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DEC

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of November 2006:

Helping Hands Gold Award

Corrected some award laudations that did not XHTML validate on the Awards page.

NOV

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of November 2006:

MarkWD Absolute Perfection Bronze Award

The Central PA Railfan Guide website is currently offline and has been removed from the Links page.

Corrected a few pages that did not conform to W3C standards (those pesky unescaped &'s :).

The photo caption for Hertzler & Zook's, accessed on the Route: Belleville page, has been updated. New Holland announced late last month that it will be closing the Belleville plant.

OCT

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of October 2006:

Green Light Gold Award
Penmarric Platinum Award
Hugs R Us Diamond Award
Gold Prospective Award

Search results from the Search & Sitemap page will now display the title of the page rather than the filename.

Exceptions added to the XHTML Coding section on the Accessibility Statement page.

In the History and Route section a 'tabindex' was added to the submit button (with JavaScript disabled) for accessibility.

SEP

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of September 2006:

Game Puppet Excellence Award
All Aboard Web Award

Two Mifflin County websites, the Kishacoquillas Valley Historical Society and Mennonite Historical Society, were added to the Links page.

Two other railroads were nicknamed "Hook & Eye." Read about the Iowa Central and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad on the The Ol' Hook & Eye page.

The photo captions on KV Sold for Scrap and Last Train to Stewartstown? pages now look better if the text is enlarged via the browser.

AUG

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of August 2006:

Tim's Spider Gold Award
White Swan Award of Excellence

Absolute table widths are now sized using CSS to comply with a priority 2 accessibility checkpoint.

In May I programmed the bottom menu to no longer wrap. By doing so, several pages displayed in the Netscape browser had horizontal scroll bars in 800 x 600 pixel screen size. The bottom menu now once again wraps.

Because of the buy out, referances to Macromedia on the Introduction and How to Use pages were changed to Adobe.

JUL

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of June 2006:

American Railroad Folklore Award
Seasons of Change Gold Award
LTS Grail Award

Unique visitors counter added to bottom of the Introduction page.

JUN

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of June 2006:

Website Strategic Award
Firestarter Gold Award
Giving Words Award
Crystal Ribbon Global Award

The bottom menu will always be active, no matter what page you are on.

The top and bottom arrow buttons now line up properly in Firefox.

I found a lot of useful information on some of the KV cars on the Rolling Stock Website and just had to include it on my Links page. The Train Traveler is back online as well.

A mistake was made on the technical data of engine No.6 on the Locomotive Roster. Instead of 62 inch, it had 56 inch diameter drive wheels.

MAY

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of May 2006:

Crystal Ribbon Gold Award
Fun Tyme Entertainment Gold Award

The Indian Valley Railroad website is offline and has been removed from the Links page.

The "Return to Overall Route" graphic link now lines up properly with the pull-down list on all Route pages in Internet Explorer.

On the Search Results page a dead link (Sitemap) was found and repaired and the page now validates xhtml.

The pop-up window xhtml code for photographs will now validate.

The bottom menu will no longer wrap on all pages.

Although the Ol' Hook & Eye website responded well in Firefox it did not look as good in older Gecko based browsers (notably Netscape 6.2 and 7.0). I'm surprised it's taken so long to find this out... are there any Netscape users out there? Of course, when I got the website to look good in Netscape it messed up in IE. After a bit of head scratching over the CSS file I think I found a fix that will work in all modern - and not-so-modern - web browsers.

APR

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of April 2006:

Beautiful Site Bravo!Award
Cool Site Bravo!Award

In the 1950's Richard Stokes built a Scale Model of No.6 locomotive. The new page is linked from Locomotive Roster and Search & Sitemap.

It appears that someone is trying to hack my Email form on the Contact Webmaster page. Now if someone tries to send me mail using the KVRR domain an error will pop-up.

MAR

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the following Awards during the month of March 2006:

Three-Star Roundhouse of Recognition™ Badge of Honor
WSR Web Site Award

Some new information was found on where the flanged wheels on the KV's last railcar came from. See the Afternoon Train Replaced by "Studemotive" page. Also the Studebaker may have been a "Special Six." See the Rolling Stock Roster page.

The person who built the third railcar was Roy Warner and his son Jimmie, not Charles Hughes as originally thought. See the Rolling Stock Roster page.

All references of "motorcar" has been replaced with the more accurate "railcar."

Graphic of engineman John Ross is sepia toned on the Hook & Eye page.

FEB

The Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society's E-Store is closed indefinitely and the Lewistown and the Pennsylvania Railroad book can no longer be ordered from that source. The link to the E-Store site was removed from the Lewistown and the Pennsylvania Railroad book page.

The Ol' Hook & Eye is pleased to have won the CSB SOTY, its third Site Of The Year Award for 2005!

JAN

After hearing the Search & Sitemap page on a screen reader, I decided to add blank alt attributes to all decorative non-essential graphics on that page.

Tombstone text was made darker on The Ol' Hook & Eye Book page for readability.

The "Take a train ride on the Ol' Hook & Eye" page has been revised with serif type font and a different background.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

The Ol' Hook & Eye is honored to have won the esteemed GNAE Site Of The Year Award for 2005!

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