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| Dec. 13, 2003 |
Minor corrections made to the Contact AwardStat page.
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| Dec. 5, 2003 |
Donna O'Smollain-MacDhadhoc of the Rose Awards sent the Smokin' Award a
"gift" for reaching the Summit as a 5.0 Elite Member with Award Sites! It has
been placed on the Main page. Thanks Donna! |
| Dec. 3, 2003 |
The Smokin' Award - the little engine that could - has acheived its goal of being upgraded to a 5.0 Elite Member rating
from Award Sites! The old level banner has been replaced with a new one on the Main page. |
| Dec. 1, 2003 |
Fixed a couple of bugs in the AwardStat section, so that the new table window
will display in Netscape 4.08 and that the code now generates properly in Netscape 6+. |
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| Nov. 19, 2003 |
Fixed the site so that it will now run in Opera 7.0+ with JavaScript enabled!
If the Flash plug-in to play the introduction is not found, a new
Download page appears. |
| Nov. 16, 2003 |
Congratulations to Cooke Road Train Crew for winning
a Bronze award! |
| Nov. 14, 2003 |
A new 2.02 version of AwardStat has been released. |
| Nov. 7, 2003 |
New graphics added for all winners that have "Gone to the Great Roundhouse in the Sky" and for
Bronze winners that have been upgraded to Silver.
META tags were added to all pages. |
| Nov. 1, 2003 |
Bottom menus on ALL pages have been shortened and a new Sitemap
link has been added.
Contact, on the bottom menu, now links to three new mail form pages
rather than the default mail program. Depending on which section you are in, the Contact
link will either take you to the Contact Railroad Award Sites
page, the Contact AwardStat page or the general
Contact the Smokin' Award page.
A  button
on the Criteria page now links to
Things to know about Copyright and Trademark Laws. The
© & ® link was removed from the criteria menu.
You can now take a Self-Test to determine how well your site
may score for a Smokin' Award. A 'Test' link has been added to the
Criteria menu.
I've added more to my credentials on the Judge page.
Applicants can now ask for a copy of their evaluation sheet on the
Apply page.
All coding checked and corrected for HTML compliancy. It's not perfect but it works! |
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| Oct. 29, 2003 |
Part of the Criteria page has been rewritten and a
description has been added for the awards. |
| Oct. 27, 2003 |
Congratulations to Robin Barnes: Railway Art and History for winning
a Bronze award! |
| Oct. 18, 2003 |
Congratulations to the Precision Labels & Decals for being upgraded to
a Silver award!
After a hiatus of several months the Railroad Artists Award is back online! It is now
on active status in Railroad Award Sites.
Three  links
have been added to the Criteria page to better explain pop-up
windows, external sites within a frameset and bandwidth stealing.
A new pattern GIF has replaced the transparent Gifs within all of the
AwardStat tables.
The "transparent GIF"
page link in the AwardStat section was rewritten to explain the use
of transparent and other types of GIFs. |
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| Sept. 23, 2003 |
I've gotten a lot of spam from the old email address smokin@kvrr.net. You can send the
Smokin' Award an email by replacing "smokin" with "smokina" in the old address.
In an effort to confuse harvesting 'bots, my email links are now written in the ISO-Latin-1
character set.
The application on the Apply page now submits to a new form
processor called Biz Mail Form. |
| Sept. 4, 2003 |
Congratulations to Kavanagh Transit for winning
a Bronze award! |
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| Aug. 26, 2003 |
Congratulations to Stately trains for winning
a Bronze award!
Model Trains International Reader's Pick has been added to Railroad Award Sites.
Seeking to sharpen my evaluation skills, I have participated in and recently graduated from the
Website Evaluators Certification Program. My WECP "diploma" is framed on the
Judge page. |
| Aug. 23, 2003 |
Version 2.00 of AwardStat can now display a percentage bar chart!
This is something I've wanted to do for quite awhile and finally found time to do it. You can create
your own statistics table on the AwardStat page. |
| Aug. 15, 2003 |
Crossbuck Awards is no more, and has been moved to the
Discontinued page in
Railroad Award Sites. |
| Aug. 12, 2003 |
Congratulations to the Underground History for winning
a Bronze award!
Either because of time or bother, very few award sites supply applicants with evaluations.
The Smokin' Award is proud to be one of the few that does. To further my support, I have
joined and am displaying the badge of the International Award Masters Society (on
Main page), a group with similar values as mine.
All stat tables in the Winners section are now in JavaScript.
Working to make the site more HTML compliant. |
| Aug. 8, 2003 |
Congratulations to the Saint Ronans Railway for winning
a Bronze award!
There is a new rule listed on the criteria page where a site
must have no more than two pop-up window ads in order to be evaluated for a Smokin' Award. |
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| July 25, 2003 |
Congratulations to the London and North Western Railway Society for being upgraded
a Silver award! |
| July 1, 2003 |
"Pending" has been removed from the "Stats" pages in the Winners section. |
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| June 17, 2003 |
Congratulations to Precision Label for winning a Bronze award!
"Definitions" in the criteria section was renamed to "Points." All points on
the criteria page were broken up and placed in their respective criteria category. All bullet points within
the criteria section were replaced with lantern graphics.
