Here's a new website. Not that anyone cares much, but I needed another place to play with the new technical toys, and this is it. This one is kindly sponsored by Ken's businesses, which is where the mysterious logos come from. Except for my own amazingly innovative "W" logo of course. Well if you know something works..

Anyway, here you go: asp.net, c#, all that stuff. I'm too lazy to bother about people without JavaScript enabled, who probably won't have made it this far anyway. I have Firefox, Chrome, Safari/PC and IE6/IE7 so this ought to work for those. Without Flash you'll not see anything much at all.

The home page's images are 1280x800 but heavily compressed at around 100k. It'll all take a while to download if you're on dial-up: you're not the target demographic I'm afraid.

I can't be sure that you're seeing the correct colours just yet.

The content's currently unchanged (unless I dropped something) from my old site, kindly hosted by Phil and Margot Sargent.

I need to find a spell checker for BlogEngine.

Oh yes, in case anyone else hits the problem with ASP.NET treating Chrome and Safari as "downlevel" browsers and consequently barfing on your menu controls... as per the last post here, the simple fix is:

// Defect fix for asp.net failure to recognize standards-compliant browsers.
 if (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf("AppleWebKit") > 0)
    Page.Request.Browser.Adapters.Remove(typeof(Menu).AssemblyQualifiedName); 

The company with the market power to continually produce non-standard browsers has the cheek to describe rather more standard browsers as "downlevel". I assume that the marketing people are in charge there.

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