History
A potted history/key dates for UKSAA website.
| 09/Jan/13 | Facebook, Twitter pages added, links to them added. |
| 29/Dec/11 | Google Custom Search Engine replaces existing Google search box on Search page. |
| 04/Jul/11 | First of 2012 content added for the National Competitions. |
| 04/Jul/11 | Google +1 button added to site |
| 13/Jun/11 | The trackPageLoadTime line added to Google Analytics code fragment |
| 21/May/11 | Latest Club Directory updates in include file and added to Home page as well. |
| 30/Jan/11 | Clear out of old entry forms; work started on BUTC live coverage page. |
| 01/Dec/10 | RSS tracking in Analytics now working properly - & instead of just & to get source, medium and campaign variables through |
| 25/Nov/10 | Dublinfest added to the Other Fixtures section. |
| 26/Oct/10 | Update to newest version of Analytics code, slight change to background colour, making it paler. |
| 04/Oct/10 | First editorial of new season - sorting out new season in Editorials |
| 30/Sep/10 | BUTC bid deadline announced. Main menu links to 09/10 regional pages removed, very small changes to home page text |
| 24/Sep/10 | Northumbria added to Clubs, also Regional Leagues 2010/11 pages being put togehter. |
| 02/Sep/10 | National Competition pages updated for 2010/11 season |
| 09/Aug/10 | Top ten hits and Century Days pages withdrawn, Nottingham Trent page added to Clubs |
| 02/Jul/10 | Club Info and Links section revamp, including new pages for East Anglia and Manchester |
| 09/Jun/10 | Message Board and Facebook page withdrawn from menu |
| 30/Oct/09 | RSS feed fixed (yet again!) |
| 26/Oct/09 | Geocities withdrawn by Yahoo. RIP. Emergency link page therefore also deleted. |
| 12/Oct/09 | RSS feed fixed (again!) |
| 28/Sep/09 | New site at www.uksaa.com takes over as official site, Analytics working. |
| Sep 09 | Coding new site (thanks to Jono Ellis!) and moving content. Lots and lots of content... This takes longer than I thought it would, so minimal new content |
| Jan-Aug 09 | Some things - all routine! |
| 05/Nov/08 | Regional League index2 pages created - link from menu to show tables directly. |
| 04/Oct/08 | UK Geocities editing panel now available again. |
| 28/Aug/08 | Regional League pages for 08/09 built, Calendar work for 08/09 ongoing. |
| 30/May/08 | Home page updates. Quick links to clubs drop down added and the table showing title/flags now incorporates Latest News too. |
| 20/May/08 | Club details refresh, experiment to put drop down on main menu |
| 07/Apr/08 | League Team Champs section launched |
| Jan-Mar 08 | Some things - all routine! |
| 03/Dec/07 | RSS feed broken then fixed. Don't use ampersands in future! |
| 30/Oct/07 | RSS feed modified to have a shortened title and the description to contain the whole Latest News item's text |
| 12/Oct/07 | Changes to Club Links. In: Aston |
| 01/Oct/07 | Changes to Club Links. In: Bristol, Essex. Out: De Montfort, Plymouth, Sheffield Hallam |
| 18/Sep/07 | Facebook Groups page published and advertised. Link from LHS menu. |
| 10/Sep/07 | Front page of interviews section tidied up and published. |
| 03/Sep/07 | Process of season changeover begun - 2006/07 material moving to archive and 2007/08 pages linked in. BUTC material moved out of minisite sub-sub-directory |
| 18/Aug/07 | Stylesheet rolled out to (hopefully) all pages, including archives. Message boards added for Lancaster, Nottingham, one at Surrey removed. Monkey says and Solo archer page de-linked. |
| 13/Aug/07 | Favicon code tweaked so that it works. Work started on 2007/08 pages for leagues, editorial etc. |
| 05/Aug/07 | Stylesheet changed to light grey background with black text. Monkey & the News Van removed from the front page. |
| 19/Jul/07 | Address bar icon, favicon.ico, created. |
| 04/Jul/07 | Effort to redesign spreadsheet to give the website a different colours/font. |
| 14/May/07 | Anchors put on the main Calendar page for each month. |
| 26/Apr/07 | Refresh of Club Contacts section begun - includes updating BUSA Indoors/BUTC placings and new details where found, stylesheet implemented for all. |
