The site has gotten to be pretty popular. Roadsters.com gets around three million hits a month from people using more than 200,000 different computers. And the hits just keep on coming.

One of the neat things about having your own domain name is that you can view the site's statistics to see which pages people view the most, and where they are visiting the site from.

Roadsters.com has been visited by people in more than 160 countries, including Albania, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Antarctica, Antigua, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, the Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Barbuda, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Indian Ocean Territory, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, the Cayman Islands, Chile, China, Christmas Island, the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, the Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, the Falkland Islands (Malvinas), the Faroe Islands, Finland, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Georgia, Ghana, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Malawi, Malaysia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar (Burma), Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue Island, Norfolk Island, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, the Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, the Soviet Union, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Helena, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Turks and the Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States, Uruguay, the former USSR, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, the Virgin Islands, Yugoslavia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, as well as the Intelsat satellite.

Like any responsible Webmaster, I pay attention to the statistics that are automatically compiled on my site's server. Roadsters.com gets some interesting visitors. From time to time I look through the huge list that shows who visits the site in a particular month. As an example, the following lists were compiled from that information, showing where some of the computers that were used to visit this site in the first two months of 2002 were located.

BMW Germany, http://www.bmw.de/
BMW North American Operations, http://www.bmwna.com/
DaimlerChrysler, Germany, http://www.daimler-benz.com/
DaimlerChrysler, USA (numerical address)
Ford Motor Company, numerical addresses and http://www.ford.com/
General Motors, several numerical addresses including 198.208.223.35
Honda USA, http://www.honda.com/
Isuzu, Japan, http://www.isuzu.co.jp/
Lotus, UK, http://www.lotuscars.co.uk/
Mercedes-Benz, http://www.mercedes-benz.com/
Nissan USA, http://www.nissan-usa.com/
Renault, France, http://www.renault.fr/
Saab, http://www.saab.com/
Toyota Belgium, http://www.toyotabelgium.net/
Toyota Japan, http://www.toyota.co.jp/
Toyota UK, http://www.toyota.co.uk/
Toyota USA, http://www.toyota.com/
Volvo, Sweden, http://www.volvo.se/
Volkswagen, http://www.vw.com/

Case, http://www.casecorp.com/
Caterpillar, http://www.cat.com/
Freightliner, http://www.freightliner.com/
John Deere, Inc., http://www.deere.com/
Mack Trucks, http://www.macktrucks.com/
New Holland, http://www.newholland.com/
PACCAR, Inc. (Kenworth and Peterbuilt), http://www.paccar.com/
Polaris Industries, http://www.polarisind.com/

Accuride, http://www.accuridecorp.com/
American Racing Equipment, http://www.americanracing.com
ArvinMeritor Auto, http://www.meritorauto.com/
Bosch, http://www.bosch.com/
Bosch Braking Systems, http://www.bosch-brakes.com/
Cross Country Automotive Services, http://www.crosscountry-auto.com/
Custom Chrome, Inc. (Harley parts), http://www.customchrome.com/
Dana Corporation, http://www.dana.com/
Delphi Auto, http://www.delphiauto.com/
Goodyear Tire and Rubber, http://www.goodyear.com/
Midas, http://www.midas.com/
Mueller Tire and Brake, http://www.muellertire.com/
SEMA, http://www.sema.org
SFM Racing (dragster), http://www.sfm-racing.com/
Snap-on Tools, http://www.snapon.com/
Summit Racing, http://www.summitracing.com/
TireRack, http://www.tirerack.com/
Tucker Rocky (Harley parts), http://www.tuckerrocky.com/
Weld Racing, http://www.weldracing.com

Baron BMW, Kansas, http://www.baronbmw.com/
Crevier BMW, http://www.crevierbmw.com/
JMK Auto Sales BMW, http://www.jmkautossalesbmw.com/
Kimberly Imports BMW, http://www.kimberlyimportsbmw.com/
Tulley BMW, http://www.tulleybmw.com/
Westchester BMW, http://www.westchesterbmw.com/

Alcan, http://www.alcan.com/
Alcoa, http://www.alcoa.com/
Bethlehem Steel, http://www.bethsteel.com
California Steel Industries, http://www.californiasteel.com/
O'Neal Steel (metals supplier), http://www.onealsteel.com/
Rouge Steel Company (Dearborn, Michigan), http://www.rougesteel.com/

