Websites I Have Created

About This Website

This website was created using HTMLEdit, WebGif2, ArtWorks, Paint, Draw & Zap on an Acorn RiscPC/SA running RISC OS 4. There is nothing flashy (apart from a very few animated graphics around the site) here, just clean design in hand-crafted HTML. There is no Java, no JavaScript, no Flash, no frames, no tunes playing in the background—just a wide range of good content.

It started off back in 1998 as a very simple site containing no more than Scooter's and my biographies and a few photographs of Scooter and the house and garden. During the following three years so much was added—one section at a time, and more photos—that it eventually became cumbersome and needed a lot of vertical scrolling for those with only a small browser display area.

This resulted in the wholesale revamp of the site and the launch of this on 1^st January 2002. The changes to all main pages—topic buttons just below the banner, slimline page buttons down the left side, and a "go to top of page" facility on the longer pages—all aid navigation of the new site.

As always, the clearest results will be had on a system with full text anti-aliasing. To date, only RISC OS-based computers such as those offered by Acorn, RiscStation, Micro Digital, Castle, Millipede, Cerilica and certain set-top boxes have this capability, short of full-blown graphic workstations such as those produced by Silicon Graphics.
Inferior systems, such as the so-called font smoothing found on Windows 95 (with Plus add-on) and its successors will produce their usual (barely adequate!) results.

On a different topic, over the years I have designed several banners for the front (home) page of this website. Here is a page of the banners, including the currently-used ones.

Other Websites

• Belview Fire
• Davis Estate Community Centre
• Patch's Patch of Pussycats and Pooches
• Rochester Airport Group Executive ( R A G E )

Feel free to email the Webmaster (John) with your comments, praise, brickbats or requests.