CBN 2002 Launched!!

After hearing my alarm go of at 7am, I jumped out of bed, fell over a pair of shoes, but finally made it up to my computer.

The installation took around 20 minutes – which is great, as I was expecting it to take hours. There was no errors in my coding and all the directories were set up correctly. All those hours of preperation paid off.

With the new CBN, currently there is no change to the script that powers it, Content Wizard, but the obvious change is the design of the site. We've finally moved away from the old layout and gone with a brand new one.

The top menu has changed to provide quick access to all the best parts of CBN. You'll notice around the site as well, we have new graphics and we're currently working on updating the Films section.

CBN Directory News

The CBN Web Site Directory has been given a new design with the upcoming CBN 2002 getting closer!

If you run a James Bond web site, why not add your site to the best directory on the net?!

Raymond Benson's Short Story

Raymond Benson has donated a copy of the TV Guide featuring his short story "Live At Five" within it for us to auction. This will help to raise funds so that we can continue to upkeep the site.

The auction is held at Yahoo! Auctions. You can bid for the TV Guide by clicking here – http://page.auctions.yahoo.com/auction/56130233.

Raymond Benson has agreed to sign the Guide with a personal message to the winner of the auction.

I have this TV Guide, and it is worth having as the "Live At Five" Bond short story, has only been published for this TV Guide.

Start bidding!

The auction closes on the 24th of October.

Thanks to John Cox for his donation!

CBN Donations

CBN, a completely voluntary based site, has hundreds of man hours donated into it every month. And as a love job all of the staff enjoy what they do.

We're never going to put up banner adverts that get in your way and make the experience less enjoyable.

However, the cost of running the site is quite high. We thankfully don't have to pay technicians but we do have to pay for our own server. Due to our ever expanding audience our site runs slower so it's time for one major upgrade.

While we know you as an audience could never pay for that upgrade, and frankly we don't expect you to, we're making an request for anyone who is interested to make a small donation to CBN to help upgrade and maintain our server.

We're students with a limited income that doesn't meet the demands of the site, this is the reason why we have made this request.

CBn Opens Fan Music Section

Music has always helped shape James Bond. From John Barry's fantastic scores to David Arnold's and how could anyone forget hits such as Goldfinger and Live And Let Die. But do they all have to be professional tracks?

Of course not. For that very reason CommanderBond.Net today opened it's own Fan Music section. To begin with we have opened a Fan Music Forum in the CommanderBond.Net Forums.

What we need from you, the fans, are your own mixes or your own Bond songs. We'll host them on our server and make them publicly available!

So how do you send them in? Give everyone a sneak preview in the Fan Music Forum and we'll take it from there.

Alternatively you can contact David Winter about it directly.

200 Forum Members And Climbing!

It happened today. We had our two hundredth forum member join the CommanderBond.Net Forums! Check them out at http://debrief.commanderbond.net.

The CommanderBond.Net Forums have been open since May 2001 and have steadily grown in popularity. After the agreement of partnership with MI6 popularity again grew as MI6 now also depend on the forums for their visitors chatting whims.

You can of course link the forums from your own site, as many webmasters have already done!

But either way, if it's Bond (and sometimes even if it's not!) it get's discussed in the CommanderBond.Net Forums, http://debrief.commanderbond.net. See you there!

CBn & MI6 Join Forces!

Bond may be hitting an all time high, but 007's presence on the web may be hitting an all time low. The partnership comes at a time when many of the stable 007 sites are either dead, flagging or increasingly inaccurate.

And that's exactly the reason that CommanderBond.Net and MI6 have joined forces to bring you the best Bond on the Net!

CBN and MI6 are still committed to delivering the best Bond experience to their respective audiences, but the new affiliation will allow both sites to specialise in their favourite areas without falling behind elsewhere.

We here at CommanderBond.Net continue to excel at reporting the latest 007 and Bond 20 news at light speed, being the first and only place on the web to get all your 007 updates. The CBN James Bond Forums are proving to be one of the most popular places to discuss all things 007 related, and as such, MI6 has cut it's ties with The 007 Express. So now both MI6 viewers and the usual CommanderBond.Net viewers will use the CommanderBond.Net Forums to discuss James Bond 007!

Over at MI6 they will continue with their devotion to delivering the best multimedia content along with some of the very best archive information. The new Bond Girls and Q-Branch sections are on their way to completion and will become the most in-depth on the web. But that is not where the work stops. MI6 has already pencilled in a brand new Villains section for the near future and a new Flash project that will be un-missable.

From all at CommanderBond.Net and MI6 we hope this alliance helps everyone all over the Internet to find out more about Bond, James Bond! Enjoy!

CBN Directory Re-launched

The James Bond Web Site directory has now been re-launched with a new look to go with the rest of the site.

The directory aims to hold the best James Bond web sites. You can add your site to it by visiting the site at: https://commanderbond.net.

Why Was CBN Down Yesterday Evening?

We must apologise for the site not working yesterday. But also we can celebrate at the same time!

Yesterday, we recieved 28,069 hits! This is why our server has recently been crashing so often. Can we blame it? This is a record high for CBN!

Update Links!

With the new version of CommanderBond.net, some of the links you have linking directly to specific categories will not work anymore.

To link to the CommanderBond.net homepage, just use the normal https://commanderbond.net link.

If you require any assistance with links to CommanderBond.net please email me.