This has been revamped. There is a new (drop down) style menu amalgamating the previous side bar and images. A cleaner look has been achieved with the removal of the 'marquee' (the picture of Two Jays 'sailing' across the bottom of the screen), simplified link colours and a consistant background colour.
When this link, on the 'Home' Page, is selected the drop down that is shown states the place and waterway on the linked map. Hopefully this additional information will further assist especially now that Two Jays is frequently passing along waterways previously visited.
This has been redrawn with more shown of the area to the north of Ducie Street Junction.
The way the text for links displays has been changed and is now identical for all occurrancies as shown here,
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All slide shows start with a help slide showing how the slide show controls work.
At the top left hand corner of each page there are links pathing the way back to the home page.
Have you noticed that when surfing the web an 'annoying' border appears around link texts or images. It is called the 'active link border'. This phenomenon has been eliminated on the 'Two Jays' web site by adding 'onFocus="if(this.blur)this.blur();"' within each <a> tag.
This has been replaced by a new page. The page, renamed 'Site Directory' works just like a directory tree. There is a 'help' link to assist. If your system does not show pages with frames you can still access the old 'Site Map' page.
There are now two pages. One, named 'Site Changes', describes the changes made to the look, feel and navigation of the web site. The other, named 'Content Changes' describes the alterations (usually additions) to what can be seen and read.
Last year's changes can be seen under 'Archive' from the Main Menu.
These should now work in Netscape. There were 100's to change and its possible that some have been missed, apologies if so. If you find any that don't work and you let me know it'll be fixed.
These are the, usually, small extra windows that sometimes appear when a link is selected. They can be quite annoying especially if one follows another link leaving the window open. However, they are also quite useful as they are a handy way of displaying extra bits of information. Except for the railway windows, see below, all these windows now close themselves automatically should they be left open when some other action is performed.
The railway map is a pop up window. This does not close automatically because this action would be triggered when a railway picture link were selected and so nothing would happen. The railway picture pop up windows could be made to close automatically. This change may be done as time permits.
The method to open the railway diagrams has been changed from mouseover to a 'normal' link.
- XHTML The code that creates each page has been re-written to, as far as possible, comply with the XHTML specification. The main requirements were to self close tags with no closing tag, viz.: <br />; <img /> close all tags viz.: </li>; </p> and replace formatting tags with style sheets, see below.
- Style
- Page Formatting
Pages are being rewritten to remove formatting tags in favour of style commands. - CSS
- Tables
- Thumbnail Pictures
Cascading Style Sheets have been more fully implemented. Wherever possible the commands are in external files thus eliminating the need to include these on individual pages.
Pages with multiple columns have been re-written to use the 'DHTML technique of floating columns.
The way these work is that clicking the thumbnail pictures opens a new page showing an enlarged version of the picture with appropriate text. Originally each of these new pages was individually coded.
The change made is to use location substring to pass the actual picture selected to a single page and using the same information to write the text for that page. The main benefit of this change is a considerable reduction in the number of, and associated space required for, the web pages.
The same method has also been used for the railway pictures.