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Contact Us:
General
Family Album
Holiday Diaries
Andy
Amateur Radio
Archery
Computing
Professional Details
Role Playing
Art Narrative (MGH)
Ken
Tom
Trudi
We hope you enjoy our offerings. This site is an exercise in self teaching. It should be considered work in progress, rather than an end in itself. Its purpose, after being an attempt to learn something new, is to give us somewhere to showcase our capabilities, hobbies and interests.
The site is divided into a 'General' section and individual sections for each of us. Hopefully these will maintain a consistent style, and while there may be some overlap in our interests each area should put our personal perspective on a given subject.
Basically all Navigation is handled using the links on the "Navigation" section to the right. This section should be present on all pages within this site. If by some quirk the "Navigation" section shouldn't be present clicking on the image in the top left hand corner will return you to the home page.
Every site seems to have a section like this these days. Ours is probably viewable at 800 x 600 but our advice would be to use 1024 x 768 or better. For colour depth as much as possible is always a good idea otherwise the photo sections may suffer.
The site is quite simple employing only HTML 4 and CSS 2. Most browsers should render this fairly faithfully although we have not undertaken rigourous testing.
If you happen to view it and exprience anything you consider to be unusual please let us know the combination of browser (name and version) and operating system using the 'Contact Us' link in the "Navigation" section, not forgetting to remove the spam filter.
It was a not inconsiderable time after we went on-line that we contemplated seriously using our web space for something constructive. During 2004 Andy became involved with the Amateur Radio UK Web Site. Draft Press Releases were prepared and posted to this site. At that time this site did not exist and one of the first steps was to get a basic site operational quickly so that various drafts of the Press Release could be uploaded for review by the other moderators and founder members of the ARUK Forum.
The first incarnation of this site was a complete plagiarization of one prepared by Andys college friend Mark Hirst. With hindsight Marks version of the layout was superior to the plagiarized version that Andy hashed together. Mark has updated his site since this acknowledgement and the graphic below is now out of date. However the link to his site remains valid at this time.
As a Christmas project we decided to revamp the site into something more genuinely of our own creation and January 2005 saw the launch of what could honestly be called our first web site. Having grasped the basics of both HTML and CSS, thanks to hacking Marks original source code, we came up with what we considered to be a much improved layout. The menu system remained cumbersome however and was not amenable to being treated as a standard element meaning that every page had to be thought out in terms of where it sat in the menu hierarchy. However the setup lasted the best part of 2 years and many new sections were added to the site including the first contribution by a family member other than Andy.
Well, the menu structure was approaching breaking point and this was before significant sections for other family members had been introduced. In 2007 the opportunity was taken to address not only the menu issues but also to revamp the site layout and use much more of the CSS structure to control placement.
Our ISP is UKFSN.ORG. A link to their site can be found in the footer of every page. We continue to use their services because, to paraphrase another commercial campaign, they do exactly what they say on the tin.
They also donate monies raised through ISP activities to Free Software Projects which gives us, and we suspect others, a nice warm feeling as we surf the web and send and receive e-mail.
Up until the end of 2007 we operated a basic dial up account. However, since the beginning of 2008 we have upgraded to one of their Max ADSL packages which has proved to be very reliable. Their support service is very good. They also offer business services and both home and commercial hosting. If you're looking for a new ISP for personal or commercial use it's well worth looking them over. Go on what have you got to lose?
