All pages are intended to work under the following browsers: Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 6+. Other browsers will work more or less well (I know that IE5 for Mac doesn't cope at all). If you want to access my site on an unsupported browser, email me, and we'll work something out (I'll probably try to persuade you to use Firefox!).

This site uses PHP 5.3.3 (all typed by my own fair hand).

All pages should conform to the HTML 5 document type. (Let me know if you find a non-conforming page!) Pretty much all of the layout is controlled by <div>s and CSS.

There is no CSS stylesheet behind all this. Instead a PHP script generates the basic style and is included in each page. Although this might seem a bit clunky, it allows the styling to be altered by factors such as the browser, or user prefs. It also gets round problems caused by the stylesheet being cached. The CSS generated is version 2.1.

The CV page uses Javascript to generate page content dynamically (i.e. navigation within the page doesn't require the reloading of the whole page). This was an experimental feature, but it works so well that I'm planning to start using it in the genealogy pages too.

An RSS feed is available to alert avid visitors whenever I do something with the site. It's RSS 2.0 generated by PHP from a basic text file (which is also used for the content on the homepage). The feed location is: http://joncoe.me.uk/feed.rss

My family tree data is held in a MySQL database. I'm currently running version 5.1.49.

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