Eastern Carolina Plastic Modelers Website Home Page

Last Update: 14 May 2012

2012 Calendar Extract

IPMS 2012 National Convention
8-11 Aug, Disney World, FL

Piedmont Scale Modelers "Fall Modelfest"
15 Sep, Duncan, SC

Lafayette Scale Modelers & AMPS
Contest and Show
10 Nov, Fayetteville, NC

Other IPMS Contest Info

News Flash !!
ECPM has been invited to do a
historical model display
on 9 June, from 10am - 4pm,
at Fort Fisher State Historical Site
on Kure Beach, NC.

We're excited !
If you are in the area, stop in and say hi !

Hot News !

Welcome to the latest incarnation of the ECPM website, well almost latest, it still isn't done. The important part is that I think I've got my website mojo back again, partly by trying for a new look. We'll see how it goes, but it relies on input from y'all to let me know what you like, don't like, want, don't want.

Note: you may need to flush your browser cache to get new page versions to show !!!

Status: 4 pages are redone and are final, pending comments.
-- About Us
-- Calendar
-- Articles Index
-- Member List

The Home Page (here) is just a rough cut -- it'll be a different format from before, a bit more flexible, and have some pix and things to liven it up. It's a work in progress.

There are no current newsletters; one of the casualties of the last year. There will be newsletters again, starting with the February meeting (I wasn't there in January), and we'll see what we do with them.

Articles -- the old articles exist, still in the old format(s), you can still see them, etc. It has always been a goal to reformat them all to a newer standard but that's alot of work -- I'd rather have lots of new ones to workon !!!

Member pages -- still there, same as articles. I do have a major goal to come up with a new format member page, something that better reflects what individual members would like but also takes workload off me, it's all too structured.

What are the big changes ?

Well, we're going to shed frames -- good idea but hard to access from web searches. With the old newsletters gone that takes care of some of them, and I'll have to work on articles mostly, and some member pages.

I am using far more defaulting on coding, which should make the site appear as your browser renders it -- I hope. There is very little specification of font size, style, etc -- your browser can do what it wants. This takes some load off, it it works, because there are getting to be so many, including smartphones.

All this will take some long term work; I'm really kind of doing it on the fly ...

What help do we need ?

Report errors & problems !!!
Report likes & dislikes !!!
Let me know things you'd like to see !!!

Be specific -- tell me
- the exact page and the exact problem,
- the make/model of your computer/phone,
- what the screen resolution is set to,
- what the browser and version are, and
- if you have zoom/view set at other than 100%.

If you can send a screen shot it'd be great !!!

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