Website News
The new Website is now 'stable'. However, if you find something that doesn't look right or is difficult to use, please
send me an email (my address is at the bottom of the page).
However there appears to be an issue with the latest version of the Opera browser which may insert a hollow
square 'box' instead of a space, I expect that the Opera people will resolve this fairly soon.
I am in the process of adding some more photographs. This would mean that the page will become too big to be 'reasonable' so that I am initiating the process of having multiple pages of photos. The photographs will be in the order that I receive them (most recent first) and the oldest ones will 'overflow' onto the next page as I add them. I am starting to get more photographs but I can always use some more up to date ones.
The 'Groups' page now includes the dates for up to the next 3 months. I hope to continue be able to continue to take a preliminary version of the Digest as soon as siin as possible. This will mean that the dates shown might be avaiable before the digest has been received.
As I have reported before, the web pages react to a change in size of the browser window Note however that, if the window
becomes smaller, the text may also become smaller.
However, there are technical problems with Internet Explorer version 7 and some other specialist browsers so that any
change in window size will not be recognised until the page is refreshed (usually F5) or another page requested.
I apologise is any of you have had a problem with the Groups page, this should be resolved. Please let me know if you
do have problems.
If you have any ideas for additional facilities, please let me know. Some of the things that have been suggested are:
- Include the group meeting dates in the diary. I have been looking into the possibility of being able to select which groups to show. Whilst I have resolved the technical issues, I have as yet been unable to create an intuitive interface.
- Change the way in which the 'Start' page works. I am not keen to put the 'usage' information on to the main home page and I don't really want to add to the navigation buttons (there are probably too many already). My current thoughts are that there should be a separate button on the Home page only, to navigate to an 'information' screen.
- Add contact information for the groups. Unfortunately, I had to reject this as it is not thought sensible to put this information on the Web, for security reasons.
I am also considering some other ideas:
- Providing a 'printer friendly' version of the diary. This will probably be combined with the inclusion of the meeting dates of selected groups
- Extending the Group information on the Groups page to include more information about the group meetings. Subjects, venues, etc.
- Putting the last update date for every page on the information page.
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