I want these pages to load quickly and be accessible to any Web browser, including text only browsers such as Lynx. For that reason, you will find the main points of any graphs and diagrams summarized below the graphic. I chose not to build a 'frames based' interface because the amount of material here does not justify this technique. If and when we have three or four 'levels' of page heading in the site, I might use a simple frames layout to provide a 'context dependent contents list'.
If you want astronomical pictures, NASA have plenty! I personally prefer the ones which amateur astronomers draw for themselves. The human eye sees differently to the camera, especially in low light levels. The Regulus Astronomy Newsletter has some nice sketches of deep space objects.
There is no Javascript because I have not learned the language yet! I would like to provide Javascript calculators for each calculation as a separate page - but this is a later project.
Note added Jan 2001: Well, there is some JavaScript stuff here now, but I'm going off JavaScript rapidly.
Below is a list of links to pages about the tools and Web Authoring resources I have used while making this site;
Thanks to those individuals and organisations who have provided their software and knowledge for free. The gift is appreciated.
Added Jan 20th 2001: I have used Philip Greenspun's most interesting database driven Web server tools to add a comment and a question and answer facility to these static Web pages. The tools run on his Web server, and you administer your facilities through Web page forms. You don't need to know how to program, and you don't need to be able to run scripts from your own Web server space.
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Last Modified 20th Jan 2001
Keith Burnett