Summer Newsletter

I have posted the HTML version of the Summer 2008 Newsletter.

Thanks to BBedit grep, the conversion from Word to HTML took about 4 hours for 6 articles.

But massaging the 5 images into shape took also about 4 hours, partly because I had to (re)learn the new version of Fireworks, and partly because I miscalculated the width of our main content table cell.

I first made the images 576 pixels wide, but that was 26 pixels too many, so I had to re-edit all to 550 pixels wide.

Funny thing: Caltrans has changed the URL of their DRI page sometime since 10/6 (since Google last indexed it), thus breaking all links everywhere on the web that used to point to the DRI page. So it's now wrong in the print version of the newsletter. I've corrected the URL in the web version of the newsletter, and will keep an eye on what Caltrans does next...

broken URL:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/newtech/

new URL:
http://www.dot.ca.gov/research/

On Oct 14, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Cindy Walker wrote:

Steve, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We're working right
now to make sure both of the URLs in your email below work again, since
that's how they functioned previously.

Sincerely,

Cindy Walker
Caltrans Web Team