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Subject:	Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
Newsgroups:	lugnet.announce, lugnet.trains, lugnet.general, lugnet.build, lugnet.cad
Followup-To:	lugnet.general
Date:	Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:56:46 GMT
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All, Several years ago, I had a vision of a link portal that would be a one stop destination for all finding all the fan created building instructions on the Web. For a number of reasons, this project kept getting moved to the back burner, and never really got started. But after many long nights, I have finally completed what I believe is the first all-inclusive Building Instructions Portal Web site! http://www.bricksonthebrain.com/resources/links The application is driven off of submissions of your own *original* work. (Please submit only your own work) You can link to any URL, and can have any type of building instruction (i.e. Web based, downloadable, .ldr/.mpd file, free, cost, etc.) Working together, we can hopefully build the content of this application together over time. The site (version 1.0 anyway) is basically complete, but I'm sure there are still bugs here and there. If you have feedback on the flow, or find problems, please drop me a line (sink@countersinkdg.com). Please bear with me as we work out all the kinks. If you have suggestions on necessary or desired functionality, send me a note as well, and I will try to add it in as soon as I can. I look forward to hearing your feedback! This is a big experiment, and I may be the only one interested in this kind of application! Jake PS: This is in no way sponsored, authorized, or endorsed by The LEGO Company. --- Jake McKee LEGO Enthusiast LUGNET Member #211

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		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
Jake, I like the idea, I think it will be a nice resource. A few things I noticed right away: 1) Could you add away that I can see all the instructions with out being broken in to catagories? I have to do a lot of clicking to just browse the current (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
(...) Sorry to reply to my own post, but I forgot to mention... If you don't see a category, sub-category, sub-sub-category, etc., just click the "Suggest Category" link. I just threw a few of the bigger categories in before launching. Thanks! Jake (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
(...) building instructions, and I hope everybody else will do this as well. The category selection indicates that you are a big train fan. You might want to add a few subcategories below some of the other main categories as well. Jacob (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
(...) Very impressive, Jake. Thanks for adding this resource to the community. Still, I'm not sure how to make use of it. For instance, suppose I'd like to build the JHM-23 Diesel Locomotive. The parts list is a great place to start. Once I've (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
Hi Jake! I visited your site this morning, it looks very nice. Maybe a little confusing, I'll have to spend some more time there--maybe I was still a little sleepy this morning. ;) One suggestion: could you add counts on the main page(s)? So by the (...) (22 years ago, 13-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
Very cool. This looks like the sort of thing that could really grow to be one of the key Lego AFOL sites (alongside Brickshelf, Peeron, Lugnet . . . ). One question. Do you have restrictions on how the instructions are done? All the ones I clicked (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
(...) separate direct links to the LDraw and on-line editions of the (free) building instructions. Also, the pages seem a bit heavy to me. If I was in charge of the page design, I would probably drop the table based layout you use for the (...) (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

		Re: Bricks on the Brain Building Instructions Portal live!
(...) snipped (...) Good deal! I already built the intermodal spine car and love it! But thanks to you, now I have to go to Bricklink and buy a bunch of pieces so I can build 2 or 3 more of them!! - Bob (22 years ago, 14-Jun-02, to lugnet.general)

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