| 16/Apr/07 | Message board section condensed into a page, brought into top level, subdirectory deleted. Links organised by regional league and only open in new window/tab. |
| 30/Mar/07 | Links for results of BUTC/BUSA redirected to point towards UKSAA copies. |
| 21/Mar/07 | Similar for BUSA as for BUTC. A lot of hits flying about! Review up the day before to spread the load. |
| 07/Mar/07 | BUTC results and review up. BUTC results doc hosted by Swansea Uni Computing, pretty much on the JANET backbone. Thanks to SWWU man Jack Murkin. UKSAA bandwidth survives - I will host (re-direct existing link) once hits cool down. |
| 24/Feb/07 | Main chunk of CSS links rolled out to include active pages, but not archives. |
| 13/Feb/07 | Only about a few years after I learned about them, UKSAA stylesheet work begins. Coming up... edit paste save, edit paste save, edit paste save... |
| 12/Feb/07 | Link to RSS feed, put into Resources section. Contents of resources main page slightly re-ordered. |
| 07/Feb/07 | Other fixtures section for 06/07 re-opened with Stag Hill entry form. |
| 01/Feb/07 | RSS news feed made available and publicised. XML file at top level called rss_newsfeed.xml. I hope it works. |
| 22/Jan/07 | First look at creating an RSS feed from Latest News. Likely to be unnecessary. |
| 18/Jan/07 | Resources page brought up to date with more BUSA info published. The 2006/07 season info and regulations, plus link to SMG members page added. All Unis and BUSA records spreadsheets updated. Also BUSA Indoor entry forms published with editorial to follow. |
| 15/Jan/07 | New "how to host" BUSA Champs documents added. |
| 02/Jan/07 | BUTC 2007 information published. Entry form to follow. |
| 22/Nov/06 | First interview of the season (and for 18 months), Alex Stuart, published. |
| 19/Oct/06 | New calendars for SEAL published. Also blank league/champs tables pages published. |
| 16/Oct/06 | New calendars for SUS NEUAL published. Also host request for BUTC. |
| 15/Sep/06 | New editorial section for 06/07 launched with first piece in. Also BUSA Champs pages ready for new season and new club pages (Derby, Kent, RGU, Shef. Hallam) added/re-instated. |
| 15/Aug/06 | After a long period of UKSAA inactivity preparation on Reg Lge sections for teh new season, also data from FISU Champs entered. |
| 02/May/06 | Work started on new minisection for Irish Inter-Varsity League results. |
| 26/Apr/06 | New flags added for home nations. |
| 04/Apr/06 | Links refresh begun, to include updating "Best..." grids. |
| 15/Mar/06 | Eleventh consecutive (and last) days of over 100 hits because of BUSA and BUTC results. Site repeatedly offline because of bandwidth. |
| 23/Feb/06 | End of a massive series of updates particularly regional leagues, particularly NEUAL! Also text added to BUSA Indoor/Outdoor main pages. |
| 04/Feb/06 | Geocities editor now working after not working for almost a week! |
| 17/Jan/06 | Lots of BUTC 2006 content added. This page added. |
| 12/Jan/06 | Ask the UKSAA man editorial published to provide alternative to interiews. |
| 13/Dec/05 | Lots of stuff added all at once. A NEUAL match, a new club (Chester), results corrected, new editorial article. Lots of lovely content. |
| 29/Sep/05 | New pages for Derby, Plymouth and Stirling added to Clubs section, along with Regional pages that link to constituent club profiles only. |
| 08/Sep/05 | New season change-overs in full swing |
| 02/Aug/05 | New Club Info section launched in place of the Links section. Drop down menus have arrived. |
| 01/Aug/05 | New Internationals section begun - documents and files to move and create in time for WUG on 11th Aug. |
| 22/Jul/05 | Hallelujah. Drop down menus now working for new Clubs section. Not yet made avilable. |
| 05/Jul/05 | New Clubs section begun to replace most of links. |
| 23/Jun/05 | Message board page redesigned in a table so that you can open the boards in a new window or in the frame. Text re-written. |
| 20/Jun/05 | BUSA Outdoors review written and various assorted pages updated. Summary pages inverted so that most recent years are at the top. |
| 31/May/05 | Other Fixtures upgraded from single page to full section and results added to put in there. |
