The Lost Plot - About this Site

About this site

Ok first things first.. This site is hosted by 20megsfree.com and as such has a few pop-ups and banner ads. This goes with the territory, personally I'm happy with it and given just simple the interface is to use I recommend them to anyone.

Besides, you can always block pop-ups

Site Policies

This site makes pretty extensive usage of Javascript to the extent that without it you may as well assume the site will not work. Much of this scripting simply speeds up the site by using the same code for the headers etc on all the pages, so you only download it once.. neat eh?

Pop-ups At the time of writing I've not placed any pop-ups on this site myself, though my hosting company may well have. My Policy is pretty simple, If I'm going to use a pop-up window for anything, You'll know before you get it, and it will only pop-up at your request, this is planned for the image galleries, assuming I can get them working exactly the way I want, with individual images opening in a seperate window.

What I have NOT done is to mess around with your browser windows, if you would like page to open in a new window then you will have to do this for yourself, that way YOU are in control.

Gallery Pages

The gallery pages are produced via two small 'bash' scripts and the amazing ImageMagik program If anyones interested I'm still working on the ability to add some captions etc to these pages, the scripts are 'linux' only at the moment, but I'm working on windows versions. Once these are ready I'll upload them here.

Customisation

This site can, to a degree, be customised to suit yourself, this is made possible by extensive usage of Cascading Style Sheet technology coupled to Javascript, which allows you, the viewer, to select which style sheet you wish to use. This is still under development though the number of styles is expected to grow with time. To access this feature have a look at the preferences page, remember the look changes when you refresh the page, or move to another page only.

Technology

I've tried to write this site in accordance with the XHTML 1.0 standard, I was going to use XML & XSL technology but there are issues hosting them here, basically the pages work fine prior to upload, but the server doesn't set some of the types correctly so they don't work on download to yourself. Hence this is no longer used.

The intention is to validate the pages with W3C, once this validation process is complete the validation logo will be present on the page footer somewhere.

Adverts

You may have noticed the dark rectangles with 'adspace' written in them, this is not for commercial ads, anything placed here is because I like the site or product myself, typically this is going to be random links from a small database I'm working on. All of these will be present on my links page eventually.

If you have a related website and would like a link, email me (details on the 'about me' page or the footer of this one), If I like your site ya gets a link, tis simple as that. There are links to non-TG resources going into this pool as well, anything related to any of them is also fair game.