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How the web site and site map are structured
Typographic conventions used to indicate the current state of pages
List of recently created or updated pages

Foreword

How the web site and site map are structured
I am currently experimenting with a new colour scheme and style of presentation of the pages on this web site, so I hope you will excuse any inconsistencies which may be present in the short term.
This is a detailed table showing every page on this web site, and showing the hierarchical structure of the site. If you want only a brief overview of the broad categories of content on this web site, please go to the Contents page.
On this site map, pages appear at several levels: first level, second level, and so on, and pages at any given level other than the first belong to a particular page at the previous level, and can be accessed from it. All pages are directly accessible from this page, though. You either find and select the page you want from here, or you work through the hierarchy of nested menu pages shown below. Anyone who is familiar with the way subdirectories work under the DOS operating system will be familiar with the way this is set up. (Although the Windows operating system tends to hide details like this from users, a graphic view of this hierarchy can be seen if you examine your hard disk contents in Windows Explorer.)
Headings below are indented three spaces relative to the heading indicating the page they belong to, and appear beneath it. Adjacently shown pages indented exactly the same amount are independent of each other structurally, but both belong to the same page of the previous level, and are thus related in topic. A quick reading of the table below should make it quite plain how this works.
The pages which contain actual information are the ones at the lowest level - that is, the most indented links in the site map. The other less-indented links above them are sub-menus containing links to related pages at various levels in the hierarchy. It's really much easier to just try a few links to see how it works than to try to follow a complicated explanation here - it's one of those things that's much easier to understand than to explain clearly.

Typographic conventions used to indicate the current state of pages
This site map is as much a planning tool for myself as a map for what is already in the web site, and thus there are links which are intended to point to proposed pages which I have not yet written. All links are active, but I am using a couple of typographic devices to give an indication to the current completeness of pages, thus:
You will notice that some of the links are in bold type, while others are not bold, but italicized and in parentheses.
The links in bold type point to pages that already exist and are more or less complete, at least as of now. That is, they already have substantial content, and are self-contained in what they say - although that does not necessarily mean they will not change further or that they won't be expanded considerably at some future time. Some pages by nature are subject to frequent updating and in a sense may never be complete.
The italicized links in parentheses refer to pages which are not yet written. The links are active, but point only to an empty page: a dummy page, or a mere placeholder for future use, but which currently only says the page is not yet written and contains a link back to the site map.
On rare occasions, I may start a page, but for some reason may not be able to complete it for some time; in such cases I will indicate links in Roman type, but not bold and not parenthesized. I will indicate pages thus only when their incompleteness is obvious; if a page is far from complete but the information there stands on its own quite well, as far as it goes, I treat it like a normal page which is complete (for the time being).
These conventions apply also to higher-level pages which have no content in themselves beyond links to subsidiary pages - that is, the various sub-menu pages - but all subsidiary pages which link off such pages are taken into account in deciding the status of these menu pages. They will be considered to be as complete as the most complete pages which appear one or more levels subsidiary to them, and their typography rendered appropriately to that.
I might add that at times when I am working on the web site, adding new pages and updating old ones, the current status of pages shown by such typesetting devices might be out of date on a temporary basis. At times when the exact pages which are complete, or even up, keep changing, it is too difficult to keep the appearance of links up to date on such an exact, short-term basis, and so when I change the links, this will reflect the status of pages I am aiming at on a short-term basis (a few hours or maybe days), not the continually changing status as the pages themselves change hour by hour. (Keeping the links continually and changingly up to date almost minute by minute at times when I am making big changes to the site would entail extra hours of work which does not seem justified.)

And a final point relating to the typography of the Site Map: I have changed from the proportional font I originally used to a monospaced font so that I can more easily and precisely control the indenting of the items. The indenting is essential to my method of showing the hierarchy or relationships of the various pages to each other, and prevents the listing from becoming an incoherent mess, and thus cannot be dispensed with. Unfortunately H.T.M.L. does not provide any good way of indenting text, and the various methods I know of are all awkward or clumsy in some way.
It really is a puzzle to me why people these days, in particular the designers of H.T.M.L., seem to have abandoned indenting altogether, and seem to think all text should be displayed with a flat hierarchy. You will see from the style of this entire web site that I do not accept this practice. (What galls me most about this is not just that some people choose to avoid indentation, but that the designers of software take it upon themselves to design programs in such a way as to virtually force their preference on users of the software generally.)
I have therefore decided to use a monospaced font, obtained by means of the <PRE> tag, which allows me to space my text on the screen precisely the way I want. It can be done (approximately, at least) using a proportional font, by judicious and fiddly use of non-breaking spaces ( ), but it is time-consuming and awkward, and I would prefer to spend this time improving the site in other, more productive ways. Moreover, this method would not even be reliable on all computers and with all readers: if a reader were using a different font from that I was using when writing the page, it would be unpredictable how it would display for that reader. Some may feel that a monospaced font looks slightly less good - and I agree - but, to me at least, the aesthetic difference is only slight, and I decided it was worth this small sacrifice to make the Site Map easier to maintain as it grows.

