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Winter
2004-2005 |
| An
Occasional Grouse . . . from Alan Richards - 18th February 2005 |
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It's been one of those weeks running the Dales and Vales site.
It started badly and has steadily gone down hill. Monday saw
me making a complete mess of uploading new pages to the host.
Then came the inevitable connection problems with my ISP when
trying to correct it. When I thought things couldn't get any
worse I should have known that they could, and in all likelihood
would. Finding myself at a loose end in my local library the other day, and with a bank of free to use PC's in front of me, I made the mistake of deciding to take the opportunity to have a look at my own site. The idea was to give me an idea as to how others might be viewing it. Shock, horror, alarm doesn't even begin to describe my feelings as my carefully crafted pages started to appear on the monitor. What a mess! Looking at the screen, set at what I presume was an 800x600 resolution, was a nightmare. Even worse were the contrast settings which displayed photographs that were unrecognizable to the ones I had carefully optimized for viewing on the net. Lacking in colour and tonal value they looked truly awful. I thought, "Do people really view Dales and Vales like this" . . . and if so, why do they ever bother coming back? Viewing my own pictures on these machines had been a most depressing experience, so much so that on my return home I immediately turned on my own system to reassure myself as to how my pages should look, and hopefully as to how they do look to the thousands of viewers who visit this site each month. It's great that the local library provides free facilities for the Internet but is it too much to ask that equipment, that must have cost thousands of £'s to the local tax payers, should at least be set up by technicians who have a basic knowledge of a monitor's brightness and contrast controls? . . . and they have the nerve to called themselves "IT experts" . . . ! Alan Richards |
| Book Review - 16th February 2005 |
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Cape Wrath to the Riviera |
| Photo-Walk - 8th February 2005 |
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Lake District |
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| Home Page Picture - 1st February 2005 |
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Alan Richards |
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| Page Sponsor - 1st February 2005 |
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| Home Page Picture - 1st December 2004 |
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