Jim Guthrie's web sites

Eric,

I had the web pages up on my business web domain and I closed that account down last year after retiring and stopping trading. The pages were quite old and I had forgotten that there might be some links to them. I've just had a quick look on my older PC and the HTML pages and pictures are still there so I could put them up again, although the layout they were being built for has been put on hold indefinitely for quite some time. It was an attempt to squeeze a Scale7 layout into a smallish house and it didn't quite come off.

I'm now building in S scale again and that layout is reasonably well advanced and the baseboards still use thin plywood sheet developed from the earlier layouts. There's a thread in two of the UK model railway forums documenting the build

?threads/banavie-road-caledonian-in-s-scale.686/ I think the "scalerail" site is the best to look at since I believe that you can see pictures without being logged in as a member. The "Western Thunder" site requires you to be a member to vies the pictures. There is more recent material on the "Western Thunder" thread showing some of the track actually down.

I might look at doing an updated web site. I did start looking at HTML editors a few months ago but things have moved on quite a bit on web site design since I last did anything and I've got a bit more to learn, or even remember. :-)

Jim.

I get the text with the message:

"You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post."

So I guess it doesn't work either.

Thanks for the update, Jim. Unfortunately I cannot see the pictures in neither of the sites. Perhaps I should try to study them further and become a member.

By the way, in my opinion you don't have to rework the older web pages before putting them up on a new site even though they may not be up to the current html and css standards. There are a lot of older pages out there; I think the content is more important.

Eric,

I do remember a thread some months ago where the forum administrator stated that he was going to make pictures fully visible to visitors - obviously he hasn't.

Give me a while to get my brain around the present HTML situation, etc. and I'll try and put the site up on my present web space. I would actually prefer to have it reflect what I'm doing now so it might be a complete re-write. But I'm still building baseboards using the same principles. As you get close to the seventh age of man, the weight of traditional baseboard construction methods becomes a major factor. :-)

Jim.

Larry,

Sorry about that. I was under the impression that the forum administrator had made pictures fully viewable by visitors some months ago.

Jim.

Hi Jim,

You would be very welcome to put your stuff on YMR forum, and uploaded pictures would then be visible to all:

regards,

Martin.

Martin,

would then be visible to all:

Thanks for your suggestion but I reckon on setting up a web site again if I can get my brain round todays HTML (or whatever) coding. :-) I've got pictures splattered over several forums and I can't remember where most of them are now. :-)

Jim.

pictures would then be visible to all:

Seamonkey (built on the Netscape core, like Firefox) includes an HTML writing tool. I haven't tried it, but a quick search on "html writing programs" turned up favourable reviews, eg

What about a blog service such as Google's Blogger? There are others. My blog is at kirkwood40.blogspot.ca. No railway stuff on it, though. I' mulling over setting up another blog for that. ;-)

HTH, Wolf K.

pictures would then be visible to all:

It's OK if a bit basic. Free, too, so no real risk. These days I use MediaWiki and WordPress so don't need to code HTML for the most part. Guy

Wolf

I've had a look around at what might be available (and free :-) ) and I always preferred hand coding my HTML rather than letting an app do it for me - probably a reaction to the HTML Word used to produce ten or more years ago. :-) I've found a few suitable candidates and it is just down to me getting the time to put something up on a web site. The one thing I do remember from years ago was that making a web site slightly more complex than one page can take up a fair bit of my spare time and I've got a lot of other pressures on that time at the moment. It's true what they say about retirement - all that spare time just disappears. :-)

I've never really been keen on blogs and I rarely visit any to read them - probably because you seem to have to read most, if not all, of them from the bottom up if you want to follow progress, and I'm not too keen on that. The other thing I notice from your blog is a "post your comment" facility which implies that you should monitor it fairly frequently to respond to any posters - which implies an inbuilt additional work load. :-) I seem to spend too much time on the Internet as it is at the moment without adding another reason. At least with a web site I'm not inviting any responses - especially if I keep my email address off it. :-)

You'll maybe notice a theme developing here - i.e. not taking on more uses for my spare time. The aforementioned retirement gives the excuse to start the undertaking of tasks which were unthinkable pre retirement and I have fallen into the trap of over-filling what time I have - plus my family now reckon that they have a free taxi service, etc., available at the drop of a hat almost 24/7. :-)

Jim.

That's pretty much my attitude. I can recommend Coffee Cup trial version

MBQ

On 05/04/2012 3:11 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote: [...]

Yea, as they grow, kids need more and more transportation. Another argument for cheap mass transit, I think. Besides the good looking trams they build these days, that is.

You'll find that after retirement you'll wonder how you had time for work. ;-)

Best, Wolf K.

Mine have their own cars now AND we have got past the 'Dad I've broken down' stage - they are all on our RAC recovery policy :)

I'm still looking for the time to be able to retire ... one day ...