| 25/May/05 | NEUAL Outdoor Champs results up and All Uni Comps Records spreadsheet updated. |
| 02/May/05 | Interview with Dave Spinner and Chris Burnett published. Also BUTTS results and a link to the Sagittarius board. |
| 25/Apr/05 | Return of the Second Hand Page. |
| 30/Mar/05 | Updated All Unis records adn BUTC records both published. |
| 07/Mar/05 | BUTC results and review published - web counter melts. |
| 28/Feb/05 | BUSA results and review published - web counter melts. |
| 09/Feb/05 | BUTC info going up. Middlesex added to links. |
| 07/Feb/05 | Three SUSF match results and BUTTS leg results and an editorial go up as site records 100+ hits for the first time this year. |
| 04/Feb/05 | New pages added and linked in to Links section for Keele and Reading. |
| 26/Jan/05 | Second Hand page removed - lack of interest. New editorial article put up. |
| 10/Jan/05 | BUTC entry forms added and publicised. Similarly the very late interview with Andrew Phillips goes up. |
| 07/Jan/05 | BUTC information put on site (Entry forms to follow soon). Site's first ever video clip (of arrow hitting Beiter hit/miss target) available. This page added. |
| 28/Oct/04 | Editorial section columnated. |
| 26/Oct/04 | ELeague page for season re-written, to include last season's complete results, tournament information and template scoresheet. |
| 18/Oct/04 | BUTC bid documentation published. |
| 27/Sep/04 | Text of menu items (not headings) changed to small. Other Fixtures added to menu to handle Roses, Varsity etc. |
| 15/Sep/04 | SEAL dates added, BUTC hosting page prepared for hosting documentation. |
| 02/Sep/04 | BUSA, BUTC Regional League pages all completed and Calendar prepared. SUSF dates added. |
| 25/Aug/04 | Preparation for new season 2004/05 begun, i.e. leagues/tournaments etc. |
| 21/Jul/04 | New Links section goes live. Separate page for each university's details, but sadly no drop downs. Also publicised to keep the thing up-to-date. |
| 19/Jul/04 | Links section revamp begun. Drop down menus not included. Sigh. |
| 07/Jun/04 | Big progress with new links section, getting drop down menu to open pages. Should be ready soon. |
| 01/Jun/04 | After a period of laziness, interview with Matt Nowicki published and publicised. Also SWWU final results updated. Link to NEUAL Outdoors added, plus new editorial and monkey phrase. Phew. |
| 05/May/04 | May interview published. Link to Rep of Ireland archery league from menu added. Also domain name www.uksaa.com has expired. Results from SUSF Outdoors added, plus new SUSF and All Unis Records. |
| 15/Apr/04 | Google powered site search goes live. Work on revamped links section begun. |
| 10/Apr/04 | League match updates completed, plus working on getting Google to search my site. Not yet available. |
| 18/Mar/04 | ELeague results published, BUSA Outdoor hosts announced, Stag Hill entry forms published, new editorial - busy busy. |
| 09/Mar/04 | BUTC minisite redesigned into main site - also BUTC results and review also published. |
| 26/Feb/04 | BUTC minisite linked in from the main BUTC section. |
| 13/Feb/04 | BUSA results published and SWWU results extracted and published. Plymouth integrated into SWWU league. Century days added to top 10 hits. |
| 09/Feb/04 | BUTC Explanation from last year published - new BUTC site development started properly. |
| 01/Feb/04 | BUTC Entry form and new interview (Ian Pilkington) both published. |
| 27/Jan/04 | NEUAL and SUSF Indoor Champs entry forms put up for downloading. |
| 09/Jan/04 | Work begun on subsidiary sites for ACME and BUTC that are not directly part of UKSAA. Small steps. |
| 15/Dec/03 | York announced as hosts of BUTC 2004 on UKSAA site. Loughborough also bid. |
| 01/Dec/03 | Naomi Folkard interview up plus more regional league info and editorial about BUSA team fees all published. |
| 27/Nov/03 | Hosting BUTC 2004 advertised on Home Page. |
| 26/Nov/03 | Masses of regional league material up as well as date for BUSA Indoors. |
| 11/Nov/03 | First regional league scores added, plus editorial. |
| 03/Nov/03 | Interview with Ian McGibbon published. |
| 04/Oct/03 | Links section update completed. New sites found for Dundee and Lancaster, entries for Newcastle Plymouth and Stirling removed. |
