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BIG link to this site 224 x 320 pixels.
<A HREF= "http://oocities.com/scotpeterdow" target="scotnsb"> <IMG SRC= "http://oocities.com/scotpeterdow/snsbicon.jpg" HSPACE=12 WIDTH=224 HEIGHT=320 ALT="Link to the Scottish National Standard Bearer web site"></A>

Linking Tip: The icon image may not always appear if you just paste in the suggested HTML code. There is a bit more to do to make it more reliable. The problem is that because the Scottish National Standard Bearer web site is still using a free, advertising-funded service, my images on the geocities server cannot be reliably linked to from elsewhere - "hot-linking", as it is called, to free sites is discouraged. (I've indicated the hot-links by colouring them red.)
The solution is to upload your own copy of the icon image file (photo3.jpg or snsbicon.jpg) and link to that. Using Internet Explorer, right-click one of the images here and use Save Picture As... to make a temporary copy of the image file on your computer. Then upload the image file on to your own web page's server. In addition, you will need to edit your web page source file so that the HTML code addition instead references your uploaded copy of the image file in the SRC="..." statement. Delete the hot-link and put in your file name. If you use the same file names then your new improved HTML code addition might have a SRC statement that reads - SRC="photo3.jpg" or SRC="snsbicon.jpg" That should do it. Maybe, one day, I'll be able to pay for a hot-linkable service?

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Of course, you can always email me ( peterdow@talk21.com ) if you want to establish links from/(to?) my web site. However, please note the starting of a new web ring - Scottish Republican Web Ring - ring master, yours truly, Peter Dow. If you are the web master of a site which has some Scottish AND republican content then you are invited to apply to add your site to this ring.
And/or perhaps you'd like to add your site to the Trans-Atlantic Web Ring?

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That's mine too but you can link up to this site if you join ANY of the web rings that this site is a member of (click to see them).
If you haven't added your site to a web ring before then I'd advise you to click here to sign up with WebRing and click on to the "Ring Hub" of the web ring you want to add your site to and then click on the "Join This Ring" link. Oh, and the trickiest bit is to paste some so-called "navigation code" into one of your web pages. Don't worry, the WebRing site explains everything (nearly everything).

Mirror Site

A while ago, when I announced this web site, those nice people in the GeoCities Team informed me that due to the limit on data transfer for free sites, they had to temporarily take my site off line. The site had quite a few curious visitors back then but it has never been so busy since. Back then, I set up two almost identical web sites (called "mirror sites") to cater for the demand.
Maybe one day this site will become too busy again (say, if the site is ever mentioned on T.V. or radio - some hope!). Then those in the know can visit the mirror site at (oocities.com/scotpeterdow2). Another near-mirror site, but without images, can be visited at (oocities.com/scotpeterdow0) - zero images, text only, so this site should never suffer from data transfer limits. Alternatively, if anyone wants to pay to make this a premium site with higher data transfer limits then do email me and we'll do that.

Run time errors from Geocities adverts

On some systems, the Geocities server adverts code generates run-time errors. Depending on the (Internet Explorer) browser option set (may need administrator privilege to set) you will see either a small yellow exclamation warning triangle in the bottom bar of the browser window or one or two pop-up windows appear proclaiming a run-time error and offering to debug. (Just click 'No'.)

To stop this pop-up window appearing, try selecting Internet Options - Advanced - Browsing - Disable script debugging [tick box]. To get to Internet Options, select it from either the Tools menu or Start - Settings - Control Panel. Hopefully, you'll get it to work without this annoying "Error" interruption.

I've complained until I am blue in the face to the Geocities help service but it is like talking to a brick wall. "We thoroughly check our script codes to ensure that they work" - they say but they are wrong. I've even offered to pay for an ad free service if only they will sort out the advert code run-time errors first so that I have confidence in their systems, but it's no good.

It is this sort of bureaucratic refusal to accept that there is a problem and fix it that led to the Challenger & Columbia Space Shuttle disasters and the 9/11 Twin Towers disaster. "There's nothing wrong with our design, manufacturing or operations" - they say. Oh yeah? I DON'T THINK SO!

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