The next version of the abandonedrails.com website is here!

[applause]

Why the change? As mentioned in my last blog entry, I did acquire a large source of abandoned railroad content -- the abandonedrailroads.com website. That means that I have imported almost 200 articles, and over 600 pictures. The current database layout for all this new content was ill-prepared. Plus with all these articles and pictures now, there had to be a better way to get to it.

So, I took inspiration from the abandonedrailroads.com website, and included a U.S. Map to use for searching content. But why stop there? I also decided to allow searching by railroad company. All these changes, plus a new database layout, pretty much dictated that a new site flow was needed. Gone are the picture groups and such. Everything is now cross-referenced with each other. The colors and interface is familiar, but the new content is easy to access and read.

I will write more about this later, I'm sure. But I did need to put a final note of thanks in here.

To Jimmy Summers: Thank you very much for the opportunity to take over the content of your great site. I am very appreciative!