No Name Column
Check out our redesigned Off-Road Adventures web site
If you have visited our web site in the past year or two, you probably were not that impressed with it. Guess what, neither were we! For the past five years most all our energy and focus has been on putting issues of ORA together and trying to make sure the most recent one was better than the last. So consequently our web site suffered as a result. The graphics were weak, navigating around the site was a joke and nobody ever thought to spell check the text.
Well, all of that has changed and will continue to change for the better from now on. The transformation will not happen overnight, but it will be like the magazine and get better and better with each month. For the moment, the appearance of the site is now a lot cleaner and the graphics are more eye pleasing. Site navigation has also improved dramatically and you can get around a lot easier than before. We’re also updating and filling in the gaps in our archive of past issues as there were a number of them that were never posted to the site. You will also be able to search for information by topic so you won’t have to look at each issue to find a specific installation article, new vehicle review or Four Wheel Finesse article. At some point in the near future you will be able to reference articles from all issues all the way back to our premierl October 1999 issue.
Now that we’re paying attention to the site again, we welcome your suggestions, questions and comments. As we said earlier, it won’t be an overnight transformation, but check us out at www.oramagazine.com and let us know what you think.
Also, our thanks to all of you who have sent Care Packages to the 1st. Army Battalion in Iraq.
All of us in the ORA editorial offices combine our contributions and try to send out at least a couple of packages each month. Let us know what you are doing so we can share your good deeds with the rest of our readers.
For those new readers just “tuning in” to Off-Road Adventures, check out the July ‘04 issue No Name column on our web site for details on how ORA got involved in sending Care Packages to our soldiers in Iraq. They can use baby wipes (showers are not a daily pleasure), deodorant, foot powder, toothpaste, shaving cream, razors, shampoo, and sport drink powders such as Gatorade or All Sport. Also, even if they are not current issues, magazines and newspapers are great to help pass the time and keep them in touch with what’s going on states-side. You don’t have to include all of these items, just do what you can. Our guys and gals who are pulling some tough duty over there will appreciate them all. You can mail the packages parcel post to SGT Mosquera’s attention and he will make sure they get distributed to the soldiers in his battalion.
- SGT Rene Mosquera
- Attention: Any Soldier
- HHS, 1/33 FA BN
- Operation Iraqi Freedom II
- FOB SUMMERALL
- APO AE 09392
If your 4x4 club or your workplace would like to jump in on this, you can also go to www.adoptaplatoon.org to get info on how to adopt a whole platoon, an individual soldier or become a pen pal.