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What's New

(This website's history)

27 September 2009 Updated details for the autumn International Café
24 September 2009 Updated details for the autumn General Events and details about the Visa Course.
23 July 2009 New Photo Gallery goes live!
20 July 2009 Updated details of summer General Events and also added some of the winter term ones.
5 July 2009 Added photos from trip to Windsor Castle.
30 June 2009 Some clarifications on Who's who page.
Added details of a families event and a general event in August.
27 May 2009 Added photos from events of the last few months.
25 April 2009 Added details of Summer Families' events and Ladies' Socials.
21 April 2009 Added first details of events in summer for General Events and Families Events.
27 March 2009 Added photo of Leonie
26 March 2009 Reworked the details about the history of the Royal Grammar School due to dispute about what year it could be said to have been "founded".
7 March 2009 Noted in the Tour of Guildford pages the dubious claim that Cricket may have been invented in "Belguim" rather than in Guildford at the Royal Grammar School.
Also corrected a typo on a few of the other Tour pages.
16 February 2009 Noted in the Tour of Guildford pages that Castle Arch has been closed until further notice.
15 February 2009 Updated who are we? and International Café pages, with Leonie Lee having taken over role of CU International Secretary.
Fixed a bug for Firefox to display contact page better, along with some continued improvements to the underlying scripts structure.
14 February 2009 Updated contact details and added more information about the Isle of Wight holiday to the General Events page.
10 February 2009 Added information (and first photograph) of Julia Stevens and reworded some other information on the "Who are we?" page.
5 & 6 February 2009 Changes to volunteers' area.  Improvements to underlying structure.
2 February 2009 Bug fix in events script, and changed title of evening's café (Snow day!)
1 February 2009 Changes to volunteers' area.
31 January 2009 Minor correction and improvements to the underlying structure.
23 January 2009 Minor ammendments and modifications mainly to the volunteers' items.
22 January 2009 Added details of the ladies' events for this term.
20 January 2009 Added themes for this term's International Café.
19 January 2009 Minor bug fixed in contact form.
Added first official news of when our new worker, Julia Stevens, is due to join us.
16 January 2009 International Café planned for 19 January cancelled.
13 January 2009 Updated events for Winter to Spring 2009 with finalised plans and more detail.
20 December 2008 Added Spring Term dates for the International Café.
6 December 2008 Added preliminary programme of events for Winter to Spring 2009.
Corrected configuration of one of the pages of café photos which was preventing the photos from being displayed.
5 December 2008 Added some information about the Christmas Holidays Visit a Local Home Scheme to the General Events page.
29 November 2008 Corrected / updated time of the Advent Celebration.
28 November 2008 Fixed some more broken links using new tool, and amended some of the Families events details.
25 November 2008 Added details of a couple of Families events for next term.
Corrected typographical errors in guide to living in the UK and some of the use of English in the Guildford Tour.
Fixed bug in events script to remove html references in calendar mode.
21 November 2008 Changed contact form to contain a drop-down for title in order to include "Ms".
16 November 2008 Made all path references absolute and fixed some broken links.
8 November 2008 Fixed bug in contact form.
4 November 2008 Rebranded the whole website with new logo and tagline.
3 November 2008 Added the themes of term's International Café.
Added detail of "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" Families' event.
17 October 2008 Checked for and fixed broken links using W3C's Link Checker.
7-14 October 2008 Transfer to new web-host with new domain name www.friendsinternationalguildford.org.uk ahead of rebrand.  It may take some time to sort out any "glitches".
21 September 2008 Sorted out a couple of style issues and bugs, particularly in the light of IE8 Beta being released.
20 September 2008 Added Hugh Griffin as coordinator of Bible Studies. Updated dates for the International Café
26 August 2008 Added dates for the International Café and details of general events for autumn.  See What's On? for a calendar of all events.
Added details of a Visa course running during the autumn term for anyone wanting to find out about Christianity.
Added some photos from the August boating event.
