With the start of our group build fast approaching I had better get this up.
Panther group builds submission guidelines.
- send Email to highland_eagle68@sbcglobal.net
- Put “Panther”, “group build”, or something similar in the subject line.
- Name your pics to match your description! Use a name and sequential numbers like “username_pz5_01”, “username_pz5_02”, etc. and insert this name at the beginning of the paragraph describing the pic. Doing it this way will, hopefully, prevent two pics from different people from having the same name. Please use all lower case letters. When I upload the finished pages/pics file names are converted to all lower case and then I have to edit all the image names on the page.
- If you use MS Word or similar it will be easier for me to cut and paste.
- If you can Zip your files if you are sending a large group all at once. Some email accounts only allow “X” number of attachments to be sent at once.[
Geocities doesn’t allow replacing an existing page with a new one of the same name (or I haven’t found out how yet), the old must be deleted and then the new one uploaded.[:(!] In light of this I will post pages when they have content instead of putting a blank page up as a “placeholder”
These guidelines are to help me do this quickly and accurately. I don’t want someone looking at a pic and saying “What is he talking about?” and I don’t want to look at something and say, “What is this about?” [:p]
There are a lot of us involved in this and I want to build too![:D]
I will try to update the web site when updates are available. I work second shift so I will check my e-mail in the late AM or early PM and again in the very early AM CST (GMT -6).
Questions, comments, and suggestions not only welcome but requested.
Thank you for your cooperation
claymore68:
thanx 4 letting me join in, and thanx in advance 4 doing all this extra work to help the group build happen…
i’m going to work really hard on my ersatz m-10 !
have a good weekend !
frosty[:)]
Derek,
i don’t think zipping jpgs does anything to reduce size.
the compression algorithm for images (embedded) is more efficient than current zip.
it does put them into easy to move packages however
(if i mail in say 8 pics at once).
in the case of single pics, it will actually make them slightly larger,
as it has to store the jpg, which it could not compress, plus some data on how to uncompress it!
Word docs (like all microft products) compress nicely
(being made mostly of air!) [:D]
and thanks again for doing the heavy lifting w/ the web site!
ed.
Zip, compress youve lost me ??? how do you do it and is it on Microsft office XP pro???
or do i have to get something else? it would help for sending Shermanfreak some articles aswell
Jon - probably the most common compression or zip program is WinZip. What it does is reduce the size of the file. Great for storage or for sending something rather large by e-mail. WinZip is shareware and can be downloaded from the net from about 1,000 different sites.
Ed is bang on the money re: compression of pics, doesn’t do much good at all.
You guys are correct RE zipping images. JPEG and other formats have their own compression. For some reason I was thinking of DXF files.
Derek,
how ready are you?
i have the Tamiya indy links and want to post some pics of them for the other build members to inspect.
can i email them to you w/ a brief text blurb to put on my page on the build site?
ed.
I hope you guys can bare with me, I’m electronically challenged. [%-)] We are into our busiest season at work, so pics might have to come later.
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee
RonUSMC put link to a real good program for pics. It’s called irfanview. http://www.irfanview.com/
It can take a 400k pic and resize it to under 100k without really loseing quality. It’s pretty simple to use and free.
Thanks for doing this for the group Derek.
Claymore,
Thanks for taking up this endevour! I know it can be rough at times but we all appreciate it. Will send some pics your way in a few.
I take it that we are just emailing them to you?
Thanks again Derek. I will try and use the KISS principle as far as I can.
Mate, you will have some work ahead of you, just make sure you enjoy the build as much as we will. With the effort you have put in so far, and will need to put in in future, no-one will worry if you take your time updating the site.
Cheers.
I have edited the guidelines, changes are in red.
have i made trouble already? [:0]
ed.
Nope, It’s just that geocities automatically converts all file names to lower case (case sensative). When I did the page and inserted the pics on my machine there were upper and lower case letters so once it was uploaded it couldn’t find the pics so I had to edit all the image tags.
I didn’t know that Geocities did this so it’s my bad.
Not too big a deal really but with 20+ involved it could be a real pain later.
the second change was due to you mentioning that you can only do 10 attachments. I wanted to be sure others weren’t caught by suprise.
I’m not sure if geocities changed, but I’m pretty sure they set some file transfer limit per some quantity of time. When the building begins we’ll be seeing “this site has reached its transfer limit, try again in one hour” after one person views like 3 pictures.
Edit: Changes in red
Eric: Yep, just e-mail them to me.
I considered letting those that wanted to help a little just use FTP for their pages but Geocities wants more money to use FTP (“premium service”[xx(]). Earthlink wasn’t so greedy, they recommended FTP and even linked to a free FTP program that was really easy to use.
Claymore
You took me off the list!![:0] And i just sent off for my Eduard Barrel and PE set for my Jagdpanther!!!
Im going to atempt an urban camo job im sure iv seen somewhere in the last few weeks of the war in Berlin. Its green base coat with white squares of about 4ft x 4ft.
Im not making it up i did see a pic with thi scamo im sure![8)]
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Originally posted by box1
Im going to atempt an urban camo job im sure iv seen somewhere in the last few weeks of the war in Berlin. Its green base coat with white squares of about 4ft x 4ft.
I would be interested in seeing that. That just seems wacky even for the Germans.
“It is well that war is so terrible lest, we grow too fpnd of it.”-R.E.Lee
[:I] I’m having some technical difficulties with quotes, can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong. Thanks.
“It is well that war is so terrible, lest we grow too fond of it.”-R.E.Lee