About
The page is just a reference to what has been added or amended recently to this site, and some background information as to its origins. If by any chance you'd like to know when a significant change is made, or new page added to this web site, please send an email indicating any particular interest, to the address given at the bottom of the page. Confidentiality respected.
What's New or recent
February 2012 - another chapter in the family history 'blog'
February 2012 - updates and additional speed tests to the
4G
versus cable page.
January 2012 - results 2nd Qtr of
Solar Power
December 2011- New page.
An
illustrative history of our Christmas cards.
October 2011 - New page about
testing 4G and cable broadband
October 2011 - Results of 1st Qtr of
Solar power
September 2011 - News of the 2011
Open skittles championship.
September 2011 - Updates to the
Red Kite page.
July 2011 - New page about adopting
solar power.
July 2011 - Update of Jazz page to include videos of
kazoo jazz
in Denmark.
June 2011-
Broadband.
TV and radio interviews to play.
February 2011 - ongoing updates to page on
3G Mobile
Origins
No, I'm not Lord of the Manor or profess to deserve to be titled
that way (We have our own Lord Jay-of-Ewelme for that anyway!). But when needing to choose a domain name for this web site
package, including email services, from Easynet back in 2002, I was
offered rather unmemorable URLs such as jenkins_12.com or .co.uk. I
found that applying for jenkins-of-ewelme.org.uk to distinguish this
family from another branch in Harpenden Hertfordshire, seemed quite
appropriate at the time. Besides, the contents of the site was/is to
include aspects of our lives in the picturesque village of Ewelme
within which we have lived for over 30 years, as well as information
about this family itself. The site was set up to satisfy a technical
interest in Internet communication and web site design, since I was
working with a Danish industrial control networking company, who
were also setting up a company web site, for which I had some
involvement in designing its structure and content, until
retirement in 2009. See
www.proces-data.com and
www.p-net.org.
Development
The site was initially structured using a design package
called 'FrontPage' produced by Microsoft. Although there were
more popular web design applications available, I was initially
introduced to this by a friend (Adrian Powell) at no cost,
before obtaining an official licence for this and other
Microsoft applications. I moved the site over to Plusnet, which
seemed to provide a more versatile service, but have recently
(2010) moved over to an associated web hosting site called
PAYH or Pay As You Host. Many hosting servers are now not
supporting some of the special routines personalized by
FrontPage, so the web site had to be restructured to the latest
web page standards,and the final 25% is still under restructure
(mid 2010). Microsoft also produced a much better web design
suite of application programs in the last couple of years called
Expession Web, which rivals the best such web development
packages and this is what I currently use in version 3.
Browser Problems?
The web pages were designed to work primarily with
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE), and using standard techniques,
with all other common browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari
etc. However, it has been reported that as far as the Linking
buttons at the top of pages, which are supposed to change colour
when the mouse rolls over them, this only seems to happen when
the mouse is only over the top of the button with some browsers,
and then only in the top row. Steps are being made to
correct this, but right now it is not fully understood, and the
scrolling bar is the only way to navigate around. Sorry!
Thanks for your Visit!
This chart shows how many visits and 'hits' this web
site has had over a 12 month period, since the monitoring software was incorporated
in June 2010.
A Visit means that a connection to a visitor's unique IP address has been established, a disconnection of which has not been re-established for a period of at least half and hour.
A Hit is caused when a browser chooses to change page, or a click is made on some other hyperlink.
You can contact me:
by emailing 'christo at jenkins-of-ewelme.org.uk' (change the 'at' to '@' of course!)