Site Tips

• This site is best viewed with the screen settings at 1024 by 768 or higher.

• More screen area, for better viewing of photos, can be gained by moving the banner and/or left-side-menu out of the way.   To do this, point your mouse pointer at the lower edge of the banner or the right edge of the left-side-menu, press the left button of the mouse, hold it down and move the mouse until you have the required screen area.   They can always be moved back to their original position when they are required.

• Even more screen area can be gained by selecting "Full Screen" mode once you're on the site.  This reduces the size of the Microsoft Menu Bars at the top and bottom of the screen.   To achieve this:

                       1. Click on "View" on Internet Explorer's top Menu Bar  - Some of the Menu Bars will disappear giving you more viewing area. (NB: Step 1 can be achieved by simply pressing F11 on the top row of your keyboard).

                        2. To return back to normal view click the resize button (that's the middle button of the         three at the uppermost top right of the Menu Bar  - All your Menu Bars will re-appear and your viewing area will be reduced to normal. (NB: Step 2 can be achieved by pressing F11 again).

• Can't see latest updates -  it sounds as if your computer is not downloading the page every time you visit.    A computer will store pages you visit, then if you visit a page a second or more times, instead of downloading the page again,  it gets the old page that it has stored away in your internet cache files.    You are probably viewing the same old page that is on your computer.
  
  Try this:-    Open your internet explorer.     At the top of the explorer there are menu buttons;   (File  Edit  View  Insert  Format  Tools  Action  Help).   Click on Tools.    A small menu box will drop down. Near the bottom of the menu is Internet Options..., click on  Internet Options...    Another box will appear, this box will have seven tabs across the top.    Each tab, when clicked, will bring a different page to the top.    Make sure that the General page is on the top, by clicking on the General tab.
       The General  page has three horizontal boxes on it.    The first is headed (in blue print) Home Page, the second is headed Tempory Internet files, this is the box we're interested in.   Inside this box there are three buttons, click on the one headed Delete Files..., a small box will pop up asking you if you want to delete all Tempory Internet files.    Click the little box, headed Delete all offline content, then click the OK button.
       You'll now be back at the Tempory Internet files box, next to the Delete Files... button is the Settings... button.   Click on the Settings... button, a new box will pop up.   The top line of print says ' Check for newer versions of stored pages:' Below this line of print there are four circular choice buttons, make sure the top one, headed 'Every visit to the page' is clicked.    It should have a dot in the circle, the other three circles should be empty. Now click on the OK  button, at the bottom of the page.   This will make sure you get the most recent version of every page you open.

          NB: The idea behind storing pages visited was to save time, and telephone cost, because the old dial-up connection to the internet was so slow and costly.   Broadband has changed all this, with it's speed and consequently more cost effectiveness.     If you are not on broadband then you need to weigh up the advantages between;  1  downloading every time you visit a page (slower & costly)  or   2  have your computer store pages, so that you may not see the latest update to those pages (Quicker & cheaper)   or   3 switch to Broadband (extremely fast & reasonably cheap)
 

Ray