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Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Sun, 4th December, 2005 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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My website company - MarZ Kreations - have won an international award.
Actualidad International Award 21st Century My hard work, determination and effort that I put in creating and updating the site have resulted in winning an INTERNATIONAL AWARD. Yes, my website have won an international award from Actualidad 21st century, an award giving company leader in publishing and promotions.

The award was given to my FULL website www.marz-kreations.com, (under my company name - MarZ Kreations) where the wild plants website is a section of it. I am very glad and proud about this meritful award. Price includes a 2000 Euros sponsorship.


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Photo Gallery (Sicily 2005)
Nearly hundred photos have been added in the photogallery section about a weekend break holiday in Sicily (Catania, Taormina and Giardini Naxos). It was my surprise birthday present for Malin's birthday (16th Aug)


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PicuMarZ Diary new format
The online diary has been drastically changed into an online forum / message board type, making it much more easy to write entries in it. Registerd members can even comment and reply to the posts. Still have to include photo links which will be done during the rest of this month.


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MaltawildPlants.com forum
My comprehensive website about the Maltese flora have incorporated a new online message Baord forum where anyone can register for free and post any messages, querries, comments, Questions, write articles and opinions with regards the Maltese wildlife and environment with special concern to its flora. This is the first online forum in Malta about the Maltese Environment. Several important members like HC Weber (German botanist) and local botanists / Unv lecturers are on this forum.


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Other small updates

Few Amstrad CPC games have been added in the Amstrad Games section

The consumer complaints section has been removed. This might be re-introduced in the PicuMarz Forum as an own Topic.

8 plant profiles have been introduced in the database from the last update. These are: Smilax aspera, Periploca angustifolia, Clematis cirrhosa, Dittrichia viscosa, Ciliadenus bocconei, Xanthium strumarium, Chrozophoro tinctoria, Kickxia spuria, Ballota nigra



Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Sat, 6th August, 2005 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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News 1
11 months from the last update have passed and there have been some new stuff in the site (read below) but as you can assume not much work have dedicated to the web site for a period of 11 months. This is because this year (October 2004 - June 2005) I have been doing a course at the University of Malta, (Diploma in Agriculture) and I dedicated most of my time in this course. Additionally I had to organise my wedding in Finland which took place on the 25th of June in Jakobstad, Finland. These important activities left little time available to work on this web site.


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News 2
Marz-kreations.com changes again web hosting provider. After a year with mammothdata.com (a satisfactory service with little downtime) now my site switched to midphase.com which offers more webspace and a cheaper price. Hope this webhosting company keep its good reputation that it has from its clients.


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My Wedding
I and Malin Hagglund have got married on the 25th of June in Pedersore church, Jakobstad, Finland. There is now a dedicated page to our wedding including 100 photos from the fabolous event and information about the other wedding ceremony that is going to take place in Malta on the 9th of October.


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Photo Galleries
Hundreds of photos have been added in the photogallery section including photos from mine and my wife's wedding vacation in Finland, and photos from our honey moon in Tallinn (Estonia), Saaremaa (Estonia) and Riga (Latvia). As usual each photo have a comprehensive explaining text, and can be view in large format (about 2 Mp resolution).


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TV Cartoon Music
This Cartoons Music section was updated by adding more music tunes, now adding up to 90 tunes in CD-quality MP3 music files all freely downladable


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Wild Plants of Malta
Most of the free time I had available for the website was undoubtfully dedicated to this professional website about the Wild plants of Malta. You can see the updates of this site in the site's news section


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The PicuMarz Diary
Although some few entries have been added in our online diary, this section is temporarily not further updated due to lack of time. It was becoming a very interesting section with writing about our life, but time is limited.


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Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Mon, 30th August, 2004 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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Note 1
30th of August means the birthdate of my marz-kreations.com site, which was born on the 30/8/2002, thus today my site is exactly 2 years old.


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Note 2
It passed about 6 months from the last official update in February, but it does not mean that no progress have been done on the website during this period. I had very little free time available lately and did not had enough time to write any update information in this page. Finally now I will give a summary of all new things added up in these 6 months.


