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| Dec. 15, 2004 |
Dave's Tracks of Excellence Award is now active and has moved from
No Response to Active
status in the Railroad Award Sites section.
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| Dec. 3, 2004 |
Congratulations to Kanawha Creek Rail Supply for winning a
Bronze award!
In order to win any points on the Smokin' Factor page
you must verify that you have read the criteria.
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| Dec. 1, 2004 |
A better utility for checking the size of your webpages was found and added to the
Hint for Bandwidth Sensitivity on the Usability page.
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| Nov. 28, 2004 |
The Smokin' Award has reopened.
Criteria Points have been completely revised and
Hints added throughout.
The Self-Test page has changed to reflect changes in the
criteria points.
Fair Use Policy clause added to the
Copyright and Trademark Issues page.
I found the on2world Award and added it to the
Discontinued page in the
Railroad Award Sites section.
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| Oct. 31, 2004 |
The site is temporarily closed while the awardmaster revamps the criteria. |
| Oct. 29, 2004 |
New code used for opening windows. No matter what browser or over-riding controls
there are, the specified inner document dimensions should remain the same. |
| Oct. 13, 2004 |
IAMS has closed and the banner removed from the
Home page.
WECP has also closed and the banner removed from the
Judge page. IAMS has been taken over by TEAM and the new
banner is now on this page. |
| Oct. 4, 2004 |
I've found a new award, Nutsplitter's Great Site Award, but it no longer looks as
if the site is active. See the No Response page for
details. |
| Oct. 2, 2004 |
Congratulations to Westport Terminal RR for winning a
Bronze award! |
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| Sept. 11, 2004 |
Dave's Tracks of Excellence may be opening soon. See the
No Response page. |
| Sept. 1, 2004 |
"Member Since" extensions added to the Award Sites! and WebsAwards banners on
the Home page.
Sadly, Mesweet's Awards has retired. Thus my site evaluator banner from that AP
was modified on the Judge page. |
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| Aug. 19, 2004 |
The use of the word "Accessibility" in the Criteria
section was misleading to some, and has been replaced with "Usability." |
| Aug. 11, 2004 |
Congratulations to ToyTrains.info for winning a
Bronze award!
An old award from 1999 called Cool Subway Site was found. It is placed in the
No Response page. |
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| July 21, 2004 |
Congratulations to Garden State Model Railway Club, Inc. for winning a
Bronze award!
The age limit Criteria to apply for an award has changed
from 16 to 13 years of age or higher.
The statement on the Apply page titled, "When will you know
if you have won or not?" has changed. An applicant will not be contacted if he/she is
under 13 years of age or if the website submitted is not railroad-related. |
| July 13, 2004 |
Congratulations to Sheridan Online for winning a
Bronze award! |
| July 4, 2004 |
All page navigation buttons have been replaced with lantern graphics
Page navigation buttons added to Accolades page.
Lantern bullet graphics on Criteria page replaced with new
warning signal graphics.
Bullets removed from link lists on the AwardStat page
and Railroad Award Sites page. |
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| June 27, 2004 |
Congratulations to East Somerset Railway for winning a
Bronze award! |
| June 20, 2004 |
Version History on the AwardStat page now
opens in a new window. This was done to make room for an AwardStat banner
display. A new WebsAwards Resource badge was also posted.
New coding samples were added to the Railroad Award Sites
Link page that is XHTML compliant. Terms of Use
has also been clarified to allow users a choice to add a target attribute to the
link tag or not. |
| June 17, 2004 |
Congratulations to Riverside Yard! The first
Silver winner this year. |
| June 7, 2004 |
External judges for the newly formed WebsAwards has honored the Smokin' Award AP
with its top level 5 rating. The new WebsAwards badge was added to the
Home page.
An old WebsAwards banner and link was removed from the
AwardStat page.
The table border was removed from the Copyright page. |
| June 4, 2004 |
The site overview was completely rewritten and top and bottom navigation was
added to the Home page.
Model Trains International Reader's Pick has been moved from
Active to No Response
status and City Station Awards criteria has changed in the
Railroad Award Sites section. |
| June 1, 2004 |
I have agreed to be an evaluator for the new WebsAwards. A badge
has been placed on the Judge page.
Trademark [TM] added to AwardStat on all main menus.
"Description" and "Example" button graphics were redone on the
Criteria page. |
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| May 30, 2004 |
Bygone Monon Cyberspace Awards has been moved from Active
to No Response status in the
Railroad Award Sites section. |
| May 28, 2004 |
A new 2.60 version of AwardStat has been released.