| 30/Sep/03 | New Editorials section published, also provisional calendar for 2003/2004 |
| 31/Aug/03 | Five regional league sections prepared for the forthcoming season, except where calendars do not yet exist. |
| 18/Aug/03 | High Scores section removed. Replaced by a spreadsheet hled within Resources section. |
| 23/Jul/03 | New News/Editorial section completed. It will be linked in fromthe start of next season. New Website information section added (this). GNAS SDP page moved to Resources. |
| 24/Jun/03 | BUSA Outdoor results added on following Tuesday AM. High Scores updated, including barebow pages created. |
| 16/May/03 | Work started on Other Fixtures section to catch Varsity, Roses, Brunel etc. |
| 25/Apr/03 | BUTC skeletal subsection linked in to replace link to 2003 Champs. |
| 22/Apr/03 | New Links section fully replaced old table-heavy version. |
| 15/Apr/03 | BUSA Indoor results 1996-2001 added thanks to John Sullivan for these also. |
| 10/Apr/03 | BUSA Outdoor results 1996-2001 added thanks to John Sullivan for these. Also Trivia pages added to BUSA Indoor/Outdoor. |
| 01/Apr/03 | Regional League pages redesigned and directorised and now linked from menu (except SEAL). |
| 24/Mar/03 | BUSA Championships sections redesigned and directorised. ELeague directorised. |
| 19/Mar/03 | Interview directory finished and old version removed and deleted. |
| 17/Mar/03 | Work on improved directory structure begun with new links section begun. |
| 03/Mar/03 | BUTC review published. Work begun on pages for ACME and South East regional league, provisionally, SEAL. |
| 28/Feb/03 | BUSA results added - busaind2003 directory removed. BUSA Outdoor Documents added. |
| 11/Feb/03 | BUSA Target list added. NEUAL Champs results added, info removed. |
| 05/Feb/03 | GNAS Strategic Development Plan (SDP) page added with Jared Thornton message/email. |
| 03/Feb/03 | NEU Champs info put up, including Entry form and maps. Also interview + NEUAL match. |
| 22/Jan/03 | Other BUSA Indoor 2003 Information posted on the website - hotels, night out info, directions. busaind2003 page revamped. General BUSA Indoor documents including official scoresheet also added. |
| 14/Jan/03 | BUSA Indoor Entry form uploaded to site. |
| 06/Jan/03 | Series of textual alterations added to site for new year. |
| 10/Dec/02 | IUPL changed to ELeague and links eventually updated. SWWU Page altered to reflect new format and first results added. |
| 03/Dec/02 | Links in High Scores section repaired. Some archive results added - 1994! |
| 02/Dec/02 | Latest News put above Home page text. Revamped High Scores section relinked. December Interview published - Message Board Publicity. |
| 24/Nov/02 | TEXTresults first used by Ed Rial, with Round 2 of BUTTS. |
| 12/Nov/02 | IUPL page with first set of results linked from menu. |
| 11/Nov/02 | First set of 2002/03 regional league results added. |
| 06/Nov/02 | WSG Qual Scores added to Resources. Thailand removed from menu, dummy IUPL page added to menu. Link to archery section on ebay added. |
| 30/Oct/02 | H2H Page renamed BUTC and links to BUTC site written. Date of SUSF match altered. |
| 25/Oct/02 | Home page text re-written. Interview main page prepared. |
| 09/Oct/02 | H2H Team page added to menu, BUSA's from 2002 removed - in Resources only. Second article to Editorial added. "How to bid for BUSA Indoors" uploaded. Rankings page temp removed from menu. |
| 04/Sep/02 | High Scores section re-organised. First experiment on hosting the site outwith Yahoo's Geocities begun. |
| 23/Aug/02 | Images and Resources subdirectories created and filled, links altered. High Scores section linked from Menu. |
| 12/Aug/02 | Message Board menued sub section created. Contains links to message boards. UKSAA Board temporarily abandoned. |
| 02/Aug/02 | High Score menued sub section created. Gents, Ladies, Team, Explanation. Links page split into Uni Clubs and Others. Monkey hired as roving reporter. |
| 01/Aug/02 | Links and Contacts page re-designed with new display for each uni's links. Interview and News/Editorial pages prepared for new season. |
