New Online Magazine

[JohnL]

After months in the making, we now take great pleasure in announcing our new online publication: Reefkeeping ...an online magazine for the marine aquarist.

A combined effort of our authors, staff and members, emphasis will be placed upon topics of relevance to marine aquarists at all levels. Covering subjects ranging from fish behavior to product reviews and coral husbandry, we hope this new online resource will prove useful and valuable in maintaining a thriving marine aquarium.

Our list of regular and contributing authors includes: Ronald L. Shimek, Ph.D., Eric Borneman, Henry C. Schultz III, Frank Marini, Ph.D., Jon E. Garner, Horge Cortes-Jorge Jr., Bill Chamberlain, Andrew Trevor-Jones, Mark vanderWal, and Doug Wojtczak.

Come join us on our new venture: <b><i><a href="http://reefkeeping.com" target="_blank">Reefkeeping</b> ...an online magazine for the marine aquarist</a></i>.

[simonh]

Excellent! A big thanks to all that have worked so hard to put this together.

[Nanook]

This is REALLY GREAT!! Thanks to all contributors and people who made this possible!

Nanook

[Laura D]

Wow, I just found it.

Really nice.

:D

Great job!

[SlugGo]

O yes more great reading material:celeb3: :celeb1:
I like the article on Bubble Algae.Im sure the mag
will be a big hit.Thumbs up

[Jorsan]

Just one word: GREAT!

[Turbojoe]

This is GREAT!!!!!!!!! You guys have done an excelent job on this ON LINE MAGAZINE!!!!!!!!! I will certainly be looking forward too upcoming Issues with excitment!!! Thanks!:) :D :cool:

[DukeDog]

This is Great!:D A must read each month.
Jeff

[gkrane]

Awesome, keep it up!!!!!:p :p :p :p :p

[T3]

Beautiful premiere!

And ow!!! my head hurts from Dr. Ron Shimek's articles! :D :D :D

Thanks for the great commitment!

Tom

[MickAv8r]

404 Error when using Netscape 4.X. Faulty style sheet. Really helps to design for different browsers guys.

[JohnL]

Figures it would happen to you, Mick ;)

Don't you think it's about time you upgrade that browser :lol2:

[Znut Reefer]

I have the same problem as Mick get a error. So How do we go about upgrading the browser. Any suggestions. Thanks

[JohnL]

Originally posted by znut Reefer
I have the same problem as Mick get a error. So How do we go about upgrading the browser. Any suggestions. Thanks

Take your pick.

Internet Explorer (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/archive/default.asp) OR Netscape (http://home.netscape.com/browsers/6/index.html?cp=dowpod6)

[zenya]

JohnL:
I've got same 404 error on 4.7 browser.I have to
try it on 6.2 next and see if it's working.Funny
thing is,I've tried the prevew before and it worked on 4.7.I wonder what the problem could be?
Gene.
:eek1:

[jameso]

Congratulations John, your magazine looks great!

Loads fine on Internet Explorer 6

All I can say is that I hope the hobbyists appreciate this. They are getting 2 free online magazines when last month there were none. How about a round of applause folks!


Cheers
James Wiseman

[dc]

LOL! We can quit reading these darn BBs now!;)

[OrionN]

Great guys. Congratulations to both organizations for putting out two super magazines. I am really looking forward to reading every articles on both.

[zenya]

James,
Thanks for the tip ltdoes lods fine on IE.Well back to reading
magazine:D
Gene.

[7thheaven]

it looks great~~~beautiful....wonderful...amazing....

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[JohnL]

Thanks James. I'm sure they will.

Originally posted by jameso
All I can say is that I hope the hobbyists appreciate this. They are getting 2 free online magazines when last month there were none.

[moviegeek]

Thank you!

[dsb1829]

Cool, been waiting for this. Congrats on getting it going RC!!

ttt...

[sanho]

I like it. Thanks!

[RandyM]

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who took the time to do such an excellent job on this online magazine.I thank all of you have done an EXCELLENT job on this.I look forward to the future with this online magazine! Thank"S again

[lifestudent]

I'm really glad to have this magazine available as yet another resource and aide to the hobbiest! :)

I've already found your articles useful! In fact, I've already e-mailed a friend whose been battling bubble algae with a link to your magazine!

Thanks guys!

Bob L.
President of the Atlanta Reef Club
www.atlantareefclub.org

[Baalz]

Excellent layout, very navigatable and the content rocks!

