What's old on psyclick.org.uk
This is an archive of entries from the what's new page. That list was getting long, so I've pruned the entries from 2002 to 2004 and put them here.
26.11.2004
- Added details of 4 new groups to the groups page - Bristol & Bath, Leicester, Sussex and Teesside
- Also updated details for Birmingham, South Thames and West of Scotland groups
- Good luck to all those appyling to courses!
21.09.2004
- Added a few more course forms to the downloads page, and combined them into ZIP files, either in PDF or DOC format
- Added a few more site suggestions to the jobs page - sure I've missed some (?)
20.09.2004
- Added info on 6 (six!) groups on the groups page, and updated details on a few others - any more?
11.08.2004
- Updated some contact details on the groups page - any more?
- Mailed out the 8th email update
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Plugged the DCP Affiliates Conference
22.05.2004
- Finally mailed out the 7th email update
- Added Amazon adverts as alternatives for AdSense thanks to AGAR
20.01.2004
- Updated the look of the forum, to give site navigation on most pages. It seems many people were finding the site via the forum, but were not aware of the other sections. (I have not changed the 'view topic' layout for simplicity's sake.)
- Updated the logo for the forum too
- Fixed the layout of the reading page, which I broke yesterday
- Added team stats (such as they are!) to the cancer research page
- A few more reciprocal links
19.01.2004
- At last! The belated redesign is done - not drastic but should be more reliable, and easier to modify. Still to reorganise the site though, and add breadcrumbs
- Improved the accessibility page
- Note that you can now apply to the Staffordshire/Keele clinical course
- Updated info on the Yorkshire Graduate Psychologists Group - thanks Sophie!
- Um, a belated Happy New Year!
04.12.2003
- Added details on two new groups - East Anglia and East of Scotland
- Added a page on doing cancer research using your computer's spare time
15.10.2003
- Updated the what's new mailing list to use Mojo Mail, rather than the ridiculous manual system I was using
- If you haven't already done so, now would be a good time to check your spam filtering settings in Hotmail or Yahoo if you use those services to receive the email updates
- Currently 340 subscribers!
11.10.2003
- Fixed the forum database, with huge thanks to Adam Alkins.
- Upgraded the forum to phpBB 2.0.6
- Added a glossary - get in touch if there's anything you think is missing or wrong.
09.10.2003
- Added a search page, at long last
- Added a page about AccessKeys
- Plugged the Alternative Handbook
- Trying to fix the forum, as the database is a bit flaky. Not worked it out yet, so please contact me if you see any strange errors
12.09.2003
- Added Suffolk Assistant Psychologists to the Groups page (thanks to Femke Leathes), and West Midlands Assistant Psychologists Group (thanks to Sarah Simmonds). Tidied the page up a bit whilst I was at it.
04.09.2003
- A long overdue update, at last! Sorry for the state of neglect, but good to see the forum bubbling along nicely
- psyclick had its first birthday party on August 1st! It had a nice jelly and ice cream party, and threw cake on the floor
- Since its birth, over 20000 people have come to coo over the little baby and tickle its tummy
- Updated a few things on the groups page, no new ones just yet
- Fixed a few links and added a few reciprocal ones
- You may have noticed few banner / column adverts, which I hope are not too intrusive. They'll hopefully get a few pennies coming in to pay for the upkeep of this site
- Course application packs are now available from the Clearing House - some questions have been changed from recent years
21.06.2003
- Added a few books to the reading page and updated some of the prices.
- Fixed the mail forms - the 'thanks' pages weren't linked to correctly.
- A few more reciprocal links
20.06.2003
- Added an article by Yvonne Waft on learning from the job. Big thanks to Yvonne, who is starting the clinical course in September.
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Revised the site design, basing it on
divs and CSS, rather than tables - Changed the feedback form to
div-based, but some tables remain - Added a means of changing text size, based on a simple PHP script from A List Apart
- Added access keys to the menu and footer links, again inspired by A List Apart
- Added CSS print sheets - in newer browsers, pages from this site will print in black and white, omitting the side columns.
