On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 17:58:08 GMT, barb wrote:

What WinXP freeware do you use to create local HTML galleries (with easily clickable web links to the larger local photographs)?

Easiest is what "HTML for Dummies" advised us to do, say 12years back..

Copy source from someone else's' site in notepad and update to your requirements

Here is the source from one of mine,
The headers I now let Frontpage set up, easier by far, then wade in with the text editor, same as using notepad

Cut and paste from here into notepad and save as an html, then you can see the layout and adjust in your browser<

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<title>index</title>
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A Mersey Ferry

<img border="0" src="daf+iris1-1-04web-04.JPG" width="640" height="480">


The Royal Iris and Royal Daffodil (ex Mountwood
and Overchurch) 

Having a day off, new year's day 2004

Introduction:

(OK a bit long but worth the
read)

Right off,
this is NOT
the official web site of the Mersey Ferries. They have their own
excellent site at: <a href="http://www.merseyferries.co.uk/"> http://www.merseyferries.co.uk/</a>

There are also several other
sites concerned
with this service, many with excellent photographs and detailed histories.

This site started off as a bit of
a 'return to
roots' thing for me. I grew up in Birkenhead and had my first tastes of Marine
Engineering on the twin triple expansion steam boats which preceded these boats
on the old Birkenhead Ferry. Boats such as the Upton and Claughton. They started
my love of steam engines and Marine Engineering. I must have been pre-teen then
as I was about 12 when the first of the (still to me) new motor boats was
brought into service, but was always made welcome in the Engine Rooms and taught
the basics of the systems.

When these motor boats came I was
made equally
welcome 'down the pit' and started my my love affair with medium and low speed
Diesels there. An affair which eventually took me to sea on Tankers and then
through various career changes to end up now as a Boiler Surveyor (which was the
least interesting bit as a boy - ho hum).

When I visited the first of these
boats on my
journey back in time, I took the round trip as a fare paying passenger on the mv
Royal Daffodil (or Overchurch as she still is to me).

Boarding I asked a crew man if
the Engineer
was available. He happily pointed him out to me in the Passenger area.

Talking with the Engineer and
later the deck
staff and a Manager at the quay side in the Birkenhead Docks, I found that the
same spirit of happy co-operation and quiet pride in the service existed today
as all those years back.

Where-ever I went I was welcomed
and, in a
way, encouraged to take the pictures and produce this site. Without any
pre-arrangement or official introduction.

After seeing the the way that so
many
organisations, both commercial and enthusiast, produce a service and then studiously
avoid as far as possible contact with the customers, compounding this by not
considering that
provision should be made for those customers needs or wants further than when a
profit may be turned, the whole experience on the Ferries was a breath of fresh
air. The only place I have experienced like it was at the Royal Albert Hall, in
London, where I went as a Contractor, carrying out surveys and not a member of
the general public.

So this site has turned out to be
dedicated to
my appreciation of the MANAGEMENT of the Ferries
who have obviously got it right in the recruitment of the staff and the
management of them, to maintain the happy esprit de corps I found there.

Equally my appreciation of the
STAFF there, who are working together to maintain
it and to keep the very high standards seen on the
boats.

My thanks to you all, along with,
no doubt,
that of the millions you have served so well over the
years.

Could I please
encourage any
who are planning a trip to the North West of England to make time to do a trip on these
boats. For once I can not find fault anywhere. It is a wonderful experience,
without considering the history behind it.

The Fare seems expensive to those
of us who
remember the 3d and 6d (old pence) fares, but as an extended river trip between
the Liverpool and Seacombe legs is included off peak, maybe even on peak now?
then it becomes very economically viable.