[Rafa_Sant]

At last a great online magazine

Rafa :reading:

[R334]

Looky Ma! Content!

[ixbx]

Looks great. when is the next issue?

[Mr James]

One question for you though, how can we, the members of Reefcentral.com, support you in your endeavors?? How can we support this on line magazine to make sure that you are providing helpful information??

[Sanjay]

John, Ron, Eric, and other involved in the magazine:

Looks good. Thanks for all your effort and hard work into putting together another good reef magazine.

sanjay.

[ASH]

From IceCap:
Wow!

Andy

[saltwaterreef]

Excellent idea! :smokin:

[teewrasse1]

Good magazine, great source of info for the hobbyist!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[ATLANTIS]

To all th Reefkeeping.com Crew,

Fantastic Job!!!

[moormist]

Great Mag. Thanks guys great mag, "Clap-Clap-Clap".:bum: Alan

[zenya]

What can I say?Awsome job!Finished reading 2am.
and my head is ringing after reading Dr.Ron's
article.I wish I studied chemistry better in school:D.Grat magazine for everyone to learn,enjoy
and appreciate all the people who worked on this.
Congrats!
Gene.:cool:

[SciGuy2]

Excellent magazine. Tons of content. Wonderful. Best magazine I have ever seen for Reefkeeping.

Dang,
-Sci

[SciGuy2]

Sanjay, how about an article from you? Please.

:)

[lori344]

Great Job John, Ron, Eric & all! Thank you for the hard work and dedication... You continue to provide excellent resourses for the Reef Hobbiest!! :thumbsup: Again, THANK YOU!!
~lori

[L and L]

Excellent idea! Thank you for giving us your time and experience and sharing it to the world.

Very nice design of the webpage too.

kudos all around.

[Groucho]

Very nice job. Thank you for making a first class magazine.

[Reef Junkie]

Very nice my friend. It looks great! I'm so proud!:love1:

[mgk65]

Hats off! Excellent magEzine!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

mgk

[ronbis]

Great!! Very Professional looking!!

[Leonard]

Looking good! A very nice magazine for the novice and intermediate hobbyist.

One small suggestion concerning aesthetics: alter the font or font sizes (at least 20% difference) for your headers, topics, and articles listing. Bold, underlines, italics, or font color will work too. For example, the "Features" is the same font and font size as the feature article listing - an industry no-no when it comes to publication layouts.

[jgadbois]

OUTSTANDING!!!!

Better than any paper magazine I've gotten my hands on in a while.

Please let me know if there is any way to send a financial donation to help support this endevor. It would be money much better spent than on any subscription.

[mkirda]

Originally posted by JohnL
Figures it would happen to you, Mick ;)

Don't you think it's about time you upgrade that browser :lol2:

Um, due to the enormous number of security holes in IE, you are better off running Netscape. It isn't targetted like IE is...

Frankly, I find it extremely annoying when web designers forget this fact, and design for only IE. If you can't make a page that renders in more than one browser, you don't deserve to be coding HTML, period.

Just my humble opinion.

Regards.
Mike Kirda

[mkirda]

http://reefkeeping.com/staging/stage/01/reefkeeping.css

This style sheet isn't found in Netscape 4.79.

Choosing: Edit, Preferences, Advances will allow you to uncheck 'Enable Style Sheets'.

This allows the page to render.

Looking at the code:
link rel="stylesheet" href="/staging/stage/01/reefkeeping.css" type="text/css"
link rel="stylesheet" href="/common/reefkeeping.css" type="text/css"


You can see two calls to the CSS file, the first of which kills Netscape. The webmaster should kill this offending line, and the page should render with CSS turned back on.

Regards.
Mike Kirda

[Reef Maniac]

It's Great!:) You can never have too much information! Especially in this wonderful hobby!

P.S. The Reef Central link doesn't work guys!

[reef64]

Great magazine guys. Can we have more please?

[LiquidShaneo]

Good job guys! :) I'm glad to see that in addition to the various animals we house in our tanks that someone has also written a good plumbing article for the beginner aquarist. That's something I haven't seen before. :)

Shane

[JohnL]

Originally posted by mkirda
You can see two calls to the CSS file, the first of which kills Netscape. The webmaster should kill this offending line, and the page should render with CSS turned back on.

Thanks Mike. We'll take care of it.

[mastaJ]

Thanks for the GREAT mag. I just read the whole thing. VERY COOL!!!

