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| February 2007 |
Started validating the HTML of this site. Pages done so far are:
- 02/06/2007 : Home page, News
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| January 2007 |
Where'd the year go? LOTS of work on the site as well on the new
club portable oval. Tri-County Oval is currently being hosted
where West County Raceway is - check the map for location. I'll
try to keep this more up to date and keep it news related to the web
site not just to the club.
- Cleaned up some typos on the schedule
- Clarified some rule issues and republished them (ProTrack
NASTruck)
- Removed driver profile page - no one reads it anyway.
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| August 2006 |
I have been converting all of the articles to PDF. A lot of sites
are linking to just the photographs and therefore eating a lot of
bandwidth without us getting any benefit. |
| July 28, 2006 |
Been fixing a lot of broken links due to CaSEseSaTivITy on the server.
Ever since I reinstall FP it has been hosed. I am trying to make
ALL pages and links LOWERCASE all the time. You should see less
and less pages and images not found. |
| June 26, 2006 |
The website is being restored from a backup. And for some reason
Microsoft FrontPage 2003 isn't consistent with the requirement of CAPS
or no CAPS. Seems the local PC sees '1.JPG' and '1.jpg' as the
same file BUT the remote host sees them as 2. Please be patient as
I work this out - again. |
| May 3, 2006 |
Added videos to YouTube service to keep the space requirements down.
It if works well then I might move ALL the videos to the free service. |
| March 8, 2006 |
Been fixing links and more. Seems FP 2003 makes EVERYTHING on the
web lowercase whereas the previous version worked OK with mixed case.
MS thought it to be an improvement since everyone OBVIOUSLY only
publishes to windows based servers... Please keep me posted if you
still find things. |
| February 22, 2006 |
My PC where I had the web site and the software to design it went south.
Over the next few weeks I hope to have all the issues resolved.
Right now I am trying to synchronize the web site to my latest backup
(yes, I do keep backups). Please contact me at
mgpmrc@mgpmrc.org if you find any
outstanding items. Thanks for your patience. |
| December 13, 2005 |
- Cleaned up the logo
- Added a bunch of new photos and updated the slide show
- Signed up for google Adsense. Trying to break even on this
site.
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| November 30, 2005 |
- Submitted the last three races of the year to the Post-Dispatch Get-Out
section.
- Fixed link in schedule area
- Added redirect from 404 page to index to keep people on the site
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| November 23, 2005 |
Added slide to the
photos page. |
| November 14, 2005 |
- Added
Google Analytics to the site.
- Fixed few broken links (no one reports these things!)
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| October 31, 2005 |
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| October 25, 2005 |
- Updated the photos and the results
- Fixed some broken internal links
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| October 12, 2005 |
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| October 6, 2005 |
- Added information about the upcoming show
- Updated the GSRA schedule (had the old one)
- Shortened Vince's Drivers Blog (had over a year of entries!)
- Changed a few race locations
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| September 2, 2005 |
- Cleaned up a bunch of broken links
- Noticed that last month we got a record number of hits:
- Started working on ways to archive things for folks to get at
later rather than just take them offline.
- Added a search the site option on the front page and the 404 page.
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| August 22, 2005 |
- Fixed a bunch of broken links (am I the only one who reads this
site?)
- Updated Road Course Results
- Fixed some missing graphics (when I pulled the old photos
directories off some articles lost their images).
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| August 15, 2005 |
This is what came out of the monthly lunch (August 11): It was a good
lunch and lots of chatter about the club and cars. Here is what I got
out of it. Note: NONE OF THIS IS WRITTEN IN STONE - just suggestions.
1. Role assignment within the club
Administrator/Treasurer/Store - Gil
Scheduling/Records/Awards - Vince
Tech & Check-in/Records - Mark P
Rules - Ken R
This comes from the discussion that we need to spread the load of the
work around the club. Gil does a great job but with life and work, like
everyone else, gets overwhelmed. The addition of Vince and Mark P to
Records/Tech/Awards are to help lighten his load.
Gil: If you WANT nothing to change PLEASE say so!
2. Scheduling
a) Schedule business meetings on the calendar. Make the dates firm.
Allow agenda items to be added during the year. Do then toward the end
of the season(s) to allow voting for the next year.
b) Club races. Try to schedule regular event/trophy races throughout the
year.
