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Post by FarfraeFarm on Oct 1, 2015 13:42:50 GMT
Thanks, Miss Charlotte I'm hoping to have most of the layout done by next week and will start begging for pictures then. I'd love it if you would be willing to donate pictures of your herd! Right now I'm still bugging folks for information Can anybody tell me: A. Names of the Horse of the Year molds, including the early ones B. The Horse of the Year releases. Is there a list somewhere? C. Was the Arabian a HOTY mold first or did they use a HOTY model for the catalogue model? I'm referring to the Arabian used in the 1995 catalogue line-up. I'm a little confused about the early HOTY models. Were these bendy like the Originals, or were they stiff like the current HOTYs? That's all I can think of just this second, but I'm sure I'll be back with more A huge thank you to everyone who has already contributed information. I greatly appreciate the help in my crash course of Julip lore. My website is currently down but had all of the HOTY details, Georgie's did/does but I'm not sure if hers is online at the moment. The HOTY 'Arab Champion' was a HOTY from 1989 onwards and was later made into an originals mould, although not by Laura. They were released in bendy rubber with wired legs and then later as shiny plastic in a slightly different colour range (grey wasn't made in plastic). The Mustang mould was formerly a HOTY mould, made in rubber only - the Family Pony. All other HOTY moulds with the exception of the last one (Silver Mist) were subsequently also made into Originals moulds - Moondance became the sport horse, Sundanfe became the stock horse, Conker became the Working Hunter, Ted became the Clydesdale Foal. Thank you, Elli, so I had it backwards, then Wix thoroughly aggravated me today by destroying almost a whole morning's worth of work. I wasn't too comfortable with not having the back-up files for the pages and this mishap just sealed the deal as things that were saved ended up altered or deleted. I've decided to write the site myself and host it through my own web provider and under my own domain name, the one I use for hosting my blog. This is a bit of a set-back, but I think it will be ultimately faster and easier to build and update, if a little less fancy than the Wix site. Progress can be seen at labratango.com/JulipID/Julipindex.html If something looks weird or out of place design-wise, please let me know A. what's wrong and B. what device and browser you're using.
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Post by george on Oct 1, 2015 14:29:25 GMT
I can't see what you have so far, it's saying 404 Not Found for me And yeah, my website is all dead and gone : Geocities closed down and took the Pagebuilder I used to make my site with it, the pages which then got hosted by Julip (when Annabel owned it) went down a few years ago, and I gave up on recreating it on Freewebs cos I didn't like the templates and wasn't going to spend hours making and updating a site I didn't like the look of. So at the moment I don't have one at all, but the Wix thing did look interesting when you mentioned it the other day, I'd not heard of that before and might consider making a basic album-gallery kind of thing for all my models on there. But I couldn't find a template which did album folders like you'd got per mould, I'd want to do that but one page per brand, scale, and finish (i.e. one page for Breyer Trad OF, one for Breyer Trad CM, then on to Breyer Classic OF, and so on down the list.) None of the templates I looked at seemed to have more than a couple of pages for the photo gallery type, so that would be no good considering I'd need about twenty pages!
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Post by FarfraeFarm on Oct 1, 2015 14:46:04 GMT
I can't see what you have so far, it's saying 404 Not Found for me And yeah, my website is all dead and gone : Geocities closed down and took the Pagebuilder I used to make my site with it, the pages which then got hosted by Julip (when Annabel owned it) went down a few years ago, and I gave up on recreating it on Freewebs cos I didn't like the templates and wasn't going to spend hours making and updating a site I didn't like the look of. So at the moment I don't have one at all, but the Wix thing did look interesting when you mentioned it the other day, I'd not heard of that before and might consider making a basic album-gallery kind of thing for all my models on there. But I couldn't find a template which did album folders like you'd got per mould, I'd want to do that but one page per brand, scale, and finish (i.e. one page for Breyer Trad OF, one for Breyer Trad CM, then on to Breyer Classic OF, and so on down the list.) None of the templates I looked at seemed to have more than a couple of pages for the photo gallery type, so that would be no good considering I'd need about twenty pages! Grumble grumble of course it does Is this any better? www.labratango.com/JulipID/Julipindex.htmlWix was really easy in that it's a drag and drop kind of format. You can take a blank page and just drop an album right onto it. The albums are really easy to set up and add captions/text to. I needed a table format which it doesn't do and so had to make a fairly annoying work-around. And then, like I said, things went horribly wrong.