- If any of the above things look wrong or don't work for you, please get in touch
- The Leeds Assistant Psychologists Group is defunct
- Trent Assistant Psychologists Group added to the groups page
- More proper content soon!
- Over 100 people registered to use the forum, with over 200 posts
14.05.2003
- Added my notes on the Leeds and Sheffield courses.
- Added another example course application form to the downloads page, thanks to Jo Nicholson.
- Also added a little warning to that page about the dangers of relying on other people's application forms.
- Added details on the Oxfordshire Assistant Psychologists' Group thanks to Issy Scriven
- Updated info on the North Wales Assistant Psychologist Group
- Updated and expanded the about page...
- ... which now includes a disclaimer, mainly added due to my new position on the DCP Affiliates Committee.
- ...and a privacy policy, cos I take these things seriously.
- Created the referral page - makes it simpler and quicker to 'tell a friend' about this site.
- Sent out the 6th email update
- There are now 200 people signed up for email updates
- There have been 10000 hits to the site, although this is a conservative estimate, as the counter relies on people viewing the front page.
26.04.2003
- Added details on the Birmingham Assistant Psychologists Group, thanks to Bethan Reading
- Added another example of a DClinPsy application form, thanks to Russel Ayling
- Psyclick was mentioned in The Psychologist
- Passed 8500 hits to the site!
14.04.2003
- Updated and expanded the about page...
- ... which now includes a disclaimer, mainly added due to my new position on the DCP Affiliates Committee.
- Created the referral page - making it simpler and quicker to 'tell a friend' about this site.
07.04.2003
- Replaced the per-course pages on interview questions with the courses page, to contain information on interview formats and impressions, and notes from trainees (hopefully)
- Added <link> tags that can be used by various browsers for ease of navigation. The forum pages already had these, thanks to the magical phpBB script
- Added a basic search page - not very useful at the moment, but hopefully I can find a more appropriate script
04.04.2003
- Added a further example course application form to the downloads page, thanks to Yvonne Waft.
- Removed the course questions sorted by course. Read about my reasons why in the forum.
- Added details about the South Wales Affiliates Group (and Peer Support Group) - thanks to Elanor Maybury
- Passed 7000 hits to the site!
01.04.2003
- Added info and impressions from the Bristol and East Anglia courses, thanks to Kate Humphreys and Kathrin Buhr
- Added information on (Re)claiming income tax on BPS subscriptions
- Tidied up and expanded the course interview questions available on the downloads page, and added zipped file formats.
- Added zipped formats of other files on the downloads page, and provided file sizes
28.03.2003
- My Teesside interview is over, so I should have more time to spend on the site for the next couple of weeks.
- Tidied up the course interview questions a bit more, and added my Teesside questions - more to come soon
- Added details for the South Thames Psychology Group - thanks to Alison Cooper
- Some changes to the forum - new categories, something to make it clearer that you need to register/login if you want to post/reply
- Added links to Amicus (MSF section) and Psychoweb to the links page, plus a couple more reciprocal links
- Sent out the 5th email update
- Passed 6500 hits to the site!
18.03.2003
- Tidied up and expanded the course interview questions
- Made this set of questions into PDF and Word 97 formats, available on the downloads page
- Tweaked the downloads page
- Tweaked the further information page
14.03.2003
- Some course interview questions - more of these to come soon
- Started the 'to do' list
- Passed 5000 hits to the site!
- 100 people subscribed to the what's new update service!
- Added a link to the PsychStudent mailing list - aimed at undergrads
28.02.2003
- Updated the website address for South West Assistant Psychologists
- Added a page on spam filtering, which will be particularly useful for Hotmail users who sign up for the email updates
- Passed 4000 hits to the site!
- Sent out the 4th email update
22.02.2003
- Added contact details for the North Wales Assistant Psychologist Group, thanks to Cathy Wood for the info
- Created the updates page, as an archive of previous updates from the what's new list
10.02.2003
- Turned off content negotiation for images for the time being, due to caching problems
- Fixed a problem with the 'updates' form - if you have tried to subscribe using this form since 06.02.2003, please try again!
- Passed 3000 hits to the site!
