Read the September Newsletter ONLINE! (BETA)
If you haven't seen it yet, click here to read the September Newsletter online.
We're trying the newsletters first with this new "Flashbook" technology. It still has rough edges and we're working through those - for example, you will notice the newsletter's Index link does not work and the index (dashboard) page is just tacked on the end of the publication in a kind of odd location.
We hope to perfect this technology and roll it out with our magazine sometime in 2010. You will always be able to download the PDF version if you want for offline reading, but if you'd like one click to begin reading the magazine, that's where we're headed!
Try it out and post your comments below. If you're having problems, please post those below as well - we're wanting very much to find any problems before we roll this out with the magazine.
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I breezed through it at 1:00
I breezed through it at 1:00 A.M. Virginia time and it looks like a pretty good issue and I can't wait for the Les Roundhouse Module in Issue 4 of MRH I plan on checking into the new Goose and the HO gantry crane more tomorrow but I'm off to Bed for now I'll read it cover to cover and post again. There did seem to be something different about the mouse controls and enlarging the print but I'll see it again tomorrow. I didn't find any link that didn't work the Click zoom was cool and if this is going to be the new magazine for click and play I like it. I'll still down load the PDF but the absence of wait time and clicking on Magazine view was fine with me
Dan
Rio Grande Dan
not so great for me
I had trouble getting it to size right and it jiggled around as I moved the cursor.
The PDF seems like a much better experience at this time.
Chris
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” My modest progress Blog
Try full screen ...
Chris:
Try going full screen on your browser window (F11 on all browsers) and see if that helps.
Also, click the full-screen button at the top of the screen - it's the one with the double arrows on it.
If you click your mouse on the page when there's no link, it will zoom way in and then follow your mouse around. I don't like reading it that way either, so don't click your mouse on the page ... just one of those learnings with this new method of reading it online.
Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine
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OK..
Ok.. that was better
- The full screen icon was not obvious to me
- clicking on the blue arrow at the bottom to navigate begins the irritating mouse focus behavior. Clicking on the large navigations on the side works fine.. but that was not my first instinct..
Chris
“If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” My modest progress Blog
The online version was a lot
The online version was a lot easier to skim, and it didn't leave another crop of dillibites clogging up my hard drive. Nice improvement and a good option to have. Fortunately, there were no '70s UP products listed.
Links inside the document don't work right now
Chris:
One of the bugs right now is links within the document to other pages within the document don't work. Links to outside resources work, just not internal links.
The blue nav buttons, for example, don't work right now because those are links from page to page.
We need to fix the internal links problem before this thing will be ready for prime-time.
Joe Fugate
Publisher, Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine
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Verdict still out
I like the idea of having the Newsletter online, I had the same issue with the page jumping around, Then read the comment about F11 for full screen and don't click to zoom in unless you really need to. However I like the option of being able to skim the article quickly and then decide if I want to download the article. I do know that if I were going to read every article, I like the control I have with page size when I download instead of reading online. I also like being able to read an article without being online. (OK so in todays age the only time I'm not online is if driving or sitting on an airplane.) I will look forward to reviewing and making a final decision when the bugs are worked out. I appreciate your dedication to the hobby, and your philosopy of having a magazine that is available to all without the subscription price or having to pacify advertisers by promoting a product that might not really be as good as what it should be.
Keep up the excellent work.
All the links work except the
All the links work except the last one at the roundhouse that says click for a preview of the roundhouse and that takes you to a page that says you need to be logged in. But I am logged in . is that final add about MRH a phoney filler or is that the only place it links to so far?
Dan
Todays Date is 9/9/9 it sounds like a German man telling his wife he doesn't want dinner he's to busy playing with his trains!
Rio Grande Dan