About Doctor Who In Detail 4

After being online for five years, and looking the same for all five years, Doctor Who In Detail 3 has been superceeded by Doctor Who In Detail 4. Although recognisable, Doctor Who In Detail 4 is a very different site, with each page being newly reconstructed.

DWID 3 was a collection of static pages; DWID 4 is still a collection of static HTML pages (based on the data of DWID 3) which is slowly being turned into an ASP .NET (at first 1.1 being ported to 2.0) site. A home built Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express database holds the data which is exported to static XML files which are then read by the site.

The site is very generously hosted by CSI Media - a company that I have worked for for over three years.

DWID 4 has a lot more reliance on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to alter the display of the site. In future, if ever the overall look of the site needs to change all that is needed is a change in the stylesheets (XSL or CSS). This does mean, however, that some older browsers may not be able to display the site properly. Although every effort has been made to ensure this looks the same, and as intended, in all browsers, I have only been able to test on Windows XP and Vista using Mozilla FireFox 2.0, Internet Explorer 7.0 and Internet Explorer 6

My main development browser is FireFox 2.0, so apologies if the site does not look right in your browser.

If you want any more information, or to ask any questions about this site, Doctor Who, or life in general (I am no expert in the latter) please e-mail me, Nigel Ellis.

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