The Cardiff BSAC Web Site

The Scuba diving Club for UK divers living in and around Cardiff

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Welcome to cardiffbsac.org


This Scuba Diving web site is published for Cardiff BSAC, branch number 590 of the British Sub-Aqua Club.

The site is hosted by Cymnet on Buckley, a custom Linux server housed in a secure datacentre at the LHC in London‘s Docklands. Buckley is powered by dual 3.00GHz Intel(R) Pentium(R) processors and 2 GB of DDR RAM.

Server Status

Please use the following link to check current server status and uptimes for Buckley.
Cymnet Server Status (Buckley)

Site Usage Statistics

Please use the following link to view web site usage statistics for the current month.
Web Site Stats

Site Features

The following features can be accessed using the JavaScript menu system at the top of most pages:
  1. Site search facility using PhP and MySQL.
  2. Free classified advertisement section, updated automatically in real time.
  3. Guest Book, updated automatically in real time.
  4. Links page, updated automatically in real time.
  5. Scuba Diving Frequently Asked Questions.
  6. Scuba Diving Forums.
  7. Scuba Diving Photo Gallery.

Site Compatibility

This site has been optimized for viewing with a screen resolution of 1024 x 768, but should scale to any resolution above 800 x 600 without any major difficulty. The site makes extensive use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), PHP, JavaScripts, and DHTML. All public pages are served as php, and most comply with the HTML4 standard. Some pages however comply with the later xhtml standard. The Cardiff BSAC web site also uses Java Applets, MySQL data bases, PHP Sessions, and cookies.

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  • Firefox 2.0
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
  • Opera 9.25
  • Safari 3.04
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It should also be viewable with older browsers, but as these are likely to offer reduced CSS support, web pages may not render as intended. Similarly, older browsers may not support the JavaScript menu system used on this site. Alternative means of navigation have been provided where possible, but a lack of JavaScript support will inevitable result in some loss of functionality.

Navigation

The following navigation conventions are used on most pages of this web site.
  1. Most text links are shown in this style
    text link to more information.
  2. Where a text link appears against a dark blue background it is usually shown in this style
    text link to more information
  3. Links to files over 60k usually specify the approximate file size.
  4. Web sites on remote servers and e-mail links are usually shown in italics.

Fonts

The primary True Type Font recommended for this web site is Verdana.

Copyright & Trademarks

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Our Privacy Policy and General Terms and Conditions of Use

Our web site and the Cardiff BSAC Forums and the Cardiff BSAC Photo Gallery are primarily aimed at adults.

Your use of this web site is expressly conditional upon your acceptance of our Privacy Policy and our General Terms and Conditions of Use.
Registered forums users must also agree to be bound by our Forums Terms and Conditions and registered gallery users must also agree to be bound by our Photo Gallery Terms and Conditions.

We hope you enjoy your visit!