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Why?

This site is where Lima Ed learns how to do it.
Also, he likes travelling & photography.
No pretence at art, and he's 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, Albums of similar or related photos are grouped together. Sometimes a single trip makes for a good chronalogical travelog, other pictures from a specific location or event provide equally logical pages.

The main sections of the site are listed in this table. Links are live but open in a new window so you can check them out without leaving this page.

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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 Lima Ed's menus more as an index. While not seamless, navigation is still intuitive, just a bit more work for your browser! (See the note in the Browser Compatibility section about Tabbed Browsing)

Lima Ed does 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 he's done this in HTML is too laborious to update regularly and so he doesn't. A JavaScript version is planned. He may develop that into an explorer-style Home Page. The published HTML effort is proof of concept, but remember it isn't current.

Because Lima Ed uses this site as a learning tool and test bed for ideas, different design and navigation styles live side by side. They are not always consistant, but hopefully they are consistantly intuitive.

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Techi-stuff

Lima Ed's hardware & software are very basic.

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 the "new" eBay special. A P4 right enough, but only just a child of the new Millennium!

Lima Ed upgraded ( !*! ) to Win XP and now use Firefox browser. (This has highlighted some IE Only features in a few pages - Sorry!). He's also dipping his toes in Linux, but it's a slow curve.

It all started with simple pages in code for an Open University course. After messing with a couple of HTML editors, Lima Ed "found" Front Page Express. That's pretty basic too, but it was (up-front) free and he used it for almost everything 'till he upgraded to Dreamweaver.

He originally used the Geocities (RIP) interface to upload files, & the Geo Advanced Editor to tweak the HTML on-line if needed. He now use FTP and tweaks off-line with HTML-kit (excellent & free) when Dreamweaver gets in the way.

 

Initially, hardware was set-up for a 640x480 screen and a lot of the earlier images & pages look very cramped these days. Sorry if you think size matters!
As with most things in life, screen resolution has grown with time and technology (yes - even Lima Ed). He intends now to design around a 800x600 format for the purposes of consistancy and preparation for "framing-up" in the future.

Browser Compatibility
Lima Ed figures that if it'll run on his, it'll probably run on yours too.
He's tried to make the site non browser specific, but knows (now) that there are a some javascript features in a few pages that only work with IE. Sorry.

LimaEd has increasingly employed Tabbed Browsing, especially to highlight discrete third party hosted functions (eg fotopic albums) that might otherwise move intuitive navigation away from the main site. A tab-less browser, or not using your tabbing function, could be confusing due to links opening multiple new windows. Feedback please - and we'll try to limit the use of the <target> tag!

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Copyright

Unless noted otherwise, all photographs were taken by Limaed and pages designed by Limaed - and Limaed retains copyright according to:
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Basically, permission for non-commercial use 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 fotopic don't seem to mind)
Much of the "artwork" is similarly home-made, and while much is also copied from the web, Lima Ed has not knowingly poached any-one else's "personal" work. That said, in the early days of Lima Ed, he taught himself 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
. . . . . . . .July 2010

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