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Note 3
The update notification email service has been stopped for the moment because many users have quarreled that they do not like that there email addrss is included in list of all addresses (about 200) that the single notification email will contain in the rend to line. This is becasue of spam and privacy issues which I comprehend perfectly. However, I may use special software later on which send notification emails to subscribed users one by one automatically (one email per user for all users), so you can still subscribe for the upgrade notification email.


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Walk around the coast of Gozo
One of the most beautiful and detailed photogalleries that has been made on the Photo section of this website is that about a walk that I, my girlfriend and my my friends have made around one 3 of the perimeter of the island of Gozo in March. Several wonderful pages from the coastline and countryside of East part of Gozo during spring from Honoq ir-Rummien to Marsalforn. As usual there is descriptive text for every photo, plus an indication on the Gozitan map where the photos are taken from.


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Holiday at Sweden and Finland
2 new photogalleries have been made one showing photos taken during my vacation in the 4th largest city of Sweden - Uppsala and another photogallery during my holiday at my girlfriends' parents in the village of Bennas (Finland), also including photos form the nearby villages and towns, namely Jakobstad, Kokkola, Vasa, and Larsmo. All taken during Summer 2004 (Jun and Aug).


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Photogallery of the feast of Saint George at Qormi
This is another new photogallery taken during the local village feast of Saint George at one of the oldest yet largest villages of malta, that is Hal-Qormi. The feast is celebrated every last sunday of the month of June. Here you find photos form the magnificent and richly decorated church, the atmosphere in the fancy-lighted streets, and many photos of traditional fireworks, including ground fireworks that this feast is famoous for.


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Wild Plants of the Maltese Islands
There have been much work on this section and you can read all the latest update news on a dedicated page [click here]. About 15 more plant profiles have been added up and so giving a total of 41 plants now.


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Photos from Malta
More photos were included in the photogallery, "Photos from Malta" and now it is full up with 100 photos (maximum capacity for a photo gallery). But do not worrry, a new photogallery (Photos from Mlata - prt2) with more wonderful photos about the Maltese Islands will be opened up soon.



Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Sun, 29th Feb 2004 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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NEW Section - The PicuMarZ Diary, Online
A new section of this always growing site has today been launched. It is called the PicuMarZ Diary, which basically is an online diary of me (Marz) and my Girlfriend (Picu). The diary is not just read only based, but visitors can include their comments / feedback etc which will be placed with the original post. It resembles much like a forum. The diary is not limited only to the events that happen to our life. There are further sub-sections called my old diary (old diary from 1990-2000), Reviews (my reviews on tested products and services), Ideas and tips (everyday use idea which might be useful to you). All sections are interactive and you can say your opinion / comment about the postings present.


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More Photos in the Photo Galleries
There have been added more high resolution photos in the following Photogalleries; My Personal and family album and Photos from Malta The new photos added up are recentely taken during January/February.


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Search text in my site
as you may have noted, there is a search engin at the introduction section of the main page where one can input keywords to be found in the whole site only, not other external sites. It is a very efficient way to find something in the site which is growing vast every update.


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The GuestMap
Apart from the popular Guestbook, I have added up a similar feature called "GuestMap". Instead of signing and submiting a message in a text only webpage , one can now stick on it a sort of a flag or icon on his country/location and also include his/her comments there. Now when you click "Gustbook" you have the choice of either signing the traditional Guestbook or trying out the revolutionary(!) the GuestMap (or both of course :-) )


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Wild Plants of the Maltese Islands
There have been much work on this section and you can read all the latest update news on a dedicated page [click here]


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Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Thu, 18th Dec, 2003 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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More Cartoons Title Songs
Unfortunately not much have been done on the site from next update, since I spent most of the time updateing my other website (section) about Malta Wild plants. However thanks to a work mate from Gozo named Simone, I added about 30 to 40 new cartoons title songs in the Nostalgia section. She lent me 5 old tapes of Christina D'Avena compilations (called FiveLandia) and I converted most of the tunes to mp3 so that I can include them in the song list. At the moment there are no lyrics or cartoon photos of the new tunes, but I will work on that later on


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Malta WIld Plants
I have spent most of the time working on this project and you can see detailed news and updates in a dedicated news page about www.maltawildplants.com. About 5 new plants have been added up



Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Fri, 31st Oct, 2003 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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The site changes again web hosting company
Huh! so after swapping rom the closing FeaturePrice.com to the promising Atlantic.net as my webhosting provider just 2 months ago, I just had to make a similar move. Believe it or not, I joined back with FeaturePrice after they have communicated that they opened up again their business last August. It resulted that atlantic.net where not giving me the service I expected (slow servers, hopeless customer care, not many features and control over the site, etc) and their price of 32USD/month is not worthy. FeaturePrice on the other hand, had fast servers, wonderful control panel with lots of control and features, incredibly fast and efficient custumer care and at a price of 17USD / month. Additionally they offered ex-members 4months free of charge to compensate for the time of close own between Apr-Aug. So now I am happy back with my 'first love' webhosting comany - FeaturePrice for the next year. Due this translocation, the site was down between 12 - 23 October. Sorry for any inconvenience.


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Malta Wild Plants
Well this update is mostly dedicated to the Malta WIld Plants section, since on the 31st of October (today) it has its first year birthday. Here is the list of updates and improvement occured on this section:

  1. The section has a dedicated domain - www.maltawildplants.com


  2. A new page has been created. It is an update page which gathers all updates, new plant entries and news about this section (which is considered as a site on its own now). The page also contains some statistics and versetile menu navigation.


  3. The wild plants main page has been improved considerably in appearance due to implementation of graphics and cleaner layout. All other pages (comments, references, glossary, etc) has also been slightly improved.


  4. The 'small/crappy' fonts problem has been solved for all pages, and now all plant profiles can be clearly seen on any PC configuration. I received some complaints regards this matter and finally it is solved.


  5. The Meta tags has been updated and modified for every profile to give a better description. Previosuly all meta tags of all pages were identical.


  6. Site was submited to some more sarch engines


  7. A new comment about the section was received from Sweden


  8. Last but not least a new plant profile has been introduced. The plant name is

    Aster squamatus (Narrow leaved Aster) and is part of the Asteraceae family. It contains a nearly 40 high resolution photos



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New Photo Gallery
A new photogallery has been created in the Photos section. It regards the 4 day holiday that I and Malin went in Gozo last September (7th - 12th) Many beautiful photos especially of the beaches and sandy bays we went to bath. There is also for the first time in a gallery some movie clips.


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Short ones

Home Page :    There were some improvements in the home page, namely the news section. There is one column of news (not any more local and personal) and news were updated accordingly. New text was added in the 'about the author part' and the html code was improved too.
GuestBook :    The guestbook introduction page has a cute animated icon. One must click this icon to enter the Guestbook.
CPC Game :    A new Amstrad game was included in the CPC games on request from a visitor. The game is Winter Games.
Meta tags :    Several meta tags were changed so that the describe the corresponding page more precisely.



Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Fri, 29th Aug, 2003 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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My Website has its 1 year Birthday
Yes, its already 1 year that has passed from the official launch of my website, on the 30th August 2002. You can view all the history of updates to the site by scrolling down this page. As a birthday present I coded a totally new, colourful, interactive, animated site-menu-index which is found at the home page. It was really tough work to program it, but finally it is finished. It is really cool and makes the navigation to the whole site more easy. For the next year I am willing to add more new sections and updates to my site, depending on time and motivation, which comes from emails and signing of the GuestBook from you visitors of Marz-Kreations. I would like to thank everyone who supported this site, especially those who contributed by sending emails, signing guest book, reporting bad/broken links and filling out feedback forms.



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My Website changes Hosting Company
I am very sorry for interruption of my website on-line between 01st - 10thJuly. To keep it short and simple, my previous web hosting company - Feature Price - closed down permanently all its services without any notice and so my website was no more online. I immediately took action and had to buy a new one year web hosting service from another US company, this time from Atlantic.net. A one year service costed 406 USD. I also lost 2 months service that I paid for Feature Price (since that account expires on 23 Aug 2003). So if there are any sponsors for this site please contact me ! I hope everything goes fine with Atlantic.net - their customer support is already hopeless - I never got a reply to my emails!



