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I have updated the site navigation as I forgot to include a link to access the holiday photos after the 'New' list had gone. Thanks Frank for pointing that out so I have fixed it now.
Coming soon will be some photos of Corfu taken on a wet October holiday and some pics of a day trip to Linlithgow where we went to the palace (ruined palace not a visit and stay palace)
I have added some pictures of my old mk1 taken just before the tuning session at the rolling road in Nov 2002. One thing that did happen was an engine mount shook out a bolt and sheared another. This was not noticed until much later, like 30 days later by which time the crankshaft pulley was utterly destroyed as was the cam belt and damn near took out the entire engine. Turned out when the cam belt had been fitted the top of the mount had not been put on properly and thus it was squint. It was a matter of time and the rolling road just happened at roughly the same time. I got it fixed by the dyno folk cause as least they knew / know how to put engines together. I was lucky no pistons broken and no valves bent. Phew!
I've finally added some pictures of my new car to the web site. Only took me 3 months which is an improvement on the holiday snaps, see below. I might even add some pics of the old Mk1
I've had some problems with the site due to errors with both Pipex the ISP and my FTP program which seems to have a communication glitch with Pipex. Dunno why and neither do Pipex.
Photos of my weekend break to Newtonmore, North Scotland in Feb 03 have been added to the site. Only taken 6 months. Oops
I have removed the PDF joke files as they were not upto the job. They have been replaced with HTML files so hopefully no more problems.
I have added some more pics of the graphs for the tubby section and also a comparison between my old mark1 mr2 and the new turbo. Kinda funny.
Speaking of which I have added some more jokes although they now use the acrobat format as this took less time than converting word docs to something that resembled HTML. Lazy but you get to enjoy the results sooner.
On another note, I am using some neat JavaScript for opening the larger graphs from the power page. This code opens the larger file in a new window in a specific place with the correct size attributes. Took an awful lot longer to do than the results show. Usually the case though.
Dyno plots and graphs created from this have been added to the tubby section. Amazing mid range which is what gives the car excellent overtaking abilities.
Also a search page provided by Freefind.com has been added.
At last some new content. I have added some info about my new car, a rev 3 tubby and even a picture of it. More pictures to follow including the dyno plot. Impressed, oh ok.
I have also updated most of the pages with meta data as I figured it was time to add this obvious omission since I am learning all about this stuff. Not much technical stuff has been added but hopefully a little more content will spice up the site.
The more astute out there will have noticed that the text is bigger. Yup I have changed the style sheet to 12pt now which makes it easier to read on smaller screens. I may changed this back or even to 11pt but we shall see.
The site has been transfered to Pipex, but the same stuff is here. Sorry guys ;-)
I have finally included the Elite page that has been promised for soo long now. I guess now I will have to start playing it again to take some screen shots of those 'battle moments'. I will be making the background of the page different, right now I am experimenting with tile effects. My 'hacked' version of the game will also be getting posted on the site but when I'm not sure. Stay tuned as they say.
Other news, not much really. I have looked at creating a drop down menu using the DOM but it looks quite tricky to get my head round so that is something that will have to wait
I have changed the home page menu structure as the previous menu bar was getting a bit long. Hopefully this modification will last until I can come up with something totally new.
Yet again it has taken too long to update this site. Anyway news, 2D arrays don't work in JavaScript but an array of arrays does. Think I'll just use 2 x 1D arrays for the job.
I have changed some of the function calls and now made them self contained into one external JS file, cheers John for showing the way. This follows on from having too many files to track just simple things. The overhead in loading these is virtually nothing as one small file to load versus four or five smaller files including searching times is pretty similar. That's my opinion and its my site so there.
Has it really been this long since I updated the site. It would appear! Sorry for being so slack. I do have reasons however which I will impart later.
I have updated the NEW ITEMS code as I couldn't get the 2-D arrays to work past item 2. Not useful and so I have resorted to a more clunky version which now does the job admirably. I will look into getting these arrays to work properly and update the site. Also coming is the promised Elite link page and my Job History updated as well.
Seems like my colour choice is pants!! I have changed the colour yet again but no doubt not for the better.
I have also updated the 'New' items list to a different setup as the first version was not going to work for different items on different dates. The new version will work much better and even uses 2d arrays. Bit of pushing the boundaries here let me tell you {;-))
I had added some colour to the website due to feedback that has been received. I have also improved the 'New Features' by putting the code to an external JS file like the other code files. This wasn't done the first time round as I couldn't get it to work. Had a look at it again and managed it first time round. Funny how that happens.
Changed the title bar a little and also the status window. Any comments or feedback appreciated
I had added some details about me and the format is completely different from John's. A first!!
The whole file structure has been altered to make it a bit neater. Hopefully I haven't missed any files with the testing but only time will tell.
Not much happening except I now have the HTML and CSS approval icons from the W3C for the home page at least. This is good because although the content might be ropey, at least the design is to the current standards. Of course when they change the standards it will be back to pc for some serious changing.
The National Lottery has gone and given more game options for the draws so I guess that means I will be updating the Lottery Page then. I also intend to include my personal details, education work etc on a page. I just need to get the energy to type the whole lot up in a nice neat format.
Credits page has been added but it will take a while to get that upto date and accurate
Seems like the history page had an error and deleted about 5 months worth of info. Do I have a copy of this page. Er no actually. Should I have had a copy. It would seem so. Will I now take a copy of everything. Yup right about now
Site now taking shape and the usual design decisions now being made - long after they should have been thought about. The Motor Section was put into its own folder on the system and this allows me to keep all relevant subjects together in the one area. This is something which I never even did for my Web Development coursework, bit like style sheets eh John?. Mmmm not a clever idea.
Anyways, the design of the site for the current format is something I am happy with although I still have trouble thinking about content.
The lottery number generator was my version of something that John had written for his Web Dev work and I thought I would try to emulate that for this site. As it turned out during the design of lottery page I had to sort the array of generated numbers into ascending order. Easy thought I, I will just use the built in operation for JavaScript and sort the array. WRONG! The built in sort doesn't recognise that 14 is higher than 4 although it does know that 1 is less than 4. I think this is just a quirk of sorting numbers within the operation but if anyone knows differently then by all means send me an e-mail using the link above with an example of working code.
To sort the array of numbers I wrote a loop of code that would run through the array and compare one position with the next one up and swap them round if they were in the wrong order. I then had to make sure the loop ran enough times to get the smallest number from the last position to the first position and vice versa. Wrote the code in about a minute and tested that it worked. It did. I then remembered that in my C++ exam there was a similar bit of code that was to be corrected and I couldn't do it. Just goes to show that when you are under no pressure things happen yet in an exam pressure cooker, your brain turns to mush and bog all happens!
This site was created in order for me to retain some of the knowledge that had been drummed into me at Paisley Uni. I had just completed the PGDip in Information Technology with Software Design and Web Development and I was basically bored as I had no job yet. The other problem as mentioned briefly was that I was turning into a cabbage due to watching too much daytime tv. Time was a passing by and brain fade was gaining ground.