3. Questions
a) How should we award concourse? What is a good way to recognize good
work? Single winner or box plaque for everyone who 'wins'?
b) How can we improve the nomination process for the class(es) of cars
we want to run the next season(s)?
c) Should award types be pre-asked? For example, currently I would like
a trophy for ANY podium position while Paul only wants them for 1st. He
wants box plaques for the rest. If we ask at the beginning of the season
we don't have to hunt down the winners to see what their choices are.
There would be a 'drop-dead' date to allow winners to modify their
choices though.
d) What other awards should there be? Should we offer one or all the
track owners (and spouses) a gift certificate for the use of their
house/track? Should we have one for corner marshaling? Sportsman? Most
times off the track (see point (c) above for me)? Others?
4. Should the club have a car or two that they can sell to members who
might not have the skill/time to do one for the class? Should the club
have a loaner ready for someone who might show up for that night? What
about a loaner controller?
Answers to follow
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| July 26, 2005 |
- Posted a lot of photos and an article
- Updated a stale drivers blog
- Renewed our domains for another 2 years
- Fixed an image issue with all the articles (apparently Firefox
doesn't automatically fix "\" as "/" as IE does).
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| July 5, 2005 |
- Started working on stuff for new season
- Had a great thrash night (7/3).
- Contacted Victory Junction Gang to work on doing some charity
event.
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| June 13, 2005 |
- Added a bunch of photos from the last 2 races
- Started scoring the new plastic season with the new point system.
Instead of 20,25,12,10,8,6,4,2,1 it is now
20,17,15,13,11,10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1. The new system goes deeper
into the line up and rewards those who are consistant.
- Started to post the seasons raw results. Also working on
posting old seasons results.
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| May 31, 2005 |
- Added the information for the 2 extra thrash sessions at West
County Raceway
- Added a few photos here and there - not enough to update the page
- Added the latest GSRA schedule
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| May 11, 2005 |
- Added the new schedule for the summer/fall series.
- Did a bunch of small fixes... mostly hidden from users.
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| April 27, 2005 |
- Added a bunch of photos, still more to add
- Started taking votes for next season and trying to get the
schedule going for the next season as well
- Updated the results from MANY races (webmaster has been slacking
off a bit)
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| March 14, 2005 |
- Added a bunch of photos
- Trying to adjust the schedule for track repairs and allow people
time to vote for the next Plastic season
- Removed ALL the older photos to make room for the new season
- Modified the 404 page since about 10% of our visitors come looking
for photos that have long been removed. Probably need to make it
so search engines don't look there...
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| March 11, 2005 |
- Added Smith Scale Speedway to our links section.
- Added information about the slot car show
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| March 7 & 8,2005 |
- Added the first of hopefully many driver profiles
- Added a way for people to subscribe to club announcents
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| March 3, 2005 |
- I'm in class for the week - be patient for updates
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| February 25, 2005 |
- Had to remove a bunch of older photo galleries. I received
an e-mail from our hosting company that we had maxed out the space!
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| February 23, 2005 |
- Finally got around to adding a master map for all the tracks
- Updated the results and schedule
- Updated Vince's Drivers Blog
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| January 31, 2005 |
- Added photos and a video from last nights race
- Updated the schedule
- Added the schedule to the Yahoo! group page
- Added the rules for 2 of the classes in PDF and MS Word format.
I can add other formats if requested.
If you haven't joined the Yahoo! group off of the front page of this
site you are missing some great club discussion!
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| January 25, 2005 |
- Contacted the track owners to finalize the next season. Also made
adjustments to start the next plastic season off -cycle.
- Added the
mapquest links for the new tracks
- Added an awesome article on working with
Vacuform bodies by one of our most talented racers.
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| January 17, 2005 |
- Added photos from the last race and an experience with the
challenger
- Talked about rules/classes at last nights thrash. Hope to have the
rules posted ASAP.
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| January 12, 2005 |
- Added the Wednesday night slot car club schedule to the Articles
page.
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| January 11, 2005 |
- Fixed a bunch of underlying typos
- Removed all old 'Vinces Drivers Blog' - will condense into
archived articles later
- Moved a few more pages from FP extensions to Java Script. A slow
and painful process.
- Updated the 404 error page. Hopefully more viewers will let
us know about web site errors.
- Updated the LINKS page... and verified them.
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| January 6, 2005 |
- Started removing the 'old' web site information, getting ready for
the 2005 season stuff
- Removed old news (1/6)
- Removed a lot of older graphics from the base dir of the web site
and put back only what we really needed(1/6)
- Modifed the top menu to buttons (1/6)
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