Well, seeing as I've done some updating I thought I'd mention some boring stuff about this site.

All the pages were written in the superlative text editor Textpad. No WYSIWYG HTML editor was harmed in the making of this site.


To build the gallery pages I knocked up a script in Perl 5.8 from ActiveState to automate the creation of the pages using a set of configuration files to control the text, images, Google maps etc.

The thumbnail creation process was automated using Perl and the PerlMagick, a Perl interface to ImageMagick.


It's only right that I acknowledge the source of the JavaScript libraries I've used.

The lightbox effect in the galleries is based on the Lightbox2 library by Lokesh Dhakar. I hacked it to include the slideshow, and also to cope with images that extend outside the window extents.

The image fade effects on the gallery images I wrote myself, with reference to the image transitions libraries from brothercake.

For the sake of standards I've validated the site as follows:

Actually, the AA&F archives haven't been validated - trying to validate pages written in 1996 would be futile - and the Archive holding page is actually a valid HTML 4.01 Frameset document. The rest of the site is Strict XHTML 1.0.

Yup - the CSS is valid. Would you expect anything less? Though I'm still using tables for layout. Life's too short to pig around with cross-browser CSS tabular layouts.

Just a wee widget to see where the (few) visitors are coming from.