You should have the author forums go directly to their own forum (ex. Dr. Ron and Eric B. now have two forums to check) just a suggestion...

[aaronk]

I got sucked right into an article!
I love it, more to read again!
you guys are great and what a great tank of the month and articles and photos...
ahhhhh
yes good stuff keep it up!

[Skipper]

Originally posted by ixbx
Looks great. when is the next issue? That would be in early March.

[rayjay]

I'm chomping at the bit to get on with it and read what everyone is talking about. However, when I click on the picture to enter the mag., I get some message saying it can't be found. Thinking it was just too busy, I left it for a while but now it is still not working for me at least.

[IslandJohn]

This Mag is a hit with me because among other things they features some of my most favorite fishes--dottybacks.
Good Job
John:D

[baja_01]

great magazine, beter then the ones that come in the mail!!!!!!!!!!:bounce1: :bounce2: :bounce3: :bounce1: :bounce2: :bounce3: :dance: :dance: :dance: :celeb2: :celeb3: :celeb2: :celeb3: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :spin1: :spin3: :spin2: :wave: :bounce1: :bounce2: :bounce3:

[Znut Reefer]

Great guys, Thanks to all who have taken the time to share their knowledge. Look forward to each issue. :D

[JohnL]

Originally posted by rayjay
I'm chomping at the bit to get on with it and read what everyone is talking about. However, when I click on the picture to enter the mag., I get some message saying it can't be found.

That should be fixed now, RayJay.

[filishy]

John L and the magazine crew,

Outstanding work!

Thank you guys.

Is there anything we can do to support this great effort?

Mary.

[EricHugo]

John:

How about answering those who request supporting the magazine...I caught at least a couple in there ;-)

Sanjay, you better get writing. We want your excellence!!

thanks everyone...and rest assured we will keep it up. I've got a "doozie" for next month.

Want to know what I'd like? I'd like to see sponsors for this magazine to the point where retailers and sponsors of the printed mags choose this and advanced aquarist as the premier sites and recognize that more people read them, visit their sites, buy from them, and support excellent content. Then, we can make these magazines ones available to you in a hard copy, and it can show up in your mailbox and you can flip through them again and again.

[LiquidShaneo]

Good call Eric. :)

Oh, JohnL, one additional feature I'd like to see is for someone to make each issue downloadable in .pdf format. This was mentioned when we were discussing Advanced Aquarist over on reefs.org when it first came out. It'd be great to be able to download the entire magazine in Acrobat format so people could save a copy to their hard drive and also print it out. It would make printing each article out easier and it would be formatted properly so pictures wouldn't be cut in half, etc. Please keep this in mind for future issues. :)

Shane

[Skipper]

Hey Shane. We have been considering that and will continue to do so in the future. At the present time we have not reached a decision on the .pdf format. Thanks for your suggestion.

[Doug]

Originally posted by mkirda


Um, due to the enormous number of security holes in IE, you are better off running Netscape. It isn't targetted like IE is...

Frankly, I find it extremely annoying when web designers forget this fact, and design for only IE. If you can't make a page that renders in more than one browser, you don't deserve to be coding HTML, period.

Just my humble opinion.

Regards.
Mike Kirda

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your help. As of last night Netscape4 and above users should be fine.

Thanks again.

Doug

[Scholesy]

A fantastic publication - well done!!

Wow, wow, wow.

:-)

[Kahuna Tuna]

Kudos to all involved, very nice webmag indeed.

[64Ivy]

Y-Y-You mean aquarists magazines DONT have to be 70% ads for "Miracle-This", "Bio-That", and things that sparkle when ya open 'em?:celeb1:

[JohnL]

Originally posted by EricHugo
How about answering those who request supporting the magazine...I caught at least a couple in there ;-)

OK, there is a PayPal donate button at the bottom of every page for those who are interested.<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Reef Central Donation">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="image" src="http://images.paypal.com/images/x-click-but04.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
</form>

[Joe Kelley]

There is so much possibility now for this hobby!
How exciting!!!
Thanks,

Joe:D :) ;)

[Mantis the Menace]

AWSOME,SWEET,COOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DUDE THAT WAS AWSOME :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :smokin: SWEET AWSOME COOL SWEET COOL AWSOME

[4Texans]

Any updates on if/when a printer friendly or pdf format will be available?

[jcm1229]

Just curious - will Ron, Eric etc ... be contributing to the monthly mag, or will their columns be replaced?