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Epsom and Ewell Model Railway Show

I’m off to visit the Epsom club’s show. Some good layouts to see, and a fair number of my area group to catch up with.

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Scalefour North 2013 Retrospective

I’ve just published a retrospective of the Scalefour North show this year, as part of the ongoing series published by the Scalefour Society.

I’ve gained a real appreciation of the work needed to publish photos on the web. The web is a text heavy medium, and a given image can have a title, alt text, copyright description, and then perhaps one or more captions. All of this needs hosting in some HTML, if you want to display this text with the image.

Finding some way to write all that text with ease is something I need to work on. The current retrospective entirely omits alt text, for example, so that browsers who can’t see the images can’t see a description of what would be displayed.

After that, there is then the problem of image size. Something which shows off the detail in these models is important, and I think it should be big enough that it visually dominates the html page hosting it. However, that leads to typical pages spilling out over the edges of the browser window, and scrolling when you want to take in the picture as a whole is not ideal.

If anyone has examples of this done in ways they like, posting links in the comments would be appreciated!

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Less snow today…

No snow today, but a chance to visit an exhibition that is new to me: Railex. Hopefully I’ll be back in September with a completed Tornado.