ACNielsen (ratings), http://www.acnielsen.com/
Amazon.com, http://www.amazon.com/
BBC, UK, http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Booth Newspapers, Michigan, http://www.boothnewspapers.com/
The Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming, http://www.trib.com/
The Charlotte Observer, http://www.charlotteobserver.com/
Dennis Publishing (UK), http://www.dennis.co.uk/
EMAP-USA Publishing, Anaheim (emap-usa.anaheim.cw.net)
Fox Sports, http://www.foxsports.com/
Gannett (newspaper and TV stations), http://www.gannett.com/
The Herald Times, Indiana, http://www.heraldt.com/
The Hood County News, Texas, http://www.hcnews.com/
King 5 NBC TV, Seattle, http://www.king5.com/
McGraw-Hill, http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/
The Modesto Bee, http://www.modbee.com/
Modus Media International, http://www.modusmedia.com/
Pacifica Papers, Canada, http://www.pacifica-papers.com/
Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/
The Toronto Star, http://www.thestar.com/
Turner Broadcasting Systems, http://www.turner.com/
TV Guide, http://www.tvguideinc.com/

Altair Software, http://www.altair.com/
AltaVista, http://www.sv.av.com/
Apple Computer, http://www.apple.com/
Compaq Computer, http://www.compaq.com/
Concentric Systems (computers), http://www.concen.com/
Dell Computer, http://www.dell.com/
Delta (microwave), http://www.delta-corp.com/
Electroglas, (semiconductors) http://www.electroglas.com/
Fujitsu (semiconductors), http://www.fujitsu.com/
Gateway Computer, http://www.gateway.com/
Google, http://www.google.com/
Hewlett-Packard, http://www.hp.com/
IBM, http://www.ibm.com/
Intel, http://www.intel.com/
Intellisync Web site update monitoring service, http://www.intellisync.com/
Lycos, http://www.lycos.com/
Microchip Technology, Inc., http://www.microchip.com/
Microsoft, http://www.microsoft.com/
Motorola, http://www.motorola.com/
National Semiconductor, http://www.nsc.com/
Sun Microsystems, http://www.sun.com/
Texas Instruments, http://www.ti.com/
Xerox, http://www.xerox.com/

Disney, http://www.disney.com/
Dolby Labs, http://www.dolby.com/
DreamWorks SKG, http://www.dreamworks.com/
Paramount Pictures, http://www.paramount.com/
Sony USA, http://www.sony.com/
Sony Japan, http://www.sony.co.jp/
Warner Brothers, http://www.warnerbros.com/

Aerojet (missile manufacturer), http://www.aerojet.com/
Aerostructures (aerospace supplier), http://www.theaerocorp.com/
Airbus, Germany, http://www.airbus.de/
Boeing, http://www.boeing.com/
Celanese Chemical, http://www.celanese.com/
Cessna Aircraft Company, http://www.cessna.textron.com/
Chautauqua Airlines, Inc., http://www.flychautauqua.com/
Corporate Air, Montana, http://www.corporateair.net/
Crossair, http://www.crossair.ch/
Delta Air Lines, http://www.delta.com/
Dow Chemical Company, http://www.dow.com/
DuPont, http://www.dupont.com/
DynCorp, http://www.dyncorp.com/
General Electric, http://www.ge.com/
Goodrich Corporation, http://www.bfg.com/
Halliburton Company, http://www.halliburton.com/
Hughes, http://www.hughes.com/
Litton Marine Systems (Northrup Grumman), http://www.litton-marine.com/
Lockheed Martin, http://www.lmco.com/
MD Helicopters, Inc., http://www.mdhelicopters.com/
Northrop Grumman, http://www.northgrum.com/
Ozark Aircraft Systems, http://www.ozarkaircraftsystems.com/
Pittsburgh International Airport, http://www.pitairport.com/
Pratt-Whitney, http://www.pratt-whitney.com/
Raytheon, http://www.raytheon.com/
Rockwell, http://www.rockwell.com/
Sikorsky Helicopters, http://www.sikorsky.com/
South West Air Lines, http://www.tlfa.com/
Swiss Air Group, http://www.sairgroup.com/
TRW, http://www.trw.com/
Union Tank Car Company, http://www.union-tank-car.com/
United Air Lines, http://www.ual.com/
Vienna International Airport, http://www.viennaairport.com/
Weyerhauser, http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/

