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Site News for August 2001

13th Aubust 2001
More testing on the order forms and email forms. Rearranged my contact details to address/email, Tonbridge clinic and Coleby Centre.

12th August 2001
Added Daily joke to the site. Updated maps to use Maporama and added the Coleby Centre clinic where I also work.

Using Bobby 3.2, a site validator for disability access and browser compatibility. Working hard to make the site more compatible! For me, it was mainly putting in alternatives to the pictures. Spent a lot of time getting the online order system to work because I was using a brand new perl script (Alien Forms 2).

11th August 2001
I have done a contents comparison (163kb) between the first and second edition and marked out all the new headings in blue.

Added two more site statistics meters to try out.

10th August 2001
I have been working hard on the crystal deodorant order form to calculate the discounts automatically and doing some error trapping. But ... I've found out that the clever stuff doesn't work on Opera! Subscribed to the opera mailing list to see if anything can be done about it!

Removed the “under construction” picture as I think the site is now out of the ‘beta’ stage and up and running. It will continue to get improvements. Found out that the javascript parseInt function handles numbers with a leading “0” as octal.

9th August 2001
Added a newsfeed on the front page to keep you up to date with news in the health industry. Moved the things on the order form around to a bit so that the first printed page of the order form contains all the details I need. Trimmed down the number web statistics counters to the ones that are useful. Added small preview pictures to the monitoring spreadsheet.

8th August 2001
Added two contents pages from my book and a list of tables from my book. Added payment by PayHound information page and updated the Kinesiology Book order form to reflect this..

7th August 2001
Added new pages in the links section for technical sites, useful sites, freebies and shopping. Not much there but they will get expanded as and when I have time.

6th August 2001
Tidied up some menu links, added a page about children.

5th August 2001
Added a kinesiology technique from my book onto the site and added an earlier news link..

Finally managed to get the cross browser menu system working to my satisfaction. It is the Ultimate Drop Down Menu 3.01 from brothercake. I now have a sliding menu in both Internet Explorer and Netscape. In the process of me trying to sort out a netscape compatibility problem, I managed to help the author sort out an existing bug! Smile Because the new menu system doesn't show up in older browsers I needed to put in a simple menu system for those older browsers. I've been deciding exactly on what I want for that alternative menu system and playing around with a few ideas. Testing out some site meters to find out what kind of browsers are using my site.

4th August 2001
I've added pages under Home of about me and some philosophy and duplicated the contact me link.

3rd August 2001
I've added the ageing page that has some shocking photos.

The cross browser window system isn't quite perfect yet so I'm carrying on with the existing menu system until someone better than me can solve the problems.

2nd August 2001
After much head scratching I found out that if I put the javascript into the html file rather then referencing them as two external files then the page works fine! ... on Internet Explorer. I have been looking into some sliding menus that are cross browsers so that they will work on Netscape and Opera browsers too.

1st August 2001
Fun and games while I try to figure out why these pages get errors from the server but not from the hard disk! Temporarily stripped out site counters because they were slowing the site down too much.

Site news for July 2001