The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
22 October (Part 1) - The Contact form and Internet Explorer 6
The Contact form presented considerable technical difficulties; it shouldn’t
have done but it did. Because the Bonkers server refuses to send messages back
to itself, the ISP’s decision, not mine, the messages are being sent to a
Hotmail account. Hotmail unfortunately sees them as spam and dumps them. To
overcome this the Contact form sends its messages with a fake From address
(mine) and Hotmail has been set to accept it as a safe sender. As always there
is a snag. If when sending a message the Reply email address is omitted it will
not be rejected because the secondary (fake) email address takes its place. Such
messages cannot receive a reply. No effort will be made to correct that failing because it
unintentionally allows messages to be sent totally anonymously.
I had an opportunity to check out the site on Internet Explorer 6 yesterday. The
‘Pickle jar’ wasn’t positioned precisely as I expected but to my alarm the drop
down menu wasn't appearing at all. This has prompted dusting off a ten year old
computer and installing the original version of Windows XP which includes
Internet Explorer 6. That has allowed the following problems to be fixed…
• The flipping book pages in the
June 2011 and
July 2011 blogs are now correctly positioned.
• The dates of blog entries now appear in the correct colour green. IE6
was allowing the link colour of red to take precedence over the font colour.
• The menus have been restored. (Navigation is possible without the menu
drop down but is cumbersome.)