Greg Chapman

There's not too much to this little site!  (I just use it as a demonstration of simple HTML to my Web Design students!)  There's just a brief biography and list of my interests. 

Currently, I actively maintain the following sites!....

SeaHawk

On Easter Day 2004 I bought a SeaHawk. This is a 17ft GRP yacht. Mine has the sail number #267 and is believed to have been built in 1979. (My father also had one, #232, bought back in the early 70s and sold a few years later. Obviously, I searched the web for further information. Finding none, there was little to do but start my own site!

nPOPuk Support

nPOP is an e-mail program produced in Japan by Tomoaki Nakashima. I discovered it while looking for an ultra small (fit on a floppy) program to use at teaching venues that otherwise only provide web-based mail. Since its creation, the site has become the principal English Languge documentation site for the program, and has been responsible for gathering together a small group of English speaking programmers. The UK version is much enhanced and has been re-branded nPOPuk. The site now documents only the latest UK version.

GregTutor

A site designed to support my work teaching "Web Creation" and "Digital Photography" courses for the Adult Education service of my local County Council.  The site is a offers beginners guides to a number of features of KompoZer (WYSIWYG web authoring) and the GIMP (image editing). These are both open source software packages that are available in portable versions so will run from a USB flash drive.

East Walton

This site started as a bit of an experiment! I was invited to join the beta-testers for a photo-album software package, so I had to invent a project to test it on! In the beginning there was a single album of photographs of the village where I now live. it's been expanded a lot since then, with further "albums" illustrating the village, the local countryside, familiy histories, village events and issues involving and concerning the village, in particulr one following Traffic Dangers.

Greg Chapman's Waterways Guides

This used to be the Nicholson Guides Updates Web Site, an unofficial site which provided updates to the best guides to the Inland Waterways of England and Wales.  Now it updates other guides to the canals and fenland waterways as well. It also lists and reviews other locally produced waterways guides and reproduces information for boaters published by the Middle Level Commissioners. It was the subject of a major feaature in Canal Boat magazine in August 1999 and won the Site of the Month award from Waterways World in February 2004. As a result, it is one of the most linked to waterways sites in the UK! Currently, I am looking for a new web master to take over this site.

Banking and Shopping

My first book, with the ever so snappy title "Internet Banking and Shopping for the Older Generation", was published in April 2004. This very small site provides a means of feedback for readers. It also gives a brief description of the book, for those who happen across the site before getting their own copy!

There are one or two other sites that I have produced over the years for clients or friends, but they are only updated on the specific request of the site owner so have been left off this list.

Closed Sites

The following sites are no longer maintained. However the final versions have been archived as ZIP files. The links below will download a ZIP file which can be unpacked and loaded into a browser locally.

Stolen Time

In October 2001 Liz and I bought a share in the narrowboat Stolen Time. I started this web site partly as a way of getting to know the other owners in the syndicate, and partly to answer the questions of those friends who didn't know much about narrowboats.
(NOTE: This site was taken off-line when our share was sold. It may reappear as part of my Boating Biography on the SeaHawk site.)

Pymoor

Since I left Pymoor in 1999 I ceased actively maintaining this site, though a updates were made until about 2004 where I was advised of appropriate changes. In the archive linked above there are more than 60 pages of information about this fenland village, where I lived from 1991 to 1999.  Everything from the spelling of the village name to it's geography, geology and history is covered.  Many of the pages contain photographs, including aerial views and some going back over half a century.  Not a bad site for a village of only some 340 souls!

Pymoor Agricultural and Country Show

Also in the same archive as the village site are the pages that I added in May 2001 to describe the 1999 Pymoor Agricultural and Country Show.  In some ways this is just part of the Pymoor village site, but I deliberately gave it a different flavour.

CLAIT Help

I work, part-time, as an Adult Education tutor, specialising in introductory level courses, principlally OCR's CLAIT (Computer Literacy and Information Technology) course. The CLAITHelp site started as a way of providing handout and background information for my students, it grew and the supporting file area used to provide a significant resource bank for tutors from all across the country and even internationally. There were even links to it from the BBC site. With a change in syllabus and a change in emphasis I gave up maintaining the site. Now the site is only available from the link above as a ZIP file.

Windows Recorder

I used to maintain a site about the macro utility bundled with Windows 3.x.  I passed that on to someone else to maintain, but I hear there are difficulties reaching the URL, so the link above allows you down download a ZIP file (56k) which unpacks the complete site as I last uploaded it.

Tell me what you'd like to see here or ask me for more details.  It might inspire some additions to these pages.

Thanks for visiting!

Greg

Page updated 29 November 2007