The
Galleries:

(as always the pictures are the
clickable
links)

<a href="pier%20head%20disaster/pierheadindex.htm">RUSH INCERT - THE SUNKEN
LANDING STAGE AT LIVERPOOL PIER HEAD - CLICK
HERE</a>

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" style="border-collapse: collapse"
bordercolor="#111111" width="100%" id="AutoNumber1"> <tr>
<td width="25%">
The Queen of
the River </td>
<td width="25%">
The Royal
Iris</td>
<td width="25%">

<a href="real%20royal%20iris/realroyalirisindex.htm"> <img border="0"
src="real%20royal%20iris/tnRoyal%20Iris%2028-2-06-16.JPG" width="220" height="164"></a></td>
<td width="25%">
Disposed, Banished,
Decaying but never forgotten</td> </tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%">
Out on the
River</td>
<td width="25%">

<a href="river/riverindex.htm">
<img border="0" src="river/tnrivermersey-16-9-03-34.JPG" width="220" height="165"></a></td> <td width="25%">
The Terminals</td>
<td width="25%">
<a href="woodsideterminal/terminalindex.htm"> <img border="0"
src="woodsideterminal/tnmerseyferry-16-9-03-0000001.JPG" width="220" height="165"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%">
 Royal
Daffodil
ex Overchurch</td>
<td width="25%">

<a href="royal%20daffodil/daffodilindex.htm"> <img border="0"
src="royal%20daffodil/tnroyaldaffodilweb-16-9-03-041.JPG" width="220" height="165"></a></td>
<td width="25%">
Royal Iris of the Mersey
ex Mountwood</td>
<td width="25%">
<a href="royal%20iris/irisindex.htm">
<img border="0"
src="royal%20iris/tnroyal%20irisweb-10-9-03-24.JPG" width="220" height="165"></a></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="25%">
 Snowdrop ex
Woodchurch</td>
</td>
<td width="25%">

<a href="woodchurch/woodchurchindex.htm"> <img border="0" src="woodchurch/tnwoodchurchweb-19-9-03-20.JPG" width="220" height="165"></a></td> <td width="25%">
Woodside and
River at Night
(in for the hell
of it)</td>
<td width="25%">
<a href="woodsideferryatnight/nightindex.htm"> <img border="0"
src=" woodsideferryatnight/tnwoodsideferryatnightweb-16-9-03-00000 02.JPG " width="220" height="165"></a></td> </tr>

</table> <hr>

As can be seen these boats are
not little
lightweight jobs. The River Mersey flows north/south at its estuary so receives
the worst of the weather funnelled down it. From the narrow estuary, going up
stream, it broadens out into a wide sweeping salt marsh. These are know as the
Helsby and Frodsham Marshes, before becoming a more regular sort of river. The
result is that the narrows at the estuary cause an artificially high tide and
strong currents there. This has the advantage of keeping the estuary channels
fairly silt free, but means that the boats have to have the power to run against
these tides.
So the boats are fully sea worthy
craft,
well able to venture forth into Winter North Atlantic
conditions. 

 
<img src= http://www.personal.u-net.com/cgi-bin/count?countername=ferr y> <HR> 
As always the case in Boilerbill websites, copyright of all images is
strictly reserved. 
However, images are freely offered for personal collection, educational or other
non-profit making uses, subject to being attributed. Larger sizes than that on
the sites are usually available on request. 
In this case the management, employees and members of the Friends of the Mersey
Ferries are free to use the images, should they so wish for publicity and fund
raising efforts on behalf of the ferries. 
Contact details below:
 Commercial use by others is available by arrangement with the webmaster, ie ME!! 

Contact is welcome from all <A
HREF=mailto:>

Keith J. (Boiler
Bill) Chesworth </CENTER> 

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that is the finish of the page<

Play with it and enjoy

In actual fact it is the first of a multiple indexed site. The thumbnail pictures lead on to secondary indexes which then give the main pictures

This is a live site of mine, so you can see what it does: www.amerseyferry.co.uk
However, since it is a redirected site, the only coding you could see on line is for the frame of the outfit I use to obtain my web addys.

Keith J (BoilerBill) Chesworth
www.unseenlondon.co.uk
www.blackpooltram.co.uk
www.happysnapper.com
www.boilerbill.com - main site
www.amerseyferry.co.uk

barb

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