Website Makeover

[Lucky Star]

If you have a look at the photoes from the EBS day of 2007 you will see that Ming has already made a very good Noddy. So Nigel is definitely relegated to the role of Big Ears.

[Anita Bensoussane]

To quote from the song:

"We're only making plans for Nigel.
We only want what's best for him."



Anita

[Moonraker]

What a bunch of comedians you all are!

Tony, you might not have read a Noddy all the way through (shame on you), but you have one hell of a lot of Noddy memorabilia!

[Tony Summerfield]

Tony, you might not have read a Noddy all the way through (shame on you), but you have one hell of a lot of Noddy memorabilia!

Guilty as charged, your honour!

[Rob Houghton]

What a bunch of comedians you all are!

That just reminded me of the old joke:

Why do elephants have big ears?

Because Noddy wouldnt pay the ransom!

Sorry!

[Ming]

Maybe I'm being a bit thick, but I never did get this joke. What of it?

[Tony Summerfield]

Perhaps you would have got it if 'big ears' had been put in capital letters, Ming!

[Moonraker]

Maybe I'm being a bit thick..........

Can't argue with that.....

[Ming]

Okay, I get it!!

I was looking through the Cave of Books (sounds magical!) and liked the way books were listed as "Book [1] of [8]". Will it be possible to provide a link to move on the the next book in the series, instead of having to go back one page and selecting the next one?

[Tony Summerfield]

Great minds think alike, I have already asked Keith if he can do that, and it is in hand!

[Ian Regan]

Keith, you've done a marvellous job! The new look is colourful, cosy and... well, I don't know, but the word tangy springs to mind for some reason!

From a technical standpoint, I'm intrigued to see that you've opted for a table-less design, but it all seems to be working magnificently on all of the browsers I've tried it on: IE6, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Firefox. Absolutely rock solid.

I do have one little idea on how to enhance the Cave of Books pages slightly, but I'll expand on that a little later on...

Ian.

[Tony Summerfield]

It is still very much a work in progress, Ian, and we welcome any good ideas.

I am currently working on the Secret Series and I have added the first 'cheap' editions to both Island and Spiggy Holes, as well as the wraparound dustwrapper to Moon Castle and the start of the internal illustrations. I think this was the final wraparound needed for the Novels section, but I might have missed something.

[Julie2owlsdene]

Perhaps you would have got it if 'big ears' had been put in capital letters, Ming!

I get it now too Ming.

[Keith Robinson]

Thanks, Ian, for your compliments -- and especially for checking in all the browsers for me! I've checked too, but even so I find some computers yield different results depending on OS and so on.

Yes, I'm dragging myself kicking and screaming into the 21st Century by trying to use table-less structure. It's not that I can't do it, it just annoys me how sometimes a simple design can take so much fiddling to make it work in all browsers. Internet Explorer can't be blamed for all this; I think the CSS standards could be improved too. I mean, why can't you vertically align text in a DIV by saying vertical-align:middle as you can in a table??

Anyway -- perhaps we should email privately about this stuff!

The "elephant with big ears" joke is very, very old, but the old ones are always the best, eh? I still don't know why the elephant didn't pay the ransom though; after all, the kidnapper made three trunk calls demanding the money. Maybe the elephant just forgot?

[Moonraker]

I really love the deep pink background to the pages on the website, missing from the Forum pages. Would it be possible to add it to these pages as well?