Webchem

I get C&B every month and occasionally splash out for WW. Used to be the other way round, often switching backwards and forwards I like the international and commercial bits in WW, they seem to be a bit more detailed - the China stuff was really good, well written (in WW). Left me wanting more. Neither magazine reviews boats for 2 adults and 2 children - this is a shame.

I have only ever been down there as a walker. It looks to be a really nice secure place to moor. Bit tight, and nothing bigger than about 60' can turn at the end, nice cafe with good food and pretty good yard at the end. When we buy (!) our boat I would look quite seriously at getting a mooring there - but I suspect there is a long waiting list and its probably pricy!

Jon, Can the invision board accept HTML labels? Has someone done a database plug in?

This is a great Idea if possible, it would mean I could search for pubs lets say on the Warwickshire Ring and see at a glance rather than trawling through the huge set of posts! Is the a function in the forum that allows the creation of simple databases?

This is really shocking, I have had nothing but good experiences from AW, including a major engine failure. They were canalside 45 minutes later, tried to sort it, realised that a new engine was needed, turned up the following morning with new engine, truck and hoist. A short time later we were on our way. They were tolerant when I took a load of kids on one of their new boats. I really am shocked.

I think its fantastic - even with the evil (!) Java bit. Is it a Dreamweaver effort? There is some serious code in there, if you did it all yourself by hand - big respect. If you've anaged it using Dreamweaver or equivalent - serious respect. I gave up using Dreamweaver (even though I teach it) for big sites as you can achieve the same effect with a Content Management System like Joomla/Mambo or a VLE like Moodle - less hard writing, but more back end stuff initially. A great looking site nice one!

Sorry, not been checking posts. My major beef with Java is as I said in my first post, every machine I have every used (including some very fast examples), hiccough when asked to open the old Java Cup of Coffee. The downloading of the applets themselves with Java once open is good (and irrelevant on a BB connection). At one time Java was the ONLY cross-platform language, we now have loads to choose from - most of which do not require a bloated interpreter to be loaded. php and MySQL together make a good alternative (not for everything), Python - and these are mostly server side as opposed to client side. CSS 2.1 can do most of the NavBars that Java used to be popular for. It also throws up issues when you are behind the South West Grid for Learning firewall, some JAva applications require certain ports to be open - or request that they are allowed to be open by you software/hardware firewall. Behind the SWGfL you have no control over the opening and closing of Ports, so some Java applications just don't run as they should. I run a lot of earthquake analysis/visualisation software, and the ones in Java (written so those with XP, Solaris, Linux in fact any flavour of machine can use it) tend to be buggy and very slow even on Dual-core, loads of memory superfast PC's. I know its good for some stuff, but generally any site that requires the old coffee cup to load, unless I really need it, I tend to go elsewhere. Sorry rant over, although I would like to carry on. Why not try Ruby (has its limitations) but does hog so many resources, and its platform independent and its free!

Very impressive - the kind of finish I am trying to get my kids to do (at work). The whole thing is very slick and tidy, I would lose the Java though, simply because on any machine I have ever had (including a dual-core with serious RAM etc) it always slows things down. Apart from a minor (and let me emphasise personal dislike of Java) - its great!