johnfowles
06-23-2006, 11:23 AM
My dear friends please lend me your ears and eyes
I thought firstly of starting this topic on the main forum because it does IMHO concern the greater good of the Lightfoot community hereabouts, but figured the police there would surely object to what should obviously be considered an item of "small talk".However I might post a link to it on the General forum later.
what it is not is any type of "test" posting even if it deals partly with a "testy" subject
I hope shortly to post my final message regarding the picture size/display fiasco. but meanwhile and in line with my highly developed sense of,admittedly, British humo(u)r, I thought something to lighten the atmosphere might help.
I was therefore delighted to receive today an email from the sorely missed Rex "the rez"
subject "have you seen the new quarters? with some 11 suitable pictures atttached
I was very tempted to show them all here bearing in mind that the 11 pictures total only 178,740 bytes of which only one is in any way "large" this being my favo(u)rite and the 11th "quarter"which is only 97.673 bytes
the rest are tiny and should take but a few nanoseconds to download even on dial-ups,for example this sample is less than 8000 bytes:-
http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/quarters/image008.jpg
But to allow an easy choice on whether to go look at some small pictures or not I have put them on a web site.
I also read earlier that Jessie-Joe confessed to not having a web site.
and thought how sad! because another of my world-famous (read "to be read in the depths of Australia") planned "tutorials" will cover the complex subject of finding, using and creating one's very own absolutely free web site.
I have one at:-
http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/
There is a bland home page there, which has a link to download an Australian "Tourism" spoof that I think I got from that hooligan from Sydney Mr Atkins.
I have now uploaded a web page interpretation of Rex's email
It is at:-
http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/quarters/
Please visit that page and report back here with your reactions
John Fowles
OK I am well aware that to create that page required some knowledge of the web page
HyperText Markup Language i.e HTML for short
but another of my tutorials will.. you guessed it cover the fundamentals of HTML
(at least it will be an introduction to HTML that should be enough to get anybody interested started in writing their own pages) Promises Promises
P.S. I am today (Sunday) very pleased rhat Rex took the time to reply here after I emailed him and suggested he might like to read this topic
(edited 25 June to clarify my remark about the "police" and to thank Rex for dropping in
[ June 25, 2006, 14:00: Message edited by: johnfowles ]
I thought firstly of starting this topic on the main forum because it does IMHO concern the greater good of the Lightfoot community hereabouts, but figured the police there would surely object to what should obviously be considered an item of "small talk".However I might post a link to it on the General forum later.
what it is not is any type of "test" posting even if it deals partly with a "testy" subject
I hope shortly to post my final message regarding the picture size/display fiasco. but meanwhile and in line with my highly developed sense of,admittedly, British humo(u)r, I thought something to lighten the atmosphere might help.
I was therefore delighted to receive today an email from the sorely missed Rex "the rez"
subject "have you seen the new quarters? with some 11 suitable pictures atttached
I was very tempted to show them all here bearing in mind that the 11 pictures total only 178,740 bytes of which only one is in any way "large" this being my favo(u)rite and the 11th "quarter"which is only 97.673 bytes
the rest are tiny and should take but a few nanoseconds to download even on dial-ups,for example this sample is less than 8000 bytes:-
http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/quarters/image008.jpg
But to allow an easy choice on whether to go look at some small pictures or not I have put them on a web site.
I also read earlier that Jessie-Joe confessed to not having a web site.
and thought how sad! because another of my world-famous (read "to be read in the depths of Australia") planned "tutorials" will cover the complex subject of finding, using and creating one's very own absolutely free web site.
I have one at:-
http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/
There is a bland home page there, which has a link to download an Australian "Tourism" spoof that I think I got from that hooligan from Sydney Mr Atkins.
I have now uploaded a web page interpretation of Rex's email
It is at:-
http://h1.ripway.com/johnfowles/quarters/
Please visit that page and report back here with your reactions
John Fowles
OK I am well aware that to create that page required some knowledge of the web page
HyperText Markup Language i.e HTML for short
but another of my tutorials will.. you guessed it cover the fundamentals of HTML
(at least it will be an introduction to HTML that should be enough to get anybody interested started in writing their own pages) Promises Promises
P.S. I am today (Sunday) very pleased rhat Rex took the time to reply here after I emailed him and suggested he might like to read this topic
(edited 25 June to clarify my remark about the "police" and to thank Rex for dropping in
[ June 25, 2006, 14:00: Message edited by: johnfowles ]