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2 new large Photo-galleries
This update took quite some long time mainly becasue my 3 week holidays. From 9th to 24th June I was with my girlfriend at her and her parents place in Bennas / Finland. So one of the most important updates is 2 photo galleries of a total of 150 photos about this holiday in Bennas, Larsmo, Jakobstad, Vaasa (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden). The next week I and my girlfriend came together to Malta and we spent it together relaxed at the beaches and having fun around around Malta.



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Conversation of two photo galleries to the new design and layout
Two other photo galleries were updated and converted from the old to the new and much better design. Quite lot of hard boring work indeed! The photo galleries modified are that of Sicily and that of Prague. Apart from being modified, there are more photo included (6 to 22 for Sicily and 25 to 55 for Prague) and all the photo were rescanned in better resolution.



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Maltese Wild Plants
The head of the Biology department of the High Junior College, Mr. Joseph DeGiovanni, and a Univ. lecturer in Environmental Sciences in Malta, Sandro Lanfranco have personally congratulated me for my excellent work regards my project of the on-line database of Maltese Wild Plants. I have been really excited and uplifted after I read his comments. You can read their comments here or from the guest book

There are two new plant profiles for this update. These took intensive work, and I must that they came really good, including detailed info, and great photos. The plants species that I added in the database are: Heliotropium europeum (common heliotrope / Vanilja bajda) and Conyza bonariensis (Flax-leaved fleabane / Zaghzigha salvagga). Now there are 18 plants in the database - still not much, but we are on the good way.

Also in the WildPlants section there have been modifications and updates in the following plants; Glebionis (Chyrsanthemum) coronaria, Convolvulus arvensis, and Diplotxis tenuifolia. Such updates include mainly addition of new pictures, such as those of pollen. There was also an update of a species name and now the flower which previously was referred to as Chrysanthemum coronarium is now appropriately named as Glebionis coronaria (Thanks to Sandro Lanfranco for this info!)



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Short Ones

1)The Home Page, Information about myself page, and several pages in the Maltese wild plants profiles were revised and corrected for bad links and errors.

2) In the Humor page, a new entry (no.25) was added in the list


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Cartoon Movies Title Songs JukeBox
Another new sub-section in the Nostalgia Section is again a Song JukeBox. This time it is a collection of title Songs of Italien Cartoon Movies (known as Cartoni Animati) which I used to see back in the 1980s. These songs are really of great Nostalgia for my ears!!! I may had between 7 - 16 years when I used to see these movies on the Italian channels. There are about 50 downloadable songs in mp3 format (about 180Mbytes of songs), together with the song artist names, and lyrics of almost all songs in a popup windows so that fans can sing along the song. They are in Italian of course. Additionally there are picture and even movie clips of the cartoons to refresh one's memory !!! This part is dedicated to Rosann Zammit and Karen Muscat who I know they will love it!!!



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Eurovision Song Festival Songs
Well, it seems that it is all about music in this update!!! In the News section (found in the main Homepage), there are 7 songs which represent their corresponding countries in the Eurovision song Festival 2003 held in Riga / Latvia. There are the first 5 placed songs, together with that of Iceland (8th) and Malta (24th). Photos of the corresponding singer / group are also included.



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Maltese Wild Plants
A new plant profile has been added in the Maltese wild plant database project. The plant which was added in is the bladder campion (Silene vulgaris) which makes part of the Pink family (Cryophyllaceae) .



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Short Ones

1) In the Utilities section, The music player Deliplayer is updated from V1.3 to V2.01

2) In the Humor page, a new entry (no.24) was added in the list

3) Two full service manuals - the Hitachi VT130 Video recorder and the Sanyo ED0 TV Chassis were added in the service manuals list of the Electronics Section

4) In the News part of the HomePage, old news are shown as links. When clicked, a popup window comes up and shows detaiils of the corresponding event.

5) There is now a sweet little tune playing in the home page. To control the music go at the bottom of the page to access music controls.


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Home page:
Included top index menu, graphical animations, graphical dividers, Go to Top feature, Maltese flying flag, some more general graphics, new and more adequate colours and finally a new section concerning about general news and news about myself.



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Friends Section:
Included a menu index with many animated buttons and coloured links per every page, rescanned some photos which were a bit low on resolution, added some input fields in the submit form, included animated country flags for foreign friends and city coat of arms for local friends, added some photos and included two more friends in the list.



