• History of changes to web site
  • Version 061101
  • Version 061201
  • Version 070101
  • Version 070201
  • Version 070301
  • Version 070401
  • Version 070501
  • Version 070601
  • Version 070701
  • Version 070801
  • Version 0804
  • Version 0807
  • Version 0810
  • Version 0901
  • Version 0907
  • Version 0910

History of changes to web site

Note: Some of the change summaries are lost forever as a result of my attempt to automate history file generation. You'd think I'd learn from that, but I'm naturally a slow learner, so I'll probably continue to attempt automation and to lose history data thereby. Who knows, maybe someday I'll get it right.

Version 061101

• Added about 150 more fossil sites
• Cleaned up County data for fossil sites except in Canada and Alaska
• Added hit counters to home page
• Validated some pages to W3C-HTML 4.01 Transitional

Version 061201

• Added about 150 more fossil sites
• Cleaned up some Canadian County Info
• Added separate pages for County and PLSS discussions
• Converted all the remaining English (mile,feet,yard) distance info to metric (probably missed a few)
• Made some progress on validation of external links
• Made some progress on validation of pages for W3C-HTML compliance
• Validated some additional pages to W3C-HTML 4.01 Transitional
• Brought up a second copy of the site at 110mb.com because freewebsitehosting has taken to deleting the two large files of fossil site data.

Version 070101

• Added about 150 more fossil sites
• Rotated the second image 90 degrees
• Added links to a second host because freewebsitehosting deletes the very large files
• Converted all the remaining English (mile,feet,yard) distance info to metric (probably missed a few)
• Made some progress on validation of external links
• Made some progress on validation of pages for W3C-HTML compliance
• Validated some additional pages to W3C-HTML 4.01 Transitional
• Added Clipboard FAQ
• Added one short fiction piece
• Cleaned up the Formation field entries (more work to be done)
• Converted all file names to Upper Case to try to minimize discrepancies between Windows and HTTP protocol that don't care about case and Unix software (on the hosts)/FTP protocol that does.
• Converted all internal .html file names to .HTM file names

Version 070201

• Added about 150 more fossil sites
• Updated the (Draft) FAQ on computer Clipboard software
• Added an article on the Windows 3.2 Windows Cardfile Program file format (.CRD)
• Added an article with the Sepkoski fossil taxa database
• Made some progress on validation of external links
• Made some progress on validation of pages for W3C-HTML compliance
• Validated some additional pages to W3C-HTML 4.01 Transitional
• Did considerable work on Canadian and Alaskan County field entries. New County list
• Cleaned up the Formation field entries (Much more work to be done)
• Added link to a separate site with some photos of my fossil collection

Version 070301

• Added about 150 more fossil sites
• Updated the (Draft) FAQ on computer Clipboard software
• Cleanup article with the Sepkoski fossil taxa database
• Made some progress on validation of external links.
• Made some progress on validation of pages for W3C-HTML compliance
• Validated some additional pages to W3C-HTML 4.01 Transitional
• Did considerable work on Canadian and Alaskan County field entries. New County list
• Cleaned up the Formation field entries (Much more work to be done)
• Added link to a separate site with some photos of my fossil collection.
• Broke out entries for Canadian Nunavut Territory as a separate State/Province"
• Removed visitor counters

Version 070401

• Added about 150 more fossil sites.
• Partial validation to W3C-HTML 4.01 Transitional Standard. There are too many pages to validate everything manually and so far, automating the process is proceeding slowly. But slow or not, it just might be completed before V070501 is posted.
• Finished work on assigning Counties to sites, Counties validation, and Counties list
• Now Updating Version when generating new state fossil files
• Added about 15 images to the fossil photos
• Cleaned up most dead/broken links except in Clipboard FAQ

Version 070501

• Added 150 fossil sites and some cleaned up of the existing site data.
• Added a few fossil images to the catalog.
• Verified external links
• Decided there were simply too many details and procedures to remember in publishing a new version of the site. Put together a basic site content management script
• Linked to the 110mb version of the site for large files that freewebsitehosting.com deletes.

Version 070601

• Added 150 fossil sites and some cleaned up of the existing site data.
• Added the capability to download csv files of counties, all sites, and the Sepkoski database directly.
• Added a few fossil images to the catalog.
• Verified external links
• Decided there were simply too many details and procedures to remember in publishing a new version of the site. Put together a basic site content management script
• Linked to the 110mb version of the site for large files that freewebsitehosting.com deletes.

Version 070701

• Added 150 fossil sites.
• Cleaned up essentially all linking and HTML issues with site files
• Checked all internal and external links for validity
• Confirmed HTML4.01 Transitional compliance for all files

Version 070801

• Added 150 fossil sites.
• Did clean up of site management scripts
• Did some work on only uploading altered files

Version 0804

• Added over 450 new fossil sites to database
• Started converting files from raw HTML to txt2tags markup
• Added Location Field Verification to Web Site preparation
• Added Approximate Latitude and Longitude for some localities

Version 0807

• Added over 450 new fossil sites to database
• Continued converting files from raw HTML to txt2tags markup
• Added article on Flying Cars
• Added article on configuring Unix terminal configurations
• Added one old published story

Version 0810

• Added over 450 new fossil sites to database
• Added a fossil picture catalog previously done via Blogger
• Created a Miscellaneous FAQ file with notes on various technical issues.
• Added a mini-tutorial on using the Python Ctypes module.

Version 0901

• Added over 450 new fossil sites to database
• Corrected problems with fossil picture catalog

Version 0907

(Jun 2009) As usual, folks who have been here before won't notice many differences. There may be a bit more unpublished fiction. There are about 450 new fossil sites. Usage of fields 8 and 9 -- additional comments and references should be largely fixed. A bunch of new latitude-longitude values for sites have appeared. I'll also be adding discussions paleontology of various regions -- working East to West starting with the Canadian Maritimes. There are now four -- Meguma and Avalonia, Maritime Provinces Cover Terrane, and Iapetus Seafloor.

Version 0910

(Sep 2009)

• Added 450 Fossil Sites
• Added another Terrane discussion Triassic Basins
• Cleaned up formatting problems with location data in the fossil database.
• Corrected some errors in the fossil catalog.