Website help

Getting the most from this website

The website is designed to be used full screen, and if you run it with a smaller window it will work, but the display may look poorly designed.

You can find pages within the website by:

  1. Using the main menu set, where when you select the text on a yellow button it provides an exploded view of that section, Green items are in this web, and blue ones are sourced elsewhere. You can select any other yellow button to see another section or the dark yellow button to go back to the initial menu display.
  2. The extended menu, offers an alternative, select this from the top of the main menu, in this display the same contents are shown but with all sections exploded. In this view green  and blue buttons go to information on this web and light yellow select information from elsewhere. The green items are information on courses and services while the blue is more associated with administrative and organisational features.
  3. A site map provides a logical display of the website by function. This is shown within the training section but also on main menus always shown near the top.
  4. A full course list allows any course to be identified and connects to information on it.
  5. Introductory pages aimed a beginners, enthusiasts, professional photographers, those interested in picture framing and Business courses provide advice and links to other pages.
  6. Many of the pages have links to other pages that may be of interest.

If you go to a Camera Images sections, webs or subwebs that is outside this main training web, for example the magazine website, shorts, or limited edition art, you will find a similar web structure and buttons to get you back here.

Some pages like the calendar of available days, PDF files and booking forms, open up in a new window, so that you can look at parts of the websites while accessing them. Generally if it is a part of our systems or associated ones, they will give you a route back, and we stay within the same window, while if it is to another website elsewhere, the link we give you will allow it to open up in a new window.

If you are using a current version of Internet Explorer and have tabs you can select which links you want to be in a new window and which ones to go to a new tab by right clicking on any link. You will find that it does not always make sense of our pages off the contents bars, if you tell it to put them in a new tab, but does when you choose a link to another website from the main part of the page.

If you want to put a link on your desktop then, go first to our main home page, this is a single page, rather than a frame set. Right click on the page and select create shortcut. Similarly if you want to add this website to your browsers favourites this is best done from the home page, and can be done by right clicking and making a selection or from your browsers buttons.

 Resolving problems

A page appears but with title and contents bars missing. This website uses a technology called frames, this means that it has a frame page that in turn calls a number of smaller pane pages that make up a set. If you have saved a link to a pane, or got it from a search engine then this can be outside of its set. Click here to restart this website, and see the sets all complete.

When some pages load, a part of the page has a message saying that the file cannot be found. All the links and parts we call do exist and we have a means of testing for broken or incomplete links. The internet is not always foolproof, and parts may be slow or not working and then you tend to get these types of problem. Your browser uses caching, as do some parts of the internet, to save time and transferring information, and once an error has occurred it tends to be repeated, pulling it from memory. Sometimes you can just call the page again and it will load, other times you need to use refresh on your browser. If the problem continues to happen try deleting history from your browser as well as sorting this problem you will also make it run faster. If you have the problem on the same page over several days then let us know and we will look to see if there is anything we can do to speed its loading up.

On occasions the pages rather than replacing the existing ones continually opens up in new windows. This is something we have come across and happens with most websites from time to time. It appears to happen for a short period, sometimes only minutes, often across sections of the internet and then goes away for long periods at a time.  We don't know what causes this.

I have found a mistake on the website. If you find any factual errors we would like you to point them out, it would be most unusual for a factual error to get through. Typing and English errors are a problem we all have to live with to a degree. The only way not to make mistakes is not to do anything. The more you do the more mistakes you make. Having said this we do check our pages, first having written them, then again a few days later, as you tend to initially see what you thought you had written, then get a second person to check it. Some mistakes do get through particularly wrong words chosen in error from the spell checker. Some words can be spelt different ways and some are different in different versions of English. You can tell us of these if you like. 

I can't get this website to work well on my phone/TV/game machine, although its got internet connection. This is written to run on a PC, it should run on a Mac or a computer running a entertainments operating system with an operating system that is compatible to PC programs running under Windows. We don't use complex add ins or require high specifications, but it is unlikely that at the present time you could get this to look good on a phone sized screen.

We welcome questions or suggestions.

ALL TOO COMPLICATED, don't want as much information or choices
then click here to go to the very small, basic website.