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This site is built in Notepad with the aid of a free book called Build a website in 24 Hours. I actually went live about 6 hours into the process, not having done this before. The site was 'launched' at about 21.30 on 9 July 2002.I aim to keep things reasonably simple, mainly text-based, with longer texts generally being put in Word or pdf format. Over time the structure will grow, but I'll try and keep the navigation simple. Every page should have a link to all the others (apart from the links to full texts), or at least back to the main sections.
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A site map was added on 6 August 2002. A guestbook was added in November that year. Apart from regular updates to links, I've also spent part of February 2003 re-sizing some of the image files to help speed up download times for those (like me) still on modems.
Quick links began to appear in early May 2003 via some simple javascript. I've also tidied up some of the code.
A Reading Matters section was added in late May 2003, together with a feedback page devoted to all things books.
The newer photos (2003 and later) are taken on a cheapish digi camera (Konica Digital Revio KD-100, £99.00) which offers just 1.3 mega pixels. The quality is fine for the web (even after downgrading the images for faster loading time). Just mention this because I'm tired of being asked should I get 2.0 or 3.0 mega pixels and, on asking 'what are you using it for?', being told it's only going to be used for the web. Samples available here.
August 2003: I've increased the use of tables to get a better design to the site, and adjusted some of the shades of grey to make things more visible on monitors that lack brightness. Look here for an example of what I mean. I've also changed some text notices from red as this tends to disappear on some screens.
January 2004: Some sort of celebration is due. The site has just crept over 10,000 page hits in total. Probably a bit more than that actually, as I wasn't counting them all for the first few months. Anyway, it feels like some sort of landmark. Not huge in comparison to many other sites, but it makes me feel that it's been worth the effort. So thanks to everyone who's visited; and especially thanks to those who check in regularly.
February 2004: Not many changes to the site lately, though I'm keeping the news and links up to date. I've been slowly de-Microsofting my PC (still running XP) by changing my default browser to Opera which has the coolest skins (with Mozilla as backup), and moving e-mail over to Pegasus (a good free package by one of the gurus of the internet). For newsgroups I use the unbeatable Agent. Main reason for doing this is to get away from the 'security' nightmares of IE and OE for web, mail and news.
March 2004: Since my switch to Opera I've started work on updating some aspects of the site to provide an Opera-specific experience. Mainly this involves adding a TITLE tag to graphics which gives extra information if you hover over them (this is in addition to the ALT tag), and improving the descriptions that display in the Opera Links Hotlist. I'm re-sizing some of the graphics as well.
For more on my excursions into the technical visit my journal hosted on the Opera site. I'll be explaining more about how I'm updating this site, and occasionally talking about other concerns, issues and items of interest.
If you have any technical questions or spot any dead links please e-mail
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