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Happy Birthday

The Website was "born" on Monday 8th July 1996, and after four iterations and 35 man weeks it had 120 'pages' of content (by the 11th Nov 1996).

A year later it had over 220 pages of content being 2.3 Mb in size as of 1st Nov 1997.

It was slightly redesigned a year later, and is now over 2.75 Mb in size, with some 260 'pages' of content (by the 25th Feb 1999).

The changes and updates that took place during this period are as follows :-

1. Government guidance on contaminated land (listing of publications). (13th Nov 96) - Section 9
2. Dictionary of environmental terms (English, French, German, Hungarian). (13th Nov 96) - Section 17.6
3. Metric/Imperial conversion tables. (13th Nov 96) - Section 17.5
4. PhD reading list of Robert Dunn (University of Greenwich). (13th Nov 96) - Section 13.5
5. JobLink summary (Environment Business News). (13th Nov 96) - Section 15.2
6. Where the UXB's are buried - an around-London Guide (21 Nov) - Section 17.1
7. German Homepage (24th Nov 96)
8. Dutch Homepage (24th Nov 96)
9. Training (29th Nov 96) - Section 15.4
10. Spanish Homepage (29th Nov 96)
11. French Homepage (29th Nov 96)
12. New Table of Contents as absolute URL's (1st Dec 96)
13. New Table of Contents as relative URL's (1st Dec 96)
14. Meta tags on pages with Search / Keywords icon (2nd Dec 96)
15. Splitting up Section 18.9 into News (18.9), and Environment features (18.12) (29th Nov 96)
16. New Section - HELP ! - I need information on... (12th Feb 97) - Section 20
17. Relocation of old Section 20 material (Feedback - suggestions + improvements) (12th Feb 97) - Section 21
18. Relocation of old Section 21 material (Website updates) (12th Feb 97) - Section 22
19. New Section - Meet the team (12th Feb 97) - Section 23
20. New Section called Website statistics (12th Feb 97) - Section 24
21. Recycled links from other sites (A to D) (18th Feb 97) - Section 10.5
22. Recycled links from other sites (E to E) (18th Feb 97) - Section 10.6
23. Recycled links from other sites (I to N) (18th Feb 97) - Section 10.7
24. Recycled links from other sites (O to T) (18th Feb 97) - Section 10.8
25. Recycled links from other sites (U to Z) (18th Feb 97) - Section 10.9
26. New Section - CV Warehouse (6th April 97) - Section 16.4
27. Splitting up Section 24, into Page hits (24.1), and Visitors (24.2) (9th September 97)
28. Pagebotcopied Environmental Websites list (31st October 97) - Section 10.10
29. Splitting up Section 15.2 (JobLink summary) into Webpages (15.2), HTML push Email (15.5) (17th November 97)
30. Italian Homepage (16th Dec 96)
31. Portugese Homepage (16th Dec 96)
32. The publisher, editor, and webmaster all got married, and had other things on their mind for a while (22nd Feb 97)
33. Babelfish - Translations (16th Dec 97) - Section 18.12
34. 5 most recent 'Ask-a-Guru' links on Homepage (29th Dec 97)
35. 'Website last updated' link on Homepage (31st Dec 98)