Indeed, there HAVE been changes associated with simple maintenance, but they haven't been noted here as in the past.   Personal health, family and professional issues have provided an abrupt decline in the amount of time available for the minutia of maintaining this site and a large array of other chores!  Those conditions have now seen improvement.

Because we do not own the server which very kindly hosts our site, and due to the strict security required of a university-owned server, password access to this site is sharply limited.  Therefore, it is impossible to assign site maintenance chores to a larger number of people, and many have offered to help!  If site managers Jim or Roger become indisposed, things just slow down or even stop for a while.

This isn't all bad, however!!  Some time away sheds old hang-ups and broadens horizons.  The hectic pace at which this site has grown provided little time to step back and see it from YOUR point of view.  Returning to the task with a clearer view is enormously worthwhile!

The "Home" page, once very simple and easy to use, had become a lengthy snarl of redundant and cross-referenced information, confused layout, and required FAR too long to download.  See how THAT has changed, just today!

The Links page has taken on a life of ITS own!!  REQUESTS for linkage, once rare, are now made several times a week!  Even with a DSL line, all of that takes time and sharp wits (not exhausted) to be done accurately and with the cross-referencing often required.  That single, LONG page takes TOO LONG to download!!  We'll soon cut it up into separate pages linked to a single index so that downloads are far less a waste of time!

Consortium and Band pages, long "under development." are due to be refreshed with both information and layout.

We're eliminating the often dysfunctional weather links.  If it's that important to you, set up a link on your personalized browser page.

Hit counters on each page are an enormous maintenance headache, especially when the counter server reformats every few months, wiping out all of our nearly 40 counters!  We will install new counters after investigating options here and there, but only our four primary pages -- Home, Band, Consortium & Links -- will have them.

Finally, the list of links which precedes this note will be properly installed on the Links list and removed from this page.  Some events which had NOT been listed here will be -- for a time -- so watch the 2001 entry list grow.  By summer's end, it is intended that listings here will again be no more than three months old.

This is no longer simply a Selkirk Celts site, which others may "also enjoy."  If YOU visit here regularly, it is also YOUR site!  Indeed, e-mail from around the world indicates that thousands have come to enjoy or depend upon us for an exhaustive list of information and referrals. 

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