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Maltese Literature:
A new Maltese poem writer has been included in the Maltese literature section. She is Amiee Fenech from Mellieha aged 17, and there are 6 of her works included in the site. She is really intelligent and talented person, and I liked her poems which are very professionally written. Now there are 3 authors in this 'new baby' section. If more authors submit their work this will also become a Section on its own.



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Photo Gallery:
Malin have just sent me some of her photos by email during her 1 month visit in Malta, last February 2003. I just added them in the respective photo section. Click here to have a look (see photos 15-19)



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Humour Page:
The humour page is getting so much popular and visited that now it has become as an independant NEW SECTION for its own instead a new-trial (baby) section. About 5 more jokes has been added in, with special attention to the quotes claimed by the ex-Iraqi information Minister - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf to the media and press during the Iraqi War. He is really funny - have a look



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Amstrad CPC Page:
About 100 games has been added in the list mostly starting with letter A and B. Some people requested games (by using the from found in the CPC page) and most of them have been 'served'. On game which was really a hit and was not in the list is Fruity Frank. Now it is there thanks to a request from a girl from Slovenia.



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Maltese Wild Plants:
Only one plant has been added in the Wild Plant Database for this update. I haev been very busy with electronics repair for this period and I was a bit low on motivation on this project too. Anyway, the very interesting plant especially for its medical and drug uses is included in. This is the plant - Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum).




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My website changed server
This update took 2 months, which is quite long compared with the other updates which took about 5 weeks. The reason was partly becasue my girlfriend from Finland spent the month of February living with me, but mainly becasue my web site hosters changed the server. In poor words I had to transfer all the web site contents (over 450Mb of files) from one server to another. Then there were lots of problems, settings, and incompatibilities to look after and this took lots of time, coffee and headache pills. Finally, everything is running smooth now and if you notice a bad link or something strange or missing please email me (via contacts page or simply fill the form at the left of this page.



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Photos from month of February 2003 with my girlfriend Malin
This is a rather small photogallery during the 1 month holiday/visit of my girlfriend Malin in Malta. The gallery is small (just 14 pics) simply becasue the weather was really bad most of the month and it was not adequate to take photos or worse to go out. However some days were fine and we went to many beautiful sites like Laferla cross, Gozo, Chadwick lakes, Ghajn Tuffieha, etc.   Click here to visit this Photo Gallery



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Photo Section changed look and style - Part 2
As stated in the last update, the photo gallery section has changed to a better appearance and layout. In last update, 2 galleries were converted to the new look, and in this update a refurbishment was done on the following 2 galleries :-
My personal/family photo album.
Malin's first visit in Malta, - Sep 2002.
Now there are 4 out of 9 galleries to be changed into the new style and look.



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WIild Plants Section

(1)   Three new wild plant profiles has been added in my online wild plants database :

(2)    I have included a descriptive document of the work involved in making a plant profile, explaining what is done in every part and roughly the time taken for each part.(click here to read)

3)   Added some photos in the plant profiles of the crown dasiy and common poppy.



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Short Ones

1) All photos in the photo gallery were credited with my name and site name, so that if someone use any photo in his site, at least there will be my credits enbedded in the photo. This stask really took lots of boring work.

2) Added hit counters in all photo gallery pages and wild plant profiles

3) Fixed some broken links, some reported by you visitors

4) Bought a domain called www.stephen-mifsud.com which points to this site (marz-kreations.com)


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Photos from my Xmas Holidays in Bennas (Finland)
The most awaited photo album of my last holiday in Finland are finally on-line in the photo sections. There are 70 photos from this wonderful 2 weeks holiday in the land of Santa Claus, full of snow, good cakes and food, and nice warm people. I spent few days in Marsta were I visited Stockholm and Sigtuna (Sweden) and then nearly 2 weeks in Bennas were I spent Xmas and New year with my girlfriend - Malin - together with her friends and family. Click here to visit PhotoAlbum



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Photo Section changed look and style
I worked very much on the photo section to enhance the look since it had some problems. There are the following changes:

  • There photos are shown as thumbnails ( instead the actual large photo), and one can click it to enlarge the desired photo.

