Everything Ulster - Election 2005

Welcome to Everything Ulster's Election 2005 mini-site. Everything Ulster is a news blog run by me, Beano, a simple Belfast man, in my spare time. The site began with a view to covering the Westminster (and local government) elections in Northern Ireland in 2005.

Everything Ulster has now grown beyond that, and as part of this process, I've registered the domain EverythingUlster.com - and that's where you'll find the main site with all today's news.

The Election 2005 site is being kept online as an archive for posterity and if all goes to plan this will be the last post made in it. So for all your Northern Ireland Election needs, hunt through the stories here (there's a search button on the left) and for up to date news from my wee country, check out the Everything Ulster home page at www.EverythingUlster.com.

Everything Ulster's Election 2005 coverage comes to an official end today with the launch of the new site at www.EverythingUlster.com where I've just set up a new hosting account.

At the new site, Everything Ulster will continue be a home for my own personal slant on happenings in Northern Ireland and I hope the site continues to grow the way it has done up until now. I couldn't have done it without the support of the commentators, so a big 'Thank you' to everyone who has contributed so far. I'll see you all at the new site.

It's been an interesting experience for me, this election. Despite the decline of the Ulster Unionists, it hasn't been an unmitigated disaster. I've learned quite a lot about blogging and about the different candidates through the Westminster Focus posts, taking a look at each constituency in turn.

I always said that once the election was over I'd continue and try to maybe grow the site. In that spirit, I'll be relaunching it and all the Election 2005 posts (any post up to now) will be moved, so you'll need to update your bookmarks. There'll also be new RSS feeds for the new site.

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USERS who view Everything Ulster through the Firefox web browser can now get instant access to a list of our recent comments, as well as recent posts.

I'm still working out how blogs in general and sepcifically the open-source b2evolution software, used at EverythingUlster.com, operate. These RSS/Atom feeds have always been available through links on the right hand side of the site, but now you can access them through Firefox directly using this icon, which can be found at the right hand side of the status bar at the bottom of the browser window. (see Note)

Users can choose from RSS 2 and the new Atom technology for syndicating either EU Comments or the EverythingUlster blog itself (ie our recent posts).

Let me know if any of you find this feature useful.

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