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TheBahamasWeekly.com New Website about to launch - Mar 10, 2018 - 4:51:55 PM
 Twelve years, 54,300 articles, more than 100,000,000 page views later,
TheBahamasWeekly.com continues delivering fact-based news that you can
count on. It's our pleasure at this juncture to announce the development
of our new and improved website which will provide greater ease of
navigation, and loads of new bells and whistles along with some amazing
new custom designed features unique to TheBahamasWeekly.com.
The new TheBahamasWeekly.com will represent the sum total of more than
four years of development between our hand coding developer and myself
to attain the look and functionality reminiscent, in some regards to a
form of artificial intelligence. While a number of our associates went
the way of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal, we opted for a customized
approach with hand-coded scripts to achieve our personalized...
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TheBahamasWeekly.com, all systems go! - Nov 12, 2012 - 4:31:00 PM
Hiccups
and snags occur from time to time and we had it happen this past
weekend here at TheBahamasWeekly.com. You may have noticed that site
updates did not happen as timely as usual during this past weekend, or
you might have noticed that some article links went to dead pages or
were double posted.
Thankfully our team of IT experts were able to
come through and repair the error to our mysql database and we're now
back on track.
TheBahamasWeekly.com now contains over 24,000
articles and climbing, as we continue in our endeavor to provide
comprehensive data on News and Events related to The Bahamas, as a
matter of fact, a Google search for the words:
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NOTICE: The Bahamas Weekly no longer using the services of Blip.tv for video streaming - Aug 10, 2012 - 10:52:47 AM
In
our efforts to better serve you; please note that we are in the process
of moving our extensive video library that once resided on Blip.tv over
to other servers while we set up our own streaming server. You may ask,
what does this mean? It means that some of our videos which include
interviews with Sir Sean Connery, Johnny Depp, Lenny Kravits, Daryl
Hannah, Andy Murray, Dennis Haysbert and countless others (over 250
videos) might not be viewable for a short period of time.
If you
encounter any videos that don't play or show strange error messages of
some sort please ...
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TBW Video Mini Player on the left column of every page - Jul 4, 2011 - 4:04:25 PM
I know it’s been a while since you’ve heard from me. However, a lot
has transpired
under the hood of TheBahamasWeekly.com since my last article eons ago. At
this point in time I am pleased to highlight one new feature in particular; it
is our new
TBW Mini Video Player on our left column. What’s unique about this
player is that it can be viewed on each and every page of our, more than 15,000 page
website. It’s simple to use and
although it’s in miniature on the left-hand column, you are just a single
click away from viewing video in full screen mode. See our simple 15 second.....
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The Bahamas Weekly - Now more than 10,000 Articles! - May 21, 2010 - 10:11:10 AM
The Bahamas weekly celebrates a major milestone as
we have now exceeded 10,000 articles!
In our endeavor to provide a valuable resource for persons globally seeking information on the Bahamas, The Bahamas Weekly News Team is proud to announce this achievement.
The Mackey - Whachell duo jointly started TheBahamasWeekly.com on January 1, 2006 after departing from the gbweekly domain. We did so to more accurately depict the country that we love and proudly represent.
We invite all persons and organizations with valuable news content, human interest stories and inspiring letters to the editor to write us at info@thebahamasweekly.com; we want to hear from you…the world is waiting!
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The Bahamas Weekly - Over 6,000 Articles & Counting - Jun 4, 2009 - 1:22:26 AM
We’ve been quite busy here at The Bahamas Weekly in our endeavor to provide you with timely updates and a vast database of searchable articles. We are pleased to reveal that we have now exceeded 6,000 articles in our database and counting.
There’s a whole lot going on under the hood as we feverishly work to update our front-end interface to enhance your visit to The Bahamas Weekly. In short order you will be able to join our beta testing, stay tuned!
I should mention that at present we have just added a new
Add This Share button
 widget that enables you to add our content to your
Facebook, twitter, myspace, dig and a myriad of other social websites at the click of your mouse button. You can also forward our articles directly from the article page without having to open an email application. There are a whole lot more features under the Share It button so be sure and check it out!
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Under The Hood of TBW - Webmaster (Dave Mackey)
More than 1600 BIS News Updates and counting - May 13, 2009 - 10:07:57 PM
The Bahamas Weekly is pleased to announce that our database now contains
more than 1600 Bahamas Information Services news updates
and counting
.
This is an invaluable resource for persons of all walks of life, especially students seeking to track the achievements and challenges faced by our leaders as they push arduously forward to take our little but great nation to the next level during these challenging times.
We send kudos to Sharon Turner and the hard working team at BIS for their commitment to getting the news out expeditiously, so that the Bahamian public and the world at large are enlightened as to the maneuvers of ...
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Sitewide Enhancments: RSS feeds for each category & Twitter explained - Apr 22, 2009 - 10:10:19 PM
Having now exceeded
5600 articles and counting...whew! I am pleased to announce two of the exciting new changes that I have made tinkering under the hood of The Bahamas Weekly that will enhance your surfing experience and enable you to have the content you want as you like it. So now here we go:
1.
RSS feed for each category; all fans of The Bahamas Weekly can now subscribe to any of the 89 available categories of their choice (see graphic. Hence, if your interest is purely Sports, you could choose sports if its Bahamas Information Services Updates you could choose that etc.
2. The new buzzword on all the international news networks now is Twitter, twitter, Twitter! What is twitter? Wikipedia defines twitter thusly:....
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TBW Subcribers can now have our articles read to them! - Sep 19, 2007 - 10:53:23 AM
The Bahamas Weekly is pleased to announce the
implementation
of "
Talking Technology" for our news updates subscribers. This means you can click and listen to the article rather than read it.
Below, I explain the simple 2 step procedures to listen to the articles:
1. Click on the small speaker icon at the bottom of the article.
2. When you arrive at the
Talkr page, press "
Listen to this article" button. That's it!
Have a listen to our demo [Read more]. If you are not yet a subscriber to our weekly news updates, be sure and do so now!
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More Than 800 Searchable Articles and Counting... - Thank you - Jun 11, 2007 - 6:46:36 AM
Your Bahamas Weekly news team is proud to announce that there are now more than 800 searchable articles in 57 different categories here on our web site. We offer special thanks to our team of contributors and to our hard working editor as we continue in our untiring efforts to provide positive news updates from The Bahamas. Yes, there is more
Under The Hood
than meets the eye
, that's why we have equipped The Bahamas Weekly with a powerful search engine
to help you locate your particular topic of interest.
Our existence would be short lived without the support of our site sponsors. We send a special thank you to you all. Please have a look on the left column of every page of The Bahamas Weekly to see who they are and click on their logos for more information on their products and services...
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