List of recently created or updated pages
Finally, immediately after the Site Map, for your convenience, I provide short lists, with active links, of the most recent pages on this web site that I have either added or significantly updated, with the date of such addition or updating.
I don't list pages as updated where only trivial alterations have been made, such as changing out-of-date links, correcting small errors, and the like; but a substantial correction of an error might qualify, and even a fairly small alteration or addition might qualify if I felt it amounted to significant information, albeit in small amounts. And new pages are listed on the new page list even if they are still substantially incomplete or still under construction, provided I have decided to make the page publicly visible; pages still under construction which I have not yet linked will not be listed in this list until I make those links public, irrespective of how complete the page is. Nor do these lists include pages which are mere menus: that is, lists of links to subsidiary pages which contain actual information. (I may decide to make public an incomplete page if I feel that there is enough information already there to be useful or interesting, and especially if I anticipate that it may take me some time to complete the page.)
The links in these two auxiliary lists merely duplicate ones that appear in their proper place in the Site Map, which is complete in itself.
I will leave pages on the auxiliary lists for approximately 6 months, although this may vary slightly, as I will not necessarily remember to check this area every day to see if any page has been on the list for precisely 6 months, to the day. Essentially, each time I add a page to the site (and therefore come to this site map to update it), I will check this list and remove anything that is dated more than 6 months before the current date. But, allowing for some slight imprecision here, if you visit my web site at least once every 6 months, you will be able to see listed here all pages which have been added or updated since you last visited, and you will not miss any. All pages with actual content (as against menu pages) have their date of last alteration notated at the bottom, if you want to hunt for pages that were changed more than 6 months ago.

Michael Edwards,
Victoria, Australia.

E-mail: m j e (no dots or spaces) at remove-spam-block foxall dot com dot au
Web site: http://www.foxall.com.au/users/mje

NOTE:
Click here if you need an explanation for the strange appearance of the e-mail address which will appear when you click on the e-mail link, or if you don't know what you need to do to make the e-mail address work properly.

