Site News Archive
In this archive you'll find all of the Site News published on the Home page of this website since its launch. Everything archived here relates either to all of the Lyndenlea websites, or just to this site in particular. For Site News specific to another Lyndenlea website please see the Site News Archive on that site. Note that the archive is arranged in chronological order, so the most recent news in a particular year can be found at the end of the page.
Site News 2007
Wednesday, 4th April 2007
- Updated the Breadcrumb Trail and browser window title to better support multi-part pages.
- Reversed the order of the Site News Archive.
- Updated and restructured the page detailing My Ringing Career.
- Made further improvements to the organisation of the Quarter Peals page.
Tuesday, 11th September 2007
- You'll be seeing a change in the Site News from now on - instead of short one-line items, I've decided to start adding more detail in the hope of making it more informal. I can't promise updates will start appearing more frequently, but keep checking back so you don't miss anything!
- At the beginning of July this year I started keeping detailed log files, recording each time a visitor viewed a page on a Lyndenlea website. This required me to update the Privacy Statement, but in fact I ended up completely rewriting it. I admit that I perhaps should have updated the Privacy Statement before I started keeping the log files, but as none of the data collected has been publicly available until now, I hope you'll forgive me this one small dereliction of duty.
- The updates to the Privacy Statement affect how I collect personal information on the websites, so I've also made some changes to the Feedback page. There have also been a few minor amendments to the error-handling scripts, and to the Breadcrumb Trail and browser window title.
Monday, 22nd October 2007
- A new Resource Description Framework (RDF) document has been added to the sites. This contains the latest version of the ICRA content labelling system, which is used by filtering software to control access to Web pages. I've also reviewed and updated the legacy PICS labelling that's embedded in the HTML code, so older browsers will still be able to interpret it.
- I've rewritten the HTML code behind the dynamic Site Menu so it now renders as a proper "unordered list". This should make it more accessible for browsers with special requirements (such as screen readers) or limited capabilities (such as not supporting Cascading Style Sheets). In addition, the menu now has a third tier in its heirarchy for multi-part pages.
- The sharp-eyed amongst you will have noticed that the Google search box has disappeared from the bottom of each page. I've temporarily removed it because of a rendering issue in the Mozilla Firefox browser, but never fear! You can still use Google search on the updated Search page, now accessible via new links in the Site Menu and at the bottom of the page, and I'll reinstate the search box on every page in the next update.
- I've finally made a long-awaited update to my Committees page in the More About Me section to reflect all the changes that have taken place over the past year, including a change of role and - sadly - a dissolution. Check it out to get all the juicy details.
- And thanks to a second rendering issue in the Mozilla Firefox browser, I've also updated The Periodic Table in the same section to ensure it always has a white background throughout.
Saturday, 17th November 2007
- To help you navigate around the Lyndenlea websites, I've added a new Site Map page to each site. This page essentially contains a fully-expanded version of the dynamic Site Menu, but it will hopefully make it quicker and easier for you to find the page you're looking for.
- A further navigation aid and accessibility feature has also been added to the top of each page. The new Skip to: links are intended to move the focus directly to various parts of the page, but it seems a few browsers don't fully support it (most notably Microsoft Internet Explorer 6).
- As promised in the previous update, the Google search box has been reinstated on every page. It's now at the very top of the page (sadly at the expense of the site icon), but for the sake of simplicity will only search the Lyndenlea websites. The full Web search facility is still available, however, and can be found via the Advanced Search link just below it. Note that the links to the Search page have now been removed from the Site Menu and the bottom of the page.
- Largely due to lack of use, just over a year after adding it, I've removed the Support Lyndenlea page and feature from the Dynamic Site Menu. I guess it takes more than just the prospect of a warm fuzzy feeling to entice people to part with their money!
- Firefox strikes again! Whilst adding my most recently-rung Quarter Peals to the site, I discovered that the Mozilla Firefox browser wasn't displaying the opening page correctly. It was in fact due to the same rendering issue which scuppered the Google search box that I removed from the bottom of each page in the last update. As a result, I decided to redesign the Quarter Peals pages entirely, and took the opportunity to also improve their appearance on small-screen devices.
Tuesday, 27th November 2007
- I've updated the "Latest Site News" feature on the Home page so it now displays not only the most recent news bulletin, but also any bulletins published in the week leading up to the most recent one. This will ensure that no bulletin is pushed off the page any sooner than a week after it's published. However, bear in mind that the most recent bulletin will always appear first here, unlike in the Site News Archive where the most recent bulletin appears last.
- Also, I've introduced a visible gap - both on the Home page and in the Site News Archive - between "global" (Lyndenlea-wide) and "local" (site-specific) news items to highlight the difference between the two. This will be evident in previous news bulletins as well as future ones.
