Website updates
What's New?
Version 1.1.14
Join our community and manage your participation.
- A Join us invitation below Upcoming Events on the homepage links to the online participant registration form.
- Redesigned Participant Info brings personal details, participation fee status, paid-until dates, and application skills and interests together.
- Approved participants can pay their first participation fee or renew an expired paid period through the existing secure payment page.
Version 1.1.13
Statute and guidelines in the participant portal.
- Signed-in participants can view and download the current statute, roles and duties, and reenactment safety guidelines.
- A new navigation tab and Quick Access shortcut make the documents easy to find.
Version 1.1.12
Join Anakron through our website.
- A Join us invitation on About Us and a participant registration link in the footer.
- A simpler skills and interests section, welcoming beginners as well as experienced participants.
- Multiple private document uploads for licences and food certificates.
Version 1.1.11
Participant registration for administrator review.
- A registration form with relevant questions for skills, licences, food roles, health and transport.
- Separate optional media and newsletter choices, with protected application documents.
- Applications remain drafts until reviewed; submitting does not grant military approval or collect payment.
Version 1.1.10
Upcoming events at a glance.
- Automatic event lists on the website and participant portal homepages, with dates, venues and links to full details.
- The next three public events appear below Latest News.
- Participants can see upcoming public and participant-only events, including cancellation and postponement notices, beneath their dashboard.
Version 1.1.9
A consistent look for Events.
- The website Events heading now matches News and Gallery.
- The participant Events page uses the same banner as other portal sections.
- Upcoming and past event buttons are grouped together on both pages.
Version 1.1.8
Clearer event schedules and status updates.
- Separate dates and opening times for each event session, including overnight sessions.
- Time-to-be-announced notices for events or individual sessions.
- Calendar downloads reflect each confirmed session separately.
- More prominent red cancellation and postponement notices.
Version 1.1.7
Events on the website and participant portal.
- Browse upcoming and past events, with dates, venues, photographs and cancellation updates.
- Participants can view private events and preparation instructions after signing in.
- Add upcoming events to Google Calendar or download them for Apple, Outlook and other compatible calendars.
- Calendar downloads include a suggested one-day reminder where supported.
Version 1.1.6
Browse photographs without leaving the story.
- A shared photograph viewer for Explore History articles, News articles and Gallery albums.
- Previous and next controls, an image counter, keyboard navigation and swipe gestures on phones.
- Full photographs displayed without cropping, with captions and credits where available.
Version 1.1.5
A clearer view of Anakron’s activities and participants.
- Refined homepage highlight cards with larger image views and short descriptions.
- Neater participant cards with an automatic slideshow, manual navigation and a pause control.
- Participant profiles open from the whole card, with improved keyboard and mobile navigation.
Version 1.1.4
Explore History: medieval Malta & Europe.
- A new Explore History section for illustrated articles about medieval Malta and Europe.
- Search articles by topic, place or period, and filter by region.
- Readable article pages with image captions, credits and source references.
- Consistent website navigation and footer across the collection and its articles.
Version 1.1.3
Participant Portal page-design and document update.
- Purchase Orders, Participant Invoices and Foundation Finances given a consistent professional design.
- Generated Foundation purchase-order PDFs can now be previewed or downloaded securely.
- Portal navigation reordered and renamed for greater clarity.
- Money in and money out colour-coded, with Foundation finance history limited to 50 entries per page.
- Mobile-only swipe guidance added to wide financial and document tables.
Version 1.1.2
Participant Portal dashboard and navigation update.
- Responsive participant portal navigation with a visible Home button.
- Sales Orders replaced with Foundation Purchase Orders.
- Personalised welcome dashboard with Foundation statistics.
- Quick-access cards and recent financial activity added.
- Mobile layouts and accessible reduced-motion support introduced.
Version 1.1.1
Participant profile presentation update.
- Redesigned participant profiles with a cleaner professional layout.
- Improved photograph, name, role and biography presentation.
- Long biographies can now be scrolled without hiding any text.
- Responsive profile layout added for desktop, tablet and mobile.
Version 1.1
Search-engine and social-sharing optimisation.
- Unique page titles and descriptions for all public sections.
- Canonical URLs and clean homepage links added throughout.
- Facebook, Messenger and social-sharing preview metadata added.
- Organisation and news-article structured data added for search engines.
- Published news articles and gallery albums added to the sitemap.
Version 1.0
Official public launch of the Anakron Living History website.
- Live homepage with an automatically rotating event-photo carousel.
- News archive with full articles, cover photographs and image viewing.
- About, Gallery, Contact Us, FAQ and Participants' Area sections.
- Editable website content, galleries, participants and FAQs through the administrator area.
- Responsive layouts for desktop, tablet and mobile visitors.
