Society of Telecom Executives
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GeoCities
This set of pages is hosted on GeoCities, where you too can set up a web site!

80% width tables
I've made extensive use of 80% width tables, to give a bit of 'whitespace' down the sides of each page. I think it makes a page feel cramped if the text goes right up to the edges; and it decreases readability significantly if you have to keep reading back and forth across a very wide line of text.

I tend to keep my browser window at about 650 pixels wide rather than full screen - apparently the optimum column width for readability is 1.5 alphabets wide:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm

Most pages aren't written to be that narrow though...

html editing
Almost all the html making up this site has been written by hand and edited using various simple text editors and word processors. It just looks better that way!

Javascript
Various effects have been added using javascript, notably the links on the home page which ‘light up’ when your cursor is over them. This uses a simple script like this: 

logoon = new Image(20,20);
logoon.src = "on.gif";
logooff = new Image(20,20);
logooff.src = "off.gif";

function turn(onoroff) {
    image = eval("logo" + onoroff + ".src");
    document['logo'].src = image;
}
along with the image you want to change and the link you use to change it when the mouse is over it: 
<img src="off.gif" name="logo" width=100 height=30>
...
<a href="/CapitolHill/Lobby/4300/link.htm"
    onMouseOver="turn('on')"
    onMouseOut="turn('off')">

Images
Most of the images were created by me, with the exception of the slate background (which I picked up from somewhere in the dim and distant past). The STE logo is a smaller version of one I created for a large banner. The images for the links on the home page were created in Lview and Paintbrush (low-tech or what?).

Image width and height
All the images have the width and height attributes specified, as in: 

<img src="off.gif" name="logo" width=100 height=30>
This tells your browser how big the image is, so it doesn’t have to download it before it knows where the next bit of text will go on the page; thus the text can be displayed much more quickly by the browser, with the images displaying later as they are downloaded.

Counter
The counters on several of the pages are the standard GeoCities offering.

Feedback form
The feedback form is a modified version of the standard GeoCities offering. The modifications are basically cosmetic, allowing it to have the same look and feel as the rest of the site.

GeoGuide
The GeoGuide is a standard GeoCities feature.

Banners
The GeoGuide uses a banner like this:

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Page last updated 5 January 1998.

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