Hunter XF382 New website

1976 and 1983 are the dates I have for both appearances at Greenham Common (photos of both are there). Retirement was only a year later in 1984 but in 1983 it seems it went to a lot of shows judging by the amazing volume of photos taken of her that year…

Oh, and thanks for your comment 😀

Fantastic collection of in service pictures you have of her! The last one at Greenham Common must have been taken just before she retired? Just 2 miles from where I sit now!

More ‘tweaking’ has been carried out within the limitations of the free tools. Sadly I couldn’t add more pages as this disrupted the clean look of the top toolbar. Likewise a trial of adding ‘return to top of page’ failed miserably, so more information has been added to the homepage in multi-column format instead. I must stop fiddling with it too much as it could end up messy….

Hi Richard,
I can’t move the ‘toolbar’ at the top – it’s one of the limitations of the free website builder I’m afraid? I tried different looks within the limited tools and nothing came up looking as easy on the eye as that which I used….

Good point about the basic’s of XF382 – something else for me to consider given the limits I had available – it may happen if I can fit it in without making it cluttered etc…

Thanks for your comments Richard..

I may have to look at adding something like a “return to top of page” link at the bottom of each page – but that’s the sort of constructive comment I need from third parties so expect ‘improvements’ as time allows 😀

How about putting the toolbar below the blue strip at the top – the Hawker Hunter XF382 banner? I think initially I confused the toolbar with the toolbar of my browser. It would put the site browsing menu nearer to the page content on each page

Richard

More: You could do with a page for the uninformed describing XF382 – what she is, what state she’s in, why she’s in the museum – that kind of stuff

Thanks for your comments Richard..

I may have to look at adding something like a “return to top of page” link at the bottom of each page – but that’s the sort of constructive comment I need from third parties so expect ‘improvements’ as time allows 😀

Thanks Bruce! Just didn’t want to tread on toes etc….

|RLWP: The toolbar at the top was commented on by someone recently as being nice and clear and clutter-free… Hope that you’ve found your way round now? 😮

Yes, I’ve got it now. Because the page is deep I’d scrolled down and the toolbar had disappeared off the top leaving me with a big image that does nothing and a bunch of facebook stuff. Now I know, it’s OK but it’s perhaps not the best way of making the content easy to find.

Following the Firefox comments, your site works OK in Chrome.

Richard

XF382 looked very nice when I was at the museum last week

Hi Mark,

No problem doing just that – I am in the middle of making a list of sources actually as I am aware that people like to know their websites were used during the building of mine… I’ll be updating that bit later on today.

As for additional photos of the dismantling – that would be superb when you get the chance – thankyou!

Hi Pete, just a small request – I notice a few pictures on your surviours page which appear to be lifted from Demobbed (including two I took) I don’t have a problem with this but could you acknowledge where they came from please. This is as much because we had some of these sent to us for use on our site, but I’m not sure about further re- use elsewhere…

Also I’ll have to dig out my pictures of the dismantlng at Brawdy, prior to it moving to MAM, may take a while, but I know I have the pictures somewhere!

Cheers
Mark

Hi Peter,
I only use Firefox myself anyway – not sure which bits appear odd to be honest :confused:- it’s a free website which has limited formatting and I only used the most basic stuff to keep it as ‘clean cut’ as possible… 😉

Good to have a lot of content for just one airframe, well collected and presented.
Statcounter report that Firefox is now more popular in Europe than Explorer, some of the formatting when viewed with Firefox is a little haphazard. Just typical of the sort problems we web authors have to deal with everyday. I offer this not as a criticism but as a comment which you or may not wish to address. Personally I only test pages with 3 browsers now, explorer, firefox and safari. The rest make up less than 2% of the total page views.

Thanks Bruce! Just didn’t want to tread on toes etc….

|RLWP: The toolbar at the top was commented on by someone recently as being nice and clear and clutter-free… Hope that you’ve found your way round now? 😮

Yes, you are welcome to advertise these sorts of site – as long as you arent charging for the priviledge! I’ve altered the thread title to hopefull attract more visitors!

Bruce

There’s a toolbar at the top that you don’t immediately notice. Clicking on its various options will take you wherever you want to go.

Works fine for me richard.

I can’t see how to get beyond the first page of your website

What am I missing?

Richard