Features and Programming still to be sponsored: >1. "Leave a comment" function extension. When clicked the comment-box is highlighted to indicated the space where a comment can be left. 30 mins. = €36 = A$62 = US$56 >2. Chat Activation. The chat feature was programmed into the site some years ago. It's activation has been hampered by usability issues which are now being resolved. 30 minutes = €36 = A$62 = US$56 >3. New picture sizes. "Size-One" conversion work - for the Lead-Article - is already included in the above position. The other new size - for the enlarged column width - will require 1.5 hours implementation 1.5 hours = €108 = A$184 = US$170 >4. Most popular entry feature in the guest book - exceptional rules In the other areas of the site the "most popular entry" list is category specific. i.e. if you are in the landscape photo category then you see the most popular entries from that category in the 3rd (right-hand) column. In the guest book area the "most popular entries" are drawn from all areas of the site. 2 hours = €144 = A$245 = US$226 >5. Bookmark-Button for "Social Bookmarking" (Delicious.com u.a.) 2 hours = €144 = A$245 = US$226 >6. The slide-show feature which is already available to the Administrators for presenting the site will be modified for general use and made visible to the "General User". 2.5 hours = €180 = A$307 = US$283 >7. "Link to page" function which creates a clickable and copyable link-URL 2,5 hours = €180 = A$307 = US$283 >8. New"Top Article" link each "new entry" email which the administrators receive with which they can rank the new entry. If ranked as a "Top Article" this entry can subsequently be used as a leading article at the top of the home page. This leading article is changed automatically once each day from within the pool of articles collected. 2.5 hours = €180 = A$307 = US$283 >9. Sort by: the implementation of the "Most Popular" feature on all the sorting pulldowns on the site (at the moment users can sort by newest first, newest last, alphabetically and by author) 3 hours = €216 = A$368 = US$340 >9. For the function above: a manual selection feature which allows the administrators to force the use of one particular "Top Entry" (e.g.. an Easter entry at Easter). 3 hours = €216 = A$369 = US$340 >10. "Favourite"-feature: internal favourite list for each individual user so they can easily find articles they've tagged as their favourites. 3.5 hours = €252 = A$430 = US$396 >11. Personal-Page: It will be possible and optional for the registered members of the site to include a picture of themselves and other information which might be interesting to the community (family background etc.). The picture etc. could be displayed in the chat function and be made available on the Author Page as well. As soon as this function is available we would email all registered users and ask them to fill in their details and attach a picture if they wish to. 4 hours = €288 = A$491 = US$453 >12. Most Popular Articles Section. A counter has already been installed on the site so that the most popular entries can be identified. This feature will provide a list of the most popular articles as per The Sydney Morning Herald online (www.smh.com.au). 4 hours = €288 = A$491 = US$453 >13. Lead Article implementation on the start page: either automatically drawing from the "pool" of highly rated articles, or forced by a manual selection. 5 hours = €360 = A$614 = US$566 >14. "Related Content" in the third column, alternative: "Other Entries by this Author" (e.g.. 2 pictures, 4 article, sorted by date). If there aren't enough entries by the author, then the system automatically shows a list of the newest entries. 7 hours. = €504 = A$860 = US$793 >15. New Home Page (Editorial Style) 8 hours = €576 = A$983 = US$906 >16a. Front-End (optical) of the first 100 templates and "template-fragments". Meta-tags to enable all search-engines to evaluate each page. 28 hours = €2,016 = A$3,441 = US$3,173 >16b. Front-End (optical) of the last 57 Templates and Template-Fragments. Meta-tags to enable all search-engines to evaluate each page. 17 hours = €1,224 = A$2,089 = US$1,926 >17a. Back-end (php-MySQL) programming of the new basic layout: 25 hours = €1,800 = A$3,072 = US$2,833 >17b. "Cross-browser" Implementation (compatible with all usual browsers): 15 hours = €1,080 = A$1,843 = US$1,700 >LATE ADDITION: >19. HTML Newsletter Tool. To liven up the look of our newsletter we want to be able to use a HTML-Template which will allow us to use colour and pictures to make the letter generally more appealing. . 