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Yaptongardeners are you still using windup net access on your old 56 modem. Think about BTBroadband 1Mb you can download at up to 20 times the speed of dial-up internet (standard 56kbps access. This site makes heavy use of images and the new pages will take ages at 56kps. Now is the best time as prices are falling and bandwidth grows.

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With all the major links to the web on this site you can make it your home page, that is the first page that the computer browser loads when you connect to the net.

Six easy steps to change your Home page: Internet Explorer.


  1. Click the link in the right hand column.
    Or to do manually.
  2. For Internet Explorer users, open your browser, click on the Tools link.
  3. Then click on Internet options at the bottom of the sliding menu.
  4. In the next box click on the first tab General.
  5. The first box is headed Home page. In the highlighted box beneath the sentence.
    "You can change which page to use for your home page."
  6. If different, type in http:\\www.yaptongardeners.co.uk\.
  7. Click apply

Six easy steps to change your Home page in Netscape or Mozilla.


  1. Open yourBrowser click on the  Edit menu.
  2. Then click on Preferences at the bottom of the sliding menu.
  3. In the first box headed When Navigator starts up, display: click on the Home page button. this ensures that the selected home page will load on start up.
  4. Move to the Home page box. In the highlighted field next to the sentence.
    "Clicking the home button takes you to this page or group of pages."
  5. If different, type in http:\\www.yaptongardeners.co.uk\.
  6. Click use current page: if or when address appears. Then Click OK.

Sending a email

  1. Either use the Contact page link or click on the YaptonGardeners mail button on the home page.
  2. This will open a small window with YaptonGardeners email addresses already filled in, click OK. The highlighted box will change to "enter the subject". Type in your subject, a few brief words is all that is required. Press OK again, this will open your default email program.
  3. When your email program opens, the address and subject boxes will now be filled in. also notice that the From box now contains your email address.
  4. Click inside the large text box, and type in your query, suggestion, or recipe.
  5. When completed and spelling checked of course, click on send which is at the top of the email program.
  6. This will be sent automatically to the recipient mail address in the To box.
  7. When responding to emails, do not quote the entire original message in your reply. Only quote the relevant parts.
  8. Note: All email address on this site are encrypted, to reduce spam.
  9. All emails should end with a short signature line. Example:
    Ken Rippengale - rippengale@hotmail.com
    Kaysare
    Visit us at --- http://www.jamworld.co.uk/
  10. Most email programs allow you to have a automated signature function. This function will attach your signature to all out going messages.

Sending your pictures for the members web site.

The web is a great place to display your photos and a modern digital camera helps, as the image is stored in a ready to use format.
However film pictures can be scanned and converted to a suitable format for use on the web.
Of course the image has to be in a digital format, if It is to be emailed as a attachment to the webmaster. Another way is for the images to be burnt onto a CD and posted to the webmaster. Below are pointers for members in preparing images for net use.
The main Bitmap formats are:

  1. TIFF. Tagged Image File Format. this is just one used by most cameras to store the image.
  2. GIF. Graphics Interchange Format. Suitable for line art and images of 256 colours or less.
  3. JPEG. Joint Photographic Experts Group. Especially suitable for the Internet. It supports a high-level of compression. Very suitable for photos.
  4. PNG. Interlaced Portable Networks Graphics. now being used increasingly on the net. but not all browsers support it.
The main consideration for web images is the download time, Since visitors will lose interest if the site takes too long to download.
So please take your images in 640 x 480 Jpeg I can edit and apply additional techniques using Photoshop.

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