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PROJECT SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Here's a step-by-step guide to submitting your projects online!  If you will use the procedures explained, you'll make my job as a webmaster much easier - and hey - I'm a volunteer!  I don't get paid for this, so I need all the help you can give me!  I want to make your project visable and easy to read.  Working together, we can make it fun and informative for our fellow fliers!
Submitting your projects entails the following steps:                       1.   Take the picture that explains the step involved.                       2.   Draft a commentary that explains the picture.                       3.   Send the email to the webmaster along with the picture as an attachment.                                  I'll do the rest!      Easy, right?   Not so fast fellow pilot!
First, please understand that your picture needs to be a suitable file size that is easy to work with.  Many of today's cameras have excellent resolution, but that resolution often creates picture files that are up in the megabyte range!  Sending pictures to me that are too large will have to be reduced, waste bandwith and takes up valuable host server space that we pay for as a club!  So please, to send your pictures, please downsize your photo.  I'll do it for you if you're totally lost on doing it, but it really takes a lot of time on my end!  Please help me with this:  follow these rules to keep the file size small:            1.  Cropping the picture is the first choice - it will allow you to focus in on the area you want to highlight - or that pertains to your commentary.  So use your picture editing program - even "MS Paint" will work, to crop the picture to an appropriate size.                  2.  After cropping your photo (if needed), reduce the file size by using your picture editing program to reduce the dimensions of your photo.  A suitable file size for photos is around the 100 kb range - preferably less, but not anymore than 300 Kb.  You'll see the file size if you access your file directory where you store the photos.  When I use MS Paint, for example, I'll open the picture, then click on "Image" on the tool bar.  In the "Image" menu, I'll assign new numbers for the horizontal and vertical size of the picture.  The default is 100% - that is, when you open the picture it's in full size.  I'll assign 50 for the horizontal and 50 for the vertical size.  That effectively reduces the size of the picture in half!  It's that easy!  I've found that for most picture files, I'll reduce the size to 40%.  Don't forget to save the picture once you've resized it!   To see the new file size, just check your file directory again.
Secondly, let me know what you're talking about!   There's nothing more frustrating than trying to interpret a full paragraph of text/commentary when it doesn't accurately reflect the picture to which it pertains!   If you want your project to be displayed accurately, take these steps:                       1.  Rename the picture you want to describe with a suitable description!  Sending along a few pics with "P100102.jpg" and "P100103.jpg" doesn't tell me where it goes!  Rename the picture appropriately, such as:  "fuselage front.jpg" or "landing gear support.jpg."  Attach the photos to your email with those file names that actually describe the picture in some way workable.                       2.  Don't send one paragraph that meanders along with a reference to several of the photos you intend to write about!  You can send multiple pictures in the same email, but then you have to mess with the combined email file size.  Some ISP's, like AOL and others, restrict the size of your email.  Attaching two or more pictures on your email can easily put you over the size limit, in which case the ISP may or may not give you an error message about it!  It's ok to send multiple emails, but keep the commentary you send pertinant to each specific picture in that email!
Now let's put it all together in the email!   Now that you've got the pictures properly sized and the commentary down, it's time to compile it in the email and get it off in my direction.  Place one or two photos in your email as attachments.  In your email, index your commentary as follows.   I'll use the file names shown above as an example.  What follows is an example of the text you would read if you opened a project email from me:     fuselage front.jpg:    You can see where I joined the firewall onto the nose of the fuselage, using triangle supports sanded to fit, and just the right amount of glue.  Don't use too much and make it messy!  And be sure to let it dry solidly before working anymore with this assembly.     landing gear support.jpg:  The support for the main landing gear is butted on either side of the fuselage, with additional supports on either side. Use Tahoma, black, 14 size for your default font.
That's it!  Now we're in business! If you will follow these procedures, it will reduce my management time tremendously, and you will know that your project is accurately described.  I'll fix any grammatical errors I find, but what you send will pretty much be displayed verbatim.  You don't have to send pictures on every little thing you do on your project - some people stick to the main points, others really do go step-by-step.  It's up to you!  In particular, consider these areas of interest for your fellow fliers, and remember, we're not all advanced modelers!  You might know what a "doubler" is, but somebody else might not!  If you're not sure - ask your wife!!
Areas of particular interest ( just a few ): Gluing procedures Alignments Mounting Wiring Using decals Tuning Painting Working with plans Carving windows Wing rib alignment Fitting pieces Control surface operation Incidence angles Thrust alignment Sizing motor Modifications
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