  • More neat text description of the photo, no more cramped text beside the photo

  • Each page holds 10 photos instead 5

  • Since thumbnails are used, the photo page loads faster and this is surely appreciated by slow connection internet users

  • Album pages at the top are now graphical displayed instead of text.

  • The whole page is more attractive, neat and easy to navigate


Unfortunately only 2 of the 8 albums has been refurbished (The Photos from Malta and the Xmas Holiday in Bennas 2002), the other albums will be done later on.



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Wild Plants in Malta also changed looks
The Botanical data section of the wildplants pages has been redesigned so that the information is much more compact, neat, a more professionally displayed. All the flower datasheets has been given the new design. You can look for such an example by clicking here!!! Now data is presented over 3 0r 4 colums across rather line by line, and so more info can be seen on the screen, and the page gets considerably shorter.



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2 Wildplants datasheets added
Since my work was mainly based on redesigning the site, I did not have plenty of time to include many wild plants. However here are 2 datasheets of the following interesting plants:

       (1)   Bermuda Buttercup (haxixa ingliza)
       (2)   White Mustard



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Glossary for terms used in Botany (Wild Plants Section)
I have made a Glossary page in the Wild Plants Section with description of botanical terms. Now one can easily find out what a botanical term means. The link is found in the Main Page of the Wild Plants Section



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Required Fonts online
I found out that many people will suffer from ugly fonts or very small fonts simply because they do not have installed the same fonts I designed the webpages with in their PC. So now I have placed a useful feature were you can download and install the fonts on your PC to view properly the whole site. The operation is very easy and done only once. In addition the installed fonts (about 1 dozen) can be used in your application for example in Words. There are 2 packages of Fonts (both should be installed)

Read installation instructions

Pack 1 : General fonts used in most of the pages of the site    (click to install right now)
(link found in the requirments part of the home page)

Pack 2 : Fonts used in the Wild Plants online database section     (click to install right now)
(link found in the main page of the Wild Plants Section)



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Short Ones

1) Pictures of pollen of some flowers were photographed under the microscope at the Lab were I work. The microscope is not equiped with camera, so I had to make photos directly from the eyepiece. In otherwords, dont expect clear photo quality White Mustard, Sweet Alysum, And Crown Dasiy are the flowers which their pollen has been photoraphed '.

2) The photo album links in the Photo section main page has been changed into a table form with better graphics, neater display and also now there is a counter to indicate how much photos are there in every alum.

3) There is a new part in the Home Page called Requirments, were it describes all you need to have and do so that you view my website in good quality and 'shape'




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M.L.S. Graduation Meal Photos
A little sweet page I made for an event that I liked very much. My friends graduated from their course (B.Sc in Medical Lab Science) and part of their celebrations was a wonderful meal at one of the top restaurants in Malta - The Hilton. Although I did not made this course they invited me as well. In this page you find a collection of photos amd a small video clip. More photos to come and added in. This link is also found at the bottom of the home page (click here to see where)


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Ramon's Wedding Photos
Another sweet ocassion which was held this month and which I enjoyed very much was the wedding ceremony of one of my best friends - Ramon Muscat. In this page you find some photos during the ceremony, and also some of my friends who were invited. This link is also found at the bottom of the home page (click here to see where).


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New Web Counters
3 web counters are added in the site and are found in the following sections / pages: Malta Wild Flowers Index, MLS Celebration Meal photos, Maltese Literature. Now there is a total of 15 webcounters in my site! Note that the webcounters are per guest visit, not by hit. Hence if in one session, you jump in the page 10 times, the count is added only once.


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Maltese Web Ring
One popular system where your site can be distributed around on the internet is the Web Site Ring. One special group of the global Web-Ring is Malta Web ring which contains a list of sites made by maltese people, or sites which concerns Malta. You can have an idea how it works by visiting the very bottom page of the following pages: HomePage, CPC Page, Maltese Wild Plants Index and Customer complaints. More to be added soon.


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Maltese Wild Flowering Plants Database
3 new species of flowering plants have been added on the online database of Maltese wild flowering plants found in my web site. Work has been quite slow these weeks since I had very little free time. Such a project requires to be full time and full dedicated to it. with time the database will get bigger. The plants included are: Lobularia maritima (Sweet alison), Brassica rapa spp. silvestris (Wild Turnip) and Diplotaxis tenuifolia (Perennial Wall Rocket)


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Short Ones

1) A new friend - Bernardett Balazs from Hungary - was added in 'My friends section'.

