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Although as a former Fiat Dealer mechanic, I must be
suspicious of people who actually like those twin cammed tinker toys from
Italy. (Fix It Again Tony!) :o)
Actually, the reason I wrote was to mention that the Narma
link on your Ural page should be narma.org .
You are inadvertently pointing to Narma and Associates. Keep up the good work.
Thanks. I corrected
the NARMA link (Russian Motorcycle
Association). I’m glad you liked
it. It is a work “in progress”. –Bob.
Hello!
Thanks Bob for that great letter from Grandpa!!
From beyond the grave…
Good site ... lots of information. I like your resume, gives credibility. also like the 2 guys on the beach. wish I were there!
I thought I already had credibility! “;)
I wish I was back on the beach myself.
Hi Bob!!
I'm writing down what is happening to your website as I load it.
Main page is loading okay, including links and two pictures.
Hobbies page is loading okay.
Geaneology page is loading okay.
Cars page does not load. The requested
URL
/robertbell.marksee/hobbies/cars.html was not found on this server.
Real Estate page loads but two pictures don't load. The requested URL
/robertbell.marksee/hollinhall_files/image004.jpg was
not found on this server.
Page of the month (Merry Christmas) loads with no picture. The requested URL
/robertbell.marksee/month_files/image002.jpg was not found on this server.
The Gardening page does not load. Not
found on server.
The Vicious Pets page loads but the picture does not load.
Therequested URL
/robertbell.marksee/hobbies/pets_files/image002.jpg was
not found on this server
Thanks for the feedback.
This site was created over a two week period at the end of 2001. I used Microsoft WORD 2000 to create the
pages. My thought is, keep it simple,
straightforward, and easy to load. RCN
(starpower.net) provides me with 10MB of free space on an old UNIX server. Keep that overhead low! However, for some reason, Microsoft WORD
creates TWO image files for each image I load!
I was quickly over 12MB in space.
I noticed that if I erased the larger of these two file (the
source file) the pages seemed to load OK on Microsoft Explorer. However, I quickly learned that they didn’t
load on Netscape Navigator or come other software.
An investigation of the source HTML (Hyper Text Markup
Language) reveals an “IF..THEN” type statement which detects VML presence and
switches between the different image files.
I am in the process of manually editing all of the pages to reference
the same image files.
This keeps the website space small, but in Netscape
Navigator, you’ll find that the images are not as high resolution as they are
in Microsoft Internet Explorer. “Site
best viewed using Internet Explorer” – now I know what that means.
All part of the Bill Gates conspiracy to take something as
simple as HTML and make it into a proprietary Microsoft-only format.
Thanks for the feedback!
It’s a work in progress (and I’m learning HTML the hard way)
--Bob.
Hi Rob:
Here's the bitch about doing web pages;
No matter what program you use, or even if you're a geek
master web page
designer who thinks in
HTML, your page won't look the same on all systems
or servers, or for that matter, on two Macs or PCs. Every
professional web
designer I know say they all struggle with this. What I've
heard about your
Microsoft program is that when creating web pages, it adds
additional html
language. I've heard this sometimes causes problems.
But generally, I hear good things about Microsoft word.
The unsucessfull links I was referring to are on the
homepage under
"Disclamers.
The first one is "Information Materials" under the
#1 Legal Advice and
"Patents" under #2 lawyer Advertising.
VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!:
You must use a repeating flash animatin on your front page
using a cut-out
of the Soviet cycle and sidecar with you and mark going from
left to right.
Other than that, your page looks great!
Well, that’s encouraging.
No matter what I do, it won’t display properly on somebody’s
browser. How do these commercial sites
do it? They must have multiple pages
for different viewers and systems.
I’ll try to put more spacing between photos and
pictures. Some browsers don’t pick up
on spacing that others recognize. Plus,
font sizes seem to change depending upon computer.
I am also still having problems with some of the Articles
not changing fonts (reverting to Courier instead of Ariel or Times New Roman or
CG Times).
Yes, we need more slow-loading animation……
I fixed the broken links today.
--Bob.
Hi Bob,
I just took another look and the "Not In Love With
Texas..." page is
back up and running.
Great picture! I remember as a
kid seeing helmets
like that with goggles attached. Bet they really are collector's items
now.
Best wishes, and Happy New Year!
Dick
I’m glad to hear that the site if getting viewable on more
than just one kind of browser. Use the
refresh button if you are having problems – the system might be caching an old
page.
--Bob.
> i checked out the website! i really like the genealogy page! but the
> date of grandma's birth says 1975. thought i'd let you know she's
> only be 13 when she died. you also look a little like plat wiggins in
> the pic of him in the flight jacket!
Well, life expectancy was a lot shorter then, and people
tended to
get married and have children at a very early age.
CHAPTER 3! CHAPTER 3! CHAPTER 3! ROFL
This is great stuff. You should publish this!
Cheers,
He is referring to the Mexico saga. I am typing as fast as I can!