What's New (as at Friday 9th May 2008)

Friday 09/05/2008 - Added photos of double room to hostel photo album.

Wednesday 23/04/2008 - Added link to Omagh Hostel, and guest comments to About Us page.

Friday 21/03/2008 - Latest photos of the hostel and Apartment.

Tuesday 11/12/2007 - Added more bus timetable links to Contact page, and a link to Woodlands Pet Care.

Friday 07/09/2007 - Added the hostel double room to the Contact page.

Sunday 26/08/2007 - Finally got round to adding a photo album of Rufus our new Golden Retriever.

Saturday 04/08/2007 - Corrected menu for Room pages, and added surfing links to Local Area page.

Sunday 29/07/2007 - Added a link to the Guardian's online Surf and Berth report showing Rattray Head.

Monday 25/06/2007 - Updated Apartment page with progress details and photo album.

Saturday 23/06/2007 - Added a homepage link to Visit Peterhead.

Thursday 07/06/2007 - Added annual rainfall chart to homepage.

Thursday 17/05/2007 - Added Green Policy link to bottom of all pages, and replaced F&B Way links with new ones.

Saturday 05/05/2007 - Added hostel photo album.

Friday 04/05/2007 - Added Plantlife page link from Wildlife, and 6 plantlife photo albums.

Wednesday 02/05/2007 - Tidied up the menu tabs so that the rooms are now under Facilities/B&B.

Sunday 29/04/2007 - New wildlife page under attractions to hold links for animals, birds, sealife, and elephants pages.

Saturday 14/04/2007 - Created a Rattray Head page on Pagemost.com showing local attractions, and added a link to it on the home page. Added a bus timetable link to the Contact page.

Tuesday 06/02/2007 - Nothing much has happened over the winter, but now added hostel to Contact page and changed deposit from £10pp to first night as deposit. More links added to Links page.

Saturday 26/08/2006 - Postcode change, added default photo frame size of 400x400.

Wednesday 19/04/2006 - Changed Hostel launch from Easter to July, and added many new links to the links page.

Friday 23/09/2005 - Added more detail to the Hostel page.

Thursday 07/07/2005 - Finally something for the Dogs page.

Sunday 03/07/2005 - Added the hostel page.

Sunday 12/06/2005 - Latest bird news at Loch of Strathbeg.

Friday 10/06/2005 - Latest news like the Kite surf championship and the Offshore Europe exhibition.

Saturday 30/04/2005 - Finally got round to adding photos of room 3 now it's been decorated.

Friday 22/04/2005 - Added the xe.com currency converter to the Contact Us page.

Sunday 17/04/2005 - News of the 2005 British Kite Surfing Championships to be held near Fraserburgh.

Friday 15/04/2005 - Added online payment facility using Nochex and Paypal.

Monday 11/04/2005 - Major update to the whole website. There may be some teething problems, so please let me know if you come across any. Many thanks.

Thursday 16/12/2004 - Added SpecialOffer to CSS and used on home page.

Sunday 07/11/2004 - Three months of belated updates sprinkled liberally throughout the site.

Saturday 24/07/2004 - Ugie Folk Festival added. Lowercase folder names for Lighthouse and Rattys Tearoom.

Saturday 26/06/2004 - North Sea Rock festival cancelled due to illness.

Wednesday 24/03/2004 - Elvis Presley ancestors emigrate from nearby Lonmay in Aberdeenshire.

Sunday 22/02/2004 - Latest on the North Sea Rock Festival.

Sunday 11/01/2004 - Wreck D now identified as Excelsior.

Monday 29/09/2003 - Room photos now available and much better photos of Wreck B now that the tide has removed a lot of sand from it.

Sunday 24/08/2003 - Added Tim Marshall's notes to the birds page.

Thursday 26/06/2003 - Improved detail on the Rattray Head map. New links on the Links page.

Sunday 22/06/2003 - Added internal photos of the lighthouse.

Sunday 01/06/2003 - Added a few extra photos including Sand Sculptures, Winter Pool, Swans, Golden Eye.

Friday 30/05/2003 - Removed animated colour blocks and space padding from page titles. Added padding around edge of every page.

Monday 28/04/2003 - Road maps now have white roads instead of grey, and text on a blue background is now black instead of white. Address now refers to Crimond instead of Peterhead as Crimond is a lot closer to us even though Peterhead is the actual postal town. Added a lounge photo to Ratty's Tearoom. Added Coastguard photo album to the Lighthouse page.

Sunday 06/04/2003 - Put a few extra fields onto the Contact Us page.

Thursday 03/04/2003 - Put MM_ functions, Scrolltext and Scrollbar script into separate common files to tidy up source code.
Added animated colour lines around heading image, and fun colour blocks around the page footers.
Added extra spaces to all page titles.

Wednesday 26/03/2003 - Changed text and background colours of Contact Us fields to match colour scheme.

Sunday 23/03/2003 - Now displays a Thank You page after the submission of the Contact Us message. Added multiple message functionality to the status bar for all pages. Lightened background colour.

Sunday 16/03/2003 - Changed scrollbar colours to match background and text. Spread a bit more text around the pages.

Sunday 09/03/2003 - New page for Rattray Names where we can add anything to do with the name Rattray, like the ship Rattray Head, and the family name Rattray.

Monday 17/02/2003 - Lots more links sprinkled throughout the website, new Links page to enable other sites to easily add this site to their links page, and a few more photos.

Tuesday 14/01/2003 - Added a contact form to the Contact Us page to formalise enquiries.

Tuesday 17/12/2002 - It's taken a few weeks, but there are now several photo albums, see Beach, Local Area, Our Home, Seals, Seatown, and Wrecks.

Sunday 17/11/2002 - The first bit of lighthouse information added to Local Area Attractions.

Thursday 14/11/2002 - Changed the small Contact Us local map to a small UK map that can be zoomed into to show the UK, Aberdeenshire, Buchan, and Rattray Head maps in more detail. Also overlayed the logo onto the heading photo.

Friday 1/11/2002 - A couple of details added to Cyclists and Walkers regarding the Formartine & Buchan Way, and a press release about it's opening as a public amenity.

Friday 25/10/2002 - The first of the History pages showing an account of the Buchan Field Club trip on Saturday 4th August 1888. Many thanks to Derek Jennings, Metal Detectorist of Longside, for providing some of his research material for inclusion in our site.

Saturday 19/10/2002 - Some details added to Rooms and Breakfast.