Technical Information, Acknowledgements, and Current Issues

Technical Notes

For those who are interested:

This site has been "hand crafted" using HTML-Kit to create valid (X)HTML content, which validates against the HTML 4.01 "strict" language definition.
The presentation uses Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to provide the site layout.
A completely "tableless" approach has been adopted to separate the page presentation from its structure
The current stylesheet adopts a somewhat minimalist aproach to the "classic BCS" house style. Further sytlesheets may be provided in due course.

The ideas behind the site and its layout are the accumulation of lots of influences, but particularly worthy of note, are:

Eric Meyer's classic ideas on CSS design
Eric Meyer's More Eric Meyer on CSS
Keith Brown's Virtual Workshops
Stu Nicholls's Cutting Edge CSS
The Listamatic site, which provdes a collection of ideas relating to stylesheets and lists
The Road to Standards and why they are important in design
Developing with Web Standards Recommendations and Best Practice
The IE7 work of Dave Edwards to make IE "simulate" being a standards compliant browser!
Project 7's tutorial on CSS rollovers and Uberlinks
Ideas from Hicksdesign on highlighting the current page with CSS
Some variations on form layout using CSS from The Man in Blue.
Creating dynamic web sites via Programming PHP
More PHP recipies from the PHP Cookbook and the PHP Developer's Cookbook
Opening new windows with the "target" attribute is depricated in strictly conforming (X)HTML. This SitePoint article gives an approach to providing the functionality via JavaScript.
Date/Time formatting for the Last Modified date of the web pages was derived from

Current known problems with the operation of this site will be provided here. These are currently:

These will be addressed as soon as possible.