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External News

We have provided links to stories from external news organisations so you can follow the media interest in badgers, and see who writes on the subject. We do not endorse external authors.

What's New Here?

July 2007

  • New look and feel to the web-site because of a new stylesheet, as well as updated details from various Badger Groups.

February 2007

December 2006

November 2006

Updated the following pages:

  • Feedback
  • Ask An Expert
  • A few more tweaks to the Cascading Style Sheet and to the page layouts.
  • New feature, so that adverts appear on-screen, but do not appear when printed on paper. This means that you can use this web-site to produce handouts for schools, without third-party adverts printed on them.

October 2006

  • Updated the External News section to include news stories from April 2006 to early October 2006.
  • Rotating Banner Advertising - including advertisements which configure themselves to what is on the page, and removed adverts which no-one ever looked at!
  • Updated a few Badger Groups.
  • Tweaks to the Cascading Style Sheet, to make the web-site look more alike in Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer.
  • Extra Quotes about badgers (see Brocky by Sylvia Shepherd - Selected Quotations for badger-related quotes).

June 2006

  • Rotating Banner Advertising - including advertisements which configure themselves to what is on the page!
  • Updated a few Badger Groups.

May 2006

April 2006

March 2006

April 2004

  • Added a few more images of badger-related Book Covers.

December 2005

New book reviews for:

November 2005

New advertisements.

Expanded Summary of known Scientific Papers:

Badger Groups:

New External News Stories for:

New images and reviews of badger-related Book Covers including:

October 2005

September 2005

July 2005

March 2005 (#2)

March  2005

January 2005

April 2004

  • Added a few more images of badger-related Book Covers.
  • Added a few new pages for badger-related External News for 2004.
  • Updated a few Badger Groups.
  • Added a few new DVDs - including a superb set of the Strange World of Northern Soul.

March 2004

  • Added a load more pages to do with Badger Pictures - including lots of images of badger-related Book Covers.
  • Altered the Cascading Style Sheet to make it easier for you to see which section of the web site you are in (i.e. the green/yellow coloured tabs at the top of the screen).
  • Added a few new pages for badger-related External News for 2004.

February 2004

  • Added a new link to the Golden Web Awards for 2003-2004.
  • Added a few new pages for badger-related External News for 2004.
  • Added a few more pages for Music DVDs. - especially some great concert DVDs by Robbie Williams.

January 2004

December 2003

November 2003

October 2003

  • Modified Cascading Style Sheet, which will make the web-site easier to view by people whose screen resolutions are set to 640 by 480 or 800 by 600.
  • Updated Badger Groups, with new contact details.
  • Additional Advertising Support, from Jessops and Tesco.
  • Improved links to Amazon; and improved keyword index for the web-site.

September 2003

  • Improved layout and site-construction. The site now includes various items of "Common Content"; which means they can be written once, and re-published in several locations at a glance. By way of example, see the Email Us topic.
  • Yet more Badger Groups
  • Even more External News Stories
  • More Educational Information with several downloadable projects.
  • Greatly Expanded Help information, now divided into helping Help for Badgers or Help for You.
  • Greatly improved Shops and better "self-updating" links to Amazon.co.uk
  • Additional links to Amazon.com; and additional paid-for advertising from Cottages4You, eBay and GreenFingers Garden Centres.
  • Revised Cascading Stylesheets, which now show you where you are within our web site (light-green background with a red-coloured flash on the right of the menu link). Also the more consistent use of colour and shading.
  • Improved use of Keywords (to help search engines index our web site better)
  • The introduction of Version Controlled pages.
  • Enhanced JavaScript work - such as the use of Automatic Content Generators, Email Links and so on.
  • People who use Netscape now account for a very, very small proportion of our users, so we have decided to cease support for Netscape. That said, we expect that our site will work for most of the recent Netscape browsers.
  • Complete audit of the web site, with too many minor tweaks and changes to identify.

July 2002

March 2001 - Bug Fix work (to try and deal with the bug in Netscape which affects the use of some Cascading Stylesheets)

February 2001 - Additional Content

24th Dec 2000 - Improvement of Cascading Stylesheets, Improved Navigation, some additional content, more Books, Videos and Merchandise, more links

29th Nov 2000 - Update and Addition of new Badger Groups

28th Nov 2000 - Improved User Interface, Introduction of more Cascading Stylesheets and Improved Navigation

28th Nov 2000 - UK Map of Badgers and Badger Groups

21st Nov 2000 - Buy Books, Buy Videos

2nd Oct 2000 - More External News Stories added

24th Sept 2000 - More External News Stories added

15th Sept 2000 - Detailed Badger Voices

14th Sept 2000 - Badger Year Diary

  • We've now added a page which shows what your badgers might be doing during each month of the year. Click here to find out.

13th Sept 2000 - External News Pages added

  • External News Pages added - this makes it easy for you to find out about badger news from other sources on the internet.

12th Sept 2000 - Videos from Amazon

  • You can now buy Videos from Amazon through us.

11th Sept 2000 - Bells and Whistles

10th Sept 2000 - New Education Topics

9th Sept 2000 - Donations Policy

7th Sept 2000 - New Education Topic

New pages concerned with:

6th Sept 2000 - Site Re-Design

  • Major revision to the navigational structure of the site. Abandoned the use of framesets - using master borders instead. This allows people to bookmark favourite pages and make printing easier. Divided the site into modular sections, including:
  • Note: Some "empty" topics have been added (content to be added later).

1st Sept 2000 - Extra Content

  • Extra content added concerning badgers and their environment.
 

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