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Post by george on Oct 1, 2015 15:09:48 GMT
Ahhh, there it is! Looking really neat and smart so far. I would just be cheeky and suggest a spelling change, though : I know 'mold' is correct in the States but here it's 'mould', and as Julips are British it makes more sense to use the spelling the company and majority of the collectors use themselves
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Post by FarfraeFarm on Oct 1, 2015 15:22:48 GMT
Ahhh, there it is! Looking really neat and smart so far. I would just be cheeky and suggest a spelling change, though : I know 'mold' is correct in the States but here it's 'mould', and as Julips are British it makes more sense to use the spelling the company and majority of the collectors use themselves Thank you, George. And oh, okay. I generally avoid that spelling as to me it's strongly associated with mildew rather than form.
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Post by juliporiginals on Oct 1, 2015 16:22:18 GMT
Although they look similar, the vintage Lipizzaner and the vintage dressage horse are both larger than the current dressage horse, there is also a slightly different dressage horse that was around for a little while that has a more tucked in head and slightly more bent front leg, it came between the vintage dressage horse and the current one.
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Post by FarfraeFarm on Oct 1, 2015 16:39:29 GMT
Although they look similar, the vintage Lipizzaner and the vintage dressage horse are both larger than the current dressage horse, there is also a slightly different dressage horse that was around for a little while that has a more tucked in head and slightly more bent front leg, it came between the vintage dressage horse and the current one. Oy vey, what a tangled latex web we weave.
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Post by EG on Oct 1, 2015 17:16:40 GMT
Just wait til you see all the vintage moulds we don't know the names of! XD
(Not to mention the variations in welsh ponies and thoroughbreds!)
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Post by pinkmouse on Oct 1, 2015 19:57:31 GMT
Ahhh, there it is! Looking really neat and smart so far. I would just be cheeky and suggest a spelling change, though : I know 'mold' is correct in the States but here it's 'mould', and as Julips are British it makes more sense to use the spelling the company and majority of the collectors use themselves Thank you, George. And oh, okay. I generally avoid that spelling as to me it's strongly associated with mildew rather than form. I think it's the opposite here, without a 'u' it means fungus And a town in Wales. And awesome website!
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 1, 2015 20:23:13 GMT
I love looking at all the pictures of Julips - can't wait to see the webpage populated too! I'm happy to have pictures of my herd up on there if you want? Thanks, Miss Charlotte I'm hoping to have most of the layout done by next week and will start begging for pictures then. I'd love it if you would be willing to donate pictures of your herd!
Always happy to share pics of my chaps The website looks great by the way!
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 1, 2015 20:29:27 GMT
I can't see what you have so far, it's saying 404 Not Found for me And yeah, my website is all dead and gone : Geocities closed down and took the Pagebuilder I used to make my site with it, the pages which then got hosted by Julip (when Annabel owned it) went down a few years ago, and I gave up on recreating it on Freewebs cos I didn't like the templates and wasn't going to spend hours making and updating a site I didn't like the look of. So at the moment I don't have one at all, but the Wix thing did look interesting when you mentioned it the other day, I'd not heard of that before and might consider making a basic album-gallery kind of thing for all my models on there. But I couldn't find a template which did album folders like you'd got per mould, I'd want to do that but one page per brand, scale, and finish (i.e. one page for Breyer Trad OF, one for Breyer Trad CM, then on to Breyer Classic OF, and so on down the list.) None of the templates I looked at seemed to have more than a couple of pages for the photo gallery type, so that would be no good considering I'd need about twenty pages!
Are there part of the geocities site you had? www.geocities.ws/julips_too/vintage3.html www.oocities.org/talks_to_horses/ I assume the first page is a cache, and the second is some sort of mirror site from geocities. Reading your site years ago was what got me back into Julips as a adult!
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 1, 2015 20:31:53 GMT
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Post by george on Oct 1, 2015 22:11:33 GMT
I did email the oocities one to ask them to delete the pages they had, cos I didn't want the real-horse photos online, but they never did take them down, I might try again.
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Post by Dantelsh on Oct 2, 2015 7:05:58 GMT
fabulous reading for me as I am new to Julip (to my shame took me nearly 50 years to find and love Julip's) Will be catching up on all the models with a cuppa when i have a spare moment
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Post by FarfraeFarm on Oct 2, 2015 15:02:39 GMT
Thank you everyone for your support and encouragement. Whew, I have the website built and the information I've gathered from George's helpful posts entered. If you are interested in donating pictures to the site, please check out this page. I'm going to go fall over now Additional information and corrections are very welcome, though it may take me a day or two to update.
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