13 August 2008 Added details of postponed boating evening - see General events. Added some photos from a recent walk.
7 July 2008 Added details of Autumn Families' events and Ladies' Socials.
Added some photos from the Families' Summer Barbecue.
25 June 2008 Added some photos from the Visit to Cambridge, 21st June
2 June 2008 Added some photos from the 2008 Isle of Wight Holiday
19 May 2008 Added some photos from the May Country walk and the International Café group's trip to London
20 April 2008 Isle of Wight trip sold out!
Wednesday Women's group renamed Wednesday English Conversation Class and some dates for Ladies' groups have been corrected (no meetings in August).
14 April 2008 Corrected some details of the Summer General events.
25 March 2008 Added details of Summer Families events and more details for Summer General events.
15 March 2008 Corrected and added more details for a couple of the Summer events
5 March 2008 Added detail of Easter Event for Families
Moved photos to a (temporary?) different server because of space limitations!
24 February 2008 Added photos from various events in 2007 and some events early 2008, courtesy of Tim Brown.
Added some preliminary information about summer events.
18 February 2008 Updated who are we? page, with Alissa Baldwin having taken over role of CU International Secretary.  Took the opportunity of adding a few other people's photos.
Corrected and added future International Café dates - no café on 25th February!
27 January 2008 Updated details for Spring events and added details of ladies mornings - sorry for the omission in updating these sooner.
Removed details of the Christianity Explored course, as course is full.
11 January 2008 Added details of a Christianity Explored course.
10 January 2008 Added details for Spring events and International Café dates.
11 December 2007 Added some photos from our Advent event / party and Christmas café.
Corrected information about events for families.
Added some preliminary information about spring events.
2 December 2007 Corrected International Café dates - no café on 3rd December!
25 November 2007 Corrected International Café dates.
Added Google Analytics, as the current visitor information system is breaking down and no longer easily maintainable...
Fixed a few display issues for Firefox
18 November 2007 Added some more photos from Guy Fawkes night.
5 November 2007 Added important information about International Café for Monday 5th November.
Updated events information.
Added some photos from recent events.
25 October 2007 Added some photos from Monday's International Café.
Added intermediate "Make Friends" page.
17 October 2007 Added some photos from the recent Country Walk and International Café.
1 October 2007 Corrected event information.
17 September 2007 Added information about International Alpha course to the Bible study page.
Added address of Word of life church, Woking to the supporting churches page.
Removed today's date from list of dates for International Café
9 September 2007 Updated events for the autumn term.
6 August 2007 Added some photos from the Garden Party, and a link to some photos of the Families' summer barbeque.
26 June 2007 Updated general events for the rest of the summer, and added the dates for football during July.
22 June 2007 Added provisional general events for the rest of the summer and the autumn.
22 May 2007 Added details about International Football.
14 May 2007 Added some photos from the Families' outing at Paultons Park.
Added details of how to buy tickets for the events in June.
25 April 2007 Added summer term's café dates.
Added some more photos from the walk on 24 March.
10 April 2007 Updated events details for early summer.
Added some photos from the Easter Feast on Saturday 7 April.
Also added some photos to the Guided Tour of Guildford.
26 March 2007 Added some photos from the walk on Saturday 24 March.
Updated events details.
Updated supporting churches list.
16 March 2007 Added details for the Families Easter Event.
Fixed a couple of new layout issues with the guide to the UK.
15 March 2007 Fixed some layout issues.
8 March 2007 Official Friends International in Guildford rebranded pages go live!  Please report any problems with these new pages, or make constructive cristicism, to the FIG webmaster, preferably with a description of the problem, details of the operating system and web-browser you are using and, if appropriate, a screen-shot.
19 February 2007 Updated event details for the "Summer Term".
Fixed broken links using W3C's Link Checker.
6 February 2007 Added provisional event details for the "Summer Term".
Removed Chris Webb's name everywhere, as he is leaving us to become a pastor at Send Evangelical Church!
16 January 2007 Linked to new (prototype) "Events Calendar".  This is in progress, but constructive comments and problem reports are more than welcome!
