We are nearing the 60 members limit and have well over the 7000 unique visits. You really do the site honour!

I will be slowly expanding the Web Links section but, please, feel free to submit your's as well. I have asked the PHP-Fusion developers for the option to add images to the web links and that may be added in the future. If that happens, I will probably do some reorganisation with the links in Dipterist's communication and directories and Diptera catalogues and collections, but until that time, make sure that you check both these pages and the Web Links if you are in search of a particular site.

The next version of PHP-Fusion is under development and currently undergoes beta testing and is expected to be released in December. This version will expand some of the features of the site.. Some high-lights: Right now there is only the forum search but the new version will give a have more search capabilities. A newsletter function will be added. Several navigation systems (in forum and elsewhere) will be improved.

Please note, that I may start editing some of the subject titles in the forum. Search engines like Google cannot index pages queries from a database when the is no true url. So right now, only the titles of the threads are indexed and when you look for 'pelidnoptera' the recent thread will never appear because the name is not in the title. So, do not be shocked if you see that the thread you started some time ago suddenly has another title.

Keep on buzzing!

Paul

Thank you all for keeping the site moving onwards. The Diptera Gallery is growing steadily, though it is mainly due to one major contributor. (Thank you, Gerard!) Just like the literature database I hope to develop (really, I am working on it), a gallery has the potential to grow excessively. So, please keep images as small as possible in size (bytes), so we can enjoy a growing Gallery for a long time. I realise I may have to migrate the site to larger hosting server, but may disrupt services for a while. For the same reason you may see that occasionally a forum image that was posted as an attachment is suddenly in the message itself. In that case I have uploaded it to another server and added the link to the image. That should not disrupt anything, though. Enjoy!

Paul

I have added a Diptera Gallery. I just added a single image so far because it is up to you as well to fill the Gallery. The three albums and the single picture are just to give you an idea. Consult the FAQ before you start asking further questions but to answer one of the most important: submission of images can be done by sending them to the webmaster.

Hello everyone,

As you can see, the site is gaining pace: well over fourty members and well over the 3000 mark for the number of unique visits. Especially the forum proves to be popular. Keep on posting all those interesting queries en questions, but please remember, general discussion is also allowed!

Further, let me again draw attention to the weblinks category. Submit all those interesting sites there. I will organise them into the correct categories at as time moves on, they will be moved to the main categories you can find in the menu on the left.

I am looking into the possibilities of building an online database of literature on Diptera. As soon as I have found a suitable interface and collected the first content, I will notify you all here. It may then be hosted on another server (because such databases may become very big), but it will always be accessible from Diptera.info.

Keep on the good work!

Paul

Updated by Paul Beuk on 1 September 2004 - 7:46:22

Thanks, Paul for accommodating Asilidae.

I hope all is well.

Riley

Submitted by Riley Nelson on May 12 2004 - 16:55:00