Disclaimer and Accessibility Statement
This site has been designed for all web browsers in mind, from the most common proprietary browsers to open source alternatives. All text can be scaled to suit user requirements.
Keyboard Shortcuts
To further enhance the navigational experience of the official Stuart Vallantine website, I have also created some keyboard short cuts to the main site pages.
- ALT+0: Home page
- ALT+1: Latest News
- ALT+2: Articles
- ALT+3: Biography
- ALT+4: Poetry
- ALT+5: Drawings
- ALT+6: Useful Links
- ALT+7: Special Interests
- ALT+8: Contact Information
- ALT+9: Site Map
- ALT+I: Help Desk
When viewed on an Apple Macintosh, please substitute ALT for the CTRL key. If any Amiga or Atari ST users are viewing this site, I would love to hear what the keyboard short cut equivalents are of this list above. On Internet Explorer (all versions), remember to press the return key after the keyboard short cut.
For persons wishing to move up and down each link using the keyboard rather than the mouse, press the TAB key (seen with two arrows, left and right) to move forward and press ENTER onto your desired page. To move backwards, press SHIFT in conjunction with the TAB key. Again, press ENTER to choose your desired page.
Printing
This site is also designed to be printer friendly. Any text within this site is guaranteed to print without cutting on the right hand side. What's more, the pages have been coded so persons printing any pages will not be wasting any ink printing a grey border on the left and right sides of the paper.
To print, press CTRL and P to save time moving your mouse to the File section on the top right of your browser. If you wish to save on printer ink, or rid your documents of the file references at the top and bottom, click on File, then move to Page Setup (or Print Options in Opera browsers). Some browsers also allow the option of printing or not printing background images.
Bookmarking pages
On Mozilla Firefox, Netscape and K-Meleon web browsers, press CTRL and D, rather than moving your mouse towards the Bookmarks menu. On Opera, this key command is CTRL and T. For users of Microsoft Internet Explorer, go to Favorites and select Add to Favorites.
Content and Links
The main components of the site are split into three. The left narrow column holds the main navigation system. The right column is used to display HTML text content and pictures. The outer section is used to display footer level copyright information and the date of the last revision.
Some pages within this site include inner secondary pages. For example, the Drawings section has an inner section leading to some examples of artwork. Within the right column, some pages have additional links to the inner pages. For example, the poetry page will have links to pieces between K - S at the bottom of the final piece.
The main links on the left hand side are designed to create a sense of hierarchy between the core pages and secondary pages. All links use ever dependable HTML hyperlinks rather than image maps or Adobe Flash movies.
Each page within this site is listed within the Sitemap page. Unlike the previous version of this site, pages are created using <DIV> tags, with CSS used to position the text layout as well as the text itself.
Graphics: Icons and Illustrations
Located on the top left of each page are icons, which are used to describe each page in a pictorial form. These pictograms are similar to those used for PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System) methods of communication.
File sizes are kept as low as possible to enable fast loading times. There is nothing more annoying than waiting ages for your desired page to load, due to an illustration boasting a file size the same as an Amiga 600's RAM capacity.
For persons browsing this website on mobile phones, PDAs and Blackberry devices, all graphics and overall layout have been optimised to load effectively. The site has also been tested for use on a bog standard mobile phone using GPRS/WAP internet connections.
Copyright issues
All illustrations and written content within this site are © 1996 - 2008 Stuart Vallantine. Reproduction is prohibited without prior permission.
The only exceptions to this are articles covered under the jurisdictions of a Creative Commons License.
