It has been quite a steep learning curve. When you start using html editors and trying to put together a web site, it all appears a bit daunting. Your first site is merely a collection of text pages and links, and gradually you progress to frames and graphics (and even little animations!). By the time I finished my first site, I had learnt enough to want to do it all again, and make it look a lot better - so I did. This process tends to repeat itself, so this is now the ninth iteration of this site, and it encompasses three other sites within it. I started out knowing no html, no graphics packages and no 3D packages. I am now passable in Photoshop, adequate in Lightwave, and can use html on a really, really good day.

With version 7 I tried to simplify the design and make the whole site more seamless. The previous version (Version IVc) was very identifiable as the three original sites and was heavily frame-based. This caused a lot of problems for friends who were studying/teaching at universities who did not have frame-capable browsers. Hence this version does not use frames. I have plans for a frame-based version of the site but this will have to wait.

Version 9 (this version) has some major changes. Firstly, I have finally bought a domain name, produced some teapot-orientated graphics, and updated a lot of the pages.

In case you are wondering, the littleteapots come about when I was looking for a domain name. As my appearance was somewhat short and stout (or as my physio put it, "short and wide" - thanks) a little teapot came to mind.

I'm very partial to Smurfs, Wombles and Clangers

Death to all Flower-pot Men

Dougal will rule the world if I have anything to do with it.

R.I.P.