Allied Insurance, http://www.alliedinsurance.com/
Aurora Health Care, http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/
Banner Health, http://www.bannerhealth.com/
Battelle Memorial Institute, http://www.battelle.org/
Capital Blue Cross, http://www.capbluecross.com/
Covenant Health, http://www.covenanthealth.org/
Healthlink South Africa, http://www.healthlink.org.za/
Hurley Medical Care, Flint, Michigan, http://www.hurleymc.com/
Kaleida Health, http://www.kaleidahealth.org/
NDC Health, http://www.simatics.com/
The Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayo.edu/
Medtronic, http://www.medtronic.com/
Merck Research Laboratories, http://www.merck.com/
Scott & White Hospital, Texas, http://www.healthcare.sw.org/
State Farm Insurance, http://www.statefarm.com/
Sutter Health, http://www.sutterhealth.org/
Tenet Healthcare Corporation, http://www.tenethealth.com/

ABN-AMRO (global banking), http://www.abnamro.com/
Bank of America, http://www.bankofamerica.com/
Bank One, http://www.bankone.com/
CitiCorp, http://www.citicorp.com/
DataMonitor (market analysis), http://www.datamonitor.com/
Dow Jones, http://www.dowjones.com/
Edward Jones Investments, http://www.edwardjones.com/
JPMorgan, http://www.jpmorgan.com/
Mastercard, http://www.mastercard.com/
Nesbitt Burns (investing), http://www.nesbittburns.com/
Novo Group (Finland), http://www.novogroup.com/
Royal Bank, http://www.royalbank.com/
Charles Schwab, http://www.schwab.com/
Trust Company of America, http://www.trustamerica.com/
USAA (insurance), http://www.usaa.com/
Wells Fargo Bank, http://www.wellsfargo.com/

Arnold Oil Company of Austin, Texas, http://www.arnoldoil.com/
Atmos Energy Corporation (natural gas), http://www.atmosenergy.com/
Baker Hughes (oilwell pumps), http://www.centrilift.com/
Bandera Electric Cooperative, http://www.bandera-ec.com/
BOC Gases, http://www.boc.com/
BP — British Petroleum, http://www.bp.com/
Chevron, http://www.chevron.com/
Cinergy, http://www.cinergy.com/
Citgo, http://www.citgo.com/
Con Edison (New York power), http://www.coned.com/
Consumers Energy, http://www.consumersenergy.com/
DTE Energy, Detroit, http://www.dteenergy.com/
Duke Power, http://www.dukepower.com/
Enerchem International, Inc. (oilfield), http://www.enerchem.com/
Energy Northwest, http://www.energy-northwest.com/
Entergy (nuclear), http://www.entergy.com/
FirstEnergy Corp. (Ohio power), http://www.firstenergycorp.com/
GE Power Systems, http://www.gepower.com/
Helsinki Energy, Finland, http://www.helsinginenergia.fi/
Honeywell, http://www.honeywell.com/
Hydro Quebec, Canada, http://www.hydro.qc.ca/
IHS Energy (oil industry information service), http://www.ihsenergy.com/
Illinois Power, http://www.illinoispower.com/
Mustang Engineering (oil), http://www.mustangeng.com/
Norsk Hydro (oil), http://www.hydro.com/
PanCanadian Energy, http://www.pancanadianenergy.com/
PEMEX (oil, in Mexico), http://www.pemex.com/
PGE, http://www.pge.com/
Schlumberger Ltd (oilfields in Laredo and New Orleans), http://www.slb.com/
Shell Canada, http://www.shell.ca/
Shell Netherlands, http://www.shell.nl/
Shell UK, http://www.shell.co.uk/
Shell US, http://www.shellus.com/
Statoil, Norway, http://www.statoil.com/
Summit Industrial Products (oil), http://www.summitoil.net
Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, http://www.tesoropetroleum.com/
Texaco, http://www.texaco.com/
Unocal, http://www.unocal.com/
Westinghouse Electric, http://www.westinghouseelectric.com/

EOG Resources (formerly Enron Oil & Gas; three visits) http://www.eogresources.com/
Enron (five visits), http://www.enron.com/
Arthur Andersen (eight visits), http://www.arthurandersen.com/

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It's great that so many of you find this site interesting. While you're here, I hope you learn something.

If you have a web site, please add a link to Roadsters.com, and encourage other people to add them too. The more popular this site becomes, the better for all of us.

