Website homepage
About this website
To be found here
This option provides some detail about the website and how it works.
It has specific information about:
Cookies
Homepage image bar
Contact information
It concludes with a section giving an overview of the organisation, logic and conventions used in the website. With clickable links to its whole tree structure.
Over the past few years, I have been slowly converting the website to .php instead of .asp. All new posts are in .php format but there are still quite a few in the old format. If you get an old page, try changing the .asp suffix with .php in your brower's address window. There are still quite a few left to convert and its not likey that I will do all of them, especially those with bespoke formatting, Jason and Adham.
How this website works
This is an overview of the organisation, logic and conventions used in this website.
Homepage
The Homepage gives access to the whole of the rest of the website. Its links are repeated as the right hand bar on
all the other pages. At the moment, content is structured under seven headings, Latest posts, Topics, System Other Blogs Random Blog, Random Link, and Random Oldies.
Latest posts Click on the image to go to the content associated with it. I have restricted the number of these to make the website more accessible from hand held devices. You can see more by clicking on the -MORE- button below the images. The images are taken from a time ordered list of new posts as they accumulate.
In Topics, the links are to the items in its various categories. At one time, these were all accessible directly from the homepage but as the content and diversity has increased, I have split them into smaller files that load quicker at the cost of an extra mouse click.
Links from the System group go to items relating to the website itself.
Links from the Other Blogs column go to other people's blogs or websites.
Random Blog This generates a random link to one of the external blogs with a pic from the blog as 'click bait'
Random Link
This generates a random link to one of the files on the webserver. This is different to the random oldie option as this just links to a random file and not to a specific part of the file.
Random Oldies
Random oldies are selected from a file of outdated latest posts. Some of these oldies may not be very old but the list only goes back as far as my first random file offerings. Early ones lack a descriptor text, later ones include it.
Colours are not chosen to make the site look frantic but are used to colour code content. The colour of links in text is determined by their destination. External links are marked with the external link colour, and internal links with their
topic colour.
Topics
Allotment
News from my allotment, usually updated monthly with at least three photographs taken from the same place each time. Sometimes with additional
seasonal content. Links to previous years and aphorisms, mostly about gardening.
Boating
Mostly about trips on board my narrow boat Cribbit for which the site is named. This also includes accounts of sj's visits , as they nearly always include some time on board Cribbit. There is also a section, Boatnotes which is intended as a reference for people who borrow her, and a cut down version of the boat log, criBlog.
Catslide
Catslide is the name of our cottage, and this option is about it and our activities there. The pages are still being developed.
Computing
I've always been interested in compuing and this page is about my attempts to learn html and some earlier experiences of computer programming.
Cooking on Cribbit
The topic that started off this whole project, a collection of recipes that got too big for its container. Links to the whole cookbook.
Family
Siblings, children, grandchildren, parties and visits from sj.
Mouldy Oldies
Some oddities of a vaguely historical nature.
Natural Philosophy
Physics and science.
Recipe list
Alphabetical list of all the recipes in the cookbook.
Walking
Accounts of several walks, long and short. Usually including beer.
Interactive
Adham
Rapid transit traveller extrodinaire.
Ant and Kate's cycle trip
Ant and Kate [Rosemary's daughter] are cycling round the world. This is their blog.
Alex's blog, Mutterings
My sister Alex's blog.
cribBlog
On-line version of narrow boat Cribbit's log.
Gnomes
Has to be seen to be believed but all, and more than, you ever wanted to know about gnomes. What tw does to remain sane.
Jason Lee-Dear
Nephew Jason's webpages. Catch him here, as he is, before he becomes a made-over megastar.
Little Old Man Weekly
A fictitious publication celebrating the joys of becoming old.
theBloG
A fairly regular update of things that happen around me.
System
About this website
This option, a breakdown of the whole website as a clickable list. This is in the process of being re-vamped since I converted all files to .asp.
Contact me
My e-mail address. I would be very pleased to hear from you especially with feedback about the website or its content.
Development history
A messy collection of comments and links mostly for my information. A diary of what I have been doing on the website. Includes rudimentary site
statistics.
Updated this year
A scrollable collection of all the monthly updates in the current calendar year.
Complete site structure
This is a slightly simplified, hierachical, set of all navigation bars. As of 10 April 2012. I take the view that you can't have too much navigation on a website even at the cost of duplication. What follows is the full tree structure but with duplicated branches omitted.
Home
Topics
Allotment Allotment home2012
2011
2010
2009
Aphorisms
Boating cribBlog 2012
CribBlog 2011
Greenford
CribBlog 2009
Cribbit's first log book
Boat Notes
Sj visits
Sj account of 2010
Sj account of 2009
Sj account of 2008
Sj account of 2007
Catslide Donkey shed
Parties
Party 2006
Party 2007
Party 2008
Party 2009
Wedding 2010
Party 2011
Computing html resources
Password
Cooking on Cribbit Recipe list
Accompaniments
Beverages
Bread and Pastry
Desserts
Eggs
Condiments
Mains
Metze
Soup
Spaghetti
Utensils
Visitor contributions
Family Alex & Peter
Alex's website
Peter's website
Alex's blog, Mutterings
Ben and Becky
Maya Week one
Maya Month one
Maya Year one
Maya Year two
Maya Year three
Janey Week one
Janey Month one
Ben and Becky 2011
Parties
Party 2006
Party 2007
Party 2008
Party 2009
Wedding 2010
Party 2011
Sj visits
Sj account of 2010
Sj account of 2009
Sj account of 2008
Sj account of 2007
Wedding
Mouldy Oldies Aphorisms
Credenza
Little Old Man Weekly
Miss Fowles
Why my name is Apricot
Natural Philosophy
Recipe list
Walking Walking home
Day one
Day two
Day three
Day four
Post script
The Shard
Short walks
Interactive
Adham>Toronto
Chicago
New York
Ant and Kate's cycle trip
Alex's blog, Mutterings
cribBlog
Gnomes
Little Old Man Weekly Issue 24 Jake the peg
Issue 23 Tool rack
Issue 22 GNOME
Issue 21 Ventilation
Issue 20 Rocket man
Issue 19 Saw
Issue 18 LOW
Issue 17 Fowler
Issue 16 Protector
Issue 15 Washing
Issue 14 Bouser 2
Issue 13 Bouser
Issue 12 More beer
Issue 11 Red Stripe
Issue 10 Calendar
Issue 9 Handy handles
Issue 8 Car wash
Issue 7 Muddy boots
Issue 6 webcam
Issue 5 letter of complaint
Issue 4 strawberry frame
Issue 3 seed trays
Issue 2 knife
Issue 1 wine box
theBloG theBloG 2012
January 12
February 12
March 12
theBloG 2011
January 11
February 11
March 2011
April 2011
May 2011
June 2011
October 2011
November 2011
December 2011
theBloG 2010
December
November
October
June
May
April
March
System
About this website Contact me Updated this yearAbout the image bar
The image bar is populated every time the homepage is refreshed. It has four portrait and four landscape oriented pics. To speed up loading time, all the bar images have been reduced in size from the originals.
The images displayed are chosen at random from a directory of pics taken from somewhere on the website. Associated with each image is a link to the page it has been taken from. Clicking an image will take you to this page and somewhere on it will be found the original.
As the selection of images is random, sometimes you will find the same image repeated in the bar. This is more likely to happen with portrait oriented images as there are fewer of this orientation on the website. I try to take landscape oriented pics for the website as I think that this orientation fits better onto a standard computer screen.
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