OK - started reorganisation of one WebElements area, the "chemistry nexus". The nexus will now bring together news, articles, the WebElements blog, and eventually the Webelements bibliography, and more. It will also contain chemistry content related to WebElements, for instance, sections on the chemistry of the various groups or periods in the periodic table, articles on periodicity, expanded disucssion of the chemistry of specific elements, and so on. All that will take years to add of course. The existing forums site will be located in a dedicated area at the WebElements chemistry forum.

This demonstrates JSpecView loading via bbcode using jspecview tags

[jspecview=600,400]pclanilIR.jdx[/jspecview]

This is achieved by writing:

[jspecview=600,400]pclanilIR.jdx[/jspecview]

The =600,400 bit gives the desired spectrum size while the file name to de displayed is included between the tags. The file is uploaded by authors who are assigned rights to upload attachments.

The motivation for this came from CHMEMCONF Spring 2006 following initial results with Jmol, and in particular Robert Lancashire's paper. With Roberts's help, what I've done here is made a small extension to the software I'm using here (Drupal so that spectra in JCAMP-DX formatted can be embedded simply with a bbcode type string.

Can't see anything above? Please consult [url]http://jspecview.sourceforge.net/[/url] for help. In particular, JSpecView should run on any system that supports Java 1.5 at least. Previous versions of Java are not supported.

I'll issue a note with more details on how to do this after further work.

If you find WebElements useful and you own a Palm device, then you might want to try PalmElements. PalmElements is the periodic table on your Palm. PalmElements contains a little of the information available at WebElements.

Use of PalmElementsTM version 0.1 is free but a password is required to use PalmElementsTM. You can obtain a password by registering (see below).

In order to get and use PalmElementsTM on your Palm device, perform each and all of the following steps:

[list=1]
[*]download PalmElements (see below - you will need to extract the appropriate archive)
[*]get TealInfo http://www.webelements.com/webelements/palmelements/tealpoint.html
[*]You need the registration key "dalton" to load PalmElements[/list]

Please note TealInfo is not associated with WebElements in any way. You need to consult your Palm docs for help with transferring files to your Palm.

[Note added 6 June 2006] - This is pretty old and I'm not even sure the Teal stuff exists anymore. I have more

If you find WebElements useful you might find FlashElements useful as well. FlashElements is a very simple periodic table program created with Macromedia Flash that you can run as a small free-standing application on your Mac or PC. You can use it to display some basic data and to shade the periodic table according to some criteria. If you need more information than present in FlashElements, then just click on an element to load that element in your web browser.

The Macintosh version will run under System 7.1 or later (according to the Macromedia documentation - not tested). It runs under MacOSX in classic mode.

The PC version will run under Windows 95, NT3.5.1 or later (according to the Macromedia documentation - only tested under NT), and other configurations as well (seems OK on Windows 98, 2000, XP).

The current version is beta 0.3 (17 March 2003, to include the new name for element 110, darmstadtium).

[Note added 6 June 2006 - I need to update these files]

Chinese periodic table (traditional)
I'm pleased to announce that you can now buy a Chinese periodic table poster (traditional) at the WebElements shop.

The Orbitron Atomic Orbitals poster
I'm pleased to announce that you can now buy the Orbitron atomic orbitals poster at the WebElements shop. You can visit The Orbitron to see these images and also animations showing representing the orbital functions.

Popularity Wordle
This picture is a wordle. This shows the chemical elements in proportion to pages viewed for each on the WebElements periodic table web site. Hydrogen is the most viewed element. The question is, I suppose, is whether any useful information is conveyed? You can see this wordle and others at wordle.net

I have restructured WebElements. The restructuring is all style at the front-end and reorganisation at the back-end, meaning all the errors in data are still there but they are displayed more beautifully and efficiently. Fixing some of those errors is now a priority.

All this should allow me to update content far more easily than has been the case, meaning things should move quicker. The database is now far simpler and hopefully the addresses like http://www.webelements.com/hydrogen/ far more helpful. I would say the new site is now "beta" meaning it is largely functional but expect glitches for a little while. I have not updated the "scholar" version but will do so if there seems to be a demand. Following this restructuring there are a number of features I am now in a position to implement and this will happen over the next few weeks/months.

Quite significant numbers of you are using the site via iPhones so I am tempted to produce a version for that sort of screen size

Please do let me know by adding comments here if there are features you would like to see.

Periodic Table Quilt
Quite by chance I noticed that at Simon Fraser University in Canada members of staff in the Department got together to make a periodic table quilt. Looks to be about 6 feet across. I wonder if it will be updated for the latest elements?

If you go to the SFU site, click on any element to see that panel in more detail. Anyone else made a quilt like this?

...as I see the WebElements A6 size periodic table card (laminated, naturally) is the logo for the FaceBook Group "The united nerd front" - A place for nerds to unite. (if you have a mini-periodic table you get gold card membership).