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The site's menu and title is based on this picture, taken by Dr. N. Kingsbury, of the 1st Lent VIII rowing over Head ahead of Caius in the Lent Bumps 2000. Picture editing and assembling the club crests was achieved with the aid of Corel PhotoPaint.
The layout of this page is intended to be suitable for text only browsers and small displays; if you are using a graphical web browser and a large screen you might prefer the full 'scrolling' or 'fixed' menu based page layouts to be found here. Whilst some pages do use tables, this layout should generally remain easier to view and navigate on small screens.
Many of the finer details of the site's appearance are specified in a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS). CSS is a convenient and tidy way of specifying page formatting. Note that many versions of Netscape are riddled with CSS bugs and are there not to be recommended. Instead try using Internet Explorer, Opera or Mozilla.
The three page layouts are usually generated using simple server-side includes (which is why many of the pages end in ".shtml" rather than ".html").
Whilst many of the static pages are hand-coded html, the site's menu and many of the other pages are stored in xml format files, and the website pages generated using xsl stylesheets.
The dynamic parts of the website, including the front page, message board, members' database, the results and crews pages and the photo gallery are php scripts and have been given the ".phtml" file extension. The underlying content is stored in a mysql database.
Finally, mail to the members' mailing lists is downloaded from Chris Webb's Arachsys server with fetchmail, and processed by exim via a php command line script of Martin's.
These pages are maintained by Iain Edwards and Martin Peck. Martin Peck created the site's look, copyright August, 2000.
The process of updating the web site is on-going, and I am always pleased to receive your suggestions or comments. I am also keen to include any relevant articles, information or pictures you may have - so please email me with anything you've got that's worth looking at.
A big thank you to 1st & 3rd old boy, Chris Webb, for his help with setting up our URL and generously supporting us with the aid of his DNS and mail servers - owned by his company, Arachsys. The server itself is a 1.2GHz Athlon machine which Martin Peck built and set up. The current server replaced at two hours notice an identical machine which had been in service since the 9th December 2001 but which died under the strain of Martin's popular instant results service of the 2003 Lent Bumps. It is connected to the Trinity College network. The machine runs the usual range of services under Linux in its role as the boatclub web and mail server - http, ntp, smtp, ssh and the mysql database server.
Access statistics for this site, generated daily, come in two flavours - complete and last month.