Al, et al.:
I've been having some mysterious problems with the website since yesterday,
but that 'Events Calendar' at
http://www.amphicar.com/calendar.htm has not
been part of the problem (so far as I have seen). The little java applet
countdown clock near the bottom of the page that you mention below seems to
be working just fine on my machine using Internet Explorer 5.5. Perhaps the
java goodies necessary to view the countdown clock's applet program are
disabled in your own browser? Or, maybe you just hauled down an interrupted
copy of the page off of the server. If so, perhaps emptying your disk cache
and then reloading the page (try <Ctrl><F5>) might correct the problem.
You're right about that countdown clock using the wrong date: July 30th. I
had just assumed that the Celina Lake Festival and the Club gathering would
be beginning the last weekend of July, as it always has, but according to
http://www.celinalakefestival.com/ this year the Festival begins Friday,
July 23rd. Accordingly, I've just reset the countodown clock for 3:00 PM of
July 23, 2004. Fact is though, the Celina gathering for Amphi folks is
likely to actually start on Thursday the 22nd, with lots of folks even
rolling into town as early as Wednesday, but Club plans and the schedule are
yet to be finalized. As far as getting vacation plans together, anyone
planning to attend Celina might also keep an eye on the Events Calendar for
Billy Syx's "Put-in-Bay" gathering on Bass Island, just a couple of hours
drive north of Celina and immediately following it. No word yet on whether
Billy plans to do it again this year, but it's pretty likely. If you're
coming from afar anyhow and can spare a couple-few extra days away from the
regular grind, you might as well get in as much Amphi fun as you can while
you're in the area anyhow.
Getting back to those site problems I mentioned above, I've been getting
lots of mysterious coding error messages from the Classifieds page at
http://www.amphicar.com/ads.htm since yesterday, and frankly, I'm stumped.
Maybe it's just my old machine getting the jitters, but since you seem to
know your way around source code, Al, would you mind taking a look? That
goes for anyone who knows their way around the HTML guts of a webpage:
Please check it out. The page seems to load OK, but displays an "Errors on
page" advisory (see bottom left in IE browser). I'd appreciate any tips,
'cause I'm fresh out of ideas.
~Bilgey~
---- Original Message -----
From: amphi_sc
To: amphicar-lovers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: [amphicar-lovers] Celina date?
I was only trying to fill in the long range dates for my vacation
plan, so I thought I would get the accurate dates for this years
Celina. (Made the reservation a long time ago but do I remember when
it was for? no...) So I go to the Events page on amphicar.com. Not
only is the date not listed on the page in plain english, but the
fancy applet for a count down timer doesn't initialize, so you are
stuck to reading the source HTML for the page only to find out that it
passes July 30, 2004 15:00 as the parameter to the Java class that
doesn't initialize. That date doesn't seem right to me, and in
addition it isn't very user friendly to have to read the source code
to find it. Anyway, is it the 30? or the 22nd? or the 23rd?
.