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Site Map


Introduction - Front page, which leads to Contents
Web Site of Michael Edwards - Contents
|--Personal notes [ Future of web site - Spam-blocking - Photo of myself available ]
|--Photo of myself (short page with 53-Kb. jpg photo)
|--Quotes
|--Site Map (this page)
|
|--Book Listings                  [ down to Composer Listings ]
|  |
|  |--Science Fiction     [ down to Horror ]
|  |  |--Eleanor Cameron
|  |  |--( Hal Clement )
|  |  |--E. C. Eliott
|  |  |--( Robert L. Forward )
|  |  |--( Angus MacVicar )
|  |  |--( Patrick Moore )
|  |  +--( Hugh Walters )
|  |
|  |--Horror              [ down to Thrillers - up to Science Fiction ]
|  |  |--Mendal W. Johnson
|  |  |--( Dean R. Koontz )
|  |  |--( Richard Laymon )
|  |  |--Bentley Little
|  |  |--( Graham Masterton )
|  |  +--( Christopher Pike )
|  |
|  |--Thrillers           [ down to Children's - up to Horror ]
|  |  |--Thomas H. Block
|  |  +--Robin Cook
|  |
|  |--( Mystery, Crime )
|  |
|  |--( Miscellaneous )
|  |
|  |--Children's Fiction  [ down to Non-fiction - up to Thrillers ]
|  |  |--Enid Blyton
|  |  |  +--Enid Blyton F.A.Q.
|  |  |--Mel Lyle
|  |  |--Charles Spain Verral and George Wyatt
Also, from science fiction listings:
|  |  |--Eleanor Cameron
|  |  |--E. C. Eliott
|  |  |--( Angus MacVicar )
|  |  |--( Patrick Moore )
|  |  |--( Hugh Walters )
Also, from horror listings:
|  |  +--( Christopher Pike )
|  |
|  +--( Non-fiction )     [ down to Composers - up to Children's ]
|     +--( Richard Dawkins )
|
|--Composer Listings              [ down to Writings - up to Book Listings ]
|  |--Roy E. Agnew
|  |  +--Errors in Keys Press Agnew edition
|  |--William Baines
|  |--( Edgar Bainton )
|  |  +--Errors in Concerto-Fantasia
|  |--Ludwig van Beethoven
|  |--George Lloyd
|  |--Billy Mayerl
|  |--( Arnold Schoenberg )
|  |  +--Errors in Gurre-Lieder
|  |--( Alexander Scriabin )
|  |  +--Errors in Symphonic Poems
|  |--Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
|  |  |--Introduction to Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji
|  |  +--Errors in Opus Clavicembalisticum
|  +--( Karol Szymanowski )
|
+--Writings by Michael Edwards    [                   up to Composer Listings ]
   |
   |--Book Reviews           [ down to Haiku - up to Composers ]
   |  |
   |  |--** Spoiler information ** (further discussion for various books -
   |  |                             accessible only from those specific reviews)
   |  |
   |  |--Mini-Reviews                [ down to Science Fiction - up to Composers ]
   |  |
   |  |--Science Fiction             [ down to Horror - up to Mini-Reviews ]
   |  |  |--Daniel Da Cruz: The Grotto of the Formigans
   |  |  |--Charles Logan: Shipwreck
   |  |  +--Lan Wright: The Pictures of Pavanne
   |  |
   |  |--Horror                      [ down to Thrillers - up to Science Fiction ]
         |--Ray Garton: Shackled
   |  |  |--Mendal W. Johnson: Let's Go Play at the Adams'
   |  |  |  |--The "Abyss" Connection
   |  |  |  +--Spoiler warning for Game's End
   |  |  |     +--Game's End - a sequel to Johnson's novel by Barry Schneebeli
   |  |  |          (accessible through previous page)
   |  |  |--Bentley Little: The Mailman
   |  |  +--Bentley Little: Murmurous Haunts
   |  |
   |  |--Thrillers                   [ down to Children's - up to Horror ]
   |  |  +--J. R. Davis: The Right to Die
   |  |  +--John Ives [real name: Brian Garfield]: Fear [Fear in a Handful of Dust]
   |  |
   |  |--( Mystery, Crime )
   |  |
   |  |--( Miscellaneous )
   |  |
   |  |--Children's Fiction          [ down to Non-fiction - up to Thrillers ]
   |  |  |
   |  |  |--Enid Blyton
   |  |  |  |
   |  |  |  |--Famous Five Books
   |  |  |  |  |--( 3.  Five Run Away Together )
   |  |  |  |  |--8.  Five Get Into Trouble
   |  |  |  |  |--( 12.  Five Go Down to the Sea )
   |  |  |  |  |--16.  Five Go to Billycock Hill
   |  |  |  |  |--( 17.  Five Get Into a Fix )
   |  |  |  |  +--18.  Five on Finniston Farm
   |  |  |  |
   |  |  |  +--Others
   |  |  |     |--Three Cheers Secret Seven (The Secret Seven and the Grim Secret)
   |  |  |     |--( The Island of Adventure )
   |  |  |     |--The Put-Em-Rights
   |  |  |     |--The Boy Next Door
   |  |  |     |--The Mystery That Never Was
   |  |  |     +--The Children of Kidillin                  
   |  |  |
   |  |  +--Mel Lyle: Power Boys series
   |  |
   |  +--Non-fiction                 [ down to Haiku - up to Children's ]
   |     +--Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene
   |
   |--( S.F. Ideas - a miscellany of ideas and devices found
   |        in speculative fiction )
   |
   |--Haiku                  [ down to Stories - up to Book Reviews ]
   |  |--( How I discovered haiku and came to write them myself )
   |  |--Page 1
   |  |  +--Notes on the Verses
   |  |--Page 2
   |  |  +--Notes on the Verses
   |  |--Page 3
   |  |  +--Notes on the Verses
   |  +--Page 4
   |     +--Notes on the Verses
   |
   |--Stories                [ down to Game Rules - up to Haiku ]
   |  +--Twilight Woods
   |     +--Comments on Twilight Woods
   |
   |--Rules for Games        [ down to Music Essays - up to Stories ]
   |  |
   |  |--( Games for Two or More Players )
   |  |  |--( Introduction )
   |  |  |--( Glossary of Terms )
   |  |  |--( Card Games )
   |  |  +--( Other Games (Board, Pencil and Paper, etc.) )
   |  |
   |  +--Patience Games
   |     |--( Introduction to Patience )
   |     |--( Glossary of Patience Terms )
   |     |--Rules for Single-Pack Patience Games
   |     |--( Rules for Double-Pack Patience Games )
   |     +--Bibliography
   |
   +--Music Theory Essays    [                       up to Game Rules ]
      |--( Why D is arguably the centre of the harmonic universe, not C )
      |  [ Harmonic systems invented by myself - ]
      |-----( [ 1. Mixing dominant discords with pentatonic scales, tritone
      |           and maj. 3rd substitution,and various periodic scales ] )
      |-----[ 2. Based on the 7 Diatonic Modes ]
      |-----( [ 3. Using Super-Locrian and Super-Lydian modes ] )
      |--( Analysis of all periodic scales )
      |--( List and analysis of all possible scales )
      +--( Description of possible musical shorthand for sketching purposes )

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New pages

(Within the last 6 months, approximately)

(Includes new sections in composite pages: Spoiler information, and
Science Fiction, Horror, Thrillers (combined short listings)

2003
February
Monday, 10: Spoiler page: further discussion of The Mystery of the Flying Skeleton by Mel Lyle
(Note: accessible only from the primary review of this novel, because it
gives away crucial plot elements.)
June
Wednesday, 11: Enid Blyton F.A.Q.
July
Saturday, 12: J. R. Davis: The Right to Die - review
Saturday, 12: Spoiler page: further discussion of The Right to Die by J. R. Davis
(Note: accessible only from the primary review of this novel, because it
gives away crucial plot elements.)
Saturday, 12: J. R. Davis - list of books

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Foreword

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