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What is RC-Resources.com?
RC-Resources.com is a privately-funded project created for the love of the hobby, dedicated to collecting all the resources we and our members can find and putting them in one place, providing a central gateway to exploring this awesome hobby.

I can just Google it or visit a links directory!
Search engines are machines; often the efforts of keyword spammers get mixed in with search engine results, or poorly created web pages cause JMS Racing Taurus cryptic and meaningless descriptions to display. It becomes exceedingly difficult (and frustrating) to find what you are looking for.

RC-Resources.com has been created to clear out the white noise and bring all the ground-based RC Resources we can find, on the Internet or off, to one place. None of the links here were mindlessly entered by some purchased database or populated by a program. We, or our members, have personally visited and looked over every single listing, article, and other resource on this site. Every single one. Most of them are great, some of them are bad, but all of them are relevant to our hobby and have something to offer.

What Does RC-Resources.com Offer?

  • Fully Searchable Database - Static links throughout the site, a quick search, and an advanced search puts all of the information you seek just seconds away.
  • Member Profile - All RC-Resources.com members get a free password-protected account that includes a member profile with options to hide or display personal information. Member information is not and will never be distributed for any marketing purposes, and you will never receive spam from RC-Resources.com.
  • Free Listings - With your membership, you are welcome to add an unlimited number of unique listings to our database. RC-Resources.com is NOT a link directory - our listings offer complete ability to provide full contact information and a description of any or all of your favorite pages or services. We welcome you to post as many listings as you like, so long as it is in accordance with our User Agreement.
  • Original Articles - If you are interested in sharing your ideas with others, RC-Resources.com welcomes you to contribute articles for display on this site. For more information, please contact us.
  • Member Web Page - Our Premier Members are invited to use our web interface to create their own personal page on RC-Resources.com, complete with a unique member URL in the format rc-resources.com/[memberurl], where "[memberurl]" can be any text of your choosing. For a limited time all RC-Resources.com Premier Memberships are FREE.
  • Advertising Programs - We have several low-cost advertising programs available that allow you to display a variety of formats and sizes on our site. See our Advertise With Us page for details.
Where is your (message board, video archive, online store . . .) ?
There are so many RC sites on the web already with message boards, reviews, online stores, directories, and other site features that there's really no point. The purpose of RC-Resources.com is to make them all easy to find. Sick of all the peeps on your current message board? As we write this, there are currently 47 ACTIVE RC-related message boards in our listings. Check it out, and tell 'em RC-Resources.com sent ya. :-)

What program did you buy to build this?
None. One of the (disturbing!) things we found in populating our database is that many of the sites out there come from canned PHP solutions, skinned with web templates from a free template site. Everything here is HAND-CODED, hand-programmed, using Perl, Photoshop, a little bit of Flash for fun, Macromedia Homesite for coding, and the server-side open source software ImageMagick, all accessing a mySQL database. Nothing else. It may be cheesy, it may be "different," but at least it's original. :-)

Who is the "we" you keep talking about?
An RC fanatic web developer that's been bashing and racing since before the internet, his wife, without who's tolerance and understanding this site never would have been created, all of our RC's.

And of course, all the voices in his head.

Wishing you cool runnin's, peaked packs, and eternal glow plugs,

- The Management

Further Information


; RC-Resources Help
Created 09/21/2004 Last Modified 12/03/2004


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