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- Why?
- This site is
where I learn how to do it.
Also, I like travelling
& photography.
No pretence at art, and I'm not going into competition with Lonely
Planet!
The Picture Sets are just personal photo albums. If you like looking
at other people's holiday snaps you might enjoy them - if you don't,
then you probably won't.
But that's OK.
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- What's
Here?
- Well a lot of photographs
and a little information, I've tried to group
albums of similar or related photos together. Sometimes a single
trip makes for a good chronalogical travelog, other pictures from
a specific location or event provide equally
logical pages.
- I've listed the main sections of the site in this table. Links
are live but open in a new window so you can check them out without
leaving this page.
| ABOUT LIMA Ed |
This Welcome Page |
| WHAT'S NEW |
Latest Updates, a short History of Lima Ed's,
and future plans |
| TRAVEL |
Travelogues - photo albums of places & also some events |
| FEATURES |
Some interesting Stuff that isn't
travel related |
| TRAIN PAGES |
Menu of Train related pages |
| CURIOS |
One off Pages like greetings, experiments with scripts, etc - that would otherwise be orphaned to the ether |
| CONTACTS |
Contact Lima Ed ... e-mail, www, messages |
| SITE PLAN |
Site map & Explorer-style
index (not current) |
| SEARCH |
Keyword Search for all Lima Ed's site |
| LINK: |
Topic grouped links to other
sites |
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- How
to Navigate
- Home Page is
where the main Navigation Bar is located.
- Home Page also has direct links to Feedback Forms, Stop Press, & Latest
Updates.
- A Simple Text
Only Direct Access Menu is provided on many main pages.
- Pages &
Albums are nested in the usual hierarchical system.
- As you browse
deeper into any section, so you can navigate back out, level by
level.
Most main pages have a direct route back to the highest level, Home
Page, by clicking on Lima
Ed's Banner Icon.............. -
- Many photo
series are linked slide-show style, but each frame is always accessible
from the album thumbnail index.
- Some photographs are not linked frame-to-frame, but only accessible from the
thumbnail index. In this case, clicking on the thumbnail opens just the associated image in your browser. Your Browser Back button is then the only
way to return to the index to select another picture to view.
Yeah - I know, but it really is a lot easier than it sounds.
Many recent albums are hosted on fotopic, using LimaEd's menus more as a central index. While not seamless, navigation is still intuitive, just a bit more work for your browser!
I do not often delve into the mysterious world of Frames. This is partly due to a legacy screen resolution of 640x480, and partly due to a legacy personality trait to keep things simple.
Site Index
was an experiment with frames.
NOTE: The way I've done this in HTML
is too laborious to update regularly and so I don't. A JavaScript
version is planned. I may develop
that into an explorer-style Home Page. Or maybe I won't.
I'll leave the published HTML effort as proof of concept, but remember it isn't current.
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- Techi-stuff
- My hardware & software
are very basic.
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- The Mean Machine didn't quite make it into 2007 - was this the oldest productive P1 this side of the Pennines? Some of the bits live on in my "new" eBay special. A P4 right enough, but only just a child of the new Millennium!
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- I upgraded ( !! ) to Win XP and now use Firefox browser. (This has highlighted some IE Only features in a few pages - Sorry!). I'm also dipping my toes in Linux, but it's a slow curve!
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- I started out writing simple pages in code for an Open University course. After messing with a
couple of HTML editors, I "found" Front Page Express.
That's pretty basic too, but it was (up-front) free and I used it
for almost everything 'till I upgraded to Dreamweaver - which I'm
still learning.
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- I originally used the
Geocities (RIP) interface to upload files, & the Geo Advanced Editor
to tweak the HTML on-line if I needed to. I now use FTP and tweak off-line with 1st Page
2000 (excellent & free) when Dreamweaver gets in
the way.
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- Initially
my hardware was set-up for a 640x480 screen and a lot of my earlier
images & pages look very cramped these days. Sorry if you
think size matters!
As with most things in life, my screen resolution has grown
with time and technology (yes - even Lima Ed). I intend now to design around a 800x600 format for the purposes
of consistancy and preparation for
"framing-up" at some future date.
- Browser Compatibility
I've tried to make my site non browser specific, but I know (now)
that there are a some javascript features in a few pages that only work with
IE. Sorry.
- I figure that if it'll
run on mine, it'll probably run on yours too.
I've tried to keep files
slim, but it's a difficult compromise, especially with an image-intense
site.
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- Copyright
- Unless noted otherwise, all photographs were taken by Limaed and pages designed by Limaed - and Limaed retains copyright. Permission for non-commercial use will normally be given in exchange for a link but it'd be really nice to ask first.
DON'T HOTLINK IMAGES - if you know what this means, you understand why. (although photopic don't seem to mind)
Much of the "artwork" is similarly home-made, and while much is also copied from the web, I have not knowingly poached any-one else's "personal" work. Having said that, in the early days of Lima Ed I taught myself by chop & changing other people's code, and it might be considered hypercritical, churlish, & unrealistic to suggest that anything freely posted on the web wasn't de facto open source.
- Feedback
- Yes please.
- Especially
about speed of loading, browser compatibility, navigating around
the site, bad links, questions, suggestions, etc.
Or, just say Hi.
- Be nice.
. . . . . Lima Ed
. . . . . . . .November 2009
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