About pages which are no longer updated

Over the years, Planet Bods has had a wide range of content. However sometimes we feel the need to close down a particular section.

This may happen for a number of reasons:

  • The section doesn't get enough users to justify the effort that goes in to it
  • The section gets superceeded in some way and no longer becomes relevant
  • We like the section but don't feel that we have the time or knowledge to do the content justice and to keep it updated
  • It just doesn't fit in our view of where Planet Bods is going

So every now and then we decide to stop updating a section.

In the past when this would happen, we would probably just delete the content from the server. However we're now intending to leave the sites on our servers but with a highly visible marking to ensure people viewing the page are aware that it is not up to date content. This is what we call mothballing.

Generally we will keep the site looking exactly as it did when we mothballed it - although we may choose to remove some navigational links from the page. All the code is flattened and all releated files moved to a seperate location to ensure changes to the main site don't affect archived content. There may however be some links to non archived pages which may not work or look the same as they did before.

Which sections have been archived, and why?

The following sections have been archived:

The Wise and Sage Words of Tim Westwood
Insufficient time and knowledge in order to keep this site up to date. Plus, to be honest, Westwood does a pretty good job of satirising himself these days
Archived: 27 May 2010
Random Stuff
Collection of stuff mostly code related that had fallen into disrepair. Mostly a time and relevance issue.
Archived: 1 June 2010
The UK's Favourite DJ - The Kevin Greening Story
Since the sad death of Kevin Greening in December 2007, this site has not been updated. It remains online as a tribute to a fantastic broadcaster.
Archived: 4 June 2010
Panpipe Hell
Written by Catherine Redfern, it doesn't really fit in anywhere within the new look Planet Bods.
Archived: 7 June 2010
Are You...
Series of interactive quizzes that passed their peak about 8 years ago. Note - for archiving purposes these pages have been slightly converted to be text only rather than interactive.
Archived: 30 June 2010
The Fancy A Brew Archives
A batch of Radio 1 related Mark and Lard fun and frivolity which has been rather redundant since Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley left Radio 1 in 2004.
Archived: 4 July 2010

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