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Research Guide: About This Site
This site was originally created during the 1996/1997 school year as an entry
in the ThinkQuest Internet Site
competition where it was a semi-finalist. Since initial creation the site was
redesigned and the bredth and depth of content was greatly improved.
The current layout was first implemented in 1998 to improve navigation as this
was an area where the site was docked points during the competition. Though
viewable by all main-stream browsers, testing is conducted using the most
recent release of Internet Explorer only.
As the Ten year anniversary of the Spill passed in March of 1999 visitor
traffic to this site quadrupled over March 1998. As a whole, visitors and site
traffic continue an impressive upward trend, increasing by one third each year.
In 2001, approximately 28,700 visit were made to the site with 402,000 page
views. This is over one third more than the 290,000 page views and 20,700
visits experienced in 2000.
The most popular section of this site is the Introduction section. The most
popular page, not including the homepage, is the Cleanup Index.
Major improvements were made to the site in 2001. First, perl scripts were
implemented to dynamically create printable versions of web pages. This cut
down on maintenance and removed common differences between viewable and
printable version of a page. Second, an image gallery was added. This completed
the original plan for phased implementation of site content. Gallery pages were
instantly some of the most popular on the site.
In 2003 access was lost to the ThinkQuest web server and in late 2004 the site
was loaded to its present URL at Sailwhatcom.com. With this move came an
information update and slight changes to the site layout to improve usability.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Recent Awards
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Golden Web Award:
Presented by the International Association of Webmasters and Designers for
excellence in design and quality of content. |
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