15 hours = €1,120 = A$1,842 = US$1,732 >To help fund the redisign: http://www.paypal.com - and then choose "Send Money". The email address to "send" the money to via Paypal is "redesign@kythera-family.net". All financial assistance will be acknowledged on the "Sponsors" page of the site. Best Regards from a beautiful Spring evening in Berlin, James Prineas james@kythera-family.net .._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _ >Guest Book Entries >Dean Venardos - Houston, Texas. USA Family village of origin: Agia Anastasia My father is from Agia Anastasia. My wife and kids visited last year. I wish we could go back every year . This is a great website. I will visit often. Thanks. >Lisa Viaros - Florida/USA Family village of origin: Mitata My father Angelo John Viaros passed away on September 21, 2006. >MARIA MORAITIS - SAMIOS - Piraeus Family village of origin: Aloizianika Hi to all my fellow Kytherians out there in the world! Anyone who would like to chat is welcome! >Alethea Marios - Melbourne, Australia I just wanted to say how fantastic this site is, and how excited I am to finally be able to learn about my family heritage and hopefully get to know some long lost relatives! My grandfather Peter Marios born in 1909 in Diakofti came out to Sydney, Australia approximately in the 1920's, but I dont know much more than this. He did however have three children: Nicholas(my father), John and Maria, who all appear rather clueless about their father's origins. Hopefully someone out there can help me put the pieces of the puzzle together so I can discover my identity! .._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _ >Message Board Entries >LEONTSINIS-DEMETRIUS submitted by Paul Leontsinis, 29.04.2008 Hi, can any one assist in finding out where my Grandfather cane from. He arrived in South Africa around 1905. I understood that he was from a village called "Tsirigo" This could even be an island just off Kythera. Does anyone know of this village/island, or indeed any relatives of Demetri Leontsinis Regards Paul Leontsinis >Cassimaty submitted by Elizabeth Osborne, 26.04.2008 I am the youngest daughter of Margaret Cassimaty from Taree NSW. She was married to Fred Osborne. Would love any information on my grandfather George Cassimaty that owned cafe in Taree in 1930. Please contact me on tangomagic@live.com.au >Mystery Solved submitted by Donna Morris, 24.04.2008 Thank you to the kythera-family.net for just existing. I have found a long lost family member. Without this website I never would have found them. >Nick Cominos (Ntouris) who lived in Detroit Michigan, >relatives or recollection? submitted by James Gavriles, 23.03.2008 My father had a very good friend here in Detroit Michigan, who was also in the Kytherian Brotherhood here. He was sort of an outspoken gentleman, I do not even know what he did for a living. All I know is that his name was Nick Cominos. From the association with my father, I would imagine he was born sometime between 1895 and 1900. He was always well dressed and smoked a cigar. Wore a fedora hat, had a moustache and loved to talk politics. He would show up at our house on Sundays. He never drove a car, he was not married, and he didn't have any children that I know of. When he would show up at the door and my mother would announce "Eirthe Oh Douris sti Borta". (Mr. Douris is at the door). I never realized as a child why they called him Douris, but I do now. He must be of the same clan as the Cominos above, and he must have also come from Ntourianika. Somehow I got the feeling that he was my father's boyhood friend, as our family came from Logothetianica, which is not that far from Ntourianika. I would like to know if anyone out there was related to this Nick Cominos. I want to know more about him. I know that this man was one of my father's dearest friends as I rarely ever saw my father shed any tears, but when his friend Nick Cominos passed away, a few years before my father died, he cried almost a whole day for the loss of his friend. Someone on this website surely has to know something about Nick Cominos from Detroit Michigan, and who were his relatives in Kythera and in Australia?? This is not the Nick Cominos who was involved with filming and just died in California. I do think he might have been related to him. .._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _ Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) announces that it has a searchable Virtual Surname Wall that’s free and open to all. Entries from over a thousand genealogists from all over the world are now searchable by family name, by geographic region, and by each participant's Submitter ID. You don’t have to be a member of SCGS to access it. This Society is primarily California-centered but has lots of information and links that might be useful in any family history research. Here’s the link to the Virtual Wall with instructions on how to add names: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/SurnameWall.htm Here’s the link to the Society’s home page: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com ' /> Features and Programming still to be sponsored: >1. "Leave a comment" function extension. When clicked the comment-box is highlighted to indicated the space where a comment can be left. 30 mins. = €36 = A$62 = US$56 >2. Chat Activation. The chat feature was programmed into the site some years ago. It's activation has been hampered by usability issues which are now being resolved. 