Smokin' Award
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Criteria: do you have what it takes to win this award?

Winners: check out these smokin' sites!

Railroad Award Sites: other awards that you could win.

Hook & Eye: visit the railroad site sponsoring the Smokin' Award.

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Dec. 27, 2005 The Vancouver TraiNgang has been honored with a Roundhouse of Recognition badge of honor.
Dec. 25, 2005 I've edited some of the copy on the Criteria / Interface points page. I've redefined the Alt Attribute point by taking into account blank values for purely decorative images.
Dec. 19, 2005 I heard back from Nutsplitter's Great Site Award and the AP is back on the Active Award Sites page.
Dec. 1, 2005 For now, all Gold winners will be listed on one page in the Winners section.

All AwardStat user URLs have been checked and some revised on the AwardStat page.
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Nov. 11, 2005 I haven't heard from Nutsplitter's Great Site Award for several months and the AP has been moved to the Non-Active Award Sites page.
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Oct. 27, 2005 Some slight changes were made to the criteria points section (see italicized copy):
  • "Current Updates" within the Content points page was revised to say: "A top grade goes to those sites that have a list of recent website revisions along with links to the specific pages."

  • On the Interface points page, all references to "alt tags" were changed to "alt attributes." (Duh!)

  • Added, "If fixed table widths are used, it is best to center the page layout within the browser window" to "Layout & Use of Space" within the Design points page.
Oct. 24, 2005 Congratulations to Geoff's Rail Diaries for winning the Smokin' Award AP's first Gold award!
Oct. 11, 2005 The CSB AP on the Active award page now has a Site of the Year award.
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Sept. 28, 2005 The CSB AP is offering a new award called the Great Railway Photo Collection. You may win this additional award by applying to the CSB Award. See the Active award page.
Sept. 27, 2005 Steve's Railway Pages has been honored with a Roundhouse of Recognition badge of honor.
Sept. 23, 2005 Congratulations to Virtual Rail and Pictures of the Subway of Montreal for winning Silver awards!

Waldovia State Railways has been honored with a Roundhouse of Recognition badge of honor.

The Concrete and Steel Award, has recently opened and is listed on the Railroad Award Sites Active page.

The Smokin' Award AP, is listed as being a peer of the Astral Award. A banner was added to the bottom of the Home page.
Sept. 13, 2005 Robert's Lionel Trains Layout has been honored with a Roundhouse of Recognition badge of honor.
Sept. 7, 2005 Garden State Model Railway Club, Inc. and The Ol' Hook & Eye have been honored with the Roundhouse of Recognition badge of honor.

A new criteria point was added to the Roundhouse of Recognition page. All awards must be linked back to their respective programs and are not resized in any way (unless permitted by awardmaster).

Disclaimer added that Railroad Award Sites and Roundhouse of Recognition are not associated with Award Sites!
Sept. 3, 2005 Tandem Associates has been honored with the first Roundhouse of Recognition badge of honor.
Sept. 2, 2005 The Roundhouse of Recognition badge of honor has opened in the Railroad Award Sites section!
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Aug. 29, 2005 Congratulations to 7-8ths.info for winning the Silver award!
Aug. 25, 2005 The order of labels within the META(PICS) tag were changed so that the ICRA label tester will no longer time out.
Aug. 23, 2005 Congratulations to Model Railroading by Bill Parisi for winning the Bronze award!
Aug. 11, 2005 Welcome CSB Award to the awards arena. Wow! In the past month I've added four award programs to the Railroad Award Sites section!
Aug. 10, 2005 Congratulations to Mike's Ontario Northland Photo Gallery for winning the Bronze award!
Aug. 7, 2005 The "No Response" and "Discontinued" pages within the Railroad Award Sites section were combined under the title - "Non-Active Award Sites." There are two new pages under the title and the old non-active award graphics are now displayed.

City Station Awards has closed and was placed in the Non-Active section of Railroad Award Sites.

The disclaimer on the Copyright page was modified.
Aug. 4, 2005 An accolade by Adrian Rothery added to the Accolades page.

Graphics added to the Apply page showing an award that animates and one that does not.

<label> tags added to all forms.
Aug. 1, 2005 I was happy to hear that the Nutsplitter's Great Site Award is still active. It has moved from the Railroad Award Sites No Response page to the Active page list.
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July 29, 2005 Congratulations to Tandem Associates and The Narrow Gauge Circle for winning Bronze awards!
July 26, 2005 Some broken links to the Ol' Hook & Eye site were repaired on the Discontinued Award Programs page.
July 22, 2005 Another AP has opened this month! Welcome the Green Light Award on the Railroad Award Sites Active page list.
July 21, 2005 Congratulations to Waldovia State Railways for winning a Silver award!
July 17, 2005 The WSR Web Site Award, an AP primarily for model railway sites, has recently opened and is listed on the Railroad Award Sites Active page.
July 14, 2005 Congratulations to Ciosbahn for winning a Bronze award!

The site is now rated with SafeSurf. It is also labeled Safe for Kids for any visitors using this outdated system. Revised ICRA code has been added.

Since no decent load time tester can now be found on the internet the "hint" for Bandwidth Sensitivity on the Usability points page was removed.
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June 11, 2005 Congratulations to Geoff's Rail Diaries for winning a Silver award!

The anchor links now work on the Smokin' Factor page.
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May 19, 2005 Because of closure of the CEM/CEMA organization, its banner was removed from the Ethics page.
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Apr. 23, 2005 Congratulations to 12 Mile Station for winning a Bronze award!
Apr. 18, 2005 Congratulations to Teetering by-the-Well for winning a Bronze award!
Apr. 10, 2005 An addition was made to the Criteria page where a forum based site may not apply for the Smokin' Award AP.

A new assessor badge for ONZCDA has been added to the Judge page.
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Mar. 13, 2005 Congratulations to Laurell Trains for winning a Bronze award!
Mar. 9, 2005 Congratulations to Littlewood for winning a Bronze award!
Mar. 3, 2005 Congratulations to Ken Jones - Layouts in Miniature for winning a Bronze and to Garden State Model Railway Club, Inc. for winning a Silver award!

New small banner links were created and added to the AwardStat page and the Link page in the Railroad Award Sites section.

"Criteria last revised" statements added to the Criteria and Apply page.
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Feb. 28, 2005 Congratulations to Ian's Gn15 Pages for winning a Bronze award!
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Jan. 29, 2005 Congratulations to Ivy City Eastern Railroad for winning a Bronze award!

The Smokin' Factor points were cleaned up and reduced from 10 to 5 points. The Criteria and Self-Test pages changed to reflect this.
Jan. 24, 2005 Congratulations to 7-8ths.info for winning a Bronze award!
Jan. 18, 2005 Congratulations to Nashua City Station for winning a Silver award!
Jan. 14, 2005 A new input field - "Did you Read the Criteria?" - was added to the Apply page.
Jan. 9, 2005 Congratulations to CHORINA for winning a Silver and to The T&T & Its Environs for winning a Bronze award!
Jan. 3, 2005 Happy New Year!

A new 2005 Revision and Stats page were added and the Sitemap updated. All years have been abbreviated in menus to make room for future revisions.

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