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About This Web SiteThis site uses JavaScripts for a variety of functions, so be sure that JavaScript is enabled in your browser settings. These scripts have been tested with Microsoft Internet Explorer v4-6.0, Netscape v4-7.1 and Mozilla Firefox v0.8. Other versions and other browsers may not display all of the items in the same way, if at all. This site does not use cookies or any other tracking methods. The only thing sent from your computer to our server is the request for whatever page links you click while on this site. Simply put, we hate spammers, pop-ups, spyware and adware as much as you do. What the JavaScripts Do...One of the first things you will notice on this site is that you don't have to squint to read the text. Titles, title images and body text are displayed in progressively larger sizes, in pixels, as the browser's window size is increased. With so many people running their screens at 1280 x 1024 or higher resolutions, the text would normally get progressively smaller as screen resolution is increased. Our JavaScript reads your browser window's size and loads different style sheets to give larger type to compensate. It also loads different background image versions, depending on the browser window's size. This script was written by the webmaster at PageCraft Communications, the designers of this site, and has been contributed to the public domain for use by anyone who wishes. To see this in action, assuming that your screen is running at 800 x 600 or higher and that you currently have your browser window set to fill the screen, try dragging the corner of your browser window to resize it down to 640 x 480 or smaller. Notice that the text shrinks when you do so. Now enlarge it again by dragging back out to a larger window size. The standard version of this script supports 5 different levels of magnification, but can be extended to any number you wish. The HTML to do this looks like this;
The lines in the HEAD section set a default stylesheet for any browsers that can't handle the script, then we load a short JavaScript that defines the RLD function to reload the page when required. In the BODY tag we tell the page to reload whenever the browser is resized, so that the appropriate stylesheet gets loaded for the new size. The following line tells the page to load the "windows size.js" JavaScript that checks the window's new size and actually calls the stylesheet(s) required. That's it! The "window size.js" file checks the browser window size in pixels, determines the height and width of it and calls the stylesheet(s) that you have predefined for your site at each resolution step. The ones we use for the text styles are based on the width of the browser window. We use an additional set of stylesheets on some sites to define a background image that changes depending on the maximum dimension of the browser window so there will be no tiling of the image. See www.Bellevillebarntheatre.ca as an example of this. Links to our text stylesheets are listed below. Put these in the public root directory of your web.
Links to our background stylesheets are listed below. Put these in the public root directory of your web.
Link for "window size.js". Put this in the public root directory of your web. The code listing looks like this;
Another JavaScript masks the email addresses of any contacts so that spiders do not automatically add those addresses to their databases. The email address displays properly in the web page and links to the standard "mailto" html code. This particular script is widely used for this purpose on the Internet and is in the public domain to the best of our knowledge. Link for "email.js". Put this in the public root directory of your web. Any Other Questions?If you have any further questions about the operation of this site's pages please email . |