[NZhistory.net.nz] NZHistory.net.nz revamp

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Welcome to the NZHistory.net.nz newsletter, 24 February 2006 

REDESIGN

Regular visitors will see a few changes about the place as we have
recently had a major re-vamping of NZHistory.net.nz. This is still a
work in progress, but we hope to have the remaining content (mainly
images and other media) moved into the new site by early March 2006.

Apart from getting all the content into a more standard format with a
clearer site architecture, there are some substantial new additions you
might want to explore: 

THE CALENDAR

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/calendar
A month by month break down of events in New Zealand history with links
provided for further information. So far we have events for each day
from December to March and a few select events for each other month. The
aim is to eventually to have an event for each day of the year.

Each day's event will appear on the site's homepage and the week's
events will appear in The Classroom. The Classroom is an area of the
site for History and Social Studies teachers, but much of the content
will be of interest to a general audience.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/classroom
 

NEW FEATURES

Frontier of Chaos?: Maori-European Contact before 1840 Case studies of
relations between Maori and European and a discussion of those who
crossed between the two cultures.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/frontierofchaos


Exploration of New Zealand
Introductions and links to information about early Polynesian and
European explorers as well as explorers of the New Zealand interior.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/explorers

 

We have also substantially bolstered our links collection with several
new sections (and there is still more to come).
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/recommended-websites
 

We hope you enjoy this new content and welcome your feedback.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/feedback
 

NOTE FOR WEBMASTERS
With the changes to the site all our features now have urls.  Please
update any links you may have to our site on your pages.


NZhistory.net.nz team

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