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Individual Submarine Boards => USS Drum (SS-228) => Topic started by: Lance Dean on October 06, 2008, 11:27:44 AM
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New website undertaking for USS Drum (SS-228). Very much under construction. Much more to come ASAP.
Feedback requested.
http://www.drum228.org
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I like the website a lot. Easy to navigate and it gets right to the point.
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Hey Lance...you didn't keep that secret very long :D
You've done a lot of work since yesterday...looking really good my friend.
Can I go ahead and add this to the Batfish links page?
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Thank you!
And sure, go ahead and link if you like.
I still have to add in much more about the mechanical aspects of the Drum and configuration.
I'm talking with John Clear about getting the war patrol reports (just have to send in the cash) and adding them to the website. A whopping 13 patrols, wow. You'll be my inspiration for that part MWALLEN. I like how you even have photos on the war patrol reports of the Batfish.
I also have to add in donation information, volunteering information, etc.
Want to add in what businesses have donated materials and/or equipment.
Lots more.
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As long as you keep adding pages and don't cram it all into a few, you'll be fine. I like the size of the font that you used and the fact that i can see white space. I still shudder at some of the early web pages back in the mid-90's. Nothing but a sea of text with as many colors to blind you as possible. :o
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As long as you keep adding pages and don't cram it all into a few, you'll be fine. I like the size of the font that you used and the fact that i can see white space. I still shudder at some of the early web pages back in the mid-90's. Nothing but a sea of text with as many colors to blind you as possible. :o
Thanks! It should be the same as what you see on the webpages here, as I used the style.css file from here to build with.
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I usually use MS Publisher, which isn't the best for website generation, but it's what I bothered to install onto my computer from the Office Pro 2007 disc. I really like the duplicate page feature and that it automatically generates radio buttons on each page.
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I'm oldschool and use plain old notepad.exe. I tried WYSIWYG editors, but they drove me nuts.
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Lots of updates done. Now I just have to get my hands on the war patrol reports from John Clear. I'm also looking for ANY historical photos of the Drum that I can use freely. (FREELY is the key word.)
Take a new look, refresh the page. :)
http://www.drum228.org
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you need another "w" in your link :D
http://www.drum228.org (http://www.drum228.org)
Oh...it is looking good...can't wait to see those patrol reports. Oh wait...I have them. ;D
Seriously, you've done a great job in just a few days. Can't wait to see it in the near future.
Nice!!! :smitten:
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Oops thanks.
What I need is for my laptop keyboard to work! The "w" key and the "y" key I have to bang for them to work anymore.
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Feel free to try out the "Guestbook". It seems to work for me, but I'm getting reports from others that they were not able to send a post in due to some kind of timeout. I can't replicate it. If you want to make a test post, just let me know it's a test and I can delete it afterwards. :)
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I had no trouble signing it
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I had no trouble signing it
Woohoo! It's alive! Man that was the easiest Guestbook install I've ever done. I highly recommend Lazarus's Guestbook if you ever want to use the thing. You just have to be able to create a new MySQL database on your server to use it. Not too hard though.
I found the trouble with the signing thing. There was a timeout set for the time it takes to create and send an entry. I removed it or lengthened it or something.
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I removed it or lengthened it or something
That's pretty technical...but glad you got it figured out ;D
I do mine differently mostly because I get some nuts that write crap...so I edit, then post. Besides, I'm too lazy now to switch it over.
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Oh you mean like spammers?
I have the option to approve comments before they go though, but I hope I don't have to resort to that.
Man, I salute you Mark Allen for typing up all that war patrol stuff. I'm hoping I'm cut out for that!
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yeah...spammers :knuppel2:
There was a time that I'd have to change the URL to the guestbook every other week because I'd get posts that would have links in them.
I did notice that you had that box where you had to type in the letters, that should stop a lot of it
As for the patrol reports...yeah, that was a lot of work. I have the patrol reports on microfiche (this was years ago before I got them from John) so every day I'd walk to the library with a bag of dimes and print out pages. Then I'd type it all in. It took me a little over 3 months to get the 7 patrols put up. I'm slowly filling in some of the stuff I didn't type at the time (ship and plane contacts)...but it was worth the effort as I get a lot of compliments on having them on the site.
Now that I have the patrol reports...and I have Adobe Acrobat 8...I wonder if I can copy and paste the text. I may try that and see if I can quickly finish up the Batfish reports.
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You can copy most PDF files as long as Adobe translated the files into text and not a picture file.
We reenactors really appreciate having the patrol logs posted on the website. It gives us a lot of insight and ideas for doing impressions. Also, I think the 7th patrol log talks about all of the equipment mods that they made to the boat during the Feb. '45 overhaul, which provides a lot of insight regarding restoration activites.
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I'm surprised that the Drum doesn't offer a military vet discount for admission. IMHO, this is a must for any military attraction.
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• Active Duty military free with military I.D.
That's all I see. I'm not aware of a veteran discount. The Batfish has a vet discount? How much and how does one prove his veteran status?
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We don't ask for I.D. We take people at their word. 62+ and Retired Military are $4.00. 14 - 61 are charged $6.00. AAA members are $5.00. Kids 7-13 are $3.00. 10 or more kids are $2.00 each. Under 6 are free.
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You can copy most PDF files as long as Adobe translated the files into text and not a picture file
And that's the problem...I believe what I have are images and not the text. I'll have to try it and see, but I'm pretty sure what I read from the info that John Clear sent is that they were images. Bummer.
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The patrol reports from Mr. Clear are all exact copies - scanned at images. There is no text to highlight.
I placed an order this morning for the Drum patrol reports. 350 pages and 13 war patrols. Long road ahead.
MWALLEN, I need to find out how you went about getting the Maru images for each patrol.
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There have been a few new guestbook entries on the http://www.drum228.org website. What an honor!