http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/ Keep up to date with the latest news and information about UsingEnglish.com including new content, features and updates. en-us 2006-12-03T21:48:08+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/12/03/whats_hot_for_members.html Just a quick note to say that we've just added a new area to our Members' Area. It shows statistics about what our members have been looking at, allowing you to see the most popular Members' Area content.... Site Content Red5 2006-12-03T21:48:08+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/11/29/upgrade_complete.html The recent upgrade to our servers is complete, and it was completed (technically) without a hitch. However, there were some problems with some people who were using our forum at the time losing posts. Thankfully this was a temporary problem... General Red5 2006-11-29T09:58:06+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/11/26/server_upgrade_downtime_predicted.html If all goes to plan, we will be upgrading our server to a new and more powerful machine this evening. Our hosts have agreed to perform the upgrade and 03:00 tonight (I'm guessing that is GMT). We do not expect... General Red5 2006-11-26T12:55:08+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/11/10/new_testing_section_reading_comprehension.html We have just released a brand new Reading Comprehension section. This area contains a selection of text-based reading comprehension exercises, many of which are based on ESL examination questions including Cambridge ESOL, TOEFL, IELTS and other major exams.... Site Content Red5 2006-11-10T12:10:13+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/08/22/new_site_updates_for_the_new_academic_year.html We have made a number of improvements to UsingEnglish.com over the last few weeks, some of which have gone unannounced. This is a summary of the main areas which we've added to or updated recently.... Site Content Red5 2006-08-22T19:41:59+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/08/11/in_with_the_new.html We have just created a What's New area on UsingEnglish.com which allows you to access all of the latest content added to the site. You can view the new content by category or over time. See: http://www.usingenglish.com/whats-new.html... Site Content Red5 2006-08-11T00:26:47+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/07/26/site_rss_subscription_changes.html Following the tradition of a million other blogs on the net, we're going to be switching our blog and forum RSS subscription format to FeedBurner. This will make the feeds more accessible to the wide variety of readers out there... Site Content Red5 2006-07-26T11:38:34+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/06/05/upgraded_esl_web_directory.html We have just upgraded and rebranded our ESL Web Directory, which now allows you to review sites and keep a personal list of bookmarks for your favourite sites. You can also subscribe to update newsletters for the whole directory, or... Site Content Red5 2006-06-05T22:09:31+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/05/13/now_you_see_us_now_you_dont.html Anyone who has been a regular user of UsingEnglish.com over the last few months will be aware that we've had more than our fair share of server downtime recently. To address the needs of our ever-increasing user base, we have... General Red5 2006-05-13T14:31:39+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/03/31/major_update_to_phrasal_verbs.html The last couple of days have seen a massive change to the phrasal verbs reference area. Along with a new tabbed interface and improved navigation, we've updated the design of the pages and added loads of new features!... Site Content Red5 2006-03-31T19:54:58+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/03/25/quiz_results_updated.html New features in the quiz results pages allow you to view relevant grammar topics and other similar quizzes. New features include: Categorised into grammatical topics Links to related glossary items Links to related quizzes... Site Content Red5 2006-03-25T15:09:25+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/03/24/members_text_analyser_update.html We've just added a 'Word Frequency Cloud' to the advanced text analyser. The word frequency cloud shows each word in a bigger or smaller text size, depending on how many times it is found in the text. The bigger the... Site Content Red5 2006-03-24T14:25:21+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/03/16/revamped_glossary_area.html We have just made a new version of the UsingEnglish.com glossary live. New features include: Fully databased glossary Categorised into grammatical topics Links to related glossary items from the same topic Links to related quizzes... Site Content Red5 2006-03-16T15:03:15+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/03/10/site_downtime_9th_march.html During the day yesterday, Thursday 9th March, UsingEnglish.com suffered from a huge traffic load which resulted in our entire server crashing. As a result, the site was unavailable from about 13:00 GMT to about 23:00 GMT.... General Red5 2006-03-10T09:15:16+00:00 http://www.usingenglish.com/diary/2006/02/28/server_upgrade.html Due to the fact that UsingEnglish.com seems to keep growing and growing, it has been necessary to upgrade our site's hosting package. This has meant that I've been busy this month ensuring that the upgrade went without a hitch.... General Red5 2006-02-28T14:09:34+00:00