I have made several changes to the website to take advantage of the faster upload speed now provided by virgin-media. In fact they have recently announced that over the next 18 months speeds will be increased even further. In addition to this my new Windows 7 based web server is much faster than the previous server which was on XP.
Brief summary of changes:
layout has been changed to fill the width of the screen - most computers are now hooked up to very large monitors.
Colour scheme changed to blue plus a new photo across the top of the page. This seemed the right thing to do following the loss of archie who suffered a heart attack.
RSS feeds are now working on the blog.
Local Weather widget placed in the sidebar.
Various quicklinks placed in the side bar
Photo Albums updated - I found a few had not been uploaded to the web server.
Photo Album TreeView improved by letting a user select from 3 options (1) Chronological (2) By Individuals Name (3) By Album Name.
New logging in option placed into the sidebar.
"AddThis" buttons are now available
Blog Software (Serendipity) upgraded to latest version which is Serendipity 1.6
Forum software upgraded to latest version which is phpBB "Olympus" 3.0.10