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	Just a few notes for anyone new to this Website (or websites in general) to help you get around. This site is best viewed full-screen, just click the little square in the top right hand corner ... or press F11 on your keyboard, which is much quicker & easier to reverse - and gets rid of all of the superfluous junk that you don't really need The opening page on this site,  and all other sites, is called the "home" page. .

Do you find this page to be way too big for your screen? If so, I would guess that your screen resolution needs updating. Only a few years ago a screen res of 640x480 was the norm but nowadays, with cheap 17" monitors and new graphics software, 800x600 is currently in vogue, fast heading towards 1024x768. By way of compromise, I used 960x720 on a 15" monitor in editing this site. Put simply, higher screen res gives better graphics. To change your screen resolution is easy: shrink this page to a half screen window so that you can read these instructions while following them right-click on your desktop, then left click properties on the little window that appears on the next window, display properties, click settings in the bottom right hand corner is a box called screen area, if the little slider shows 640 by 480 pixels, move it to the right until it shows 800x600 or higher click apply, then okay, if everything looks OK answer yes to the little window , and the job is done you will notice that everything, particularly the desktop icons, appear smaller; if you don't get used to this after a couple of hours right click to open display properties/appearance, open the window desktop where you can re-size icons, text and pretty much anything else to your taste and don't worry, everything you have done is reversible, although I can't imagine why you would want to do that ...

If you've been here before you'll remember pretty little picture buttons. Well these have been mercilessly axed and replaced by the following technological automatic jobbies which are "labour-free" and need no updating work on my part:  ... these are called Navigation Bars (no jokes please) and are situated as follows: at the top of the page, if you're in a series of pages like the photo album, taking you back & forth thro' the album pages AND at the bottom of the page, like the one above, to take you all round the site please note that in "microsoft-ese", for this site, up means "up a level" to  the photos menu By all means try those above - they're up to date and they all work except the purple "help" button - because you're already on the Help page ... got it?

There are places in this website where you'll connect with the outside "web-world", namely: The E-Mail page when you use the Bertie the dragon, and The Contacts Library page when you use any of the addresses On this site, to make life easy, ALL internet links now open "new windows". To return here all you have to do is close the window by clicking the little cross in the top right hand corner of the page. You are, of course, quite at liberty to simply minimize the window so that you can go back later. But beware, you can finish up with a dozen "open windows" which can slow your computer down a little (or maybe a lot).

Computer lingo for little "thumbnail-size" pictures that expand to full size when you  click 'em. I am sorry about the disgusting image on the right, but it's a life size picture of my thumb, to illustrate the point. If you would now like to click it you'll find that it expands to something completely different, just to show that you can cheat the system!  As to where the thumbnail description came from, that's simple - computer nerds. Just be thankful they weren't looking at their feet at the time.

 ... and that's all there is to it (for now).

james family website by tim james