Re: My New Website

[John Carmichael]

Hello Brian   you wrote: Have you considered offering a split analemma dial - with one analemma for morning and one for afternoon? Mean time can be directly read with an average accuracy of around 30 seconds all round the dial and the EoT graph can be discarded!   Are you referring to a polar dial, a horizontal dial or both? I am aware of split analemmas on dial faces that allow one to tell Standard Time directly.  I used to call these "Singleton" dials.  (I'll send you off list a drawing of one). But these dials don't have separate split analemmas for am & pm. So I'm confused about what you mean. Would you know where we can see picture of one like you describe?   By the way, Mike Shaw commented that the winter and summer numbering might be wrong on my polar sundial PDF face drawing at http://www.sundialsculptures.com/pdf/polar_sundial_functions.pdf  Well, yes and no!  This particular polar face drawing is of a sundial here in Tucson where we do not have Daylight Saving Time, so both the summer and winter time scales are the same. But I will change this drawing to a face that shows the one hour difference to avoid confusion. Thanks Mike.  But even on a polar sundial that is in a place where there is no Daylight Saving Time, you must have separate winter and summer time scales because if the gnomon is not very long, its shadow only crosses one time scale in the middle of winter and summer.   Thanks Brian   John   John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA   Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com> ----- Original Message ----- From: Brian Albinson To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 12:50 PM Subject: Re: My New Website John I had no problems with the new site and very much enjoyed looking through it.  The Daylight Savings time point has already been made.   Have you considered offering a split analemma dial - with one analemma for morning and one for afternoon? Mean time can be directly read with an average accuracy of around 30 seconds all round the dial and the EoT graph can be discarded! Brian Albinson John Carmichael wrote: Hello all,   After a huge amount of work, my new website is finally up and running at www.sundialsculptures.com I was very lucky to find a competent webmaster who helped me put this together for a reasonable price. Good webmasters are rare (like good sundial makers). They must have knowledge of the technical aspects of web design AND they must have a good feel for art too. That old left brain/right brain thing.  Maybe this explains why there are so many bad websites out there.   Anyway, please have a look. I'm particularly interested if any of you have problems downloading the four PDF files that describe sundial functions at the bottom of the "Functions" page at http://www.sundialsculptures.com/content/functions.html If you have problems with these PDFs would you let me know?   Also, any comments on the following would be much appreciated: 1. Do you think it is user friendly for someone who knows nothing about sundials? 2. Do you think it is too complicated or overloaded with too much information? 2. Do you see any errors such as typos, false or misleading information?   Thanks.  We hope you like it.   John   John L. Carmichael Jr. Sundial Sculptures 925 E. Foothills Dr. Tucson Arizona 85718 USA   Tel: 520-696-1709 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: <http://www.sundialsculptures.com>