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
November 2015 - new page
Kate's Wedding. Many new images over 12 months to
Ewelme
Observatory.
December 2014 - new page
Christopher's Birthday. Major additions/pictures to
Ewelme
Observatory. Update of
children's photos. Update to
Christmas Cards.
May 2014 -
Archive of articles written for Ewelme News added.
January 2014 - Updates to
3G
and
4G/FTTC pages re arrival of fibre broadband to Ewelme.
October 2013 - Additional new
paragraphs about WiFi and 3G aerials added to
3G
page.
July 2013 - Extensive updates to
3G
and
4G
pages on arrival of 'Ultrafast' broadband in Ewelme.
March 2013 - Major update to
4G v Fibre following further reported delays for fibre
optic broadband in Ewelme.
January 2013 - Updates to
3G Wireless Broadband in Ewelme, after expressions of
interest from other locations in Oxfordshire.
December 2012 - Added text and sound of letter to
Benson Bulletin to
3G Wireless Broadband in Ewelme
November 2012 - First Observatory photo and video
of
Jupiter
October 2012 - Update of Grandchildren 'welcome' pages,
prompted by the birth of little
Georgia.
Sept 2012 - added 5 day weather forecast to
Ewelme Weather page
September 2012 - News of the 2012
Open skittles championship.
Aug
2012 - added in page Speed Tester and sound file
streaming for Radio Oxford interviews about Ewelme Broadband,
in 3G
Mobile Broadband
July 2012 - additional Q&A to
Beginner's Guide to Broadband
July 2012 - extensive update to
3G
Mobile Broadband following further reported delays for fibre
optic broadband in Ewelme.
July 2012 - results 4th Qtr and first year of
Solar Power
July 2012 - additions to
4G
v. Cable to include 2 year log of wireless broadband speeds
from Ewelme.
April 2012 - results 3rd Qtr of
Solar Power
March 2012 - more updates to
4G
v. Cable regarding new equipment and timescales.
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 Broadband
Origins
No, I'm not Lord of the Manor. (We have our own Lord Jay-of-Ewelme and Lord Nash 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 domain names 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 10% is still under restructure
(beg. 2012). Microsoft also produced a much better web design
suite of application programs in the last couple of years called Expression 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!)