Please mail us via the 'mailme' button in the menu  if any links are broken or you experience difficulties with the site. In case of difficulty with links you may wish to use a search engine to find the page you want to visit.

Our mailme system asks you to retype some letters from the name you typed in. This is a way of stopping people automating junk mail production. It will appear to fail if you have typed any spaces before or after your name - you may not see them on the screen but the computer knows they are there. It also matches upper and lower case correctly, so "J Smith" is not the same as "j smith". The check letters(assuming 1st, 3rd and last 3 letters) will be "JSith" in the first case and "jsith" in the second(ignore the quotation marks in this illustration).

We try to ensure that the information on this website is accurate and up to date. Links to other sites and services are provided for  your convenience and do not imply our endorsement of them.We cannot accept responsibility for any loss or inconvenience  caused by reliance on inaccurate material contained in this site or any to which it links. Similarly, please check details of events to which we refer with the organisers before you leave home. If you wish to link to us, please let us know so that we can consider a reciprocal arrangement.

ACCESSIBILITY and Software used
We have tried to make this site as accessible as possible and tested it using WAVE 3.0 - Web Accessibility Versatile Evaluator.
At the moment some of the items are displayed as images but we hope to
apply OCR and display as text. You may find it useful to turn off
the page style (in Firefox - Menu item View;Page style;No style).
Please email how to do the same in MS Internet Explorer. Please email us if you have suggestions to improve accessibility.

We try to avoid the use of cookies, but any that are used will only be to enhance your experience using the website.

If you are looking for software to read the screen aloud We have tried the free HAL Reader .
When you run the install program it will set HAL up so it starts every time you start Windows. HAL has crashed a few times, but worked again after closing the browser and restarting it. To read a web page you need to highlight all the text and copy to the clipboard. In Firefox the key sequence is {Ctrl}+{a} to select All and then {Ctrl}+{c} to copy to clipboard. HAL will then start speaking. HAL also speaks any windows pop ups without being requested.

Some downloadable forms are in Adobe Portable Document
Format(PDF)- download the Reader here
(approx 19Mb).

We have taken the opportunity to rewrite the site for 2009 using Joomla content management system. We also used some additional software to make the site. This may be of benefit to other webmasters so details are included here:

This site uses Cascading Style Sheets.
To enjoy all the benefits you may need to upgrade your browser.
The Webmaster recommends Mozilla Firefox -  downloaded here
(approx 5Mb). It is often included on
the cover
disks with PC magazines.

It also uses MySQL,PHP and SSI, all included in our Host's package.

Pages are designed using Quanta Plus - downloadable here.(6.6Mb)
and
NVU - downloadable here.(6.6Mb)

The Picture gallery uses  Tiny Web Gallery
(1.8Mb); It needs no separate thumbnail creator and it will display PDFs and play video and other multimedia files. (You do need to create a jpeg linker for multimedia etc). Neither does it use a separate database management system such as MySQL.

Email addresses are cloaked to minimise the risk of them being harvested by malware creators. Details can be supplied to  bona fide voluntary organisations and clubs.

How To: Create PDF With Php - Create on-the-fly PDF on the web server

We have added a menu item to let you choose your own background colour.

You can make the screen more readable in Firefox by changing the colour scheme as displayed in the following screenshot:

Choose Menu item Tools...Options to display the Options window and then
clicking on the Colours button will show the colours dialogue. On this
you can change text and background colours. Uncheck the 'Allow pages to
choose their own colours' box  and click OK buttons. Next time you
reload the page it will be shown in your preferred colours.



All the above software is free, Freeware or Open Source. Although it is free for private use at the moment(Feb 2008) there may be a licence fee payable if you want to use it in the future or a commercial environment.

LEGALITIES

This site is controlled by David as a private person

Any reference to  'DatManBu' or its variations, 'We', 'Us' or 'Our' on this site means David unless  the context makes it obvious, eg in an article written by another person  referring to his or her family.

We are not able to control the content of any other website. Therefore any links to other websites are provided for your convenience and we do not accept liability of any form for the content and information therein. We think that information on this website is understood by anybody with an average intelligence and a basic understanding of the specific topic. If we have included information prepared by a third party it is only to allow a wider public access to it and is not an endorsement of our agreement with it or our recommendation that you act on it. In some cases historical documents contravene modern safe best practice.  If you do not understand any suggestions contained herein do not act on them.  We do not accept any responsibility if you act on anything contained in this website or any communication resulting from your visit to it, directly or indirectly, including follow-up email messages.

Any reference to or representation of a person, living or dead is true to the best of our knowledge. If you consider it defamatory or would rather not see it in the public domain please contact us before taking legal action and we will correct any errors. We reserve the right to publish where we consider it is accurate and not liable to cause distress or cause for litigation.

David asserts his moral right to be identified as creator of this website.

This website and its contents may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or means, with our prior permission  or if permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Please let us know immediately you find something on this site that breaches your rights.

If you want pictures or a written article displayed on this site, please email them to us and grant us a licence to use them. You will still own the copyright to the original. Send the item in an email with the following licence agreement included in the text of the email. If they are very large please supply them on a CD with a file containing the wording of the licence agreement.(Just change the"nnnnn" to your name.)

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Licence Agreement between nnnnn and David (DatManbu)

In respect of the attached file(s) I grant DatManbu a perpetual licence to

* store the image or document in electronic form or derived printed format

* present the work on  DatManbu Websites, magazine or other medium

* sell printed or derived copies for commercial gain

* benefit from any sales of printed or derived copies of the item through the website, magazine or other medium

* modify the item, eg crop or resize it, superimpose or merge it with another

* but not to transfer any rights to a third party without agreement from the copyright holder, nor to sell or distribute an electronic copy of the item other than on a web page

In the event that DatManbu ceases the images will not be transferred to its successor without the permission of the copyright owner and this licence will expire.

The author will waive moral rights to be identified as the author of one's work, although DatManbu will try to acknowledge it.

The author can revoke this agreement at any time by notifying us in any written form that is accepted by a Court of Justice and allowing a period of grace to remove the work from our systems. (this includes electronic format where a timestamp is applied and the sender ip address shows on the document)

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