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The narrative is arranged as 3 introductory pages, followed by journal entries, one month to a page. There are links at the bottom of each page to go forwards or backwards. Embedded in the text are links to relevant picture pages, and some external links (displayed in italic text to differentiate them from local links). Recently I have tried to ensure that a mention of any commercial firm in the narrative embodies a link to the company's website. If you come across the name of a company (or any other appropriate entity) in the text without a link, please let me know (with a suitable URL) so that I can arrange one.
There is a page of links to other Europa builder websites.
The picture pages each contain one or several related pictures. At the bottom of each page are links to go to following or previous picture pages, or to return to the corresponding link in the narrative or journal page. Text pages have a link to the index list of all text pages, and photo pages have a link to the index list of all photo pages.
All pages are timestamped at last update, and all have links to:
This icon appears on a few pages, indicating a link to the list of milestones. That list has links to every page where a milestone appears, and a link to the building hours graph.
These pages have been constructed on the Mac in use at the time (in order: Classic, LC475, 7100, PowerBook G4) using only BBEdit Lite and TextWrangler to create and edit the HTML, and GraphicConverter to convert, crop and re-size the pictures. I also used Adobe Photoshop Elements for easy correction of colour casts in a few of my own scans where large areas of blue foam had severely thrown off the colour balance (I have not wasted much time on this sort of nicety - the mixture of daylight, fluorescent and electronic flash lighting makes it too tedious to be worthwhile). The monthly journal pages are HTML table exports direct from FileMaker Pro with headers and footers added in TextWrangler. Recently I have added an AppleScript to TextWrangler's script menu which searches for all the likely commercial mentions and adds a link for each one. FileMaker Pro (with some assistance from AppleScript) also generates the HTML of the picture pages, and compiles the index lists of text and photo pages as HTML. I use DataGraph for generating graphs.
My Canon 9900F scanner captured the older negatives, slides and prints; some images are from scans burned to CD at processing time by The Photo Place, Cheltenham (negatives) or by dlab7.com, Guernsey (slides); and the most recent are from a digital camera.
The pages are uploaded to my ClaraNet webspace using the Transmit ftp tool.
Because of a component supplier's high minimum order charge, I bought more stuff than I needed to build just one 12-24V converter (to run a 24V gyro off my 12V electrical system). So, I'm selling kits of parts until my stock of the critical component runs out.
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