Also linked to new "dynamically created" Photos pages (the difference will hopefully not be noticable to most people).
13 January 2007 Updated general events details.
14 December 2006 Added Spring 2007 café, ladies' social and family event dates.
12 November 2006 Updated café details.
Corrected provisional dates for events in spring semester 2007.
11 November 2006 Added various photos provided by Sarah Bechmanis.
Added provisional dates for events in spring semester 2007.
29 September 2006 Updated café details again!
25 September 2006 Added Guide to living in the UK, courtesy of Friends International Ministries, UK.  (There is work to do on this to include local information.)
22 September 2006 Updated café details.
17 September 2006 Updated café details for the autumn semester.
15 August 2006 Added families events details, ladies' scocial dates and café dates for the autumn semester.
7 August 2006 Added some photos from the July Bike Ride.
Fixed some issues with the comments and questions pages.
4 August 2006 Added some photos from the holiday in Kent (Feb 2006)
and a Summer Walk (3rd August).
22 July 2006 Added some photos from the Isle of Wight holiday.
Removed Aaron's and Rhonda's photo from the who are we? page.  Aaron has finished working with us and returned home to China.  Rhonda will finish at the end of July.
21 July 2006 Added events details for autumn semester.
Added some photos from the Families Summer Barbecue.
Improved some of the contact links.
3 July 2006 Added some photos from Boating in June.
Added some photos to the "Tour of Guildford".
21 June 2006 Updated families events details.
Corrected some typographical errors.
Installed improved contact form.
2 June 2006 Updated more events details.
30 May 2006 Fixed some links which were no longer valid.
Replaced all old script links with new tried-and-tested script link.
10 May 2006 Updated events details.
20 April 2006 Added details of Families events and Ladies' socials for summer 2006.
25 March 2006 Added summer semester details for the International Café.
10 March 2006 Checked and updated various links, including those to a couple of churches' home pages.
28 February 2006 Updated the Families' Events.
21 February 2006 Added some photos from the Barn Dance.
11 February 2006 Added some photos from the international café.
10 February 2006 Sarah Bechmanis has taken over leadership of the Café.
Added details about the Isle of Wight holiday in May to the General Events page.
4 February 2006 Added talk / theme details for the International Café.
27 January 2006 Added some more photos from the Boating event 2005.
22 January 2006 Added some photos from the international café.
Finally got a photo of Tim!
12 January 2006 Minor amendments.
3 January 2006 Updated date of the Easter Feast in General Events for Spring semester 2006.
Added details of Families Events for Spring semester 2006.

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Also moved over to using a single script for all event information.  This is not directly linked to as yet, but will be when testing has completed.
9 December 2005 Added new link to Emmanuel Church, and new name of Stoughton Congregational Church (New Life Baptist) on the Churches page.
Corrected date of Barn Dance in General Events for Spring semester 2006.
Also began work to move over to XHTML™ 1.0 by beginning conversion to HTML 4.01 Strict and improving WCAG compliance.
7 December 2005 General Events updated for Spring semester 2006.
International Café dates added for Spring semester 2006.
30 November 2005 Added some photos from some of the semester's events.
Checked and corrected external links.
13 October 2005 Families' Events information updated.
7 October 2005 An "Historic Tour of Guildford" is now online, although still very much a "work-in-progress."
Updated Rhonda and Aaron's details, and added Rhonda's photo on the who are we? page.
1 October 2005 Corrected Café dates and added talk subjects.
Added some photos from some summer events.
25 September 2005 Ladies' Monday dates added for semester.
30 August 2005 Completed revised menu-system.
Finally fixed very old bug in hit-counter code.
23 August 2005 General Events updated for Autumn 2005.
International Café dates added for Autumn 2005.
Added Rhonda and Aaron to "Who are we" page.
(Removed Ilona, who has returned to Latvia.  Also removed Pulsatilla and Neil.).
13 August 2005 Checked and corrected all external links.
19 July 2005 Families' Events information updated.
15 June 2005 Added photographs from the Holiday on the Isle of Wight (end of May 2005), accessible from the main photos page.
