Monday, March 8, 2010

Website Updated

The website has been tidied up throughout and some new features added:
  • A page has been added to record any members' biographical information that is sent in to me for publication. This could be the story of your entire life, or some particular period of your life that you feel would be of interest to us all.

  • The News page was revised. Although it looks much the same, you can now subscribe to an 85th Entry News feed (please click here if you'd like to find out more about that).

  • A consequence of this site update is that the News page needs JavaScript enabled in your browser to properly show the news items. Most Browsers do come with JavaScript enabled but, if someone has turned yours off, you can do the following or get some geek to do it for you: in Firefox, click on Tools, select Options, select Content then click in the "enable javascript" checkbox; in Explorer, go Tools > internet options > security > custom level..., find "Active Scripting" and then check enable. Anyone using another browser, please let us know how by adding a comment to this post. Ta!

  • For the geeky, I've stayed with HTML 4.01 Transitional for maximum cross-browser capability and each page has been validated. The News RSS feed is, of course, done in XML. Our News page itself accesses the XML file, to render the items therein on-screen, via JavaScript. The Biographical page is also in XML, rendered by XSL.

Webmaster Ted

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