Updates to the site

This page will list any major updates made to the website, either by myself, or on the advice of correspondents.

• 5th July, 2023
  Further HTML markup improvements

• 15th June, 2023
  Some HTML markup improvements, notably to the footer area, removing the image based navigation, and moving defunct HTML to CSS instead.

• 27th July, 2006
  Some further enhancements, including adding Amazon and Findarticles.com links to the references and bibliography. Some links to FindArticles.com are premium content, which incur a charge. Alternatively, you can request article copies from the British Library.

• 25th July, 2006
  The album pages are now XHTML and link properly. Also, updated the archive, and added PDF and Flashpaper downloads of the site.

• 21st July, 2006
  Made most of the site XHTML transitional, moving some styling to CSS. Some bad link management issues sorted i.e. <em>, <strong> and other tags had links inside them! These are all fixed. Also fixed the album homepage, although the individual album pages are still in old school HTML. I'll fix these at a later date.

• 28th April, 2006
  Purely cosmetic enhancements to the site, and some accessibility and HTML improvements. Minor amendments have been made throughout (notably many links to Wikipedia entries), but the content from now on is regarded as out of date, and for historical interest only.

• 18th September, 2000
  Nothing much. Just the fact that Figure 9a is now fixed! I have recently acquired a copy of Adobe Acrobat 4, which means that PDF downloads of this site will be a reality. These will be available soon.

• 6th June, 2000
  The CGI facility is now up and running. As a result, the questionnaire is now live and running properly. I actually discovered a copy of this site on one of my old free servers which I had completely forgotten about. I've curtailed the length of the questionnaire since it was last live, and may refine it further in the future. I will try and get that Figure 9 fixed properly sometime this week - it's still bugging me!

• 5th June, 2000
  I have today purchased CGI facilities, so that the questionnaire, among other things, can finally be put online. The benefits of this development will be apparent in the next few weeks, beginning with the presence of the online questionnaire.

• 5th May, 2000
  Added thumbnails of the figures to chapters 1, 2 and 4. The questionaire will not be up for some time I fear. So called 'free' web form scripts put too much advertising on your screen to be any good. I'll find a solution eventually.

• 20th April, 2000
  Performed a major update on all the images, assembling a picture album, from where you can view thumbnails of all the figures. I've also reduced the size of some images to facilitate faster downloading. I have found a corrupted image - this will be corrected, once I have found another copy.

• 19th April, 2000
  Updated a couple of pages, and fixed some broken links, before uploading the site onto the SAS Squad server. The questionnaire form is not yet ready, while I find a suitable CGI facility.

• 18th April, 2000
  The whole site has finally been spruced up in terms of design, thanks to Macromedia's Dreamweaver 3. The site will be improved further as and when I have the time available.

• 8th May, 1999
  I have removed the downloads from the report download page, as it was getting a bit too messy. I will be trying to work on better versions of the report, such as Adobe PDF format (via Ghostscript) for you to download. This will take a few weeks, unfortunately, due to time constraints. I am currently using a 30-day version of Macromedia's Dreamweaver package to work on aspects of this site. The time limit will run out soon, which is a shame, as this package produces very good HTML output, that isn't browser-specific.

• 28th January, 1999
  I have been through the entire text and made various corrections, additions and improvements to the report. The text is reasonably up to date, although there is probably plenty more that I could add. I have removed some typographically related markup tags so that the contents list at the foot of every page appears more correctly on all browsers. I have, from today, become an Amazon.com associate. I will be updating the Reading Lists and Bibliography sections, to allow you to purchase books from them via my site. They do very good reductions on most publications, especially multimedia related ones, which are usually very expensive.

• 13th January, 1999
  Today marks the start of a radical update to the site, as much of the content is out of date, the computer market being the fast moving animal that it is. The look of the site will be altered, to make it easier to navigate, with far more hyperlinks than before. As a result, the overhaul will take a while to come to fruition, so I must ask for your patience while I improve the content quite drastically. I will post updates as and when they are required.

• 30th/31st July, 1998
  I have completed the task of updating the links to the figures and diagrams, so everything should work properly. I have also altered a few pages to be more harmonious with the rest of the report. I havent been able to properly check these changes yet, so if there are any problems then let me know.

• 19th July, 1998
  Geocities have now introduced subdirectories, so I have moved everything into an xplat directory. The original link page will still have the same address, but will just redirect you as necessary. I have also started fixing the links to the figures, as the filenames are incorrect - I didnt notice this for six months! :-( How embarrassing... The fixing will continue over several days during the rest of July.

• 9th April, 1998
  Pretty much everything is new, isn't it? Some of the pages are still a little ragged round the edges, but will be cleaned up in future updates.