New Homepage

[Keith Taylor]

I get nothing. When I right click the blank area I get a message asking if I want to download "the video" to Realplayer. But even when I click yes....I still get nothing.

Keith

[Ed Lecuyer]

Thanks everyone for the feedback.

The plan for an overhaul of the whole web site will include a slide show on the home page. However, we'll most likely use a different (non-Flash) technology. I'm not sure what that will be yet, but the pluses of the current slide show seem to outweigh the minuses.

[Steve Smith]

Thanks so much, Stephen and Ed. That's a wonderful addition to the site!

[Wayne Laepple]

Well, here's my story. Sometimes, when I open to the homepage, nothing at all happens. Other times, the slideshow runs fine. And sometimes, it will run through 3 or 4 or 5 images and then stall. I use an eMac. I understand that Macs and PC's don't always play well together, but this one has me stumped.

And by the way, Stephen, it's a great slideshow.

[Dwight Winkley]

When I turn on WW&F home page. I see no photo or any info about a slide show. After a while I get a message " Internet explorer can not display page"

Ahead of time I want to thank you for helping James on the web site update. Photos of Rail car wheels is outdated. There should be a photo of the finished railcar. Same goes about old photo'd and info in the shop expansion and #9 rebuilding sections. Steven's photos in the forum need to be used to update the museum's web site.
dwight

[Craig "Red" Heun]

No joy on the slide show either ..also internet explorer and an HP computer 

[Erik Z. Missal]

Hi,
I had the same problem with no picture on Firefox. I downloaded Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55. Now it works fine.

Erik

[Stephen Hussar]

When automatic updates for Adobe, Windows, and Norton pop up on my mom's computer screen, she likes to ignore them and click the little red x. Very frustrating for me because I end up having to go over quite often and solve simple computer issues she's having. My sister thinks this is her plan 

All I will say is it does pay to keep your updates, up to date!

Stephen

[Ed Lecuyer]

To second what Stephen said, from a different perspective.

I'm the product manager for a PC software application. We go through a great deal of trouble to make updates available - at no cost to our customers. Why? Because they fix problems that were discovered, or add features that make the product easier to use. This keeps the customers happy, and (from my perspective, more importantly) keeps them from calling me and asking me why something doesn't work correctly. It PAINS me when someone calls, and asks "is that update worth downloading?" If it wasn't worth downloading, we wouldn't have posted it.

That having been said, I still don't think that Flash is the right permanent solution for the home page. But, it works for now.

Also (to Dwight) We know those sections are out of date. We want to combine them with either the forum or a blog interface so that there is one place that is updated regularly with reports, photos, questions, etc. about each active project.

[Wayne Laepple]

For once, I'm innocent, Ed. I wasn't the one grumbling about updates to the web site. All I said was the slideshow works sporadically for me. Last evening, for instance, the whole thing ran without a glitch. This morning, after three pics, it stalled and wouldn't budge. I went to another web site and returned to try again. This time, it ran six photos and stalled again.

[Ed Lecuyer]

Oops. Typed the wrong name (I typed Wayne and meant Dwight) in my message - now fixed. (Sorry Wayne for the confusion.)