About this site
This site was written using Dreamweaver CS3. I have made the assumption that anyone interested enough in exploring this site will be interested enough in images to be using a monitor 1,000 pixels wide or better and 32 bit colour. The optimum window width is about 1,100.
I have tested the site on the PC with Firefox and Chrome and on an old and new version of IOS.
If you notice any problems or have comments please e-mail me
Technical Blog
March 5th - 2019
Having sorted the code to at least rough conformance to HTML5 standards the site menu was still slightly unreliable on IOS. On researching why this was I discovered that the menu was generated by the Adobe “Spry” library; an old forerunner of jQuery. Very out of date and no longer supported, but the major problem is that it used javascript 1.2. The current version is 11. Current browsers don’t really understand javascript this old.
There was no reasonable way to update this so a new set of menus was written using just HTML5 and CSS3. There is currently no javascript on the site, although this may change in future. The site passes all the tests I can throw at it but will be tweaked as errors or poor formatting are found.
February 28th - 2019
As above this site was originally written by Dreamweaver CS3. A lot of the writing was accomplished with the graphical interface. Easy to use, but unfortunately machine generated code isn’t the most efficient. In fact the HTML was littered with unnecessary < div > constructs as well as multiple resets of fonts etc. I have therefore been through the HTML code carefully to strip out extraneous stuff. More importantly a lot of images had missing or incorrect alt tags and descriptions. These have been corrected.
