Site Credits
The Diamond Harbour Website was conceived and created by Kalena Jordan in 2002, and was passed over to the current 'owners' when she moved away in 2005.
The current site was constructed by Steve & Jules at Green Gecko Global Limited, a Computer Consultancy company specialising in open source solutions, located in Diamond Harbour, New Zealand. We use the latest and best Web development tools to produce intelligent, usable sites that capture a distinctly local feel.
Thanks to the following people for assistance in providing the information this site:
Rowena MacGill at Bergli Hill Farmstay
Nicola Burroughs at the Metservice for setting us up with a free 2 day weather forecast
Visitors to this site
Google Analytics reports that 89,234 visitors have viewed the website since November, 2007.
Technical Stuff
All of the software used in the development of this site is Open Source. It has been written by people who want to share their ideas for free! Sounds good to me. If you're interested in finding out more, then there should be a Software Freedom Day being organised near you next September, and there are a number of Linux User Groups, not completely full of beards and sandals dotted around the country. Failing that, just drop us a line.
To acknowledge those who have made our lives so much easier ( and cheaper - after all, nobody pays us for this site! ), here's a list of some of the people who have unknowingly aided us:
- Linus Torvalds - inventor of a free and flexible operating system, Linux
- Apache - the best web server software in the world
- PHP - a powerful server side scripting language
- MySQL - a fast, flexible database environment
- Etomite - a simple, lightweight content management system that's a joy for PHP programmers to use
- Open2300 - allowing me to simply connect my weather station to a database
- Ming - a library to generate flash movies 'on the fly'
- Gphoto2 - providing me with the tools to convert a Canon Sureshot camera with a broken screen into a computer controlled webcam... with 5mpixels, zoom and focussing on infinity!
- Enblend - allowing me to take the panorama of images taken from the Gondola and stitch them into a single 9000 pixel wide image that eventually became the top of each page
Apologies to any that I've missed out from the list.
Every attempt has been made to comply with the standards published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). We are currently using the XHTML 1.0 Strict DocType and CSS version 2.1. This enables us to ensure - as far as possible - that this website displays in a pleasing and repeatable manner, irrespective of browser used. If you come up with any errors, please get in touch, and we'll do our utmost to fix any problems straight away.