06.02.2003
- Moved the site to 34sp.com, allowing more flexibility with what I can do with the site
- Created the forum using phpBB2. This replaces the ezboard forum, but I have copied all the posts over from there to the new forum
- Added the Amazon page, to explain more fully how the referrals system works
- Added a bit to the contribute page about this
- Added a page about copying from this site, to make it clear that I am happy for people to do this, with certain provisos
- Merged the info on text size and browsers into the viewing page
- Replaced the counter at jellycounter.com with my own, using a simple CGI/Perl script from NMS
- Mail forms also now use a script from NMS
- Tweaked some of the font styles
- Started using some content negotiation, hence some links look like /page rather than /page.html, for example
- Moved some old entries from this list to what's old
- Edited the above 'Updates mailing list' text, and added a subscribe / unsubscribe form
- Customised the error messages - for example the 404
21.01.2003
- Opened an account with 34sp.com and started moving psyclick over to the new account. The main reason is because the forum at ezboard.com is too expensive to maintain without LOTS of annoying adverts. 34sp.com lets me create my own forum and more besides
- Added some more books to the suggested reading page
- Added a couple of mailing lists to the links page - but remember that the forum is a good place to start!
16.01.2003
- Added a link to the Northern Ireland Assistant Psychologist Forum website, and a new web address for North Thames Graduate Psychology Group
- Added some new stuff to the suggested reading page, including many more books and links to journal articles
- Discovered that someone has created a site at psyclick.CO.uk, so added a link back to the front page
- Tidied up the links page, and noted that psyclick is now listed in dmoz/odp
12.01.2003
- Just passed 2000 hits for the site - thanks again to everyone who has expressed their interest and support!
06.01.2003
- Happy New Year!
- Changed the license of the site from OPL to Creative Commons, as I think it is clearer and more precise.
- Added details about the Northern Ireland Assistant Psychologist Forum, thanks to Sharon Hardiman
- Added a contact phone number for the Yorkshire Graduate Psychologists Group
- The number of hits on the forum has passed 1000, but still not many posts!
19.12.2002
- Having had quite a few enquiries from undergraduates since I started the site, I put together a sort of FAQ for undergraduates
- Added details on the Manchester Assistant Psychologists Group, thanks to Sophie Lomax
- The contact person for the Yorkshire Graduate Psychologists Group has changed
- A few more sites have linked to psyclick - I have added reciprocal links
- This is probably the last update before Christmas, so seasons greetings to all!
29.11.2002
- Finally completed my form! Decided to share it with the world - download it if you like, but I can't tell you if it will do you any good!
- Created a downloads page and merged it with the 'posters' page
- Signed the downloads with PGP
28.11.2002
- Tidied up the posters and made the PDFs readable in Acrobat 3 or higher
- Fiddled with parts of the links and reading. The plan is to outline why and how these sources might be useful. When I have more time.
26.11.2002
- Added details on the Mersey Region Assistant Psychologists Group
- Added monochrome versions of the poster
24.11.2002
- Sorry for the lack of updates to this site in recent weeks - I have been a bit preoccupied with my clinical application form. I hope to spend more time on this site once my form has been sent off.
- Good luck to all those applying this year!
- Created a poster to help spread the word about this site
- Added details for the West of Scotland Psychology Assistants Group to the groups page - cheers to Lizzie Piper
- Added a few journal references to the reading page
- Added a few lines on the contact page, just to advise visitors to use the forum to ask for advice, rather than emailing me. I'll help if I can by replying via the forum, and hopefully others might too.
18.11.2002
- Just passed 1000 hits for the site - thanks to all who have expressed their interest and support!
04.11.2002
- Made some changes to the contribute page, including the addition of some contributors! Many thanks to them all.
- Edited the feedback form so that people can enter their name (if they want a reply).
- Shelled out 10 USD for 3 months of Gold Membership for the forum - the banner and pop-up adverts were a bit distracting.
31.10.2002
- A couple more additions made to the groups page, for Leeds and Yorkshire.
- Just passed 700 hits for the site - not bad considering my limited efforts at promotion.
