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Hi,
Thanks for all the info, it is very difficult trying to get a balance between having most of the featurs found on a forum, but also keeping it simple enough for newbies. I'll try and answering some of the questions, then I'll also add them to the FAQs pages
1. WATW covers all wildlife and environment topics around the world (including the UK), but WAB is just UK
2. WATW and WAB are sister sites in that I setup both of them, but only WAB is a UK charity and we wanted to keep it limited to just British wildlife so the topic didn't become overshadowed by some of the more spectacular foreign wildlife and environment topics etc.
3. The WATW galleries are for all worldwide wildlife and environment images with the best images in the main categories and other images in user galleries.
4. The minimum image sizes were put in because of the ever-growing size of monitors and 10+ megapixel cameras. The old 640x480 size was common on sites 5 years ago, but they only fill a quarter of those most common monitors
5. Attachments should have been switched off because they're not easily searchable. Images should be uploaded to the gallery and linked in the forum using the code under the images
6. EXIF has been kept in the images, but you're right about it being extra luggage, the database tables are massive (nearly 1GB in WAB) so we'll probably remove most of them
7. The links section is just our way of keeping together sites that link back to us and give the chance for them to tell others about their site. All wildlife/environment/outdoor activity sites can submit a link
Essentially, WATW is a place to find out more about the natural world around the world. Post info and questions and talk to people about wildlife and the environment across the planet.
Stu
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