Autumn Trees on the Home Page

In mid-September we saw a redesign of our website, using modern implementation standards. The promise was "it will make it much easier to change the page design in future". Now is the time to test that promise!

For a short period, the Home page has a theme based on an image by Dorothy Redford: Autumn Trees. The background uses a specially faded version of this image, (mainly to make it a smaller file, and so faster to download), and the buttons and headers use colours picked out from it. (Any flaws arise from this treatment, not from Dorothy's original version!) The effect looks best with a large browser window - some browsers can expand to full screen size using F11.

By default, changes like this would apply throughout the website. However, we also have the ability (with a bit more effort) to apply different changes to the Home page versus all the other pages. This particular change is confined to the Home page, partly because we have no experience yet of the impact of such changes on our viewers. Feedback is welcome.

Apart from having a bit of fun showing what we can do with our website, there are more practical uses. For example, we expect to transform the Home page after Christmas to promote our Exhibition in February. Other suggestions have been to change the whole website theme each season of the year, (so Dorothy's image would be a good choice for Autumn), or even have a new theme each month.

Changes could be much more extensive than this one. We are constrained more by limited imagination than by the technology. (At least, I am). So I welcome suggestions for exploiting this capability.

Barry Pearson