17.10.2002
- Hopefully the site is now usable in Netscape 4. It will not look pretty, but NS4 was released in June 1997 and does not support web standards. It is maddening (and often impossible) to write code that looks good in both standards-compliant and old browsers. If you're still stuck with Netscape 4 (or older?!), I would recommend upgrading
- Finally added details on a few more assistant / graduate groups to the groups page
- Made some changes to the email links on this page, to obfuscate the addresses
- Tweaked the feedback and contact forms - they were causing errors for some browsers
12.10.2002
08.10.2002
- Made a few changes to try and make the site look better in older browsers (particularly Netscape 4.x). It's still not quite right though
- Changed to 'Useful links page' to Links, to accomodate further reading in books, articles etc.
- Added a few links to books on Amazon, which I have joined as an affiliate. This means that if anyone buys a book from Amazon having followed my link, I get a little commission. Should I get any, I will put it toward buying better functionality for the forum
- Finally added the links to courses on the links page
- Added various other links, including one to the controversial Draft Mental Health Bill
24.09.2002
- The discussion forum is now online!
- The mailing list is now for site updates only. Information on this has moved to this page
- Added a line to the feedback form to ask how visitors heard about the site
- psyclick has been linked by the Clearing House
20.09.2002
- Tried to make the discussion list page a bit more explicit
19.09.2002
- Made the welcome page a bit more presentable
- Tried to make the contribute page a bit more explicit
- Made the title headings style a bit smarter
18.09.2002
- The system at DarkCounter is out of order, possibly for good. So I have replaced the counter on the welcome page with one from Jellycounter. It uses JavaScript, which I wanted to avoid, but it will do for now. Created my own digits for it.
16.09.2002
- Finally added an entry to the list of graduate groups
- Cleared up the jobs page, need to add more content soon
12.09.2002
- Customised the discussion list page at portcomber.net
- Tweaked the feedback form
- Added a mail form to the contact page
10.09.2002
- The email discussion list is now up and running!
- Added a feedback form - making it easier for people to tell me the brutal truth about the site!
09.09.2002
- Merged the 'reviews' and 'essays' pages to create the articles page
05.09.2002
- Added a page on changing text size, linked from the welcome page
- Changed most of the text size units to ems
- Validated the CSS and XHTML - will no doubt break it again before long
03.09.2002
31.08.2002
- Added a hit counter to the welcome page, courtesy of DarkCounter
- Put the site under the OpenContent License (OPL). It's up to contributors if they want their words OPL'd.
25.08.2002
- Changed the font sizes from absolute to relative, so the text can be resized in your browser
23.08.2002
- Added a brief info page on PGP
21.08.2002
- Outlined the content for the reviews page
- Outlined the content for the groups page
- Outlined the content for the discussion list page - haven't actually set up the list yet
- Updated the contribute page to clear up copyright and credit issues
20.08.2002
- Made a start on the links page
- Fiddled with the headings in the style sheet
16.08.2002
15.08.2002
- Added something a bit more useful to the About page
- Added a bit on counselling courses to the Essays page
- Added page names to page titles (e.g. this page now has [what's new] in the title bar)
- Replaced the 'Daft stuff' section with Thoughts - for any ideas, advice, reflections on anything relevant in a few lines.
08.08.2002
- Moved the menu link information from "onmouseover" to "title" - makes more sense for users and saves a few bytes.
07.08.2002
06.08.2002
05.08.2002
- Got this page going retrospectively - working out how to do lists :)
- Gave the menu a border, and a pale blue background to the body (this area)
- Put the content (blue background) area in a table cell, so that content won't flow under the menu (white background)
04.08.2002
- Moved the files on to my Freeserve webspace to see if they worked
- Started checking HTML and CSS with the W3C's validation service. Getting there...
03.08.2002
- Getting my head around CSS, which lets me change the look of the site much easier.
- Re-did the logo to make it a bit smaller, tweaked the background
- Changed the menu from frames based to table based, as it seems frames are not a good idea (and are possibly evil)
01.08.2002
- My first attempt to get things going. No content yet but worked out a draft menu, outlining areas to cover.
- Did the logo in Paint Shop Pro, worked out surprisingly well cos I'm no artist.
- mailto: links are obfuscated using this page, to reduce the likelihood of spambots getting my address.