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This site

Techy stuff

Design philosophy?

Further ...

It's been bigger.
It's been better.
However now, to use a once-popular acronym, what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG).

small.
... perfectly formed? ;o)

I believe everyone on the internet should design, construct and publish a web site. Whether it's left to languish (which serves as historical documentation of a person's thoughts) or is updated frequently (performing a similar function) is irrelevant. The level of detail is irrelevant (after all, not everyone wants stalkers).

Just do it.

Why?
... because you're worth it.

Ah, back to my web site eh?

It's been constructed using a popular web site design program: Macromedia Dreamweaver. And, from the middle of December 2000 the development continued using Microsoft FrontPage.

The graphics: Optimised in either of Macromedia Fireworks, Adobe Photoshop LE or, after the beginning of 2001, CorelDraw!

Thumbnails are 120 pixels tall, and the images (usually .jpgs) to which they link (opening within a new window for your convenience) are either 600 pixels wide or 400 tall and compressed to, theoretically, speed download times.

Just to give you an idea of the amount of effort I've gone to so you can quickly get an impression of the stuff I like, the .jpg images you'll see on this site average out, in their unadulterated form straight out of the camera, at 2000x1312 pixels and 600kB.

I removed the javascript photo colour-inverting thing from the index page. I originally couldn't resist showing off my mastery of, er ... clicking on menu options. ;o) This disappeared because I found something equally, er ... eye-catching to replace it? Operating system specific javascript and the download dependent fancy stuff such as Macromedia Flash aren't, in my opinion, the ideal way I'd construct a web site.

The rest of it though, is ...

... designed thus:

No, it's not boring, honesZZZZZzzzzz..... :o)

• Firstly, a mention of the site name, usually hyperlinked back to the main page. This is situated outside the main page table definition so that the user gets something immediately, however long the page takes to load.
• Second the main table which organises the columns, with dark blue main page heading and red, green, blue and black column headings with white text for contrast.
• Third, a horizontal rule separating the table from both the text spelling out the page location and a mailto: email link.
• The main body of black text is on a white background, just like a printed book. This, you could argue, is missing the point of this internet-based stuff. So? :o)
• Hyperlinks are standard underlined plain text (apart from the picture on the main page).
• Hyperlinked images all have text links and brief captions, just in case the user has switched the display of images off.
• Images themselves are as small as I think necessary, and, as stated, shrunk both in physical dimensions and file size.
• Spelling miscakes? Factual (this site is worth your time) inaccuracies? Tell me about them.

Still reading this?

Why, when there's Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing? It's an excellent resource for web site authors intent on making their labours both readable and accessible to the majority, rather than incorporating bells-and-whistles just because they *can*.