3 July 2011: The home page completely revised. Site moved to a new server at Pair Networks.
16 June 2011: Some quite important behind-the-scenes changes made.
2 September 2009: A slight reworking of the site, mainly tidying it up a bit by removing anticipated content which never materialised.
19 January, 2008: Google Analytics added.
12 January, 2006: Resuming work on the site.
18 November, 2004: Once again, resuming development of the site - after an even longer gap this time.
29 June, 2004: Resuming development of the site after a long gap.
26 April, 2004: Various (minor) broken links corrected (detected by Xenu).
7 April, 2004: Considerable development of the speciesdata part of the site. Google search engine to be added to the home page to enable both the main zimbabwe flora site and this site to be searched.
6 March, 2004: Further work, with Bart Wursten, on the Zimbabwe flora part of the site. A standard layout for each species has been proposed and further images (of Eulophia species)added.
24 February, 2004: Another image added - Oxalis latifolia showing the underground bulbs.
21 February, 2004: Plant images now hosted on this site and linked from the zimbabwe flora site.
10 January, 2004: The Egypt part of our first 2003 tour now finished and about to be uploaded.
5 November, 2003: Minor corrections made.
24 October, 2003: Rainfall readings for the 2003/4 season to date added.
18 October, 2003: At last, the new PHP-based version of the site has been uploaded this evening. The main change to the site is that the directory structure is now more logical and should be able to cope with future expansion without major change. I've also added Canterbury Tales to the 2002 Theatre section.
12 October, 16, 19 September 2003: Continuing, intermittent and frankly rather slow, progress!
28 August ... 20 August 2003: Work continuing rather intermittently ...
1 and 2 August 2003: A major update of the site underway to convert to php and to include a large number of additional information and images. This will be a very significant change which will take several weeks to carry out.
26 June 2003: Updating the site.
19 May 2003: Various, mostly minor, changes.
4 March 2003: Rainfall readings brought up to date.
1 March 2003: Hosting site upgraded to a higher-level account which includes PHP and other facilities.
10 January 2003: Work on adding various events and updating the site to 2003.
18 November 2002: Work on adding the Tree Society outing to Christon Bank on 17 November. Various programming changes so that the site now hopefully validates.
14 November 2002: Minor changes to various pages.
9 November 2002: A long break after a lot of travelling. The Theatre and Music pages need a lot more work on them. A section dealing with today's trip with the Male Voice Choir to Mvurwi has been written and will be uploaded shortly. Unfortunately, my ISP is down this weekend for maintenance so no work on the net can be done.
5 September 2002: Further work on theatrical pages.
4 September 2002: Work begins on adding more theatrical pages.
22 August 2002: Opening page rewritten and two pictures of rock art added. A homemade blog started.
30 July 2002: Colours, sizes and borders changed by tweaking the CSS.
25 July 2002: pMachine set up at a separate address. Links to this added in place of Blogger.
20 July 2002: Significant redesign.
18 June 2002: Begin process of converting from XHTML Transitional to XHTML Strict.
17 June 2002: Text indentation which affects non-IE browsers sorted out (I hope) but this needs to be tested.
13 June 2002: Further tinkering with Blogger and its settings.
9 June 2002: Still one remaining XHTML error and one CSS warning - both hopefully now corrected.
8 June 2002: Corrections made so that CSS will hopefully now validate with the W3C.
2 June 2002: Various minor changes. Rainfall readings updated. Link to and template for Blogger added.
29 May 2002: Various changes to incorporate Blogger.com.
21 April 2002: Formatting, colour and design adjustments.
12 April 2002: More, mostly minor, adjustments.
10 April 2002: Further, mostly minor, adjustments.
8 April 2002: Further work. Problem with the 2 column version not working in Opera 6 corrected. Font references in 2 stylesheets reduced to one and also changed to Comic Sans Ms. Decision as to which company will host still being mused upon.
6 April 2002: Work began on designing this website.
The site will not be immediately uploaded anywhere because I have not yet decided where to host it.
27 March 2002: Domain name: markhyde.com registered (later replaced by markhyde.net.
In addition to informing visitors of what's new, this page will be a record of changes made.