Some things need to be said about web site awards. There are two basic categories of them.

Web awards are supposedly given to reward excellence, and to provide a means for more people to become aware of a site that is worth spending some time at, whether it's entertaining or a useful resource.

Some awards are passed out like business cards, and are just a means of generating traffic back to the site that awards them. This site has won obout a dozen of these, and they're meaningless. You know you've been "awarded" something bogus when the site that the award is from is mediocre and blatantly commercial.

Several people have suggested that I start giving my own awards to sites that deserve recognition, and although it's a very low priority to me right now, that day may eventually arrive. It's far more likely that someday I'll create a page on this site that features the "Best of the Web".

Having looked at many thousands of them since 1996, I can tell you the things I'd be looking for if I was to judge web sites. The comments that follow may be of some help to those of you who are putting together your own web pages.

When most of us visit a web site, the first thing we look for is content. I visit a site to learn things. I'm looking for information, and I want to find it quickly. That means that a site should tell me where to find the information I'm looking for right away. I shouldn't have to dig around too much to find it.

I'm amazed at the number of business web sites out there that don't tell you the most basic things, such as what the company does — what they make, what it's for, what it fits — and their street address, phone number, and E-mail address, in their first page or two. There have been many times when I've gone to a company's site just so I could get their phone number or E-mail address, and then hunted around for ten minutes without ever being able to find it. Tell everybody who you are, what you do, where you are and how to contact you in the first page or two.

Now my opinion on things like Java, CGI, and Perl scripts may change someday, but from what I've seen so far, they add very little that's of any real value to a web site's visitors. Java scripts can really slow down the time it takes to download your pages, and also make your visitor's computer much more likely to freeze up.

I'm not going to be any more likely to read your catalog, letter, magazine or newspaper if you put an animated juggling clown on the first page.

Things like blinking text and pages that use more than two colors of text make a web site look like it was designed to get the attention of young children.

Are the graphics you provide on your pages relevant? Are they just for decoration, or can we learn something from them? Are they unique, or uncommon?

Are you using happy face logos, and those lame, yellow-and-black-striped "Under Construction" signs on pages you feel insecure about, or that tired, stupid-looking animated image that shows the hand reaching out of the mailbox to grab a letter? Are you really that desperate to look like an idiot?

Now let's talk about links. When I first started putting this site together, in addition to searching with search engines, I looked at other sites to see what links they had. In fact, since I will admit to having a link fetish, a new site's links are one of the first things I look at.

The links you have to other sites say something about who put the site together — "how many of their friends they're willing to introduce you to" is one way of putting it. It is perfectly acceptable for a business to have no links to any other web sites. If you only have five or ten links to other sites, that's fine too, assuming that they're relevant and they all work, and you check them every month to make sure they still do. (And you certainly don't have to provide thousands of links like this site does. It just so happens that it was put together by one of the relatively few people who actually enjoys doing research and compiling a lot of information in a way that makes it easy for people to quickly find out something in particular.) But if you do have a lot of links, are they arranged in a way that breaks them down into categories, and then put in alphabetical order, so that people don't have to wade through a lot of things they're not interested in?

By the way, you don't ever have to ask permission to add a link on your site to another site. And if you haven't already done so, please add a link to the first page on Roadsters.com.

Don't expect people to load a different browser or change their monitor's resolution so they can view your site with the browser you've optimized it for. Nobody does that, and it makes you look arrogant if you tell them to. Make your site work with Firefox, and let their competition deal with any compatibility issues.

People won't ever adjust their screen size unless they really have to, so don't ever ask them to or expect them to. That's like running a business and telling a customer they can't come into your shop until they go home and change their shoes.

Make your site easy to navigate, with continuity in its layout between all of its pages. You'll notice that this site has an index at the top of every page, and a link to its first page at the bottom of every page.

Never overestimate the patience of your site's visitors. Never underestimate the value your visitors place on their time. If you frustrate them, you'll lose them.

Make the people who visit your site happy to be there. Treat them with respect, without being patronizing. Remember, there are millions of other web sites that they could be looking at, so be grateful that they chose to spend some time at yours. Don't make them wait for what they want. Make their visit to your web site an educational, entertaining, and worthwhile experience. Give them something that will make them want to come back.