7 June 2005 Added thumbnail photographs from May 2005 Walk, accessible from the main photos page.
21 May 2005 General Events information updated.
Guildford college contact name removed from info page.
12 May 2005 Families Events and ladies' meetings for summer.
5 May 2005 Added more thumbnail photographs of March 2005 day out in Virginia Water, and first thumbnail photos from May 2005 Walk, supplied by students and both accessible from the main photos page.
30 April 2005 Added more thumbnail photographs of past events:
Fireworks 2003; Prom Praise 2003; Visit to Hampton Court 2003; Other "Holiday" photos.
Finally added a photo of Ilona, and replaced Sue's photo with a slightly better one, on the "Who are we" page.
20 April 2005 Added thumbnail photographs of March 2005 day out in Virginia Water, accessible from the main photos page.
17 April 2005 Re-added thumbnail photographs of past events and created new pages for them, accessible from the main photos page.
8 April 2005 Updated General Events and Families Events with provisional information of upcoming events in Summer, Autumn and Spring (2006).
5 March 2005 Updated General Events to include International Guest Service.
Additional Café dates added.
Extra shop info added on Shopping page for some shops nearer to Hazel Farm.
26 February 2005 Tim Grant new organiser of The International café: Details on café and "Who are we" pages.
6 January 2005 2005 Winter / Spring General and Families' events detailed.
Details of ladies' meetings added.
13 December 2004 Added Pulsatilla's name to "Who are we" page.  (Removed Sarah's, who officially leaves on 15th Dec 2004).
7 December 2004 2005 Winter/Spring Semester General events detailed.
Added some café photos from November.
11 November 2004 Added more photos and removed restriction on others.
2 November 2004 Added some links to help students know where they can buy things on the Shopping page.
4 September 2004 Updated "Who are we" page with Ilona's contact details.  (Removed Tim & Suzanne's, who have officially left).
28 August 2004 Added Event Photos pages link on main menu.
23 August 2004 This "what's new" page added.
Removed old Bible study details.
16 August 2004 Added some cultural (language) Christian links to the Faith Matters page.
11 August 2004 2004 Autumn Semester General and Families' events detailed.
7 August 2004 Added chaplaincy opening times.
Introduction to Guildford page expanded to include extra information about location of Guildford, with links to Surrey Hills and Guildhall information.
4 August 2004 More details added to the Stats page.
30 July 2004 Added Ladies' social dates and Families information for autumn semester.
25 July 2004 Added page explaining how to find us on campus.
Added "Best of British" event details.
19 July 2004 Corrected "supporting churches" list.
Playgroup times corrected as per listed on the ladies' social page.
9 July 2004 Details of summer café added.
Added Summer Ladies' socials.
Added Families' summer events.
2 July 2004 New front image and picture of Tim and Suzanne from Wales holiday!
20 May 2004 Pictures added to churches and introduction pages.
12 May 2004 Added Tesco shopping trip details.
Added workers' photos to "Who are we" page.
3 May 2004 Added page stating what we believe.
25 April 2004 Added a warning notice about JWs on campus.
Church details given their own page.
20 March 2004 Added Sue's photo to "Who are we" page.
18 March 2004 The Friends International in Guildford web pages become valid html 4.01 (transitional)!
Also rated with IRCA and SafeSurf as a safe web-site to visit.
7 March 2004 Visa course information added.
Esther Badley new CU International secretary: Details on café and "Who are we" pages.
28 February 2004 Added "learning English" link to Introduction page.
Added more information about faith in Guildford on the Faith Matters page.
27 February 2004 Added Bible study information page.
Added "learning English" link to Introduction page.
25 February 2004 Added Tim & Suzanne and Neil to "Who are we" page.
Added provisional information for Summer Term events.
13 February 2004 Revised welcome text to better explain who and what "Friends International" is.
Added café "Theme" information.
End January 2004 New rebranded pages go live.
friends-international@surrey.ac.ukChristians welcoming international students
in Guildford