Also, if you return to make an AwardStat table from the results page, the pop-up
window will now refresh properly. The first "Highlight All" button on the AwardStat
results page is now working. |
| May 27, 2004 |
The AwardStat section has been updated. Instead of
only 9 there are now 15 spaces in the form to input award listings. There is now an
option to save or print the entries input into the form.
The Smokin' Award AP is now rated as being child-safe with the Internet
Content Rating Association. A small ICRA link graphic has been added to the
bottom of the Home page. |
| May 25, 2004 |
Congratulations to LocoScene for winning a
Bronze award!
WebsAwards has retired and is going through an entire rebuild under new management.
The banner is now unlinked and labeled as being retired on the
Home page. Also Absolut Project has retired
and the banner removed. Congratulations banner for reaching AS! 5.0 by the
Rose Award
has been removed as well.
A new 2.05 version of AwardStat has been released.
All award stat variables used throughout the
Winners section
are in a seperate JavaScript file making it easy to update. |
| May 24, 2004 |
Congratulations to Wilmington & Western Railroad for winning a
Bronze award! |
| May 21, 2004 |
All of the Smokin' Award graphics were redone so that the winning site name is clearer.
Also, the year the award was issued is now shown on the graphic. This work has also
produced a smaller graphic - an animated award is now only 7kb and a non-animated one
is 6kb. See the
Winners section to view the new award images. |
| May 12, 2004 |
A new page of testimonials was created called Accolades.
It is linked from the Sitemap,
Introduction and the
Home page.
The Introduction was shortened and a replay link
was added to the end of the animation.
Some visitors were having problems using the form on the Apply
page. Hopefully this has been resolved and a new 'Send as Email' button was added
as an extra precaution.
Minitrains Train Site Award has been moved from Active
to No Response status in the
Railroad Award Sites section. |
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| Apr. 13, 2004 |
Congratulations to Seaboard Southern and Paliz Bay Railway & Navigation Co. for winning
Bronze awards! |
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| Mar. 14, 2004 |
Disclaimer added to the Winners page.
Screen shot of Valley Central Railway was updated on the
2001 Bronze Award page. |
| Mar. 1, 2004 |
Congratulations to Virtual Rail for winning
a Bronze award! |
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| Feb. 24, 2004 |
A new 2.03 version of AwardStat has been released. |
| Feb. 12, 2004 |
The site has been tested and will now work in browsers with frames disabled. |
| Feb. 8, 2004 |
The Transit Toronto Link of the Month is currently inactive and moved to the
Discontinued Award Programs page. |
| Feb. 7, 2004 |
The Main button on all the menus has been renamed to Home.
After some careful thought I concluded that people want to access information immediately rather than watching
an Introduction. The first page is now the
Home page with a link to play the Introduction.
A favicon.ico ( ) was added to
the server. This icon image is used when you bookmark a page on the Smokin' Award.
Site is more user friendly for browsers not running JavaScript. If JavaScript is not enabled the links for
the Self-Test page are not shown in the Criteria
section and the Self-Test page displays a warning.
All of the Stat pages after 2002 will display a warning if JavaScript is not enabled. |
| Feb. 5, 2004 |
Copy for the Web Gem Award on the
Active Award Programs page was revised. Also,
the link for Railway Resource Awards was updated. |
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| Jan. 30, 2004 |
The criteria for Consistency on the Interface page has been clarified:
"If an external link opens a new window then all external links should do so
(Unless the service you link to does not permit this - Example: eXTReMe Tracking)." |
| Jan. 27, 2004 |
The new Bronze Winners page will now default to 2004 instead
of 2003 when its URL is entered in a Browser (Thanks Matt). |
| Jan. 23, 2004 |
Congratulations to Nashua City Station for winning
a Bronze award! |
| Jan. 14, 2004 |
2004 award links were added throughout the Winners section in anticipation of
Bronze and Silver winners this year (will remain unlinked until awards are issued).
The 2004 Stats page now displays the correct year. All the pages within the
Stats section links to the 2004 Stats page. |
| Jan. 9, 2004 |
Fixed Netscape 4.08 text wrapping problen on the Criteria page. |
| Jan. 2, 2004 |
Happy New Year!
I was proud to have been asked to be an evaluator for the 2003 Best of Nem5 Awards. The Nem5
badge was added to the Judge page.
To prepare for 2003, a new Revision and Stats page were added and the
Sitemap updated.
When the Index page tests to see if a Flash player is installed
to run the introduction, it will no longer redirect to a new page but will run immediately from the Index page.
The Flash detection code used on the Index page is
moock.fpi. The Copyright page was changed to reflect this.
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