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Web site staff

This web site is maintained by people on a volunteer basis. Take a look at them here!.

Web site support

This web site is supported by:

Hartshorne Local History Society
Hartshorne Primary School
St Peter's Church
Hartshorne Parish Council

Construction timetable

The site was started in September 2000 and was completed in terms of structure by late October 2000. The majority of the starting content was populated by the end of January 2001 when the site was launched in Hartshorne.

Copyright

It is the intention of the authors of this site to provide enjoyment as well as a rich resource for the residents of Hartshorne and others, old and young.

If, INADVERTENTLY, we have infringed any copyright by using text, photographs or other images, the please telephone me immediately on 01283 210064 or e-mail the webmaster. We will take immediate action to correct the infringement, either by stating the correct copyright acknowledgement or by removing (permanently or temporarily) the item(s) in question.

Technical Design

The design of the site has been kept as simple as possible with nested tables and a template based structure. No frames have been used. The design policy follows simple guidelines set by a number of authorities (e.g. Yale) for the design of simple navigation and display width in a range of browsers with different screen resolutions on 14 inch monitors and larger.

Web style

Web Review's Style Sheets Reference Guide. A guide to what styles are and in which browsers they work.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS1)

A Cascading Style Sheet system is used to control link highlighting on hover. Cascading Style Sheets Specification (CSS1) is used in this site. The official specification for style sheets is derived from the World Wide Web Consortium.

HTML 4.0 specification

The official specification for HTML from the World Wide Web Consortium.

Folder structure

All files (html, images and download files) are maintained on the server in a structured folder system so that changes can easily be made by quick identification and location of the relevant files. This folder system may be changed from time to time as the site develops.

Navigation

The menu system is a always available system with three layers. The main menu layer is always visible and is consistent (including: search, Guest book, etc.). The secondary, subject layer becomes visible when the menu item selected has a content volume greater than would fit onto a single page.

There is a third layer but this is specifically reserved for the Archive.

Picture images

If pictures are included in the body text they are sized for that context. In the Picture gallery all 'thumbnails' are 100 pixels wide retaining the aspect ratio.

The actual pictures are displayed at 600 pixels wide for colour making them a reasonable size in most browsers, supporting A4 printing and giving a reasonable download time for the average modem user. Black and white images are re-sized to 800 pixels wide as user will be more likely to want to view detail and download times are reasonable as they are black and white images. All images are in *.GIF where possible (animated in some cases) or are otherwise in *.JPEG. All photographs are in *.JPEG format.

The Picture Gallery uses the 'Gallery' open source software.

The contents of this site are copyright © Hartshorne Parish Council 2008. All rights reserved.