30 minutes = €36 = A$62 = US$56 >3. New picture sizes. "Size-One" conversion work - for the Lead-Article - is already included in the above position. The other new size - for the enlarged column width - will require 1.5 hours implementation 1.5 hours = €108 = A$184 = US$170 >4. Most popular entry feature in the guest book - exceptional rules In the other areas of the site the "most popular entry" list is category specific. i.e. if you are in the landscape photo category then you see the most popular entries from that category in the 3rd (right-hand) column. In the guest book area the "most popular entries" are drawn from all areas of the site. 2 hours = €144 = A$245 = US$226 >5. Bookmark-Button for "Social Bookmarking" (Delicious.com u.a.) 2 hours = €144 = A$245 = US$226 >6. The slide-show feature which is already available to the Administrators for presenting the site will be modified for general use and made visible to the "General User". 2.5 hours = €180 = A$307 = US$283 >7. "Link to page" function which creates a clickable and copyable link-URL 2,5 hours = €180 = A$307 = US$283 >8. New"Top Article" link each "new entry" email which the administrators receive with which they can rank the new entry. If ranked as a "Top Article" this entry can subsequently be used as a leading article at the top of the home page. This leading article is changed automatically once each day from within the pool of articles collected. 2.5 hours = €180 = A$307 = US$283 >9. Sort by: the implementation of the "Most Popular" feature on all the sorting pulldowns on the site (at the moment users can sort by newest first, newest last, alphabetically and by author) 3 hours = €216 = A$368 = US$340 >9. For the function above: a manual selection feature which allows the administrators to force the use of one particular "Top Entry" (e.g.. an Easter entry at Easter). 3 hours = €216 = A$369 = US$340 >10. "Favourite"-feature: internal favourite list for each individual user so they can easily find articles they've tagged as their favourites. 3.5 hours = €252 = A$430 = US$396 >11. Personal-Page: It will be possible and optional for the registered members of the site to include a picture of themselves and other information which might be interesting to the community (family background etc.). The picture etc. could be displayed in the chat function and be made available on the Author Page as well. As soon as this function is available we would email all registered users and ask them to fill in their details and attach a picture if they wish to. 4 hours = €288 = A$491 = US$453 >12. Most Popular Articles Section. A counter has already been installed on the site so that the most popular entries can be identified. This feature will provide a list of the most popular articles as per The Sydney Morning Herald online (www.smh.com.au). 4 hours = €288 = A$491 = US$453 >13. Lead Article implementation on the start page: either automatically drawing from the "pool" of highly rated articles, or forced by a manual selection. 5 hours = €360 = A$614 = US$566 >14. "Related Content" in the third column, alternative: "Other Entries by this Author" (e.g.. 2 pictures, 4 article, sorted by date). If there aren't enough entries by the author, then the system automatically shows a list of the newest entries. 7 hours. = €504 = A$860 = US$793 >15. New Home Page (Editorial Style) 8 hours = €576 = A$983 = US$906 >16a. Front-End (optical) of the first 100 templates and "template-fragments". Meta-tags to enable all search-engines to evaluate each page. 28 hours = €2,016 = A$3,441 = US$3,173 >16b. Front-End (optical) of the last 57 Templates and Template-Fragments. Meta-tags to enable all search-engines to evaluate each page. 17 hours = €1,224 = A$2,089 = US$1,926 >17a. Back-end (php-MySQL) programming of the new basic layout: 25 hours = €1,800 = A$3,072 = US$2,833 >17b. "Cross-browser" Implementation (compatible with all usual browsers): 15 hours = €1,080 = A$1,843 = US$1,700 >LATE ADDITION: >19. HTML Newsletter Tool. To liven up the look of our newsletter we want to be able to use a HTML-Template which will allow us to use colour and pictures to make the letter generally more appealing. . 