[QCWA] QCWA Chapter 91: our new website was updated on 25 Jan 07

[Richard Rucker]

Our website was updated this morning:
http://homepage.mac.com/rrucker/chapter91/

Changes not previously announced are:

To the HOME PAGE:
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Some sentences were clarified. The description of a typical meeting  
was expanded to tell how our 33-33-33 raffle works.

To SCHEDULED EVENTS:
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To the section "During 2007: Commemorating the Founding of  
Jamestown," two subsections have  been added:
     "The Story of Jamestown, Virginia"
     "The Recent Re-discovery of Jamestown"

To RECENT EVENTS:
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The story and photos from our meeting last weekend at Neighbor's  
Restaurant has been added in four parts, a section and three  
subsections:

  "Jan 06: John Johnston, W3BE, on QCWA in 2007"
      "Who makes QCWA a great organization?"
      "A Bit of QCWA History"
      "How QCWA is Now Managed"

To PAST EVENTS:
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All stories on events held prior to December 2006 that appeared under  
RECENT EVENTS have been moved to this section.

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This site was built on a Macintosh using Sandvox version 1.1 from  
Karelia Software
http://www.karelia.com/

One reason this site looks better than our previous one is that  
Sandvox contains a library of well-designed site templates to choose  
from, and all take advantaqe of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).  For  
more on CSS, see below.

Please let me know how you like the new site and if you have any  
suggestions on how to improve upon it. Try using the "feedback  
window" on the right-hand-side of the top-level pages.

Dick Rucker, KM4ML
webmaster



Some comments on Web browsers:
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1. Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE) on Windows

An annoyance when using the feedback window:
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I've been told that MSIE for Windows, unlike Mozilla's Firefox  
browser for Windows, does not make the info needed by the message  
server available in order to permit it to tell your browser to return  
to the previous page once your feedback message has been received.  
Consequently, If you are using MSIE, just click on the browser's back  
button to get back to where you were.

On other problems with MSIE and how to avoid them:
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I've also been told that current versions of MSIE do a poor job of  
interpreting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). That's too bad because  
most modern websites, including this one, are built using the CSS  
instruction set specified by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). You  
can learn more about the CSS and Microsoft's failure so far to  
conform its browsers here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_Style_Sheets

One quote from this wiki page: "Although the exact levels of  
conformance are not easy to judge, it is generally accepted that  
Internet Explorer has the worst CSS implementation of all modern  
browsers…"

To learn more about the CSS bugs in MSIE versions 5 and higher, go here:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/explorer.html

If you'd like to download a browser that works very well with sites  
built with standard CSS instructions, go here and download the free  
Firefox browser, available for both Windows and Mac OS X:
http://www.firefox2007.de/us/


2. To Macintosh users:
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Mozilla's Firefox and Camino browsers, as well as Apple's Safari  
browser, render Chapter 91's website beautifully.   Internet Explorer  
for the Mac is no longer supported by Microsoft. The last version  
released was 5.2, and my copy renders Chapter 91's website terribly.