In this further re-write of the web-site, I have continued to conform as much as possible to the restrictions of the W3 Consortium and XHTML, using the "TRANSITIONAL" mode.

The site has been constructed for and tested in Mozilla Firefox. The only other browser tried is Internet Explorer but with IE I find the "Links" (tag <a>) outline colours still appear despite my turning them off in the Style Sheet. My preferred browser remains Firefox.

Again, I have written the whole of the site manually, labour-intensive and boring that this undoubtedly is by comparison with using authoring tools like the Dreamweaver and Frontpage editors. For me, there is insufficient flexibility and control with such editors and I tend to get lost. I have tried a recommended new editor called "Nvu" (download it - it's free) but good as it seems, any editor places a barrier between the source code and me the author.

For the main section, "Gallery", my preoccupation has been how best to present the images. The advantage of viewing a picture as a slide or on the computer is that the colours are that much brighter, being derived from emitted light, than the colour pigments of a print, and this is more noticeable if the ambient light is subdued - it is best to look at the monitor in a darkened room and I urge you to do this for best effect. I have now chosen a black background since this seems best for the setting of the relevant image.

Web design goes in fashions and it is presently considered outré to have a fussy highly-coloured background or jazzy-looking buttons for links. I have partly complied - at least the backgrounds are quite neutral.

Each image has needed to be contained within the screen (in newspaper terms "above the fold"). In a previous re-write, I pushed the limits too far and have now reduced the maximum dimensions used earlier. On the assumption that these days most people use 17 inch monitors or larger and can therefore adjust the resolution to at least 1152 pixels by 864 pixels (1024 x 768 is really insufficient), I have set the maximum image dimensions at 900 pixels width and 800 pixels height. It may be too much to ask but the viewer is urged to configure his/her monitor accordingly and, if necessary, clear any side-panels and go for full screen height - toggle key F11 in Firefox and Internet Explorer. There is also just one panoramic picture of 3000 pixels width and for this of course, it will be necessary to scroll across.

Another aspect over which it would seem that I have no control, is the delay experienced in down-loading the pages, but I have made the assumption that most now have a broadband connection and are not slowed by the use of a 56mHz modem. Of course, each image is optimized for the web (the trade-off between file-size and definition) and for this version of the site I have made the image file sizes up to 400Kb, and this has avoided any unacceptable measure of compression - I think.

Nevertheless, for the benefit of those with slower modems, I have again tried to shorten any downloading delay by background loading of the next following image in a series, in an almost invisible 1 x 1 pixel area, whilst the viewer is or should be dwelling over the attributes of the current screenful! This will only be apparent if progressing from one image to the next with the forward arrow. If you are that much interested, you can just discern a one pixel light spot just below the "Up" arrow at the very bottom-left of each picture page.

If you have any thoughts or tips as to how I should have done it all, please let me know - by e-mail .