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Southern Car & Foundry
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Richard Townsend
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From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...]
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 1:47 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: [STMFC] Southern Car & Foundry
I have been trying to get to Southern Car & Foundry's web site at southerncarandfoundry.com, but have been having no luck. Does anyone else have this problem? All I get is "This page can't be displayed."
Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR
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Pierre Oliver
works fine for me, http://southerncarandfoundry.com/ Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 2017-01-24 2:47 PM, Richard Townsend
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Jim Hayes
Looks like the web site has been redone but it's incomplete and not ready for prime time. Jim |
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Pierre Oliver
Don't know what site you're looking at, but the SC&F site I
just looked at is fully functioning Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 1/24/17 4:52 PM, Jim Hayes
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Schuyler Larrabee
“Fully Functioning” maybe but so dark and low contrast as to be essentially unreadable. And text should NEVER be slammed up against the left margin; makes you wonder what you can’t see off to the left. I found it basically useless.
Schuyler From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 4:58 PM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Southern Car & Foundry Don't know what site you're looking at, but the SC&F site I just looked at is fully functioning Pierre Oliver www.elgincarshops.com www.yarmouthmodelworks.com On 1/24/17 4:52 PM, Jim Hayes jimhayes97225@... [STMFC] wrote: Looks like the web site has been redone but it's incomplete and not ready for prime time. Jim On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Richard Townsend richtownsend@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote: I have been trying to get to Southern Car & Foundry's web site at southerncarandfoundry.com, but have been having no luck. Does anyone else have this problem? All I get is "This page can't be displayed." Richard Townsend Lincoln City, OR [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Jim Hayes
Somehow we are looking at two different web sites. The old one "dark and murky". The new one is only partly functioning but has a bright colorful photo of a tank car if you press on the arrow on the right side of the screen. Jim On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:37 PM, 'Schuyler Larrabee' schuyler.larrabee@... [STMFC] <STMFC@...> wrote:
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The site is not well coded, I think. For me, the site is fine. When you click on a photo it is enlarged and the rest of the site is darkened. If you close that photo, the rest of the site returns to normal brightness and function. My guess is you have an older or unusual browser that the site's code does not render well. I got it to work on the latest Version of IE and Chrome on my desktop and Safari on my iPad.
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Dave Nelson
I dunno... I use Firefox, updated very frequently by Mozilla, and the
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lettering is almost completely lost in the background color. Several times I needed to use my mouse to highlight the words so they could be seen and read. I calibrate my monitor every 4-6 weeks (I do a fair amount of work creating digital images) so I know I'm seeing a presentation whose source is off. I suspect the problem was whomever created the web pages was working on a display that was much brighter than it should be, probably with a higher degree of contrast as well. IOW, viewed properly it's almost unreadable. Dave Nelson -----Original Message-----
From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 5:28 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: Re: [STMFC] Southern Car & Foundry The site is not well coded, I think. For me, the site is fine. When you click on a photo it is enlarged and the rest of the site is darkened. If you close that photo, the rest of the site returns to normal brightness and function. My guess is you have an older or unusual browser that the site's code does not render well. I got it to work on the latest Version of IE and Chrome on my desktop and Safari on my iPad. Dave |
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Dave Nelson
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The background to the lettering is RGB 15/23/25, a very dark charcoal that looks almost black. The letters are RGB 41/51/52, a rather dark gray. When you take each of those expressed as a percentage of pure white you get: Background: 5.5% / 9% 0 9.8% Letters: 16% / 20% / 20.36% You could double the values for the lettering and at 2X lighter they'd still be unpleasantly too dark to read. They need to be at least 3X lighter, if not a bit more. Dave Nelson -----Original Message-----
From: Dave Nelson [mailto:lake_muskoka@...] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:17 AM To: 'STMFC@...' Subject: RE: [STMFC] Southern Car & Foundry I dunno... I use Firefox, updated very frequently by Mozilla, and the lettering is almost completely lost in the background color. Several times I needed to use my mouse to highlight the words so they could be seen and read. I calibrate my monitor every 4-6 weeks (I do a fair amount of work creating digital images) so I know I'm seeing a presentation whose source is off. I suspect the problem was whomever created the web pages was working on a display that was much brighter than it should be, probably with a higher degree of contrast as well. IOW, viewed properly it's almost unreadable. |
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Dave Nelson
Not intending to belabor the point but based on private e-mails I see it
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should be pointed out that yes, the home page looks fine. The problem is what you see when you click on any of HO Scale Rolling Stock, O Gauge Rolling Stock, or Featured Models images and intended page displays. The text under the photos is unreadable and most of the rest is rather hard to make out. Curiously, when you click on the image for Gallery the resulting page looks fine. Dave Nelson -----Original Message-----
From: STMFC@... [mailto:STMFC@...] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:52 AM To: STMFC@... Subject: RE: [STMFC] Southern Car & Foundry Postscript: The background to the lettering is RGB 15/23/25, a very dark charcoal that looks almost black. The letters are RGB 41/51/52, a rather dark gray. When you take each of those expressed as a percentage of pure white you get: Background: 5.5% / 9% 0 9.8% Letters: 16% / 20% / 20.36% You could double the values for the lettering and at 2X lighter they'd still be unpleasantly too dark to read. They need to be at least 3X lighter, if not a bit more. Dave Nelson -----Original Message----- From: Dave Nelson [mailto:lake_muskoka@...] Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2017 10:17 AM To: 'STMFC@...' Subject: RE: [STMFC] Southern Car & Foundry I dunno... I use Firefox, updated very frequently by Mozilla, and the lettering is almost completely lost in the background color. Several times I needed to use my mouse to highlight the words so they could be seen and read. I calibrate my monitor every 4-6 weeks (I do a fair amount of work creating digital images) so I know I'm seeing a presentation whose source is off. I suspect the problem was whomever created the web pages was working on a display that was much brighter than it should be, probably with a higher degree of contrast as well. IOW, viewed properly it's almost unreadable. ------------------------------------ Posted by: "Dave Nelson" <lake_muskoka@...> ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ Yahoo Groups Links |
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