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Please mail us if any links are broken or you experience difficulties with the site. In case of difficulty with links you may wish to use a search engine to find the page you want to visit.
Our mail system asks you to retype some letters from the name you typed in. This is a way of stopping people automating junk mail production. It will appear to fail if you have typed any spaces before or after your name - you may not see them on the screen but the computer knows they are there. It also matches upper and lower case correctly, so "J Smith" is not the same as "j smith". The check letters(assuming 1st, 3rd and last 3 letters) will be "JSith" in the first case and "jsith" in the second(ignore the quotation marks in this illustration).
This site uses Cascading Style Sheets. To enjoy all the benefits you may need to upgrade your browser. The Webmaster recommends Mozilla Firefox - downloaded here (approx 5Mb). It is often included on the cover disks with PC magazines.
It also uses MySQL,PHP and SSI, all included in our Host's package.
ACCESSIBILITY.
We have tried to make this site as accessible as possible and tested it using WAVE 3.0 - Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator. At the moment some of the items are displayed as images but we hope to apply OCR and display as text. You may find it useful to turn off the page style (in Firefox - Menu item View;Page style;No style). Please email how to do the same in MS Internet Explorer. Please email us if you have suggestions to improve accessibility.
If you are looking for software to read the screen aloud We have tried the free HAL Reader .
When you run the install program it will set HAL up so it starts every time you start Windows. HAL has crashed a few times, but worked again after closing the browser and restarting it. To read a web page you need to highlight all the text and copy to the clipboard. In Firefox the key sequence is {Ctrl}+{a} to select All and then {Ctrl}+{c} to copy to clipboard. HAL will then start speaking. HAL also speaks any windows pop ups without being requested.
We have added a menu item to let you choose your own background colour.
You can make the screen more readable in Firefox by changing the colour scheme as displayed in the following screenshot:
Choose Menu item Tools...Options to display the Options window and then clicking on the Colours button will show the colours dialogue. On this you can change text and background colours. Uncheck the 'Allow pages to choose their own colours' box and click OK buttons. Next time you reload the page it will be shown in your preferred colours.
Some downloadable forms are in Adobe Portable Document Format(PDF)- download the Reader here (approx 19Mb).
We used some additional software to make the site. This may be of benefit to other webmasters so details are included here:
Pages are designed using Quanta Plus - downloadable here.(6.6Mb) and NVU - downloadable here.(6.6Mb)
The Picture gallery uses Tiny Web Gallery (1.8Mb); It needs no separate thumbnail creator and it will display PDFs and play video and other multimedia files. (You do need to create a jpeg linker for multimedia etc). Neither does it use a separate database management system such as MySQL.
Email addresses are cloaked to minimise the risk of them being harvested by malware creators. Details can be supplied to bona fide voluntary organisations and clubs.
All the above software is free, Freeware or Open Source. Although it is free for private use at the moment(Feb 2008) there may be a licence fee payable if you want to use it in the future or a commercial environment.
As we want this to be a family site we try to ensure that the information on this website is accurate, legal, decent and up to date. This includes links to other sites which are provided for your convenience and do not imply our endorsement of them. Please let us know if you think anything contavenes this. We cannot accept responsibility for any loss or inconvenience caused by reliance on inaccurate material contained in this site or any to which it links. Similarly, please check details of events to which we refer with the organisers before you leave home. If you wish to link to us, please let us know so that we can consider a reciprocal arrangement.
We try to avoid the use of cookies, but any that are used will only be to enhance your experience using the website.
Some pages require the use of javascript to be activated in your browser.
And finally:
If you want pictures or a written article displayed on this site, please email them to us and grant us a licence to use them. You will still own the copyright to the original. Send the item in an email with the following licence agreement included in the text of the email. If they are very large please supply them on a CD with a file containing the wording of the licence agreement.(Just change the ’nnnnn’ to your name.)
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Licence Agreement between nnnnn and Horsham Historics Preservation Society Ltd (HH)
In respect of the attached file(s) I grant Horsham Historics Preservation Society a perpetual licence to
* store the image or document in electronic form or derived printed format
* present the work on the Horsham Historics and Show Websites, magazine or other medium
* sell printed or derived copies for commercial gain
* benefit from any sales of printed or derived copies of the item through the website, magazine or other medium
* modify the item, eg crop or resize it, superimpose or merge it with another
* but not to transfer any rights to a third party without agreement from the copyright holder, nor to sell or distribute an electronic copy of the item other than on a web page
In the event that Horsham Historics is wound up the images will not be transferred to its successor without the permission of the copyright owner and this licence will expire.
The author will waive moral rights to be identified as the author of one’s work, although Horsham Historics will try to acknowledge it.
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This site is controlled by Horsham Historics Preservation Society Ltd, registered in England and Wales number 5694005.
Any reference to 'Horsham Historics', 'HH', 'We', 'Us' or 'Our' on this site means Horsham Historics Preservation Society Ltd unless the context makes it obvious, eg in an article written by a member referring to his or her family..
Horsham Historics asserts its moral right to be identified as creator of this website.
This website and its contents may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or means, with our prior permission or if permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Please let us know immediately you find something on this site that breaches your rights.
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