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I've given my webpage a bit of a redesign (though not at present changed any of the content; I'll look into that in the nearish future). The old version was becoming an embarrassment: both the page style and the HTML were stuck in 1996.

I've tested it in Firefox 2 on Linux and Windows, IE 6, and Safari.^* If you find the new version does not work for you, let me know.

* Also Lynx and Links, for which the quasi-links at the top do not work. If anyone knows how to fix this, let me know; otherwise, I shall just let it pass, as I suspect the chances of anyone limited to a text-only browser, braille reader or screen reader visiting my site is quite low.

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Lynx &c. - put the links in as proper links at the bottom of the page, inside a <noscript> block?

also, the quasi-links, can you make them so the mouse pointer does the linky thing on hovering over them?

Moving text?!? augh!

- The block of image/text at the top is too tall - I hate to think what this will look like on my 7' Eee.

- I'd like the links better if they were behaving normally

- Safari 2 puts all the content bits one after the next, finishing after the BBC Micro link, followed by Loading... and the background. I've just looked at the site in Firefox, where it's using a very clever swipe-in-from-right transition.

Why not just make the 'quasi links' into ordinary links?

*autothwack* Too obvious. :o)

- The block of image/text at the top is too tall - I hate to think what this will look like on my 7' Eee.

Hmm. I hadn't thought of mobile devices. I should put in a control to toggle large/small banner.

- I'd like the links better if they were behaving normally

I shall be doing that. I'm not entirely sure why I didn't originally; I think there was a good reason that's now been obsoleted by my better understanding of the JavaScript.

- Safari 2 puts all the content bits one after the next, finishing after the BBC Micro link, followed by Loading... and the background. I've just looked at the site in Firefox, where it's using a very clever swipe-in-from-right transition.

As failure modes go, that's fairly innocuous. It should be fail better once I've made the above change.

I've come up with a better solution; see downthread.

Weird layout. Your banner ought not to take up half the screen. Probably better to put the links in a horizontal banner and float the mugshot at the side so that the text can go round it.

You also perhaps ought to have more space between the title and the second line; the underline on the Funny A risks mushing with the PhD part.

And maybe your blog should open in a new window?

- The block of image/text at the top is too tall - I hate to think what this will look like on my 7' Eee.

Better now?

Edited 2009-02-04 21:55 (UTC)

Much better. It's loading OK in Safari now - somewhat sluggish, but it's displaying correctly. I'll look at it on my Eee if I remember. (And one of these days I need to pick your brains about archaeology for the book I'm working on; I need to know how much people can expect to find, particularly with twenty people digging for only a few days. I can magically tweak things a little, but don't want it too unbelievable.

You'd do better asking

dhole, who's a professional archaeologist.

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