As far as frames go, I hate them. Everyone I've talked to about them hates them. I would never use frames on any web page I put together. If I was ever asked to evaluate web sites, I would automatically deduct points from any site that used frames. Truth is, I virtually never spend any time on web sites that are made with frames. Here are some of the reasons why:

We can think of a web page as being a page from a letter, a magazine, a catalog or a book. When we are holding a magazine in our hands and reading it, in effect we are using a two-page color monitor. Of course when we're at our computers, most of us don't have the luxury of a 21-inch monitor. I'm opposed to anything that reduces the effective screen size of a monitor and gives us a smaller window to peek through.

Images displayed on pages that are made with frames must be smaller than the window the frame provides, or visitors will have to scroll around to see all of its parts and then try to visualize what the whole image looks like when it's all put together.

Sites built with frames often "hold us hostage" to a site when we follow one of its links to somewhere else, by keeping us from even knowing the URL of where we are (unless we looked at where the link pointed to and wrote it down, or typed it in ourselves to get out of the frames).

You often have to "right click" to get a framed page to appear in a new window, or to bookmark a site that's linked to a framed site, but most people don't know that they can do this.

Some of us who don't have state-of-the-art computers on very quick connections will sometimes surf the web with "Load Images" turned off on our browsers, and when we find something we want to see, we click "Images" on the browser to show all the images. But when you're at a site that's made with frames, you have to click on a frame and load the images in that frame, and then click somewhere else and load the images in that part of the screen.

Frames often slow down page loading.

For some reason, sites made with frames tend to cause computers to freeze up or crash far more often than sites with no frames.

The only people that seem to like frames are people who create Web pages for others — and especially the kind of web page designers that like to show off what they know how to do.

I wish frames had never been developed.

The only frames that I would ever use are made of steel, preferably seamless 4130 chrome-moly tubing.

For those of you who are interested in making your own web pages, here are a few good resources to get you started.

HTML Goodies
I like this site. It is run by Joe Burns, Ph.D., who provides access to everything you could ever want in the world of HTML. This site is the closest thing I've found to making something as mundane as HTML code fun.
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

HTML Writers Guild
As you might expect, this site has lots of technical information for people learning and using HTML. It's not the most thrilling site I've seen, but then it's not the most thrilling topic, either.
http://www.hwg.org/

The US Copyright Office
Your web site's content is your property. Protect it.
http://www.copyright.gov/

W3C Link Checker
This is the best online link checker that I know of, and I use it to check the links on this site. To use it, just paste in the address of the page you want to check, hit Enter, and it will begin compiling a page with the results.
http://validator.w3.org/checklink

Web Developer's Virtual Library
This site is packed with information and resources of interest to webmasters.
http://www.wdvl.com/

Web Pages That Suck
This is an excellent site that was put together by Vincent Flanders, an HTML instructor in Berkeley, California. It shows you what not to do when you're making web pages. Here we can "learn good design by studying bad design."
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/

"If you can't find it here, you must have left it somewhere else."
— Dave Mann

"I'd be more interested in putting a blower and slicks on my car than putting neon lights under it. I treat my web pages the same way."
— Dave Mann

"If you want to make God laugh, tell Him your plans."
— Woody Allen

"Getting married for the second time represents the triumph of hope over experience."
— Samuel Johnson

"You know, it's hard to get excited about winning a million when it took two million to do it."
— Richard Petty

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it."
— Jonathan Winters

"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
— Dan Quayle

"If we don't vote, we run the risk of having people like Quayle running our government."
— Dave Mann

"I see lots of differences between the United States and Canada. For example, here in the States, when there's a fire somewhere, as soon as the firefighters arrive they just start fighting the fire. But back in Canada, first we try to reason with the fire."
— Dave Mann

"Driving a fuel Funny Car is like marrying a nuclear weapon. I like it."
— Scotty Cannon

"The women that will put up with me can't keep up with me.
The women that can keep up with me won't put up with me."
— Dave Mann

"I would say that about 75-percent of the world is mediocrity, whether it's food, or style, or music. A mediocre world. And the other 25-percent have an elitist attitude. That's the part of the world I belong to. You have to know your own worth. I like to say that my band consists of fifteen Ferraris in a world of Pintos."
"We don't have style. We have class."
— Buddy Rich

"I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf."
— Robert Bloch

Q: How many rockabilly guys does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Ten. One to change it, and nine more to talk about how much better the original one was.

"Find your Art Pedal, and mash it to the floor."
— Mel Klimas