| 25/Jul/02 | Main menu re-ordered into categories. Main, Information, Features, Regional Comps, National Comps, Message Boards, Web Stuff. |
| 19/Jul/02 | Regional League page standardisation completed. Contacts, Calendar, League Table, Match Results, (Tourney results), Format. |
| 12/Jul/02 | Indiviual results from FISU Champs in Thailand up within minutes of completion thanks to silver medallist Tim Mundon. Default page created. |
| 10/Jul/02 | First postcard from Thailand from Dave Spinner arrived and posted. Ordinance Survey maps of Lilleshall up. Home page text re-written. Message Board link removed as it's broken. Link to Cambridge Message Board added. |
| 03/Jul/02 | Resources page re-organised to accommodate archiving information from 2001/02 season, readying site for 2002/03. Archiving process will be complete in September fro new season. Thailand Postcard page prepared. |
| 01/Jul/02 | Archives section merged into Resources. First primitive form on Second Hand Page - as yet only compatible with Netscape - c. 15% of site traffic is Netscape (Nedstat). Standardisation of Regional League pages with headers. |
| 26/Jun/02 | First experiments with Forms begun. |
| 13/Jun/02 | The site's first documents (SUSF Student and Non-Student doc's and BUSA results) successfully uploaded. Resources expanded from single page to menued section. |
| 12/Jun/02 | The site's first picture (JPG of Tim Mundon) successfully uploaded. |
| 10/Jun/02 | Resources page, Second hand page, Tim Mundon interview put onto live site. Also complete results for SUSF and SWWU Leagues, sparecode file created includes next season's diary etc. BUSA Outdoors 2002 preview added. |
| 06/Jun/02 | Preparations for new pages and content, to go live on 10th. Gadget "countdown to BUSA" put on front page. |
| 16/May/02 | Resultant problems with Nedstat counter fixed, so it now records all hits to site. |
| 03/May/02 | Domain name www.uksaa.com bought from uk2.net (for ~£50 for 2 years) with a web divert to original site. Resultant problems with Nedstat counter being worked on. |
| 29/Mar/02 | BUSA Indoor 2002 results up and that section of the site re-organised. |
| 19/Feb/02 | Interview pages reorganised and first interview with Atle Wold up for all to see. |
| 13/Feb/02 | At last. A message board that is a) good and b) works is here. 1,000 thanks to Edinburgh University, whose web space I am borrowing and 1,000,000 thanks to Lucy Spackman for making it go. |
| 01/Feb/02 | Another month another message board that doesn't quite work. Getting steadily closer though. |
| 08/Jan/02 | Happy new year. After failure of that board, another (probably temporary but maybe not) fully functioning board is very nearly ready. |
| 15/Dec/01 | Inaugural results from the SWWUA League put up. Thanks to Claire Davy of Bath. First real message board attempted, based strongly (=half-inched) from Edinburgh site. |
| 12/Dec/01 | Research into writing my own, better, message board for the site begun. I may be some time |
| 01/Dec/01 | Archive section added rationalising info and providing structure for future. Some archives added - this will take ages. NE League Page added plus Diary page. Menu rearranged. |
| 20/Nov/01 | First and second editorial comment published. IUPL basic page added. Results (hooray) limited results added to SUSF pages. |
| 12/Nov/01 | Basic Interview and Editorial pages created. New and (hopefully improved) Nedstat counter in place from www.nedstat.com |
| 03/Nov/01 | Problem with frames crashing the site repaired; basis for SUSF mini-site created. |
| 13/Oct/01 | Addresses added to links page. Archive BUSA indoor results finished. Regional Leagues page replaced with individual pages for SUSF & BUTTS. Nedstat counter removed. |
| 29/Sep/01 | Table of links to university clubs refreshed; Events page removed. |
| 14/Jul/01 | First archive BUSA Indoor results added. |
| 15/Mar/01 | First individual ranking lists in place. |
| 08/Mar/01 | Yahoo standard archive message board in place. |
| 16/Feb/01 | Menu working fully after a "bug" is fixed. |
| 08/Feb/01 | Yahoo standard message Board added. It's rubbish. |
| 05/Feb/01 | Site created, Home, Links, Rankings, Regional Leagues. |
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