What Do You Think Of My Website?

[n.wales_sherco_lad1]

very impressed with your website, keep it updated!!

[sting32]

I suppose it's pre installed and unless you are tech minded why should you change something that works.

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Because Internet Explorer is a security risk. Its well documented with respect to its vunerablities. Particular problems arise in the way it controls the application of ActiveX scripts.

Firefox on the other hand is well know for its security features and is therefore first choice for the business world and for most other people who keep up with the times. It has a variety of plug-ins providing enhanced features. A myriad of different themes and also has the feature of Tabbed Browsing. And all this for free ( that made you lot sit up !!! )

GET IT BELOW AND RID THE WORLD OF MICROSOFT PHISH CODING

http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/

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Ant, To agree or not to agree, hmmm.

IMHO: The security risk on any computer is the nut at the keyboard. I been around the net a few times, btw.

[atomant]

When you buy a car, you expect it to have a suitable security system to stop people getting in and stealing anything dont you ?

Well, IE is like having a car with no doors left in the town centre car park all day with your wallet on the front seat (amongst other things)!!

(which Im sure you know however it might be of use to others who dont know)

IMHO: The security risk on any computer is the nut at the keyboard.

I agree

[boofont]

Video's didn't work for me in Firefox ??? but do in IE, that may be a plug in I've not got, but usually OK.

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Me too, vids don't work in Firefox.

[steve]

One thing that I thought would be good - I was tempted to click on all your photo's to enlarge them - an option maybe????

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I have added an option to select all the photos now.

http://212.219.116.40/~sbird/pages/photos.html

Is that better?

What format would the videos work on any browser without plugins?

At the moment they are wmv

[atomant]

Code the videos like below and they will work in any browser. By clicking the image, the user will be given the option to download to their computer or open and view automatically.

In IE, it will open up your player and run the video.

Substitue the URL's in this example as required.

<center>

<img src="../images/videos_blue.gif" width="380" height="32">

<p>

<a href="http://212.219.116.40/~sbird/movies/aprillia.wmv"><img'>http://212.219.116.40/~sbird/movies/aprillia.wmv"><img width="360" height="288" border="0" src="http://212.219.116.40/~sbird/movies/aprillia.wmv" ></a>

</p>

</center>

Hope that helps.

If you want the vids to play in a page like you have it now, then thats possible but will need a bit more coding

Regards

Ian

[boofont]

I played the videos in IE. The browser kept crashing and asking me to send an MS error report.

[neonsurge]

Ant, Sting, I too have been around the block more times than I care to remember as far as the 'net is concerned (I remember when the WWW didn't exist - it was all sendmail, FTP and Gopherspace - you young 'uns don't know you're born etc. etc.) Anyway, my day job is developing web-based document management and workflow automation software for local government and while writing user interfaces the golden rule is always code to account for the lowest common denominator. Since IE is installed with Windows, 95% of the PCs out there are running some version of Windows and Joe Average doesn't know (and in an ideal world shouldn't have to know) that there are far better alternatives, IE should be the base target for browser compatibility. I've learned through bitter experience that just because something works on your fully patched and tuned Windows XP Pro box running Firefox 1.0.7 with gigs of RAM, acres of disk space and a big fat internet connection doesn't mean that it'll work on a five year old virus and spyware-ridden Windows 95 machine on dialup.

Having said that, I find it's usually easier to code according to W3C standards so that everything works in non-Microsoft browsers, THEN add IE compatibility hacks since they're well documented and easy to accomodate without significant changes to the source (the famous "box" hack for CSS-based layouts is very useful).

I've played with an early version of IE 7.0 (in the last beta release of Windows Vista) and it's vastly improved in terms of standards compliance. Problem is, Vista (aka "Longhorn") isn't due for release until at least this time next year.

Until then - go download Firefox (or Mozilla or Opera) and help save web developers' sanity!

[atomant]

I've played with an early version of IE 7.0 (in the last beta release of Windows Vista) and it's vastly improved in terms of standards compliance. Problem is, Vista (aka "Longhorn") isn't due for release until at least this time next year.

Until then - go download Firefox (or Mozilla or Opera) and help save web developers' sanity!

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And will it be worth waiting all that time for in your opinion? Firefox ( and Opera which I actually prefer better) will probally have a strong hold by then. Do you think MS can pull it back?

[charliechitlins]

I don't know anything about web design.

Good riding, though!

[Guest tobeee]

It's a helluva lot better than my first effort! That was www.sixday.freeserve.co.uk - The first ever SSDT website that went on to become www.ssdt.org. God, it was bloody awful. Granted it was 6 years ago and things have moved on a lot since then, but I remember exactly what it looked like and it was terrible! I regret not saving a copy just so I could look back and laugh.

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Have another laugh Andy...

http://web.archive.org/web/19991004104404/...//www.ssdt.org/

(found using http://www.archive.org/web/web.php)

Great site Steve. I reckon it could be improved a bit with a few more breaks within the minding section.

Cheers, Toby

[sting32]

you young 'uns don't know you're born etc. etc.) 

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Bad enough to find out you are on the government payroll (joking), then you call me a youn un? Gopher was developed after I got really online

I was online back when, prolly before all you guys were. I had access back when you had to be in a Database or IT group in the college to be alowed on the unix boxes that had net access. circa '89.

I recall doing homework as well as other stuff with "vi" text editor, get out man. Pine was in it's day as big a jump as windows operating systems are now compared to dos, imho.

[dgshannon]

It's a helluva lot better than my first effort! That was www.sixday.freeserve.co.uk - The first ever SSDT website that went on to become www.ssdt.org. God, it was bloody awful. Granted it was 6 years ago and things have moved on a lot since then, but I remember exactly what it looked like and it was terrible! I regret not saving a copy just so I could look back and laugh.

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Andy,

Go to the "Wayback Machine" (http://www.archive.org/web/web.php) and you can view copies of old websites. The first record of your site was from 1999.

[gasgaspunkuk]

So that machine could find everything ever posted on the internet? eg. the first ever website?

[kinell]

Borrowed from a Zen Internet newsletter...

"When did the Web begin? The first Web site was built by Tim Berners-Lee and appeared at http://info.cern.ch/ on August 6, 1991. It provided an explanation of what the World Wide Web was, or was to be, and how to acquire a browser that would let you see it. It was also the world's first Web directory, where Berners-Lee later maintained a list of other Web sites apart from his own. Managing the directory didn't take much work at first. Two years later, there were only 600 Web sites to be found anywhere and a mere 100,000 by 1995. But by the end of that year, people were beginning to take a lot more notice of 'The World Wide Web' and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like Compuserve, America Online and Zen Internet offered customers Internet access for the first time. Zen launched with a network capable of supporting up to six simultaneous dial-up users. Within two years, it was providing the fastest Internet access in the country, making regular appearances at the top of monthly 'speed league' tables and winning "ISP of the Year", the first of many national awards. Today, the company has a core network capacity over 20,000 times larger, it matches its first year sales every working day, and the world has accumulated an estimated 75 million Web sites."