Website Technical Details

Browser Compatibility

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Hosting

The branch website has been hosted by Streamline.net since late 2004.

Technologies Used

Local Coding

• HTML for presentation
• CSS for making pages look prettier than standard HTML.
• PHP for server-side HTML page generation.
• XML for storing programme and tower data in a structured format, so the data can be re-used on multiple pages.
• RSS feed dynamically created by PHP for the latest updates from the branch.
• KML for projecting the tower information in Google Earth.
• Javascript a client-side technology for making web paged more interactive.
• Java (J2SE) for the JBlueLine applet
• Perl for off-line generation of the site index.

External Code Re-use

• AWStats for generating the site statistics.
• Tigra Menu for the main menu down the left hand side.
• Lightbox for pop-up images.

Internet-based Applications

• Google Maps API for displaying the branch towers on a browseable map.
• Google Search for searching within this website via the site index page.
• Ordinance Survey's OpenSpace for locating places on OS Maps using grid references.
• Many of the branch tower photographs have been taken from Geograph, sponsored by Ordinance Survey.
• YouTube API for finding bellringing related videos to display.
• Cooliris for the photo wall.