So, quite a while now I promised you a brand new look Back to the Bay. The work started in earnest, and most of News, Episodes and many other sections started to show signs of a new, but rather incomplete, look. Then... work just stopped. Life and University took over. So, I'd just like to apologise for leaving the place in a bit of a mess since the start of the year. I now have some time off, meaning time to get this place into shape. Things will continue to look a mess over the coming weeks, possibly even more...
Has it really been 5 years since Back to the Bay opened its doors for the first time?! On Wednesday, 14th January 2004, joint Home and Away and Neighbours website AussieSoap.com shut up shop, and Back to the Bay was formed from its metaphorical ashes. Now, on Wednesday, 14th January 2009, we celebrate five years! And what an eventful five years we've had. To get the negatives out of the way, we've had many troublesome server moves, many board crashes (including one where we lost everything and a potential hacking attempt. But that's quite easily made up for by...
Welcome to yet another exciting edition of the Back to the Bay editorial. So, what did May bring at Back to the Bay? Well, as promised, we revealed the results of Home and Away's Most Popular Villain. Angie Russell took the lead with time to spare, winning the poll almost 100 points ahead of our second most popular villain, Eve Jacobson It seems Angie's memory is far from forgotten, years after her dramatic exit from the bay. Three of Home and Away's ex-Script Producers (Coral Droun, Daniel Bennett and Bevan Lee) were kind enough to provide their thoughts on our...
I'm very pleased to announce that we have managed to secure an interview with the one and only Debra Lawrance, who played Pippa Fletcher/Ross on the show from 1990 onwards. We're very honoured to have been given this fantastic opportunity and are very grateful for Debra to agreeing to the interview! So this is your chance to ask Debra any questions you may have about her experiences of playing the original matriarch of the show on and off for the past 17 years. If you have any questions that you would like to ask Debra, then please post them here...
Is it really May already? 1/3 of the year has already passed us by in what feels like no time at all. April brought with it a number of changes to the site, such as a revamped Multimedia section and Features index page. The Multimedia section has been completely cleaned out and sorted through, and now contains a number of older video clips which disappeared from the site over the years. We also fixed many broken links, so if you were having trouble downloading some of the clips from the site, chances are they'll now work as they should. We...
Well, April Fool's day has passed and the website is still standing. Let's look back at March and forward to April....
We've just completed a major upgrade to our News section. It now contains the latest spoilers, including news on cast arrivals and departures. Spoiler articles are hidden by default. Click 'View Spoilers' above to view them.
Welcome to March, and happy St David's Day to our Welsh visitors. February has seen a revival for Back to the Bay. After months of very few updates, February saw the site updated on 25 out of 28 days, making it the most updated month in our site's history. Strange how it should come in the shortest month of the year. So, what does March bring? Profiles, Villains, Episodes, Signed Scripts and more. Read on for more details. Did you know, our Message Board just got a complete revamp, and continues to be the largest and most popular place to...
Yes, yes, we've yet another new look. But don't worry, nothing has moved, and the site's as easy to use as ever before. You'll notice our homepage has increased in width. We were starting to have trouble fitting all of our content into the old homepage, and it was starting to get very cluttered and squashed. The extra space has allowed us to fit more in, hopefully without making everything too cluttered. It's not definitely staying, it depends whether you guys like it or not. If you don't, if you find it too wide or still too cluttered, we'll have...
Well, due to a billing problem, our forum is currently offline. I'm currently trying to sort the problem out with the hosts, but unfortunately their billing team isn't responding as quickly as one would hope. The problem will hopefully be sorted by Tuesday evening (GMT), and a temporary forum will be set up as soon as possible to give you all somewhere to hang out until then. Sorry for the inconvenience. This is totally out of my hands. Chris The Forum's back online. =)...
The forum is in a normal and stable condition again, after our earlier problems. Appologies to anybody affected. It seemed the forum became infected with a virus earlier this week. I'm unaware as to how serious it was, as I managed to avoid being infected. It doesn't appear to have affected Firefox users, but might have affected Internet Explorer users accessing the forum today. If you think you may have risked infection, please run a virus checker as soon as possible....
We're in the process of creating a brand new look Back to the Bay to freshen things up, clear out the clutter and add some features as we go. Apologies for how long it's taking and how much of the site is looking rather peculiar as a result, but rest assured we're making progress and the new look will be complete within the next few weeks.
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