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KFD are contributing to a prize raffle to help pay for site improvements.

To enter the raffle, you will need to make a US$ 15 donation to this site. All donations will be tracked and three random emails will be picked for the prizes.

The draw will be made just before Christmas.

All donations will...

There are now a few ways that you can add pictures into your post. The first is to upload a picture directly into the post as an attachment. This however will be resized to a thumbnail when the post is made, and will look something like this: This doesn't give the best view of the photo, but is useful if...

I have added a member map to the site, accessible through the main menu, under the link to Members. It is very easy to use, and works on the Google Maps engine.

Visit Member Map, then click on the Add Your Location button:



This will bring up a text box:



Click into the input...

I have now set the new custom skin to the default for this site. This was designed and installed by Solidaire Design from New York in the US.

Personally I thing they have done an excellent job!

The hat that has been incorporated into the logo and board icons was given to me by brasshat...

The new Links section is now up and running. Any member of this site can add links to websites in this section. For the moment I have set up just three categories:

• Diving Company Websites
  
• Diving Schools
  
• Equipment Suppliers
  
• Other Diving Related Links

I am sure that there are other categories worth adding, so I'd...

Just purchased an additional application that will allow members to post videos that are uploaded to all of the main video sites such as YouTube, Vimeo Video, Google Video, MySpace Video, Yahoo! Video etc.

This can be accessed from the...

I have now hired a developer to write the application required to build a Diving Companies Yellow Pages section. It will take about a month to six weeks before the application is ready for adding to the site.

The Yellow Pages section will cover the following:

[list][*]Diving Companies
[*]Diving Equipment Suppliers
[*]Diving...

The downloads section is now fully functional. You can access it via the menu or from the side block under Latest Files.

In this section, there are currently two categories:

Paid for Files
This category contains files that have a cost to them. Only Admins can add files here.
[i]If you have a file that is worth adding here,...

First of all, at the top of the page, click on the Gallery Tab:



Next, click on New Image:



Choose a Caption, and write in a description, just as you would when posting a topic. All the formatting tools and smileys are there to be included if you want to use them.

Click on...

OK, I have set up this Blog for two reasons:

• To have a place where I can update you on new additions or changes to this site
  
• To encourage users to create their own Blogs

So first off, what is happening with this site.

As I have now completely changed the structure of the site, one of the things that I have had most...