I finally found some time to read my latest issue of the ISCA Journal, and was inspired by the cover story to add two new links to the Base Camp. One is a link to a comprehensive checklist of Philmont collectible memorabilia which is generously provided free by Chip S. Elliott and Mike McAdams, the [...]
In my daily Patch-L email digest a fellow Scout asked the collective subscribers for a site related to Sea Scouts insignia. Robert Rodgers quickly replied with a link, and I thought it would be a nice addition to the Scout Patch Collector’s Base Camp.
While I was adding it I used the indispensable Firefox extension LinkChecker [...]
Every few months I get an email from a visitor advising me that I have a broken link on The Scout Patch Collector’s Base Camp. Sometimes it’s just a polite “heads up” so I can try to track down the new location. Often it’s a plaintive request that I put it back online, and I [...]
If you aren’t keen on the effect that pops up a small preview window of the web page when you roll over a link, the folks at snap.com have made it very easy to turn off. Just roll over a link, snort with derision at the unwanted window that appears, then notice the link in [...]
I was surprised and honored today to find The Scout Patch Collector’s Base Camp selected to appear in The SPA 100, a selection of sites highlighted by Snap Preview Anywhere as “some of the more interesting, notable and funky sites that are now using the Snap Preview Anywhereâ„¢ product.”
Snap Preview Anywhere is the cool technology [...]
If your web site is included on the Base Camp home page you are welcome to include a special badge that says “This site featured on The Scout Patch Collector’s Base Camp” on your site! There are several styles to choose from and quick, simple instructions to follow to add the badge on this page.
For [...]
After trying WebSnapr for almost two weeks and never seeing improvement on thumbnail load times or successful image loading statistics I went on the hunt for an affordable replacement. It didn’t take long to find snap.com’s Snap Preview Anywhere service, and even less time to implement it. Using BBEdit’s “find and replace” function I stripped [...]
When I first read about the free website thumbnail service provided by WebSnapr I immediately thought it would make a very cool feature addition to The Scout Patch Collector’s Base Camp. Using google I scoured the web for reports from other web developers who had implemented it, and found very few negative remarks. A common [...]
On Friday, December 1 the patchcamp.com domain was changed to point to the servers at Wirenine.com, ending the official beta testing period and making the revisions planned for Fall, 2006 live.
Thanks to all who took the time to participate and provide feedback!
It took a little less than 24 hours for the DNS changes to propagate [...]
The most helpful new feature of the revised Patch Collector’s Base Camp is probably the integrated search engine (powered by Google) that returns results only from web sites related to Scout memorabilia.
You are invited to help improve the scope and accuracy of the results by submitting sites you feel are appropriate to the search group.
It’s [...]
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