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Note: This page has been retained for archive purposes only, and is no longer maintained. Enoch Lau's current site can be located at http://www.nointrigue.com/.

Help and About

Knowing that I'm a great fan of consistency, finally, the urge to make something look different has subsided, and now, after about 3 years, the Help and About pages look like the rest of the site... :)

About me

Hi, I'm Enoch as you may have gathered by now. In case you're wondering if you've found the right person, I went to Fort Street High School until 2003, and I am currently in third year at the University of Sydney. If it also helps, I look like this:

sydney / australia / canto / 20 / science+law@usyd / wikipedian / maplestory player / scisoc-er / clss-er / tablet pc / c# / commerce students suck / joey / flat white / bokeh / anti-vsu / anti-affirmative action / janice / baileys

Copyright and legal stuff

Eleventh commandment: Thou shalt not plagiarise! (yes, it even came with an exclamation mark!)

You should always acknowledge all sources. If you want to recycle something onto your own site or publication, please ask me first, because knowing me, I might have borrowed it from somewhere else. This also applies to associated web sites including http://enochl98.tripod.com/, http://www.geocities.com/enochl98, http://intrepixphotos.tripod.com/ and the files on my ISP's hosting space.

All content, graphics and design (unless otherwise denoted)
Copyright © 2002-2006 Enoch Lau. All Rights Reserved.

Offenders will be prosecuted to the maximum possible extent under Australian Commonwealth and extraterrestrial law, and if the punishment is insufficient, I'll torture you with hkpop until you go insane.

Some images come from the Microsoft Office Media Pack and should therefore not be redistributed in any way unless you too have a valid Microsoft Office licence.

Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Help and troubleshooting hints

  • If the website appears to be malfunctioning, or if you do not think it looks quite right, check that your computer meets some minimum specifications: a mouse, a keyboard, running electricity, a modern browser, 16-bit colour depth, 1024x768 resolution. Other than that, stop being so picky. I'm the perfectionist around here :P
  • If your computer does not meet the minimum specifications, try out the site map, which gives access to the major sections of the website from the convenience of a single page.
  • Printing: There is a known problem with printing pages out using Mozilla Firefox (it tries to place everything onto the one page, which causes the text to run off the page). Either copy the text to a word processor, or print using Internet Explorer.
  • If the solid colours look blotchy, check that you have your video card at the highest colour depth (32-bit preferred)
  • If you are using Linux or some other half-baked operating system, use Mozilla Firefox as that makes better font substitution decisions than other browsers.
  • If you are experiencing JavaScript errors, it is likely that it's due to the Tripod adverts lurking in the background. I've reduced the dependency on JavaScript in this version, but there's nothing I can do about the ads.

From pen and paper to ruining your day

Blame:

  • Macromedia Dreamweaver — the best web editor on the market. Weaves your pages like a dream. A pity it's going to be spoiled by big bad Adobe.
  • Lycos Tripod web hosting — an unbeatable 20MB free storage with (albeit slow) FTP access, free photo album management and Perl scripting.
  • Adobe Photoshop — Anything beats making gradient fills in Word and the PrtScn button; the industry standard in photo manipulation.

Version history

Note on version numbers: The version number is incremented when either there is a visible change in the template, or when there is a significant change in the structure of the information presented on this site. Content changes or additions do not trigger a new version number.

Version 1.x (aka the e n o c h . network) — Not a lot of content, hopeless design and navigation that was centred around the home page as inter-section links were not used. Hosted at http://enoch.freehosting.net/.

Version 2.0 (May 2003) — Now called "Intrepix", a complete break in design compared with the old web site, much improved content and division into sections, introduction of blogs, inter-section links now used in the form of menus but still limited in terms of hierarchical representation of content structure, home page was a complete mess and hard to find relevant material. Hosted at current site.

Version 2.1 (November 2003, launched January 2004) — Basic page design was not changed much, but contained improved aesthetics in header and footer, redesigned templates now utilise subtemplates feature available in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, streamlined stylesheets to reduce size, extracted JavaScript code to encourage reusability, dramatically expanded and improved content structure, improved menu looks much better, improved hierarchical reprsentation of site through use of the side bar. Hosted at current site.

Version 3.0 (July 2005, codenamed "Sobriety") — rewritten from the ground up to clear up the gunk that had been building up for some time, especially in the stylesheets; slick new template with a stronger emphasis on gradient fills; replacement of "intrepix" menu by permanently expanded sidebar; Wikipedia-style formatting and page structure; change of Intrepix logo from "fiery clouds" to "towering building"; a more restricted palette of colours; moved blogs offsite to http://intrepix.blogspot.com/; replacement of Photo Album with Tripod's automatic photo hosting. Hosted at current site.

Version 3.01 (December 2005) — moved sidebar into template, with sub-menus controlled via JavaScript; added image randomizer to home page. Hosted at current site.

(Current version) Version 3.02 (February 2006) — refactored the first year uni notes into one page because it will be impractical to continue listing each course separately, renamed Terms and Conditions of Use to Terms of Use and Privacy Policy to include a new privacy policy. Hosted at current site.

See also

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