ABOUT THIS WEBSITE
To make the text easier to read, especially on wider screens, the main text is usually divided into columns - although this only applies to modern 'standards-aware' browsers. Internet Explorer 9 is only partially 'standards-aware'; it does not support multiple columns.
In addition, most pages offer the facility for changing the size of the text. Your choice of text size is stored in a cookie so that they are available from one page to the next and also when you next visit the site.
In addition, most pages offer the facility for changing the size of the text. Your choice of text size is stored in a cookie so that they are available from one page to the next and also when you next visit the site.
technical
The site uses Javascript (also called active scripting in Internet Explorer) for some of its features; these will not be available to you if your web browser has Javascript disabled. Contact the webmaster if you need help.
Cookies are used as follows:
Cookies are used as follows:
- to store the data from the customise section on the accessibility page so that they can be used automatically from page to page on this and subsequent visits.
- in the SHOWCASE displays and those photo gallery pages that use the same slide show script.
- to store for this visit the width and height of the browser window for use in displaying certain elements of the page.
news service
The site's news service (more commonly called an RSS feed) alerts subscribers to the latest news. Subscribing is easy - and it's free.
For further information and a step-by-step guide, click here.
tablets and other mobile devices
The webmaster does not possess any of these devices although he does have intermittent access to an iPad; support for these devices is therefore rather limited.
Please let the webmaster know of if there are features missing from the mobile version and he will endeavour to provide a solution. One such example may be found on the timeline page - the draggable box now responds to both mouse and touch.
web browsers
Changes to this website are routinely tested with the following:
Windows 7:
This website has features that can only be enjoyed when using modern 'standards-aware' web browsers. Generally, Internet Explorer lags behind other browsers and does not support many of these features. To see this site at its best, you are recommended to use one of the following browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, or Opera.
Windows 7:
- Internet Explorer (version 9)
- Firefox
- Opera
- Google Chrome
- Apple Safari (version 5 for PC)
- Internet Explorer (version 8)
Linux (Ubuntu 10.04 - Lucid Lynx):
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
This website has features that can only be enjoyed when using modern 'standards-aware' web browsers. Generally, Internet Explorer lags behind other browsers and does not support many of these features. To see this site at its best, you are recommended to use one of the following browsers: Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, or Opera.
If the layout appears to be wrong on any of the pages, please write to the webmaster with details of the problem.
accessibility
We have tried to ensure that all pages on our website are accessible to as wide a range of users as possible, and are compatible with assistive technologies for disabled users.
We believe the sites meet the priority 1 checkpoints in the W3C's Web Content Accessibility guidelines.
For more information, see the accessibility page.
acknowledgements
The following applications were used in the creation of this website:
Notetab Light was used in the creation of the first (html) version.A significant update to PHP format in 2008 was possible thanks to the Aptana Studio editor and the XAMPP integrated server package containing Apache server, PHP, Perl and MySQL.
Virtual Box (Sun Microsystems) provides the virtual computer environment for the Linux system.
Jalbum was used to create the earlier photo albums, mostly using the Chameleon skin.
Slimbox2 displays the photographs from the Valencia 2012 trip.
Filezilla is used for uploading the files to the main server.
JQuery and JQuery UI power some of the latest Javascript features (eg Slimbox2 and draggable boxes - see the ABOUT US and the TIMELINE pages)
Fonts. Occasional use is made of Google Web Fonts and also embedded fonts from Fontsquirrel. Client-side and server-side scripting is used extensively; some was adapted from code published on the internet, for example:
Slide browser pop-up (eg Travel, Santiago 2008) [Javascript]
File reader (used in slide shows - eg Travel, Marrakech 2010 [PHP])
Fly-out menus (eg in slide shows) [HTML]
XML reader (used in the 'latest ...' section) [XML]
XMLHttpRequest (used with the thumbnail show on the HOME page, and on the TIMELINE page.) [AJAX]
At the time of the launch of this website, all pages had passed
the validation tests for CSS and HTML 4.01 transitional.
Validation checks are carried out periodically.
The RSS feeds are validated whenever a change is made.
the validation tests for CSS and HTML 4.01 transitional.
Validation checks are carried out periodically.
The RSS feeds are validated whenever a change is made.