About this site

This web site was designed and created single-handedly by expedition member Jeremy Thomson both to make useful information about the trek publicly available and to demonstrate his excellent design and layout skills.

This site makes use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSSs) to give an accurate and consistent typographic style throughout the site. Details of the formatting for different type styles such as notes, small text, normal text and medium sized text are stored in a separate file which is dynamically linked to each page when it is opened.

Oddments of JavaScript, such as the menu control on the right, were also written by the author from scratch. However, this site should still function in browsers that are not script compatible. These pages should present well in almost any browser, and are also designed to be bandwidth friendly.

Although the site does use frames, there are only two and I have tried to make them as inoffensive and well-behaved as possible. If you catch them misbehaving in any way (pages loading into the wrong frame, contents don't fit, excessive scrollbars etc) please contact me and I'll fix it.

For general production and layout of pages, Macromedia's excellent Dreamweaver package was used. This program is recommended over any other HTML editor, as it allows both WYSIWYG and direct HTML control, and provided a large number of useful features. It is also far more stable than any other I have used.

Our written report, available here in PDF format (For a free PDF reader, visit Adobe), was produced in QuarkXpress. All graphics were edited and produced with Adobe Photoshop and optimised to their currently tiny file size with Adobe ImageReady. Our 'misty mountains' logo and 'beermat' logo were designed by Elina Beimbourn. Thanks!