Technical Details

I tried to keep the download time fairly short by keeping the resolution of the photos low. Hence you will notice that the quality of the photos is not terrific. The originals are good quality!

• The photos were scanned on an old 486 with not much RAM (16MB I think)
• The scanner was a HP 6100C (or is it 5100C -- I've forgotten)
• I scanned them in using HP ScanJet software.
• I used the "Color Photo" setting intended for "Screen" viewing. Next time I may use a better setting to save the photos at a higher resolution and end up saving them as JPEG files. Unfortunately the HP software only stores the scanned images in a few formats. I eventually had to settle on Windows BMP files.
• On these settings, the 7x5 (inches) photos consumed only 192k each. There was not a lot of hard disk space to store over 70 photos in a higher resolution.
• I used Paint Shop Pro 5 (a legal copy) to convert the photos to both small GIFs (thumbnails) and large GIFs. [I experimented with saving them as JPEG files but there was very little difference between quality and file size]
• I used MS Front Page to design the pages, using a template for the similar pages. The server that the files are viewed on converts all file names to lower case. I had to have several goes at forcing Front Page to save the pointers in the HTML in lower case.
• I avoided frames and anything else even vaguely 'modern'. I have some friends that still use browsers which do not support frames.
• The icons used were the first I could find. Hence they are of a low quality but I thought were better than none at all (You may disagree!)