… of goign for my evening walk tonight. We’re having a torrential rainstorm to match the gale-force winds that we’ve been having all day.

And I know about them storming away all day too, because just for a change these days I was up and out of bed by 06:35 – and that’s something that hasn’t happened in a long time.

Quite a disturbed night too by the looks of things. There is miles of stuff on the dictaphone. I’ll have to make a start on that one of these days, won’t I?

An early awakening means an early breakfast, and that means an early start at work.

And I was right about one thing – that the problem of using Javascript to link to external files was resolved in a matter of 10 minutes. The simple method again, of course.

Building a vertical menu wasn’t quite so easy. It took about an hour and a half and quite a few goes to make it work properly and the text isn’t quite as I would like it, but that’s a detail that I can correct in due course when I work out to do it.

That was the cue to wander off out to LIDL for a pile of shopping. All the way on foot and all the way back again with two bags full of stuff. I’m not going to pretend that I have everything that I need but it’s enough to keep me going.

Back here, I did some research. Apparently the issue with iframes is when they link to external sources. No reason at all (apparently) why you can’t run an iframe from your own site. And so I simply prepared another web page, added into it all of the advertising blocks and the hit counters, and then went and did some research about formatting it as an iframe insert.

Much to my surprise, it seems to work – to a certain degree. I wan’t set the width of the frame or remove the frame border in my stylesheet, but have to format each page in which the iframe sits.

So in the end I had to oversize the height of the frame so that it gives me the facility to add in anything else. Its optimal size is about 1600 pixels so I’ve set it to about 1800.

One big problem though is the width.

There’s a hit counter on there that is too wide for the frame and even widening the frame to the maximum won’t fit it in. And so I’m stuck with a scroll bar on the width until I can find a smaller counter. I’m not happy with that, but I don’t see a way round it until I can give it some more serious thought.

This afternoon I was trying to find someone on line who would check it for me to make sure that the public can see what I can see. There’s no-one around so if anyone reading this wants to check it for me, the page to look at is THIS ONE, and here are four screenshots of what I can see

1. SCREENSHOT ONE
2. SCREENSHOT TWO
3. SCREENSHOT THREE
4. SCREENSHOT FOUR

Whether you can, or whether you can’t see the same as me, please let me know, along with the details of the browser(s) that you used and the operating system that you have.

That led me nicely up to my afternoon walk, and it was horrendous out there. blowing a gale something rotten it was.

All of the people walking along the harbour wall were receiving a total drenching as the waves crashed up and over into the harbour. It really was a fierce day and I was glad to make it back home.

By the way – don’t get too excited about seeing an image. This is merely temporary as I have about 4,000 in the backlog and it will be some time before I deal with them.

I’m going to start afresh on 1st November and deal with the backlog over the course of time

Back here, seeing as how the revised website looked good to me on another laptop, I decided to proceed. So this evening I’ve been doing that.

I’ve had to upload about 8 javascript files and a new *.css file for the iframe, and that lot comes to about 20kb. But each file that I’m converting is saving me 4.6kb and that’s quite impressive. I should have bitten the bullet and done this ages ago. But still, better late than never I suppose.

Tea was one of these burger things that I buy in hermetically-sealed packets. I cooked some rice and veg and then fried the burger with onions, mushrooms, garlic, rosemary and sage. When it was cooked, I made a thick gravy in the frying pan and then poured it over the rice, veg and burger.

And do you know what? it was absolutely delicious.

So now I’m off for an early night. I’m hoping for a good lie-in tomorrow as it’s Sunday.

And that reminds me.

For those of us living on the mainland, we put our clocks back one hour tonight. But if you are living in the UK, you put them back 200 years – back to the days of slavery, workhouses and stuffing kids up chimneys.

You don’t really understand what’s coming your way, do you?