More on Frames and Contacting Me

How to Tell if the Frames Version Will Work

If the next sentence includes a date in red inside the brackets / parentheses (in the American month/day/year format) then you should be able to read the Frames version without problem. If not, it's a case of try it and see what happens :o)

At the time of writing ( ) my various email addresses are, in order of preference

  1. mary.trevan@wxs.nl - which I use when I am in the Netherlands and check once a week or so when I'm in France or England
  2. mary.trevan@geocities.com - which I currently have diverted to mary.trevan@wxs.nl
  3. mary.trevan@hotmail.com - which I use as my address when I'm in the UK, but otherwise don't check very often because it doesn't let me save the emails on my local machine! (A major disadvantage in my opinion)

Why Write a Frames Version at All?

These pages were originally written as a non-frames version with links between them. However, over time, a few things started to become irritating.
  1. Time to write - By the time that the number of pages exceeded 100, the time writing the pages to index them all started to become more time consuming than writing the pages in the first place.
  2. Time to find - I found I had changed the links and some pages had no route to them, or I could not find the route to them, even though I knew they were there somewhere!
  3. Wanting to see things side by side - When I started to add the photos, I found it annoying that I could only see one at a time, and not show father and son side by side to try to see any family likeness.
  4. Finding what is only on my local machine - I went through a phase when I had problems getting or keeping a connection to my ISP, and got confused about which files I had prepared on my local computer but had not yet uploaded to my web site. So I wanted to put dates at the bottom of each page.
  5. Ease of changing contact details - My job took me from working in the Netherlands to working in France, and I found I needed to change my contact address on EVERY page on my web site! By moving the contact details to the Frame and not each page it's a lot less work to change, especially as my time in France is likely to be less than 1 year and then I'll want to change it again!

Why Keep a Non-Frames Version Too?

Getting a little technical, you need a browser like Microsoft Internet Explorer v4 or newer, or Netscape v3 or newer for Frames support. At the same time I added the Frames version I started putting in the buttons and using a language called JavaScript to open the windows and also to show the date at which I uploaded each file to my web site.

If you're new to the web and using a newish computer you'll have no problems reading the Frames version. But if you are running Netscape v2 because you're still using MS Windows (i.e. you did not move to Windows 95, 98 or 2000) or if you're running from Linux because you don't like Microsoft's near monopoly situation then don't try the Frames versions or the buttons.

Page created on 3 May 2000 and last modified 27 Nov 2000 and published