Welcome to Gbtamc.co.uk
Hello and welcome to the home page of my web site. Please use the tabs at the top of the screen to view other pages. Here you will find a small selection of my digital photographs, together with links to my church web site, my personal WebLog and my Agatha Christie site.
For more years than I care to remember I have been interested in photography, especially when digital cameras and high powered computers became freely available. In recent years I have been involved in the production of an Intranet for the firm I workd for until I took early retirement in 2006, and also the web site for my church.
About the site design
This site uses my own variation of a great open source template by Dave Reeder Design. The original template is available for download from here.
Although the template appears to be simple and the CSS is quite small, it is highly versatile. Fluidity.com is a fluid layout which has all the CSS needed to create one, two, three or four column layouts. Because the template uses a row div called "rowcontainer" to keep the columns together, you can mix and match the number of columns in any order on one page. You can see more of David's work on his web site: www.davereederdesign.com.
Important update 2007
There is now a special part of my web site where you will find lots of my images which is situated HERE. This part of the web site uses the Simple Picture Gallery Manager the source of which can be found HERE and another way of displaying images is situated HERE and uses the Maian gallery manager the source of which which can be found HERE.
A taste of some of the pictures available on this site
This site is all about my digital imaging. I have found that there are many different ways to display images, and the links at the top of the page use just one system, involving the manual preparation of thumbnail images which may be clicked to view a larger version. However, another very effective ways of displaying images
(available here) is to use the html div type to add as many pictures as needed, with a JavaScript control program. This is very much favoured by the BBC web site galleries. Not wishing to be outdone by the BBC, here is just a small sample of my church photos using this type of system. Click the number of the image to view, or click the Next button.
Another way of displaying images.
Mouse over the following image - and it will grow - mouse out and it will shrink !
The original Javascript routine and instructions are available from http://www.nsftools.com/tips/ImageResize.htm. It's a great routine.
This space in left blank intentionally to make room for the expanding graphic.
My pet dogs
Over the last 40 years my wife and I have had 7 dogs, sometimes singly, sometimes in twos. On the Pets page you will find thumbnail pictures which you may click to view larger, popup, views. Link to Pets
Churches
When I first bought a digital camera I needed a subject on which to test it. As Leicestershire has some lovely old Parish churches, that was the subject I needed. There are 3 interlinked pages of thumbnails. Link to Churches
Leicester
The county of Leicestershire has some beautiful countryside. Here are just a few pictures of the many and varied scenery and activities to be found in the county. Link to Leicester
Church
In addition to my own site which you are viewing now, I have also developed and maintain a web site for my locla Methodist Church using the Etomite content management system. This sytem is really great, and makes regular maintenance of the site a breeze. Link to Church site
WebLog
I also have my own WebLog which is maintained by the Thingamablog (TAMB) system. The subjects on the WebLog are many and varied. Before finally deciding to use TAMB I had already tried WordPress, Serendipity and several others, but found TAMB just right for me. Link to Blog
