My wife Linda was very impressed with the site and many of the pictures of layouts from you all. She loves trains. And baseball.
Now you know Peter did a very good job with the website. Good going Peter, as I know it took a lot of your time in doing. I even explained to her who Brooks is, Brooks. She already knows of Bill Winans and Don Thompson. Mike From: bcgsteam Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: The New NASG Website Peter, The new NASG website looks fantastic! Great job and I'm sure I speak for all S gaugers in saying you've done a great service to our favorite scale! Brooks Stover --- In mailto:S-Scale%40yahoogroups.com, Peter Vanvliet <pavanvliet@...> wrote: > > Good Morning All, > > (I apologize ahead of time to those of you who are getting multiple > copies of this e-mail) > > I am happy to announce the release of the new N.A.S.G. web site! > > http://www.nasg.org/ > > In December I took over the responsibilities of maintaining the NASG web > site from Jim Breshahan. First order of business was a complete > re-design of the web site. If you have visited the site before, you will > not recognize it at all. The core content of the old site is still > there, but it has been re-organized to hopefully be easier to find. In > addition, new content has been added as well. > > There were two primary objectives for the new site design: > 1) provide useful, current, and up-to-date information to our S community. > 2) provide a "this-is-S-today" view for those modeling in scales other > than S. > > It is my commitment to keep the site active and current. As soon as I > become aware of a new product, potential product, or any other > information or correction, I will update the site as soon as possible. > For those of you familiar with my personal web site's list of S-scale > links and recently announced "S" projects, you will find those on the > NASG web site now (see the "Manufacturers" and "News" pages, respectively). > > The site is fully functional. However, the "Online Membership Database" > section is still a work in progress. It should be functional, but it may > not look "pretty". I should have that completely revised in the next > week or so. I did not want to hold up the release of the rest of the > site just because of that one feature. The ability to apply for NASG > membership and request Membership Database access features should be > functional and complete. If you need to make changes to your membership > information and the site is not functional, please contact Claude Demers > directly for the time being. > > There are several other things on my "to-do list". The old site's > "historical products database" is no longer a database, but a nice photo > gallery (see bottom half of the "Manufacturers" page). We're thinking > about making that section a dedicated page in and of itself. Bill W., > Jim K., and myself are still reviewing the entries to remove duplicates, > provide supplemental information, and add new entries. The old site's > database contained mostly brass items. My vision is to expand this to > show other items as well. A good example is Jim King's (Smoky Mountain > Model Works) excellent products. However, I also would like to add more > S Helper Service, American Models, and Des Plaines Hobbies products. In > addition, there are more brass items that are not shown on the site yet. > I am also thinking about expanding that part of the site to include > "structures". > > Here's where I would like to ask for your help. If you have a photo (or > even a better, higher-resolution photo of an existing item) of an item > that is not listed on the site, I would like to ask you to consider > e-mailing it to me at "peter@...", so that I can add the item > to the site. > > I am also asking for photos of the following topics to be shown in the > web site's home page (the photos are in random order, b.t.w.) > - scale/Sn3/Sn2/Sn42/hi-rail photos of rolling stock (preferable > current items). > - American Flyer photos of rolling stock (preferably items currently > in production, e.g. Lionel challenger). > - built structures. > - dioramas. > - your personal layout. > - photos of your club's layout. > - photos of people at NASG conventions or other "S" gatherings. > > (if you have an S-related web site, the home page photos can be clicked > to launch your web site) > > Both the "Scale Modeling" and "American Flyer" pages feature photos of > layouts. If you have photos of your layout, please consider e-mailing > them to me to be published on either of those pages. If you have a web > site, I will make a link to your site. Proper credit will be shown with > photos. > > If you have any comments about, or problems with, the site, please > contact me. > > If any of you reading this and you are also a member of the S-Trains > Yahoo group, could you do me a big favor and forward this e-mail to that > group? Spread the word about the new site! Even to non-S modelers! > > I would like to thank Bill Winans and Jim Kindraka for their feedback > and tremendous support. This effort would not have been possible without > them. Additionally, I want to thank Gerry Evans, Brooks Stover, and Mike > Marmer for the fantastic photos they provided to get us started. Also a > "thank you" goes out to the rest of the NASG B.O.T. and committee > chairmen for their feedback during this redesign effort. I really > appreciated it all. > > I hope you all enjoy the new site! I have enjoyed working on it for the > past month and a half, and I am happy to continue to actively maintain it. > - Peter. > > -- > Peter Vanvliet (pavanvliet@..., or peter@...) > Houston, Texas > > "It is easy to give up; anyone can do that..." > > http://pmrr.org/ (my model railroad - RSS feed <http://pmrr.org/rss.xml>) > http://fourthray.com/ (my company) > http://houstonsgaugers.org/ (model railroad club) > -- >
