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Site visit statistics

Site visit statistics for 2007.

Visits to the Barnard Microsystems site. Something of a slack month in December.

Rate of growth in the site visits shows two distinct growth regions before and after May 2007.

Most popular pages on the BML web site in December 2007.

Histogram of new items added to this web site by month.

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Comments received on the web site

Here are some purely personal comments we have received in respect of our web site. They do not necessarily reflect the view of the organisations the authors work for, so we have left off the affiliations.

  • Dr. Barnard, great website, definitely very informative and helpful. I have one minor suggestion. Even though the site is laid out very well, it may be beneficial to some "surfers” if there was an integrated search function at the top of the page. Hope all is well and good luck in Grand Challenge 2008. - Michael J. Smith, 23rd January, 2008.
  • "I must say though this is the most interesting site I have seen on UAVs till now." - Jitendra Gurjar, 10th January 2008.
  • "I have looked into your website and I am impressed by the amount and quality of work that yourorganisation has engaged in the domain of advanced UASs." - Sergio Lopriore, 17th December 2007.
  • "As an aside, let me commend you on providing a excellent source of information from your website,..." - Dr Stephen Prior, 4th November, 2007.
  • "Great web site.  I spent ages following the links on the aero engines." - Mike Geen, 21th June 2007.
  • "Can I say how much I enjoyed surfing your web-site. It all looks very interesting." - Tim Simmons, 4th June 2007

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Fonts used: Arial and Calibri

Arial

The Arial font is used in the header of each page, since this is quite a compact font and we need to fit quite a few characters in the top menus.

The following exerpt is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial

Arial, sometimes marketed as Arial MT, is a sans-serif typeface and computer font packaged with Microsoft Windows, other Microsoft software applications, Apple Mac OS X, and many PostScript computer printers. The typeface was designed in 1982 by Robin Nicholas and Patricia Saunders for Monotype Typography.

Arial is also a typeface family comprising standard Arial (Arial Std) and variants, including Arial Black, Bold, Extra Bold, Condensed, Italic, Light, Medium, Monospaced, Narrow, and Rounded.

Embedded in version 3.0 of the OpenType version of Arial is the following description of the typeface:

Contemporary sans serif design, Arial contains more humanist characteristics than many of its predecessors and as such is more in tune with the mood of the last decades of the twentieth century. The overall treatment of curves is softer and fuller than in most industrial style sans serif faces. Terminal strokes are cut on the diagonal which helps to give the face a less mechanical appearance. Arial is an extremely versatile family of typefaces which can be used with equal success for text setting in reports, presentations, magazines etc, and for display use in newspapers, advertising and promotions.

Though nearly identical to Linotype Helvetica in both proportion and weight (see figure), the design of Arial is in fact a variation of Monotype Grotesque,[1] and was designed for IBM's laserxerographic printer.[2] Subtle changes and variations were made to both the letterforms and the spacing between characters, in order to make it more readable on screen and at various resolutions.

Arial was originally known as Sonoran San Serif. It acquired its current name when Microsoft started to include it in Windows.[2]

Calibri

The Calibri font is used in the body of each page since this has become the Microsoft default font.

The following exerpt is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibri

Calibri is a humanist sans-serif typeface family, best known as the new default typeface for the Microsoft Office 2007 suite of applications. It replaces the previous defaults Times New Roman (for Microsoft Word) and Arial (for PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook).

Calibri is one of six new western (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) ClearType Collection typefaces that come with Microsoft Windows Vista and is the first sans-serif type to be designated the default face for the word processing application Microsoft Office Word. Earlier releases of Microsoft Word have consistently used Times New Roman as the default typeface.

Calibri was designed by Lucas de Groot for Microsoft to take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType rendering technology. The typeface won an award in the Type System category at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition in 2005. It includes characters from Latin, Latin extended, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts.

In a survey conducted by researchers at Wichita State University, Calibri was the most popular font for e-mail, instant messaging and PowerPoint presentations. It also ranked highly for use in website text. The survey asked participants to rate images of sample text in various fonts.[1]

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The following are terms of a legal agreement between you and BML.

BML = Barnard Microsystems Limited

By accessing, browsing and/or using this web site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by these terms. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this web site.

Information on this Web site may contain technical inaccuracies, or, typographical errors.

Information may be changed, or, updated, without notice. BML may also make improvements and/or changes to the products and/or the programmes described in this information at any time, without notice.

BML assumes no responsibility regarding the accuracy of the information that is provided on this site and use of such information is at the recipient's own risk.  By furnishing information, BML does not grant any licenses to any copyrights, patents, or, any other intellectual property rights.

Please mark any confidential, or, proprietary information sent by email to BML as such, using the words "CONFIDENTIAL" or "PROPRIETARY," as the first word in the subject field. Please be aware that this information may be intercepted by a third party, since the email link is not a secure link. Additionally, we may be required by law to disclose the information you have sent to us, to a third party.

This service provides links to other Internet sites (the "Sites") sponsored and maintained by third parties. BML is providing such links solely as a convenience to you. Accordingly, BML makes no representations concerning the content of the Sites. The fact that BML has provided a link to the Site does not constitute an endorsement, authorization, sponsorship, or, affiliation by BML, with respect to the Site, its owners, or, its providers. BML has not tested any information, software, or, products found on any of the Sites and therefore does not make any representations with respect thereto, including any representations regarding the content, or, sponsors of the Site, or, the suitability, or, appropriateness of the products, or, transactions described therein.

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