My new website; thanks leavingtracks

Very nice web site. I also use them as a host.

Roger.....Thanks so much for asking me to do this for you.  Folks...Roger's layout is absolutely beautiful and will be better shared with a website.  I am very happy to do this for anyone of my friends here on the forum!! 

 

Alan

Wow - both the website and layout look great!!

Roger, the website looks as nice as the railroad!  Alan did a great job making a site to showcase your line.  I've got it in my favorites list!

 

Expertly done website with professional quality pictures of a masterfully done beautiful layout.

 

Congrats to Alan for the website and to Roger for his layout - most impressive! 

 

Alex

Wow Roger,

 

    I'm very impressed with your layout and your scenery work, It is really beautiful.

 

As for Alan (leavingtracks) he's a great guy, and I'm honored to have his friendship

 

Alex

 

Wow!!  Very nice replica of the old Frisco depot.  Also the Commercial St. bridge

and the Diesel shop.  Love the Campbell 66 facility.  Very well done Roger.

Congratulations Roger, both on the new site and your layout.  I enjoyed the slideshow very much.  Love the loading dock area.  I'd be proud to have a layout like that someday. 

 

- Mike

Roger, that looks Fantastic!  Thanks for sharing your layout, it is beautiful. The roundhouse looks awesome. Alan, Great website. 

 

Congrats,

 

Bob

Nice work, both on the layout and on the web site!

Alan is a multi-talented individual and a great guy to know. Roger, beautiful layout and website.

Roger, congratulations on your new web site and great job on the crawl space and layout.  Quite an undertaking.

 

TEX

Steve

Roger,

 

Very nice site and a great layout.  

 

BTW.  I spoke to Dorcie and they're planning on having another Layout Fest this year in September.  Don't think I'll be able to convince work to send me down to Dallas again but you never know!   I enjoyed meeting you, Allen and the rest of the folks there.

 

Now, I thought Allen and I had become friends as a resut of that day.  How do I get him to do a website for me!

Just contact Alan thru his e-mail which is posted on his profile. He goes by leavingtracks here on the forum. As you know he is a great guy and is very easy to work with. He took a dummy like me and made me and my layout look great. If any of you want a website, I would recommend you to contact leavingtracks -- in Mountain Home, AR, he is known by Alan Arnold.

 

Great to hear from you Chris and yes we are planning on going back down there the weekend of 9/14/13. I already have my rooms booked for this event and I will also be visiting them the last weekend of June. I know you do not want another Sandy storm, but maybe you could think of a great reason to check out your company's site there in Dallas. Hope to see you soon.

Roger. Great looking website and layout.  Mining out a home for your layout looks like a lot of hard work, but a Great ideal. If you can't build up or out go down. Keeps the layout safe from them tornados.

Roger this is a truly wonderful layout. I look forward to more of your pictures as they might focus on specific details of some of your scenes.

Alan, you did a great job on the web site.

Ok Roger.  Your next project to really capture the Springfield feeling is to

          find a Lionel Quonset hut and turn it into Casper's.

You MUST live within a few miles of Springfield. I have the measurements for this Quonset hut and during some down time and am trying to draw up the hut. Casper's has to have the best within a days drive of here. If you ever are close to us, or live close to us, contact me and you and I will go to Casper's. Don't forget, that they close down for the summer on May 16th.

 

.....now if I could just get Mega Steam to produce that Casper's chili smell.

Hmmm...it's a nice looking site, but your web site home page (just the home page!) attempted to set 10 cookies on my computer! I did not allow any of them.

 

That's the downfall of using these big hosting sites. Tracking cookies everywhere.

Very nice looking layout! Especially like the roundhouse It turned out great!

Thanks to all of you for looking at Roger's site and also thanks for your compliments. 

 

Just a side note, tracking cookies are used by every site you go to so please understand that this is normal.  Some use more than others....just check how many Google puts on your computer or for that matter any search engine.  None of the cookies from Roger's hosting site are malware...that is good!  You can set your computer to not accept cookies from any particular site but some of them will not work correctly if you do so.

