Archive restoral continues...

[John Barresi]

Hi folks - just a quick note to let you know that we've resumed restoring past issues of KiteLife to the archive thanks to the studious volunteer efforts of David Hampton.

Some of you may not know this, but KiteLife has been online since 1998 (run at that time by my late friend Mike Gillard), I took over as owner in 2003, and all told we've published over 1500 articles... Over the last 10 years, the KiteLife magazine website has been fully rebuilt three times for various reasons - but our most current version is the first time it's been database-driven, so each of the last two website versions had to be lovingly rebuilt by hand, page by page, and we hadn't yet been able to bring issues 5-18 back online for public viewing.

Having met David at the Lincoln City Kite Festival a couple weeks ago, we hit it off right away and he kindly offered his help.

So, back online for your reading pleasure...

Issue 4 - http://www.kitelife.com/magazine-archive/old-issues/1998/issue-4-jul/

Issue 5 -http://www.kitelife.com/magazine-archive/old-issues/1998/issue-5-sep-oct/

FYI - when I browse the magazine archive, here are my three preferred methods:

1. Browse by year from the Timeline page - http://www.kitelife.com/magazine-archive/
   (this shows every KiteLife article, Kite Lines and SKQ issue from 1977 to present)
   (sometimes I go here, press control-F and search the whole archive by title on one page)
   
   
   
2. Use the Google search box in the right sidebar of our main site, just above the article topics.
   (remember you can search with quotes on search terms like "team flying" for more specific results)
   
   
   
3. Use the Article Topics list in the right sidebar of our main site to browse by column or general topic.
   
   

Stay tuned for more, I'll try to post a note here when we do, but we're pretty consistent with our Facebook updates...

http://www.facebook.com/kitelife <-- LIKE us, if you haven't already!

Thanks again to David for his timely assistance (I've been a 1-man army for too long), and to all our patient readers.