There are now three more rules listed on the criteria page that a site
must meet in order to be evaluated for a Smokin' Award. A privacy policy statement is
required (mainly for commercial sites), previous Smokin' Awards must be displayed, and the applicant
must be affiliated with the site submitted.
"Image Quality," now worth three points, was moved to the Design page to make
room on the Content page for "Copyright Statement." This new piece of criteria
is worth four points, so read it carefully.
Nashua City Station has revamped its award program to include the three-tiered City Station Awards.
See Railroad Award Sites. Also, Dave's Tracks of Excellence Award
was found, but since I have not heard from the webmaster, it has been placed in the
No Response page. |
| June 4, 2003 |
Congratulations to the Hocking Valley Scenic Railway for being upgraded
a Silver award!
Award statistics have been broken down into years and months, and can be accessed
anywhere within the Winners section.
The Railroad Artists Award site is dead and has been placed
in the Discontinued page of Railroad Award Sites. |
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| May 28, 2003 |
Congratulations to Waldovia State Railways for winning a Bronze award!
"Award Declined" line changed to "Award Revoked" on the statistics tables on
Winners and AwardStat pages. |
| May 5, 2003 |
Thanks to Steve Chapman for letting me use his testimonial and his name on the Introduction page.
The Enter button was removed from the Index page. It now automatically loads
the Main page when the Flash animation ends.
Fixed a few bad links. |
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| Apr. 29, 2003 |
My first attempt at Flash is the Smokin' Award's Introduction page.
What used to be the "Intro" page is now the "Main" page. All menus have
changed to reflect this.
Congratulations to The NERAIL Photography Archive for winning a Bronze award!
The Smokin' Award will now accept sites with railroad heralds and trademarks. See
Things to know about Copyright and Trademark Laws in the
Criteria section. |
| Apr. 16, 2003 |
Kudos to Steve's Railway Pages for being upgraded from a Bronze
to a Silver award! |
| Apr. 1, 2003 |
Placed an Awards Resources badge from WebsAwards on the AwardStat page. |
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| Mar. 29, 2003 |
Congratulations to Riverside Yard for winning a Bronze award! |
| Mar. 18, 2003 |
You can now join the Railroad Award Sites mailing list to be
notified when new railroad-related award sites are added to the list.
All Descriptions in the Criteria
section are broken down into separate pages.
The Smokin' Factor criteria point in the Criteria
section is now worth 3 extra points. |
| Mar. 3, 2003 |
The Smokin' Award has been upgraded to level 10 - 1 Star Supreme level by WebsAwards!
APEX isn't dead yet, and the badge has been replaced on the
Ethics page. |
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| Feb. 18, 2003 |
Welcome Nashua City Station Great Site Award, a new award that you can
apply for! |
| Feb. 13, 2003 |
The Railroad Artists Award has opened again.
All award links on Active Railroad Award Sites now
link to the respective site's home page. The description of Toy Trunk Railroad
has also changed on this page.
The APEX badge has been removed from the Ethics page
due to this fine organization closing. |
| Feb. 3, 2003 |
The Minitrains Train Site Award has
been revised with new award graphic and description.
New "month" navigation bars added throughout the Revision section. |
| Feb. 1, 2003 |
Minor changes made to the navigation throughout the Winners
section. Also, from now on, only a screenshot will be shown for Bronze winners.
The colors of the AwardStat table have changed on the
Winners page and throughout the
AwardStat section.
A badge has been added to the AwardStat page
for being listed in a new book by Míc Miller entitled "The Webmaster's Guide to Glory!"
Changed the color of the AwardStat table.
Updated a general criteria point to read,
"Thou shalt have at least ten pages of railroad related content..." |
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| Jan. 27, 2003 |
Welcome Railway Resource Awards, a new award that you can
apply for!
"New" and "Revised" labels added to the appropriate awards on the
Active Award Programs page. All redundant "Active,"
"No Response" and "Discontinued" labels removed from all awards throughout the
Railroad Award Sites section. |
| Jan. 25, 2003 |
A new version (1.05) of AwardStat is posted. |
| Jan. 20, 2003 |
The "Great Site" Award, has been revised with new award
graphic and criteria.
Several changes were made to the Apply page. Track graphic dividers
and required fields were added, and the Privacy Policy box has been replaced with a link. A
"Permissions Granted" field was added to the bottom of the form. |
| Jan. 15, 2003 |
Congratulations to Old Alabama Rails for winning Silver, and to
the Gn15.info for winning a Bronze award!
New pages for 2003 winners have been added to the Winners section.
I will no longer post the webmaster's name in the winners list description. Therefore, the
Privacy Policy and Ethics statement has changed
and the question "May I post your name?" has been removed from the form on the
Apply page.
The link to the Railroad Artists Award is temporarily
offline. The webmaster assures me that it will be up soon.
An article that I have written for Website Awards has won Editor's Choice. A badge
for this has replaced the Ask the Experts graphic on the Judge page. |
| Jan. 4, 2003 |
Happy New Year!
Welcome Bygone Monon Cyberspace Awards, a new award that you can
apply for!
The general criteria has changed whereby a site must not practice bandwidth
stealing and not open an external site within its framework in order to qualify.
The user list for AwardStat was broken up into two columns.
A minor change was made on the © & ® page. In order for
a site to qualify for the Smokin' Award you must state on a logical place on your site
(no longer on the page that the work is on) that you have received permission to do so.
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