Note: This page is not about ARKive.

This page outlines a selection of older projects, which I no longer maintain for a variety of reasons.

This website is made with a large amount of Joomla 1.5, a salad of third party Joomla extensions and a lot of secret herbs and spices (custom PHP templates, CSS, etc.). You'll have to read on to find out what temperature I had to pre-heat the oven to.

Did you notice anything different about the top navigation menu or crumbtrail on this site?

If not, look more carefully and (javascript permitting) you'll see a crumbtrail with drop down submenus on some of the crumbs.

So what are your first impressions? Did you understand it straight away? If not, did you see either a crumbtrail or a menu system or was it so confusing that it's a miracle you even managed to find this article? Have you seen something similar before that may have influenced your understanding of the concept?

The rest of the article discusses this idea in a lot more detail and some experience of web design might be helpful to get the most out of it but I'm keen to hear everyone's comments, not just the more technical visitor so don't feel obliged to read and understand the main content before you let me know what you think.

I'm a software engineer, website designer, systems architect, technical support person and sysadmin - mixing up those roles as and when my current employer needs or friends buy me enough cake. I usually exist somewhere in Bristol, UK. You can find out about the charity I work for and some of the other projects I've worked on recently in the Projects section of the site.

This site exists to give me somewhere to scribble thoughts that I think might be useful for other people to read (and jog my memory in years to come). Much of it may be of a technical nature but the content categorisation tags should make it easy to find the type of topic you're interested in.

I'm pleased to announce that version 0.1 of KeeFox has now been released. The version number gives you a clue but just to be explicit, this is not suitable for end users and is probably not even suitable for any but the most intrigued developers.

This version demonstrates many of the functions and technologies that will be used as we develop the project further but it's not much to look at yet.