Website Changes
Martin Olmos started this web site back around 2000, and we all agree he did a great job. It has been very hard to step into his shoes. He used Macromedia Dreamweaver as his main tool for editing the site. He has moved from Sydney to do even greater things.
Nick Urbanik has now tried to step into his shoes. Nick has a 19" monitor with 1920 pixels across. At that resolution, a table-based design fixed at 646 pixels results in a narrow strip of text surrounded by empty screen. Now Nick does not like that, so he resolved to change the original table-based layout of the web site to use a design that uses CSS positioning that can use the entire width of the web browser at any resolution.
He also resolved to use non-proprietary, standards conforming valid XHTML and CSS. The result makes the HTML much smaller and simpler than before, so also much easier to edit.
The site was built using GNU's web production tool Emacs :-).
(Technical note: the program Nick wrote to convert the site.)
The Menus and IE 5
Not content with that, Nick decided to inflict a menu system on you all. Unfortunately, it jumped around in Internet Explorer 5.0 until Holly Bergevin explained how to fix it. Now it works on IE5, IE5.5 and IE6, and all the other browsers I have tested, including Safari on a Mac, Firefox, Konqueror, Opera 9.
It should also display properly on Netscape 4.x and other older browsers, and also on hand-held devices, and should be accessible by screen readers for people with sight problems, such as Jaws.
Please let me know if this web site is not accessible to you.
Now this web site is best viewed with Any Browser.
Printing
We have a print style sheet — that means, if you print any page on this site, it should print with proper margins, and without the sidebars and menus, automatically. Please let me know if this doesn't work for your browser/printer.
