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Re: LDraw.org Reference Organization Questions
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad
Date: 
Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:34:30 GMT
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How should the
main /reference/ page be laid out??  I would really appreciate some input • to
help me decide how to organize this section.

Tim, here's some html I threw together for you for the main /reference/
page.

--Ryan



<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0">
<title>Untitled Normal Page</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><strong>&lt;!--what
would be on the /reference/ page--&gt;</strong></font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica"><b>ldraw.org
Reference Section</b></font><br>
<font size="2" face="Verdana">We are currently in the process of
working on reference items for the site. LEdit tutorial*, an
MLCAD tutorial, and a parts authoring tutorial. Soon there will
be an LDraw and If you have something to contribute or would like
to help in the process of creating any one of these tutorials -
please </font><a href="mailto:tim@zacktron.com"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">email Tim Courtney</font></a><font size="2"
face="Verdana"> and he will let you know what you can do. Help is
appreciated.</font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">There are different sections of
reference resources:</font></p>

<ul>
    <li><a href="tutorials/"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">Tutorials</font></a><font
        size="2" face="Verdana">&#151;teach an introduction to a
        program</font></li>
    <li><a href="howto/"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">How-to's</font></a><font
        size="2" face="Verdana">&#151;these differ from tutorials
        in that they describe how to perform a small function to
        ease use of something</font></li>
    <li><a href="specs/"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">Specifications</font></a><font
        size="2" face="Verdana">&#151;detailed publication of the
        DAT format specifications, a color chart with information
        on LCAD colors, etc.</font></li>
</ul>

<p><font size="1" face="Verdana">*the LDraw and LEdit tutorial is
currently avaliable </font><a
href="http://library.thinkquest.org/20551/"><font size="1"
face="Verdana">here</font></a><font size="1" face="Verdana">.</font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>&lt;!--end of what would
be on the /reference/ page--&gt;</strong></font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b></b></font>&nbsp;</p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>These are how-to's:<br>
</b></font><a href="mime.html"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>Configuring
the DAT File Format Mime Types with Windows</b></font></a><font
size="2" face="Verdana"><br>
By: </font><a href="mailto:bram@cwru.edu"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">Bram Lambrecht</font></a><font size="2"
face="Verdana"> and </font><a href="mailto:tim@zacktron.com"><font
size="2" face="Verdana">Tim Courtney</font></a><font size="2"
face="Verdana"><br>
Learn how to configure Windows to recognize the DAT file and how
to launch your DAT files with several different utilities by
right-clicking the file. </font></p>

<p><a href="/reference/freeform.html"><font size="2"
face="Verdana"><b>Free-Form Camera Positioning with MLCAD, L3P,
and POV-RAY</b></font></a><font size="2" face="Verdana"><br>
By: </font><a href="mailto:bhamilto1@home.com"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">Brad Hamilton</font></a><font size="2"
face="Verdana"><br>
Learn how to position the camera in these three utilities to get
the most out of your 3D models. Brad Hamilton is the creator of
the amazing </font><a
href="http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=2268"
target="_top"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Cathedral of Ice</font></a><font
size="2" face="Verdana"> model which won the January 2001 </font><a
href="/motm/"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Model of the
Month</font></a><font
size="2" face="Verdana"> competition. Here he explains what
methods he uses to get the interesting models he puts in his
renderings.</font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>This might be a tutorial. I'm
not sure:<br>
</b></font><a href="linux.html"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>LEGO
CAD on Linux - Installing and using LDGLite</b></font></a><font
size="2" face="Verdana"><br>
By: </font><a href="mailto:sparre@cats.nbi.dk"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">Jacob Sparre Andersen</font></a><font size="2"
face="Verdana"><br>
This page explains how you can get started viewing building
instructions for LEGO models coded in the LDraw format.</font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><b>This is a different category
from the ones mentioned above:<br>
</b></font><a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/"><font
size="2" face="Verdana"><b>Partsref</b></font></a><font size="2"
face="Verdana"><br>
Steve Bliss has compiled </font><a
href="http://guide.lugnet.com/partsref/"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">Partsref</font></a><font size="2" face="Verdana">,
a reference tool for all </font><a href="/download/updates/"><font
size="2" face="Verdana">LCAD parts</font></a><font size="2"
face="Verdana"> currently available. This reference guide is
hosted on </font><a href="http://www.lugnet.com"><font size="2"
face="Verdana">LUGNET</font></a><font size="2" face="Verdana">.</font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana"><strong>Perhaps you could have a
fourth secton of the reference page:</strong></font></p>

<ul>
    <li><a href="tools/"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Tools</font></a><font
        size="2" face="Verdana">&#151; &lt;description&gt;</font></li>
</ul>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">Feel free to use whole quotes of
this on the /reference/ page, Tim. I'm not going to consider it
copyrighted by me!</font></p>

<p><font size="2" face="Verdana">--Ryan</font></p>
</body>
</html>



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Ryan Farrington <ryanjf@ifriendly.com> wrote in message news:004801c07f19$ad...dly.com... (...) Ryan - Thanks for the help. I just plugged that into Dreamweaver to preview it and I like what I see. A couple things which I'll have to work out later: (...) (23 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)

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I'm working on yet another item for the LDraw.org Reference section at (URL) Seeing that this section has grown a bit recently I want to get it more organized. As this area of the site collects more resources I want it to be easy to navigate and (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.cad)

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