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	Just a few notes for anyone new to this Website (or websites in general) to help you get around. This site is best viewed full-screen, just click the little square in the top right hand corner ... or press F11 on your keyboard, which is much quicker & easier to reverse - and gets rid of all of the superfluous junk that you don't really need The opening page on this site,  and all other sites, is called the "home" page. .

Do you find this page to be way too big for your screen? If so, I would guess that your screen resolution needs updating. Only a few years ago a screen res of 640x480 was the norm but nowadays, with cheap 17" monitors and new graphics software, 800x600 is currently in vogue, fast heading towards 1024x768. By way of compromise, I used 960x720 on a 15" monitor in editing this site. Put simply, higher screen res gives better graphics. To change your screen resolution is easy: shrink this page to a half screen window so that you can read these instructions while following them right-click on your desktop, then left click properties on the little window that appears on the next window, display properties, click settings in the bottom right hand corner is a box called screen area, if the little slider shows 640 by 480 pixels, move it to the right until it shows 800x600 or higher click apply, then okay, if everything looks OK answer yes to the little window , and the job is done you will notice that everything, particularly the desktop icons, appear smaller; if you don't get used to this after a couple of hours right click to open display properties/appearance, open the window desktop where you can re-size icons, text and pretty much anything else to your taste and don't worry, everything you have done is reversible, although I can't imagine why you would want to do that ...

The following "navigation bars" appear at the bottom of all pages and, despite looking like pieces of torn up newspaper, will quickly & efficiently whisk you off to the signposted destination. Why is one button purple in colour, ... because that's the page you're on.   As time has gone by the need for a "junior menu" has arisen and the following icons have been inserted: These are always at the top of the pages and will transport you to the home page, backwards & forwards through the same level of pages, or "up" to the next level. Why isn't there an  "up" buttons in the example  above? ... because there isn't a level above us except "home",  there's already a "home" button, and we don't need another one do we? What's a level? Have a look at the Site Map and all will become clear (as mud). The map starts off with the top level (in bold letters) then merrily moves from left to right through grey ticks, pink spots, grey blobs, etc  - down through the layers, listing all pages and links to them along the way. Click on any heading and you will be taken there at the speed of light ... or faster. As a matter of interest, if you look at the end of the list you'll see the "moving site" notices from 3 years ago when the "timjamesblues" site became too large for Virgin's 10 megabytes and left home to set up on its own. the final one of these notices announces that the family site has now been forced to reside under the wings of its offspring at www.timjamesblues.com ..."what goes around comes around" ... as they say.   Finally, on the Home and Links pages are a couple of brand-new "vertical" menus that look like this:
		What's this all about? Well frankly I didn't like the "bits of newspaper" (otherwise known as  the "sumii-painting" style)  - stacked up vertically ... and decided to try something different. I personally think that the 2 pages look a lot better, which begs the question, should I change the whole site? Let's see. If you've looked at the Site Map you'll realise that this website consists of a lot of pages (around 70) all linked to each other through a lot of levels. So, if you decide to add, remove, or relocate a page, how long does it take to reorganise all the "link buttons" that join 'em up ... days, weeks, forever? The answer is milliseconds,  - all thanks to Microsoft Frontpage 2002, the website authoring software used. PS the site map too is courtesy of MS. Personally I am no big fan of Microsoft, I find their products overpriced, out-dated and unstable. A lot of people make better products, Dreamweaver website software is far better artistically than FP2002, but cannot produce sites as quickly & easily. Oh well, after MS read this (as they are quite able to) we probably won't have a website next week.

There are places in this website where you'll connect with the outside "web-world", namely: The E-Mail page when you use the Bertie the dragon, and The Contacts Library page when you use any of the addresses On this site, to make life easy, ALL internet links now open "new windows". To return here all you have to do is close the window by clicking the little cross in the top right hand corner of the page. You are, of course, quite at liberty to simply minimize the window so that you can go back later. But beware, you can finish up with a dozen "open windows" which can slow your computer down a little (or maybe a lot).

Computer lingo for little "thumbnail-size" pictures that expand to full size when you  click 'em. I am sorry about the disgusting image on the right, but it's a life size picture of my thumb, to illustrate the point. If you would now like to click it you'll find that it expands to something completely different, just to show that you can cheat the system!  As to where the thumbnail description came from, that's simple - computer nerds. Just be thankful they weren't looking at their feet at the time.

 ... and that's all there is to it (for now).

james family website by tim james