The site is under constant development. New photos are added almost every week and minor tweaks to the coding are frequent. Only major changes are listed here.

• 20 February 2002: initial Gatwick AvPhotos site set up with Virgin.net freespace
• 21 April 2002: Virgin.net site ran out of (free)space!
• 27 April 2002: New site set up via "OneandOne" with my own domain name "AvPhotosOnline.org"; total 225 photos posted.
• 30 April 2002: Slide-show coding much improved
• 16 June 2002: photos passed the 500 mark
• 04 August 2002: links page added
• 29 September 2002: after much hard work at my laptop while "on holiday" in Phoenix AZ, a major update was installed, consisting of:
  • new main page leading off to Gatwick AvPhotos and AvPhotosOnline
  • new Gatwick AvPhotos and AvPhotosOnline intro pages
  • AvPhotosOnline database and themed slideshow gallery pages - and photos and help pages to go with them
  • AvPhotosOnline links page added - actually a subset of the Gatwick AvPhotos links page
  • Gatwick AvPhotos links page updated a bit
  • Gatwick AvPhotos database - image now viewed simply by clicking on entry - no extra button to click
  • new Gatwick AvPhotos guide to photo locations, accessed from revised Visitors' page
  • this site news page added
  • total photos around 850
• 23 August 2003: nothing much happened in the last year except that the total Gatwick photos have more than doubled. Thanks to Linda Chen and Caz Caswell in particular! The empty members' page has now gone, the visitor's page now hosts the guide to photo-spots and this has been updated to reflect the new building which now obscures the runway from the spectators' terrace.
• 10 July 2005: two years later and not a lot has changed worth reporting, but we're testing some new retro HTML technology combined with "cascading style sheets" to help those whose browsers just won't cooperate with the java applets that operate the menu and cascading links systems - and that includes mine as far as the latter are concerned! I believe the applets no longer work after certain MicroSoft upgrades have been applied, isn't that just wonderful? (the CD on my laptop doesn't work any more for the same reason - MS maintain a stony silence). In the meantime, thanks to Linda and Caz and Paul for helping me bring the total of Gatwick photos online to over 3,500 - that's doubled again from two years ago. And we've recently welcomed Paul Eden, Laurie Berryman and Paul Tricker to the fold giving us a source of historical photos - many taken airside - which should keep us going for years to come - well it makes a change from the endless photos of new Easyjet A319s! But the best bit of news is the upgrade of the webspace to 600 Megabytes at no extra charge, with access to PHP (but not SQL, unfortunately). This should mean we can eventually drop the current system for presenting the galleries which relies on another technology which no longer represents best practice. Airliners.net runs on PHP and if it's good enough for them...
• 18 January 2009: I transferred the site from One&One to Streamline.net, which offered both SQL and unlimited space. A lot of experimenting with PHP and MySQL has resulted in a completely new style of presentation for the gallery in the Gatwick AvPhotos half of the site, which was finally "opened to the public" today and the slideshow page closed down. It's possible that a new slideshow page will appear eventually, but this depends on me finding a suitable applet - so far none I've tried will work for me. We can now show screensize (1024x683 pixel) photos (much better!) and the system for contacting our photographers no longer makes their e-mail addresses available so the pests and spam robots cannot pick them up. The photo viewing system works much like other aviation photo sites, with thumbnails and so on, and there is an opportunity to offer much more information - subject to someone finding the time to put it all together!
• The PHP approach will be extended to the rest of the site eventually, but it's very hard work keeping everything under control during development. The new system should speed the site up considerably for many: the old approach was OK when there weren't many photos, but became slow and unwieldy as numbers grew. 4 years since the last report is a long time. We now have over 7,000 photos on the Gatwick side, while nothing at all has happened on the personal side - alas, no time. New Gatwick contributors include John Spencer and Derek Malt, airside, while new contributors of old photos include Les Allwood, Tony Hamer and John Ede.

Planned:

• Lots! the entire site to be revamped in the style of the new database-driven gallery page. One puzzle is why the colours are blue on my laptop and purple on my desktop monitor. They are supposed to be blue!
• all external links to be fully tested and commented
• selection of themed galleries to be added to Gatwick AvPhotos, as in AvPhotos Online - specially featured will be wrecks and relics, including Gatwick Aviation Museum
• lots more photos and galleries to be added to AvPhotosOnline one day, and the whole thing restyled like Gatwick AvPhotos