I am indebted to the writer of the free HTML5 website freehtml5templates.co.uk ( See the links page, I used the ‘buildings’ version) . If you look at that you will find I have changed it quite a lot but the basic structure of the menus, although doubled, is still to be seen. In the slide show I just changed the pictures and captions and speeded it up a bit. My learning curve in HTML5 and CSS would not have got off the ground without that initial steer. The javascript remains something of a mystery but I am learning to use a few basic commands ( like the ‘back’ command using history). http://www.w3schools.com/ is also a useful tool.
The Graphics and type are optimised to read at 1920x1080 pixels on a desktop computer in full screen mode (I have added
back buttons to make that easier). I have found that the site views best in Google Chrome or internet Explorer up to
125% magnification but that the menus tend to spill over into the next line after that. Below 85% the bottom of the
background comes into view. To facilitate viewing on android and smaller screens, headings are images rather than text
and sized to a percentage of the screen width. I have not found a way to do that with the menus yet. Watch this space!
I have tried to put this site together with the minimum of bells gongs and whistles. In this my plan has been to keep the
writing big and friendly and to keep the number of words on a page down. The look is supposed, without resorting to fancy
graphics, to resemble index cards. Most of the pictures will be replaced with new ones as they are taken. Again – Watch
this space!
Please direct any queries to me on the contact page .
John Graney,
Webmaster
25/11/2014
The CoVid19 pandemic has given me the time to revise the 'look' of the pages a little. Improvements to the .css file now
mean that however large you increase the size of the written items they will remain with their containers. I have also more
extensively used proportional sizing (vw and % mainly). Pages which have not been unpraded yet should be done in the next
couple of weeks
John Graney,
Webmaster
15/10/2020