What's New on the Built With Amiga site?

This page contains a list of everything that has happened on this site since its launch, starting with the newest item first, so you can get an idea of what has (or, indeed, has not) changed since you last visited, to save you from having to trapse through the whole lot again!

I hope you find this helpful!

1998

August

Added information about AmiComSys to the ICQ page.

July

Added a new section covering ICQ on the Amiga.
Added a couple more animated link banners.
Added a new ISP to the ISPs who offer support Amiga page.
New version of AWeb.
Updated the information in the HTML Authoring section (added one new package and updated details of another one)

June

At last, after several requestions, the BWA Mailing List is launched!
Site now uses PNG for graphics instead of GIF - PNG is the new standard for Internet graphics and is well supported by most browsers (here's why PNG shoudl be used instead of GIF)
Complete overhaul of the presentation of the site.
Updated TCP/IP Stacks page to add the new stack from H&P.

May

Opera web browser is now officially being ported to the Amiga.
Improvements to the Linking to this site page - sizes reported there now accurately reflect the real sizes of the images!

April

Just tidy up a few loose ends which didn't get spotted until now...
"Built With Amiga" gets its own domain and web site (http://www.BuiltWithAmiga.org).
To celebrate, the entire site has had an overhaul, and various mis-spellings and broken links have been fixed (hopefully!).
Added a new web browser to the Amiga Web browser page.

March

Start work on preparing the BWA pages for the move to their own site, and to make mirroring simpler.
Added yet another ISP to the ISPs who offer support Amiga page.
After considerable feedback, all of it negative, I've stopped using the online translation facility (I guess computer-based translation of natural language has quite a way to go yet...)
Updated the Amiga Web browser page to reflect the new version of IBrowse.
Experimenting with an online translation facility on the main page (courtesy of Altavista's Translate service).
Added two more ISPs to the ISPs who offer support Amiga page.

February

Updated TCP/IP Stacks page to reflect the latest release of Miami.
Updated the Java section (Kaffe is available) and tweaked the Amiga Web browser section.
Overhauled the Amiga Web browser page to give an easier to read direct comparison of all browsers, current and planned.

January

Added two more ISPs with Amiga support.
BWA now uses JavaScript to add functionality to the menu buttons down the left hand side but if you use a non-JavaScript browser, then the menu still works perfectly.
Add information about the new release of AWeb (the first Amiga browser to support Javascript) to the Amiga Web browser page.
Added information about a possible 6th Amiga Web browser.
Stage 1 of the overhaul of the site is complete - new look is in place, making it much easier to add the next phase.

1997

December

HTML4.0 is now an official standard and so all pages have been modified accordingly (all now use the official W3C validator, even for the HTML3.2 pages).
Added / updated information in Internet Service Providers and TCP/IP Stacks.
Gerenal updates to most sections to keep the details current.

November

A few general tidy-ups plus reflectthe latest HTML4.0 draft.
Added more information to the Amiga Java page.

October

Temporarily revert to GIFs whilst I try to find a way round some bugs in Netscape and MSIE...
Added the Amiga HTML Authoring Software section (at last!).
Added a collection of search engines to assist in finding Amiga-related information on the web.
Created two new logos and placed them (along with two more from Mark Bollons) on the Linking to this site page.

September

The Built With Amiga Software campaign moves over to the PNG graphic format - this is the new standard for Internet graphics and is well supported by most browsers.
Updated some information in the Browsers section.
Added a section acknowledging the help which others have contributed.
Now using the guestbook service provided by Lpgae, instead of the older U-Net guestbook.
Added a link from the main page to the Amiga RC5 Team.
Added some more logos and banners to the Linking to this site page.

August

Added yet another logo to the Linking to this site page.
Added a section providing pointers to Internet Service Providers who support the Amiga.
Added a section providing pointers to other categories of Amiga software.
Added a section for sites that are Built With Amiga software.
Added new section covering the various TCP/IP Stacks available for the Amiga.

July

Added new section detailing the Amiga versions of Java.
Yippee!! The pages are now valid HTML once again (HTML4.0 this time, but still readable on other browsers too).
Modified the left side "index" to make it more compatible with smaller displays.
Slight overhaul to nearly all of the pages in the site, to fix a few small problems here and there.
Start the conversion to HTML4.0 where applicable.
Added some more logos to the Linking to this site page.

June

Updated the information on the web browsers page.
Added some more logos on the Linking to this site page.
Refined all the pages - they now have a more consistent look.
Added a second logo on the Linking to this site page.
Added Guestbook.
Launched the site (7^th June 1997).

This page is copyright © Keith Blakemore-Noble , 1997, 1998 , all rights reserved. For comments or questions about this page, please EMail WebMaster@BuiltWithAmiga.org. This page was last updated on August 11, 1998 .

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