2) On request of Conrad Costa, some new Amstrad CPC Game Disk images (.dsk) were added in the Amstrad CPC computer emulator page. He requested games like Gryzor, Harrier Attack, GunFright, Rambo, Rick Dangerous, Predator, etc. Well I just added these and another 40 new games, many starting with letter P and I. If you have a request just fill the form found in the CPC page and they will be included in the next update. Thanks Conrad for your response!!




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NEW SECTION: WIld Flowering Plants of the Maltese Islands
Now the the rainy months started, and our landscapes will be filled with wild plants and flowers, I decided to accelerate my work on this new section concerning wild plants in Malta. It is an online database of various flowering plants which grows naturally in Malta icncluding plant nomenclature, botanical data, description, additional information (eg: medicinal uses), photo gallery, pH Indicator properties of the flower extract, and related links. At the moment just 2 flowers included but more will be added within the next update. If someone sponsor this project, I will accalerate the work! Any offers? To my concern, this is the most professional and informative page regards Maltese wild plants on the internet.


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Customer Complaints- New Entry
Finally, a complaint is submitted in this section regarding your (an mine) complaints concerning services, shops, products etc in Malta. I encourage everyone to send theor complaints here. The more there are the more powerful thissection will be.


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My site on Search Engines
In this update, most pages of my site were included metatags. What are metatags? These are special internet codes which allow search engines to find my homesite pages. Up to now, if you search marz on yahoo, nothing is resulted, but within few processing days, the contents of my website could be reulted on various search engines like yahoo, hotbot, google, etc.


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Short Ones

1) A new friend is included in my Friends Section. He is Christopher Borg, an old good friend from my neighbourhood

2) Two new jokes/files are added in the humour section

3) Corrections were made to several pages rported by you visitors, namely in the literature section, photo section, and nostalgia - pics of the past


Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Sat 28th September, 2002 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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New Photo Gallery - MALIN's HOLIDAY in MALTA
This update took a bit long due to the fact that I invited my penfriend from Finland - Malin - to visit and spend a holiday in Malta. She stayed here between 13 - 23 September and it was a perfect holiday. You can see photos concerning this holiday in a new Photo Gallery found in the Photos section.


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Maltese Literature
A new baby section has been created and it is dedicated to Maltese Literature. It is not just a list of old poems of our brave and famous Maltese anthem authors, but it is more aimed to publish poems of new and young authors, who may have not enough media power to distribute and spread their talent to the Maltese readers. The first author found in this section is Carmel Scicluna, but more authors are to be included during the following months. I also decided to start writing my own poems, so you should soon find some poems there. The link for this new section is found in the "Other cool stuff and baby sections" at the bottom of the Home page.


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New Photos in MALTA PHOTO GALLERY
About 10 to 12 photos are added in the Photos from Malta photo gallery, which include our nice blue/green beaches, panormaic views, and village feasts.


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800 x 6000 screen resolution compatibility
Some pages appeared to be too large for people who use a screen resolution of 800 x 600 pixels. For example this page will not fit horizontally in such small screens. This Website is designed to be viewed on at least 1024 x 768 screen reolution. Some pages, like the photo galleries cannot be reduced to 800 x 600 as this could mean reducing the size of the photos, but there has been made improvement on many other pages, so that they fit in such screens. These include the Homepage, the Friends section, and some pages in the Chemistry section. However it is recommended that you change the screen resolution to 1024 x 768 by clicking right mouse button in your desktop, select properties, click on the settings bar (far right) and change the slider in the screen area to 1024 x 768, then click apply.


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Short Ones

1) Included a new friend - CARMEL SCICLUNA - in the Friends from Malta section

2) Changed Malin's photo (in the Friends from abroad section) to a more recent one. The previous one was taken about 6 years ago, while this one was taken in June 2002

3) Fixed bad links in the Customer complaints pages, Humour page, and PhotoGalleries main page. Big THANKS to those users who reported them to me. You can report a bad link from this Update Page. At the left side column of this page, there is a part dedicated to Submit Suggestions, bad links, future improvements, etc.. It requires just a couple of clicks needed to submit something wrong, or a suggestion.


Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Sat 31st August, 2002 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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Web Counters
Finally I placed some nice web counters which counts the actual number of individual visits per session. Hence if someone go back to the home page, 5 times, it will be counted as one unless he disconnects from the internet and re-enters later. Some counters cheet becasue they count the number of hits per page, and that does not indicate the true number of visitors. I placed Web counters in the home page, site update page and the 9 main sections available. Theae Webcounters are provided by Bravenet


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Humor, Weird, Amazing Scary, etc... Data file Page
This is a new baby section which contains several files which are either humoristic/ funny, scary, real, amazing or weird in content. EG: Comics, funny slideshows, TwinTowers attack pics, Reral plane crashing to ground, etc etc. This page can be reached from the home page under the section "other cool stuff and baby sections" at the bottom of the page. If this baby section gets poular and larger, it will become a new section on its own.


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Photo Updates
Changed photos of some of my friends with more recent ones. These include Kenneth, Ray Grech, Marco Pinto, and Malin. Also ncluded a new friend - Charles Scicluna - and replaced a photo of myself in the first page since the first two photos were quite the same.


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Contacts Page
Added new email address related to my site. For general contacts about the site, you can email me on info@marz-kreations.com, while for the sales section (in the web page "Services") you can contact me by a dedicated emaill address at sales@marz-kreations.com.


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Short ones!
1) Some complained that the backround pics which change colour every different page is annoying. So now the pages of the sections: "My friends", "Photo gallery" and "Nostalgia/oldpics" have a fixed backround in pages of the same subsection. I hope I would not recieve comment that you prefer as they originally were :!)

2) Some reported bad links to go to the Photo Gallery section. The problem was the the bad links were pointing to Photos.html wee the target file was called Photos.htm (not.html). Now it is completely fixed.

3) The main and important links of the site (Contact page, Utils Page, Links Page, Site Updates and News Page, Guestbook Page and My Services Page are displayed as nice green buttons at the start of the Homepage. 4) The Amstrad CPC page layout was enhanced and made neater, and now contains hoover-on-mouse links colour change.



Marz Sun Bullet Update / News Fri, 30th August, 2002 Marz Sun Bullet Update / News


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Official launch of my web site on the internet.
After about 12 months of work, here is finally my web site. It contains 9 main sections (from the 17 planned) which are: Photogallery, My friends, Nostalgia, My Songs, Amstrad CPC, My services, Electronics. Chemistry, and Customer Complaints. The full list of section planned can be seen from the clickable links at the left column. Not included are also other main pages such as the Guest book, Links page, Utilities page, etc and particular pages found on the home page. I hope you enjoy my website and find useful information / datafiles on it.


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What functions work
Recentely I worked a lot on the Page Forms and the Guest book service. Now all forms are functional and you can fill in any form in my site and send it in. The guest book was provided free by a dedicated company called Bravenet. Usually you have to pay to have your guestbook and so I opted for this semi-professional looking guestbook from bravenet. I encourage you to sign up and view my guestbook.


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What does not work!.
Unfortunately, some feutures are yet under progress - these include:
1) The web counter, I will implement the webcounter very soon, because before using cheep web counters, first I want to see what the web-hosting service provider has to offer.
2) File upload facilities. To send me a file or photo, you have to send it as an email attachment for now. When the upload function is available, you have just to select the file and click on send from the website.
3) Direct listening of music from the website pages. To listen music files you have to downlaod the music and then open it with Winamp or your fav music player. Direct listening (streaming) using buffering techniques are not available yet.


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Hints and advices.
If you are first time guest, you may like to follow these steps.
1) Enter your email in the "Automatic Update Notifier" (Top left corner of this page) so that you recieve an email when the site is updated / added new features
2) Sign my Guest book...
3) Visit the utility page and download and install tools which maybe needed to listen/view/open music/Photos/documents files in my website.
4) Explore my Site !!!!!

Feel free to report bugs (from the form found left bottom of this site), feedback, and comments any time. Further down in the home page there might be new pages / features which do not fall in any main section, and so I place them there. Also every page has the title logo bar which contains 7 links to the most needed pages