| Below are the answers to the quiz published in the February
Run-of-the-Mill designed to help you to get to grips with our website.
All the questions refered to the Home
page and the four parent pages:
About Our Club,
Our Own Races,
Other’s Races and Championship.
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| 1) | Ignoring temporary things such as people, dogs, clouds
etc. how many objects has Jol edited out to make the banner of Lytham
Green and the Windmill appear so uncluttered? |
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| The banner is from a panoramic photo taken from one point and so appears uncluttered because of the stretched effect but a couple of poles have been removed. | ||
| 2) | A website needs an identity which is provided by having the same format, often using a template, consistent styles and fonts and characteristic colours. Not counting buttons and pictures, how many different colours of text are there altogether on the five pages? | 8 |
| Far fewer different colours are used than might appear to be the case at first sight to give a unity to the site. | ||
| 3) | The Home page is the first page people will see. It needs to make an immediate impression, be simple to understand and must download quickly. Try starting from Google with a stop watch in hand and measuring the time taken for each of the home pages of Lytham, North Fylde AC, Blackpool & Fylde AC and Wesham RR to fully download. Which is the quickest? | LSARRC |
| LSARRC's website, lacking pictures and complex animations downloads quickly. | ||
| 4) | Compare the Home page with the four parent pages.
Apart from having three times as many little running men what is
the main difference? |
no hyper-links in the body of the Home page |
| The Home page contains no hyperlinks in the body of page (or no text hyperlinks). THIS WAS TRUE AT THE TIME OF THE QUIZ. Temporary hyperlinks have been added since. | ||
| 5) | The About Our Club page is specifically for newcomers.
What is the main piece of information missing from this page that
new recruits are bound to want to know?
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membership fees |
| The membership fees. THIS WAS TRUE AT THE TIME OF THE QUIZ. The missing information has been added since. | ||
| 6) | The main section where much of the information is printed is the body, which is organized by means of a table. On Our Own Races page, the page designed to let club members know what is going on, the table structure is very clear. Each cell of the nine-cell table has a different background colour. How many background colours have been used in the five pages? | 11 |
| The answer at the time was just 11 different background colours . It is now 12 and will be 15 when the redesigned Our Own Races page goes on line. | ||
| 7) | A hyperlink is an active area of the page that will take you to another page if you click on it. The page can be in the same website or in a completely different website. On the Other’s Races page all the links are to pages outside Lytham’s website. How many different websites can be reached directly from this page? | 8 |
| There are 8. The Mid Lancs., cross-country and track & field links all go to the same page, www.midlancs.co.uk. | ||
| 8) | Just below the banner on each page is a line of moving text. The code, which gives this effect to web pages, is called marquee. It’s a useful device for drawing attention to an idea that can be expressed briefly and you’ll find a different slogan in marquee on nearly every page starting with the Club motto on the Home page. Now if a hyperlink is a specific area on a page, can text that constantly moves, be made into a hyperlink? | Yes |
| Yes. Look at the About Our Club page. The marquee slogan at the page top includes a hyperlink to the Committee page. | ||
| 9) | Using the Championship page, how many different winners have there been of the James Brearley Cup? | 4 |
| 4 up to the time of the quiz. Tim Gibson won it three times. There have now been 5 with Nigel's victory in June 2005. | ||
| Winner of Quiz 1 is Bill Lock with 5 correct answers. Dawn Lock 17/03/05 |
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