• Website Information

        This website was created using Microsoft Front Page 2003.  This site is hosted by Pronic Solutions and has the use of 350 Meg of storage space, 50 email addresses, 7 Gig per month of data transfers.  This site is for the membership of Milwaukee & Greatlakes MG Motorcar Group, Ltd, based in south eastern Wisconsin and all others that have an interest in M.G.s.  Other associated applications used are Microsoft Publisher 2003, Excel 2003, Access 2003, Word 2003, Photo Editor, Adobe reader 6.0, Acrobat 6.0, and PhotoShop.  Some MG³ graphics have been re-created using FastCad7 and a combination of graphics programs.  Graphics and pictures, for the most part, are in .jpg format and have been reduced in size to save both disk space and increase the speed of downloads for visitors using dial-up 56K modems.  This site has been optimized for 56K modems, where possible.

        Most ISPs (Internet Service Providers) include the capability and space to create your own website.  Simple websites can be created using Microsoft Word, Publisher and other applications that can save the file in a HTM (Hyper Text Markup) format.  Please contact your ISP for further information.  If you, your club or organization are interested in obtaining a domain name (www.yourdomain.xxx) the cost for the name is about $15.00 per year and $8.00 per month for similar capacities to those cited above.

        David Early

• MG³ Member Web Pages

        MG³ members that wish to have their personal MG related website listed in the member website page should do the following.  These sites should be exclusive to MGs or other similar cars that you own.  See examples of other members websites by clicking here.

• For Sale/Swap/Trade Info

       Club members may advertise, for free, items that are M.G. or club related.  These free ads are limited to no more than a three month duration and are not to be part of on-going commercial enterprise.  To advertise send by standard mail or email a picture of the item (optional) in digital format, a brief description, how you may be contacted, cost or conditions to Webmaster or David Early, W175S8098 Joel DR, Muskego, WI 53150.  Please contact me prior sending an ad by standard mail.

       When you no longer need the ad, please contact me and I'll remove it, or it will be removed after a 3 month run time, which ever comes first.

        The advertising policy for non-members is under review and ads from them are not being accepted at this time.

• MG³ Photo Album

       If you wish to have pictures included on this page send your photos to Webmaster.  They should be in digital format, jpg preferred, include such information as year picture taken, where, model, year, event, who, what, or any other information that adds to the photograph.  Pictures should be taken and owned by you.  To shorten the download time, I may reduce the file size and resolution to 250,000 bytes and ~600x400.  If you have any questions regarding photos, please contact me.  Depending on space and my time, I'll try to post pictures in the album for at least a month and publish to the club site within a day of receipt.  If I receive a picture that I feel is exceptional I'll feature it.

A bit of picture math and wisdom.  Since most people set their monitor resolutions to 1024 (columns) x 764 (rows) a displayed picture or graphic will take on an apparent size based on the following.  A 600 x 400 resolution picture/graphic will take up a little over 75% of the screen, if viewed at its native resolution.  My digital camera has a resolution of 1600 x 1200.  If I were to display a picture at its full resolution, it wouldn't fit on the screen.  Many inkjet printers can print well over 1,000 DPI (dots per inch) and take advantage of the higher resolutions of today's digital cameras.  Of course you can display very high resolution pictures on your monitor, but a lot of the detail is wasted on the lower resolution of your monitor, to make it fit.

Many scanners can scan at resolutions of 300, 600, or greater DPI.  As an example when scanning a 6" x 4" picture at 600 DPI, you'll end up with a picture that's 3,600 (6" x 600) x 2,400 (4" x 600).  That's well over three times the size of your typical monitor.  You can reduce the apparent image, but you'll lose the detail, along with it.  Also scan at 24 bit or greater color.  The space used on your hard drive and camera memory cards, should be another consideration.  Are higher resolution cameras or scanners a waste?  No, but how you use the image or plan to "fine tune" it should be considered.  I use 128 meg cards and I can get about 128, 256 or 1024 pictures on a card, depending on the amount of compression I use.  Try right clicking on some Internet images and see the file size and resolution being used.

The 24 bit color I mentioned is the way colors are represented in a computer.  Colors are made up of three base colors, Cyan (Blue), Magenta (Red), Yellow and Black (K), take a look at the color cartridges next time you load up your inkjet.  The 24 bit is based on 3 x 8 =24.  Three is the number of colors used (CMY plus Black) and the 8 (bits) is the color saturation.  Why 8?  Computers are based on a binary system or base 2 numbers and the 8 means 2 to the 8th power or 256 or to the computer from 0 to 255.  If I want to make up a color I'll use a combination of the three base colors and mix them by increasing or decreasing the saturation values.  Pure Yellow would be C=0, M=0, and Y=255,  Red would be C=100, M=100, Y=0.  Think of it as having an eye dropper and paint pots full of the three colors.  I can take the eye dropper and place so many drops of one color into the mixing bowl, but I have to use between 0 drops to 255 of any color.  Some monitor color settings may be 16 colors at the low end, to 32 bit color at the high end, it depends on your monitor and graphics card.  How many colors can you make up?  Using 24 bit the answer is 256 x 256 x 256 or 16,277,216 colors.  There are other color schemes such as Pantone (PMS used in the printing industry), RGB, HSL and additional information can be found on the web.

When emailing, downloading, or uploading image size should be taken into account.  Your rich aunt Minnie just got setup up with her first PC, using a dialup modem.  Try sending her ten of your vacation pictures that are compressed JPGs at 2+ meg a piece.  If you haven't blown up her mailbox space, and she does manage to download them (after at least an hour) she'll be on the phone to thank you for the pictures and tell you that you're out of the will.  This is the beginner's denial of service attack.  Better yet, try viewing your own pictures or email a few to yourself.

• The Exhaust Newsletter

        The Exhaust is the monthly membership newsletter of the MG³ Club.  The deadline for all contributions to The Exhaust should arrive to the editors by the 15th of the preceding month of publication or whatever weekend falls closest to the 15th.  Your contribution can either be on paper or preferably sent by email in a common word processor format such as MS Word, Word Perfect, or Word Pad (included on most Windows PCs).  Any pictures or graphics to be included should be in a digital format, such as .jpg and be no larger than 125 kb.  Hard copy contributions can be mailed to:

Contributions include:

       The content editor has the final decision on the timing and approval of any submissions to the Exhaust.

• Trips & Places

        Please use the form below to submit a Wisconsin trip or tour that other MG owner may enjoy taking.  You may be contacted to provide additional information on your trip or to review the information that will be provided on this website.  An Adobe PDF map file of your trip will be created indicating the start, end, route taken, mileage, duration, points of interest, selected GPS positions, related websites and a Street Atlas map file will be included.  Don't get concerned that you have to provide this amount of detail.  I'll will take your basic information and do the rest of the work.  Due to the amount of time involved, it may be some time before your trip is processed or it could be combined with other trips.

• Club Related Forms

        The following forms are in Adobe format and are used for club related events.  Originals may be obtained from webmaster.

     Club Event Signup Sheet.

• Other MG Related Links
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