About me
Hello, my name is Sam Hetherington-Hawthorne.
I currently live on the Isle of Wight, a small island just off the south-coast of England, with my cat Miaka.
My interests include Sci-fi & fantasy, anime, pottering around on the computer, and the countryside. I also do the occasional bit of (standards-based) web-design.
I'm currently in the process of writing a novel, although whether i'll ever manage to finish it is uncertain.
Why such a plain site?
This site is written in HTML5 and styled using CSS. If viewed in a modern, standards-compliant, browser you will see a properly styled site.
If you're using a graphical browser and the site appears basic then you are probably using Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Unfortunately Microsoft does not currently support the standards correctly. Fortunately HTML5 degrades gracefully on browsers that do not understand HTML5, and so IE users should see a grey background with black text.
Even though there's little styling the site remains fully functional. If you wish to see this site (and many others) as their creators intended then you'll need to upgrade to a more standards compliant browser. It's well worth the effort. A list of several standards compliant browsers is below:
- Mozilla Firefox (*nix, Mac, Windows)
- Opera (*nix, Mac, Windows)
- Konqueror (*nix)
- Google Chrome (Mac, Windows)
- Safari (Mac, Windows)