TECHNICAL NOTES-It was sometime in 1998 that I started to think about doing a websit e because I had so many Petrolia and area photos. I had always noticed that people were interested in looking at them. I wanted to share them with as many people as possible.
            At that time the Internet was not as big and people that had their own website were few and far between.It was in 1996 that I got my first scanner and started scanning and adding pics to my computer.By 1999 and 2000 I started toying with the idea of a website and a friend of mine, Dan Solway and I started to fool around with the idea and by early 2001 it started to take shape. Even at that time most people thought that a website was something for industrial and entainment uses. Most folks didn't understand how it worked. Now with Facebook, Ebay and MSN etc. most people use a computer and understand the technology much better.
           Today petroliaheritage.com is so huge I don't even know what is on it. 
I am asked all of the time how it is done. I have  found that the 'ThumbsPlus 5 Program' is an invaluable tool for transferring pics to NS Composer  and re-sizing, saving about 50% of posting time. It is understood that most people prefer 'ACDSee' for Pic organization and photographic maintenance but I do beg to differ. Some of the recent Pics on this site are shot with Roy's Sony Cyber Shot Digital Camera. Some of the others were shot with my own Fuji 2600 , However the Fuji was retired in early 2006 and I now use a little gem, the Panasonic LS70.
        For all of the vintage shots I have used the Epson 1250 Scanner and even some were garnered from negatives & slides a feature that this Scanner does quite well and I recommend it for this and other basic scanning needs.  Netscape and FTP are utilized for posting.
As with most WebSites click on the thumb nails for enlargements.  

           With Netscape Composer and FTP it is critical to use older versions of these programs. I and others have found that newer versions are useless for website maintenance. It seems that software producers especially the larger ones find that making changes to their programs( regardless of it's usefullness) unimportant and the negative impact to users is not relavent. Many times they make changes for the sake of making a change so that they can introduce a new program to the market to boost sales and in fact these newer programs are a big disapointment.
    FUTURE HIGHLIGHTS  -
-More text on existing pics and of course more pics
-More oil driller stories.....................................................
- and of course more gauges on the steam page!

Policy on using pics and or text from this website. It is impossible to protect anything on the Internet. Credits to Petrolia Heritage or Martin. This website is here for you and use anything on it that you want. Those that try to protect items on the internet are whistling in the wind and are clowns.
' The Editor always has an opinion that is not  necessarily the same as anyone important. '