www.ukbutterflies.co.uk

Just a short note to let people know that the web site I've been working on for the past six months is now live. The site is dedicated to the lepidoptera of the Dordogne and the Regional park in the north of the area, which also includes part of the Limousin. The sites address is http://www.leps24.com, if you feel like commenting, please contact me through the site.

Kind regards,

Wayne Fennell

Thanks for the info, Wayne. I'll enjoy browsing your site just as soon as I've got tomorrow's lessons prepared...

Guy

Excellent Site Wanye!
The data base it pretty cool, like that!

Mouse

It looks pretty basic and easy to use, both of which I like. How about some thumbnails in the database? I can instantly relate say Zygaenidae to burnets, but without pictures the more obscure family names are meaningless to me. The thumbnails on UKMoths are an example of how this layout can be really useful : )

Good luck with your project
Alexander

ahh I didn't notice the absences of pictures from your website, I just found it easy to navigate
Mouse

I found it easy enough to navigate, but I would have liked to see some more pictures, there a lack of them there I feel.

Thank you for all of your comments so far, it's nice to hear your views whether positive or negative.
With respect to the number of photos on the site, there are around 250 covering the 186 species on the site at the moment. As I'm a working man and this is just a hobby for me I ask you all to be a little patient, as I'm uploading as many as I can as quickly as I can. It takes quite a time to edit the photographs and write the descriptions in English and French for each species. The really time consuming part comes early next year as I upload all the distribution maps!

Thank's once again,

Wayne

One thing that you might consider is navigation. It think it would be useful if the current "tree" would be visible during database navigation - preferably with the option to return back to any earlier level. Now one only has the option of going back step by step or re-starting from beginning.