What is this website about?

This website really concentrates on my personal areas of interest which are interdisciplinary and include combinations of:

• Photography Medical, Technical, Scientific, Personal Injury, Medicolegal and Forensic
  
• Science including Biology and Forensics
  
• History of Medicine, Photography and Use of photography in medicine
  
• Natural History especially lichens, orchids and forms and shapes especially in close-up
  
• Education
• Technology enhanced learning including use of learning objects

Website contents

The website is very much undergoing a reorganisation, the usual job that needs doing every so often to refresh the content and take advantage of new technologies and how they can enhance visitors experience of the site.

The main divisions of the site are:

• Photography
• History of Acromegaly and Gigantism
• Learning resources
• Ethics in healthcare
  

One major part of the old site research into the jewellery designs of Dorrie Nossiter now has its own site at http://www.dorrienossiter.co.uk.

When was the website started? 

I have had a web presence since 1995 when I developed a website for my Biological Imaging students' end of year show. Following on from that I started to put teaching and learning materials online initially the Programme handbook and then more and more teaching resources, for example aspects of scientific photography. At this time I also started to put some of my own research online including papers and publications. Just before our local server expired I had decided to put more of my own work online but needed more space so obtained my own domain cladonia.co.uk. I had used Cladonia Resources and lichen's of the species Cladonia as logos for my medical photography business since I started it in 1982.

The website then began to be developed in 1997 and has since had a number of redesigns as it has grown bigger from early use of Claris Homepage and hand coding to Dreamweaver. Eventually Dreamweaver became too inefficient for the number of files and pages, indeed the only way to update the site was section by section as a complete site refresh could take hours! At this point I decided to use Joomla opensource content management system as I had already begun using moodle for my teaching opensource seemed logical so started with 1.0.12 and now in the latest versin everything has been transferred onto Joomla 1.5.5.