These pages are probably best viewed at 800 x 600 resolution and 16 bit colour or better. If the page seems to be "squashed" from side to side and your resolution is 800 x 600, please decrease your browser's default font size. (use the View ... Fonts menu in Navigator or Explorer). The (non-working) graphics at the bottom of this page should appear on the one line, so you can test it now... Most of the images used can be viewed satisfactorily at 256 colour depth but full size photographs in the galleries are "jpeg" files which need 16 bit colour. Pages were created using basic 'vanilla' HTML so they should work on any of the popular browsers. The only caveat is the judicious use of some JavaScript (will not work on older browsers) and tables (a problem if you have a very old browser).

Cookies are used to keep track of user preferences such as the use of sound effects and animation. The author is indebted to the work of Bill Dortch, who has released his cookie handling functions into the public domain. The routines, with full commenting, can be found at: www.hidaho.com/cookies/cookie.txt

The site has been tested on Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, Netscape Navigator 4.5 and Opera 3.5 - if you have a browser which can not display the pages correctly please let me know. Due to differences between browsers, some pages will not look quite the same when viewed with Navigator compared to Explorer, for example. The Millennium Clock is a good example, it has white lines across its front panel under Netscape, not under Explorer. C'est la vie.