 

Thanks,

Alan

If this snow and cold keeps up, I think Casper's better stay open this summer.

We will need the Chili.

OK Grampstrains, I now realize that you are in my area if you have snow. Contact me thru my e-mail in my profile and I will buy you the bowl of Chili. But they do plan on closing on May 16th. Please contact me as I did not find your e-mail in your profile.

Roger

This must be the Casper's that you and Grampstrains are talking about. It would look great on the layout. Check out the link. Some interesting info and pictures. I will have to check this place out the next time I am in Springfield

 

http://sgfdinersanddives.wordp...aspers-chili-parlor/

 

 

 

 

Along with Caspers you will need the Gay Parita Sinclair station that is out on Route 66

http://garysgayparita.com/

 

MOPAC you are correct. This is on my must do list.

 

Roger

This must be the Casper's that you and Grampstrains are talking about. It would look great on the layout. Check out the link. Some interesting info and pictures. I will have to check this place out the next time I am in Springfield

 

Laidoffsick; Thanks for your compliments. Have you started on your roundhouse yet?

 

Roger,

great website! I have always enjoyed the photos on the 3 railers site. Both you and Alan have hit a homer with this site.

Rick

Impressive layout.  I like it and am jealous.  Wish I had the time, space, skill and patience to create such a masterpiece.  Congratulations.  Enjoy the fruit of your labor.

 

 

 

 

What, me worry?

I want to thank everyone that has posted here on this item. I thank all of you for your compliments on my layout and my website.

 

I owe a lot to Vern Hart, who lives here in Springfield. He is the one that I met about 10 years ago and has given many hours to my dream layout with his wit and wisdom.Vern designed the  I gave him the nickname of "chi-cing".....you know like a cash register? Every time he has given me and idea, several $$$ later the idea comes true.

 

Also I owe a lot to Alan Arnold, without him the website would not exist. This man can make anything look GREAT on the web...which he did with my website.

 

To members of this forum, you have given me many ideas, answers to my stupid questions, and a lot of  technical info. I usually live on this forum this time of night.

 

Thanks again every one. All I can say is if you want a great track plan contact Vern Hart. If you want a great website contact forum member leavingtracks, Alan Arnold.

Guys and Gals....Roger's layout looks great in pictures BUT to see it in person, especially as he progresses, is a site to behold.  It certainly should be featured in OGR where even more folks can enjoy!!!

 

Alan

Wowzers!!!

 

Roger, you have designed and built an amazing layout and showcase it wonderfully on your website (nice job Alan!!). Thanks so much for sharing with us .

 

We're so excited to see you next month for our first Master Mountain Building Workshop! Next time we're driving to an event, we'll have to make sure our route takes us to your city so we can see up close and personal your amazing layout.

 

I've added your website  to my "favorites".

 

Happy Tracks,

 

Dorcie aka Traindame

www.blog.traindame.com 

www.twtrainworx.com

 

 

Dorcie,

Thanks so much for your good words. I went to you blog to see the BNSF photo book....you did a great job on it. I would have loved to be there to see this event. See you all the last weekend of June.

Hello Roger,

 

I just took a peek at your website, great job! looks nice.

If I understand that this is your first website, I have some suggestions for a usability factor. The theme color is great, but using the theme color for text can pose a problem.

 

Color contrast is important when creating a website, for example 1 in 20 males suffer some sort of color blindness. Since our hobby is majority male you may want to reconsider the red text on white background.

 

websites should have a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for basic text (this does not count for headers or titles of the page). The red text on the white background contrast is 3.2:1.

what this means that some people will have a hard time reading the page (and of course all monitors do not display color the same way) . You can actually see a difference on a web page by using different browsers.

 

I hope I am not coming across in a negative way, I mean this to be constructive.

If you would like to check the contrast yourself you can visit

http://www.checkmycolours.com/

type in you web address and it will show you what passes and what does not.

 

Hope this helps.