now force the address to read
the URL http://smokin.kvrr.net. |
| May 2, 2002 |
Congratulations to Nevada Northern & Railroads of White Pine County for winning a
Bronze award! |
| May 1, 2002 |
Congratulations to OnTracks for winning a Bronze award!
The Smokin' Award has reached a milestone by having received 100 applications!
Thanks to Peter of ebepe,
for catching a linking problem with the Award Sites! icon on the
Judge page.
I am now a proud member of CEM/CEMA.
A code of ethics badge has been added to the Ethics page. |
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| Apr. 21, 2002 |
If all the input values were 0 in StatCode the calculation output
primitive values. This has been corrected. |
| Apr. 19, 2002 |
The Smokin' Award has been successfully moved to a new server. There were some CGI and mail problems
but everything seems to be working now. |
| Apr. 18, 2002 |
The Smokin' Award has been upgraded to a 4.0 rating from Award Sites!
Old level banners have been replaced with new ones on the Intro and Judge pages.
Thanks to Debbie of Meesweet's Award, an Award Master
with the Absolut Project,
for choosing the Smokin' Award as one of her 10 favorite award sites! For this, a Master Choice badge
has been added to the Intro page. Statement copy has been reworded on this page also.
I am a contributor to Ask the Experts with Website Awards. A badge for this has been added
to the Judge page.
A new Ethics page was added in the Criteria section.
Menus throughout the section were changed to reflect this.
The Trademark (TM) symbol was added to StatCode.
">" was replaced with " | " on all menus.
The Privacy Policy statement has changed a little and the question "May I
post your name?" has been added to the form on the Apply page. |
| Apr. 15, 2002 |
An additional value has been added to the StatCode. Now you have the option of
having different titles for your statistic tables. Some minor copy changes have also been made.
The address kvrr.rrdepot.com is now officially dead. All references to this address have been changed to
www.kvrr.net. |
| Apr. 13, 2002 |
Congratulations to Bekonscot Model Village and Railways for winning Silver
and to Lionel Trains Horizontal Rules for winning a Bronze!
A StatCode page was created for webmasters to copy and use code for a
statistics table on their own award sites.
StatCode on the Winners page has been revised. |
| Apr. 10, 2002 |
Congratulations to Michigan Passenger Stations for winning a Bronze! |
| Apr. 6, 2002 |
Condolences to Barry Atkinson on the death of his wife Jackie, the creator and webmistress of the
Odonata Award for Excellent Rail Pages. The award has been placed on the
Discontinued page.
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| Mar. 30, 2002 |
I will no longer accept sites that are mainly links to other websites. The Smokin' Award is looking
for train-related websites with content, and I find it increasingly difficult to fairly judge "link only"
sites. This new minimum criteria point has been added to the Criteria page and
a notice that "Standard criteria has changed" has been added to the Apply for Award page. |
| Mar. 18, 2002 |
Congratulations to Confederate Railroads for winning a Bronze.
Thanks to Charles Wilber for finding the email address to the Lionel representative who can grant
trademark permissions. It has been added to the © & ® page.
The "Last Word" page has been renamed to "Judge." This change is
reflected in the menus throughout the Criteria section. |
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| Feb. 19, 2002 |
The silver award winners are now broken up into years.
Internet Explorer selection rectangles will no longer appear in the side menu or on any of the award links.
Cleaned up some site links:
- Chris Denbow's Train Gif Station has closed, and all links to his site have been deleted.
- Train Exchange Awards appears to be offline and has been moved to the
Discontinued page.
- Railmaster's Best Site Award has closed and moved to the
Discontinued page.
Menu text changed to smaller type to fit "RR Award Sites." |
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| Jan. 21, 2002 |
Happy Birthday!
The Smokin' Award is now one year old! Out of the 76 nominations
received, 29 sites were honored with an award. I wish to thank all of you,
winners and non-winners alike, for the opportunity of reviewing your sites.
I hope that the experience was as educational for you as it was for me.
The Normanton & Pontefract R.M.S. site has won a Bronze award.
The Deutscher Eisenbahn Channel Awards site is currently closed and has
been placed on the Discontinued page.
The OneWorld Awardvergabe site appears dead and has been placed on the
Discontinued page. |
| Jan. 16, 2002 |
Congratulations to the Akron Barberton Belt Railroad, for winning a Bronze.
A new minimum criteria point has been added to the Criteria page.
A site will be disqualified if there are any "Under Construction" signs or blank pages.
The bronze award winners are broken up into years, and a new menu has been placed at the end of all
the Winners pages.
The "New Domain" banner has been removed from the top of the Index page. |
| Jan. 9, 2002 |
Happy New Year!
Marc Humphreys Minitrains Award of Site Excellence
has been updated.
The Modellbahner Award site is dead and has been placed on the
Discontinued page.
To cut back on the length of this, the Revisions page, all of the site changes made in 2001 have been
added to a new page (See menu below).
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