Welcome!     Welcome to the currently being renovated loz-n-ali.com. As you can see it's got a nice new paint job, the old one was boring and bloated, so now it's got a lovely new style, made up of pngs, not those shabby gifs. This site should be compatible with Netscape 7.0, Internet Explorer 5.0 and Opera 6.0 browers, and possible earlier versions also. We hope your browsing experience is enhance by this new shiny exterior to the same drivel we had before :) Comming Soon... Because this is still being made there are a number of things missing from the current site. One thing would be links [I am planning to put some nice shiny plasticky buttons on the right there pretty soon, but you'll just have to wait]. Because these links are missing I will list some plain old boring text links here: bookmarks, linux (like there's anything worth looking at yet), loz's homepage and ali's homepage - although those two should be available through their respective initials at the top. Hopefully the new links should be in place fairly soon Other things which are also going to be here are: loz's guide to html loz's guide to gimp & web-design links to my sourceforge projects a better linux page our new and improved news-adding system our new and improved mail & diary system What? Is that not enough for now?.. I do have to find a job you know! Why pngs?!     What is all this fuss I'm making about these png images? Well they're a better web-design technology that's what. Portable Network Graphics (png, pronounced "ping") have been around for years, but until recently browsers did not support all their lovely features. The main reason for using png over gif is that in order to use gif's in software license fee's must be paid to the patent owner (who very slyly started charching after it became the de-facto standard in web design) so some nice people invented png which is open, and free and will always be so. Other real benefits are more for designers, but they do have knock on effect to users. PNG supports alpha transparency, which means images can blend in with their background, gif images must be blended before and a separate image for each background must be made - very time consuming and wasteful as the same image must be downloaded each time. Check the Transparancy Test to see this in action.