28 February 2009

A revamp

It needed a revamp. Why?
  • Updating was becoming more and more difficult as the website became bigger;
  • Most people using broadband - so more pictures
  • Most people using screen resolutions greater than 800x600 - so bigger pages
  • The chance to increase the font size
  • The opportunity to improve the navigation of the picture pages and to rationalise the underlying perl scripts and javascripts
  • To take advantage of the iframe tag
  • To present the information in an less cluttered page design
  • Because, in my opinion, the old design was getting a bit tired and in need of a lick of paint
Due to the number of files and scripts, I do not propose to update the whole site and I will concentrate on those pages most often looked at by the website visitors.

Of course, feedback is most welcome.

08 February 2009

Twitter thee, please

Is Twitter of use to the West Somerset Railway? I'm not sure. Let's see if a small clickable link on the News page helps folks to "twitter" about some news item they've just seen on the page. They'll need to have a Twitter account of course, but it could be a smart way of further broadcasting WSR stuff.