The latest revisions to this web site appear below:

2 Jan 2012 - Well... it's a new year, so time for a change. It's obvious the Christmas holiday web site couldn't remain throughout the new year so there are really only four revisions to the web site. Rather than having one large photo for the lead news article all the news articles show a photo on the homepage along with their respective title. Click on either to read the article. This forced various icons and logos to move to the right side of the page. The third revision changes all page background colours from blue to grey. The fourth revision involves the mobile page. The large opening news article photo has been replaced by a smaller photo to match all the others appearing there.
 

 

19 Dec 2011 - Snow falling on the Christmas web site home page has accumulated on several of the hyperlinks. A Christmas tree appears to the left side of the screen while a gift marked "Do NOT open before December 25th !" will be found at the bottom of the page. Santa Claus has advised you really should wait until December 25th before clicking to open this present.
 

 

9 Dec 2011 - The Mobile news page was modified today. Large headline text now precedes the first photograph. Pressing on either the photo or the headline text will open the news article. Each story below the first article now includes a small photo along with the story title. Pressing the photo or the title will open the appropriate news article.
 
     
 

12 Nov 2011 - The "This Month" page was updated to match the latest changes. Added a link at the bottom of the "Home" page to this page then placed a link on the "Sitemap" page to this page. Added the QR code image to the bottom of the Home page with an appropriate link. Added a link from the Sitemap page to the QR code page.
 

10 Nov 2011 - Web site design rule number two, consistency. Since the menu buttons were moved to the top of the Home page yesterday they now appear in that same location on all other pages too. Also, the button colours have been reversed. Buttons now turn grey when the mouse pointer hovers over them. After clicking on a particular button upon arrival at the appropriate page the button remains grey to indicate it is inactive.
 

BEFORE - OKthePK web site home page.
 

AFTER - OKthePK web site home page.
 

9 Nov 2011 - If you have visited this web site regularly perhaps you noticed the size of the photograph on the home page increased in size over time. (In the last iteration it went from 588 pixels to 640 pixels wide.)
 
This forced other columns on the page to become cramped. To compensate, the total width of the page then crept up to 1082 pixels.
 
Now, anyone who designs web pages knows there are many issues to address with the size of a readers screen being one of the most important. This brings up the question, "What size is the reader's screen?".
 
Over the years computer monitors have continuously changed. The analog TV tube types have been eclipsed by digital LCD monitors. Along with this evolution screen sizes have increased too (For instance, mine is 1920 x 1080 pixels.) so that there are many sizes to choose from. As a web site designer one must choose the most common size so as to satisfy the most common monitors that are out there. Therefore the size chosen as the most common today, and this is just a guess, is 1024 x 786.
 
So... this web site had been re-designed to fit within a 1024 x 768 screen. (You are still required to scroll up and down.)
 
To permit the headline story photograph to remain at 640 pixels wide the only way to accomplish this was to reduce the number of columns on the home page from 3 to 2. This necessitated moving the menu buttons to the top of the screen with the "CPR Set-off Siding", "The Foamer Files", and the "Slim Archive" buttons near the bottom. All other pages remain unchanged at this time.
 
Those of you running laptop computers with 1024 x 768 screens will thank me, but those with larger screens, not so much.
 
Compromise, compromise, life is full of compromises.

William C. Slim - Car Knocker - "I love the smell of creosote in the morning".