Subscribers to the sundial mailing list may be interested to know: 1. that the Sundials on the Internet home page at www.sundials.co.uk has had just over 25,000 page views in the last 12 months. The site as a whole is now getting over 900 page views a day. We are naturally very pleased with this progress, and with the way we are help to help with the educational mission of our sponsoring societies, the British Sundial Society and the North American Sundial Society.
2. that it has been completely redesigned to make all the subsidiary pages more visible and easier to navigate 3. that it has been chosen for inclusion in the BBC Education Web Guide. Their invitation said "The Education Web Guide team were particularly impressed by the quality and educational content of your site and have placed a short review of it in our searchable database which can be accessed by internet users everywhere".<p></p> The BBC Education Web Guide is at <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/webguide";>http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/ webguide</a> <p></p> Their review reads<i><b><br> These pages provide a gateway to the expanse of sundial information on the Net. They contain all the background information you need to begin constructing your own sundials. A number of simple projects are included to get you started, all with excellent diagrams and clear instructions. The site has many links to other sources of sundial information on the Net, including pictures of existing dials and computer programs for generating sundials.</b></i><br> 4. Our main objectives for this year are: A) to put up translations of the new "grid" home page in very many languages, including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, Czech, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish and hopefully some others. We would welcome any offers of help with this. B) to put up at least one new Sundial Trail in each country in Europe, and hopefully also elsewhere in the world, so that we will have a truly international network of sundial trails. C) to start a page on "Newly Constructed Sundials" where designers or makers can post, free of charge, a short description of any newly constructed sundial, with hyperlinks to their own pages, or to images of the sundial held on their own pages. This page will be posted at www.sundials.co.uk/new.htm possible before my trip and if not early in March. D) to start some "Favourite Sundials" pages on which anyone can post a list of the sundials they consider "the best" on any criteria they choose. This will be posted at www.sundials.co.uk/best.htm early in March E) to encourage anyone who wishes to do so to post, free of charge, a short piece of text on the ......../personal.htm page, again with links to their own web space or images on other sites if they wish. This page has been operative for a couple of months so far. We welcome feedback/ comments/suggestions from all gnomonists. Piers Nicholson, Sundials on the Internet