15 hours = €1,120 = A$1,842 = US$1,732 >To help fund the redisign: http://www.paypal.com - and then choose "Send Money". The email address to "send" the money to via Paypal is "redesign@kythera-family.net". All financial assistance will be acknowledged on the "Sponsors" page of the site. Best Regards from a beautiful Spring evening in Berlin, James Prineas james@kythera-family.net .._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _ >Guest Book Entries >Dean Venardos - Houston, Texas. USA Family village of origin: Agia Anastasia My father is from Agia Anastasia. My wife and kids visited last year. I wish we could go back every year . This is a great website. I will visit often. Thanks. >Lisa Viaros - Florida/USA Family village of origin: Mitata My father Angelo John Viaros passed away on September 21, 2006. >MARIA MORAITIS - SAMIOS - Piraeus Family village of origin: Aloizianika Hi to all my fellow Kytherians out there in the world! Anyone who would like to chat is welcome! >Alethea Marios - Melbourne, Australia I just wanted to say how fantastic this site is, and how excited I am to finally be able to learn about my family heritage and hopefully get to know some long lost relatives! My grandfather Peter Marios born in 1909 in Diakofti came out to Sydney, Australia approximately in the 1920's, but I dont know much more than this. He did however have three children: Nicholas(my father), John and Maria, who all appear rather clueless about their father's origins. Hopefully someone out there can help me put the pieces of the puzzle together so I can discover my identity! .._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _ >Message Board Entries >LEONTSINIS-DEMETRIUS submitted by Paul Leontsinis, 29.04.2008 Hi, can any one assist in finding out where my Grandfather cane from. He arrived in South Africa around 1905. I understood that he was from a village called "Tsirigo" This could even be an island just off Kythera. Does anyone know of this village/island, or indeed any relatives of Demetri Leontsinis Regards Paul Leontsinis >Cassimaty submitted by Elizabeth Osborne, 26.04.2008 I am the youngest daughter of Margaret Cassimaty from Taree NSW. She was married to Fred Osborne. Would love any information on my grandfather George Cassimaty that owned cafe in Taree in 1930. Please contact me on tangomagic@live.com.au >Mystery Solved submitted by Donna Morris, 24.04.2008 Thank you to the kythera-family.net for just existing. I have found a long lost family member. Without this website I never would have found them. >Nick Cominos (Ntouris) who lived in Detroit Michigan, >relatives or recollection? submitted by James Gavriles, 23.03.2008 My father had a very good friend here in Detroit Michigan, who was also in the Kytherian Brotherhood here. He was sort of an outspoken gentleman, I do not even know what he did for a living. All I know is that his name was Nick Cominos. From the association with my father, I would imagine he was born sometime between 1895 and 1900. He was always well dressed and smoked a cigar. Wore a fedora hat, had a moustache and loved to talk politics. He would show up at our house on Sundays. He never drove a car, he was not married, and he didn't have any children that I know of. When he would show up at the door and my mother would announce "Eirthe Oh Douris sti Borta". (Mr. Douris is at the door). I never realized as a child why they called him Douris, but I do now. He must be of the same clan as the Cominos above, and he must have also come from Ntourianika. Somehow I got the feeling that he was my father's boyhood friend, as our family came from Logothetianica, which is not that far from Ntourianika. I would like to know if anyone out there was related to this Nick Cominos. I want to know more about him. I know that this man was one of my father's dearest friends as I rarely ever saw my father shed any tears, but when his friend Nick Cominos passed away, a few years before my father died, he cried almost a whole day for the loss of his friend. Someone on this website surely has to know something about Nick Cominos from Detroit Michigan, and who were his relatives in Kythera and in Australia?? This is not the Nick Cominos who was involved with filming and just died in California. I do think he might have been related to him. .._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _..._ _ _ Southern California Genealogical Society (SCGS) announces that it has a searchable Virtual Surname Wall that’s free and open to all. Entries from over a thousand genealogists from all over the world are now searchable by family name, by geographic region, and by each participant's Submitter ID. You don’t have to be a member of SCGS to access it. This Society is primarily California-centered but has lots of information and links that might be useful in any family history research. Here’s the link to the Virtual Wall with instructions on how to add names: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/SurnameWall.htm Here’s the link to the Society’s home page: http://www.scgsgenealogy.com " />