Web Site History - Archive 2002

• Revealed the Photos link from the navigation bar, following Stephen's excellent work.
• Did some minor tweaking to the Photos section index page and SBF2001/2 index pages.
• Updated the front page.
• Updated the news page.
• Modified a link from Hop Press Issue 1.
• Updated To Do list.
• Added EBF2002 Press Release, and updated Press Releases Index.
• Added Links section, and updated the navigation bar.
• Sorted links on navigation bar alphabetically
• Put a link to the site history (this page) on the footers
• Corrected (my blunder) - EBF2002 staffing page title now says 'Staffing' instead of 'Tickets'!
• Backed up the site

• Updated the breweries page, giving it some introductory text.
• Fixed some bits in the guest book perl script (and manually fixed the output).
• Fixed the header includes in order that the guest book link doesn't cause a new window to open.
• Added title to the EBF2002 staffing page
• Added title to the Diary
• Added the guestbook to the checkpages.shtml page

• Fixed the counter - somehow I'd put the old "beseen" one back on!? DOH!
• Wrote my first cut of the beer festivals page. Went to the pub, had some comments on my descriptions, came home again (don't worry, I stayed as long as I could!) and updated it! :-)
• Added a bookmark in the diary page so that we can link to the ebf2002 bit directly. Put the words "Eastleigh Beer Festival" in bold to make them more visible.
• Added a temporary redirect from /ebf2002/ to /diary/index.shtml#ebf2002
• Modified the header & footer includes to get rid of old links and put in new ones. Put new CAMRA Southern Hampshire Branch logo in top-left corner.

• Added the beerfestivals/ and news/ folders. These will appear when I upload the modified include files (which I haven't quite finished editing yet).
• A couple of minor (layout) tweaks to /index.shtml
• Removed the valign="top" from the diary dates (this is in the stylesheet) - Pete, let me know when you want me to come and set up Apache for you. Only then will you be able to see the site run on your PC at home in its full glory! :-)

• Created a new history page. Archived the old history page to /history2001.shtml. The new history page takes on the styling of the rest of the site. It is also now in "most recent first" order.
• Restructured the diary page, using a table. New file is just over half the size of the old one (as I've removed all the Frontpage bloat and done it efficiently). Added target="_blank" to the external web links in order to open them in a new window (Pete had this in previously, but FrontPage had removed it - thanks Microsoft!).
• Replaced the counter as beseen.com are about to discontinue their service.
• Replaced all occurrences of absolute font sizes with relative font sizes. This means that the site should be much more friendly to visually impared visitors.
• Modified the included headers and footers slightly - trying to make the site work better on browsers which are only 640 pixels wide (i.e. my Nokia 9210!).
• Re-checked all pages through the HTML Validator - they passed!

Added the page "errors.shtml" and a file called ".htaccess" (which you can't see by FTP). The ".htaccess" file contains the following text: "ErrorDocument 404 /errors.shtml". It quite simply returns the errors.shtml page if anyone types in or follows an invalid link. The benefit of this is that people get a valid page (with left-hand nav-bar) even when the URL is wrong!

Minor tweaks to the SBF 2002 page, main index page and "shantscamra.css". Also added a PDF copy of the SBF2002 poster to the SBF2002 page, with some text encouraging people to download it and put it on their noticeboard at work. Added links from the top to each section on the page.

Added the Southampton Beer Festival page. Modified all the headers (all three levels) to have a link from them. Updated the main page, removing the maintenance notice and adding a "Latest Information" box instead.

Backed up the site

Created a subfolder "includes/" put headers & footers for each level (Top level is level 0) I've used the naming convention "level#-header.shtml" and "level#-footer.shtml".

Updated ALL pages. All the links are now relative to the current page. If you're going to be doing any changes to the site, please delete all your local HTML and re-download them.

Removed all the redirectors in the root of the site (diary.htm, hop-press.htm, etc). Deleted header.shtml and footer.shtml from the root of the site.

Fixed Czech accents.

Diary update including Mike King Darts result.

Fixed the last updated date / time bit. As I had to edit every page to do this, the pages will all show a date and time at approximately 17:45 on 24th April.

Added a virtual-link folder (symbolically linked for those of you that know) https://www.shantscamra.org.uk/stats/ which displays statistical output from the webserver, which is actually located at http://p4-7014.uk2net.com/stats/www.shantscamra.org.uk.html [Link removed as no longer works].

Put the counter back on the bottom of the front page. Forgot to put it on when moving it off the standard SSI header.

I've been busy again. As far as I am concerned, the re-development of the site is complete (at least I hope it is!). Now all we've got to do is sort out the content... :-(

• Added the "shantscamra.css" Cascading Style Sheet in order to replace the buttons on the left-hand side with something which is more easily accessible by the disabled (text!).
• Modified the headers of all the main pages to support the CSS and be W3C compliant.
• Got rid of the horrible links on the left-hand bar and replaced them with something more friendly.
• Put the "DiarySBF" bit in the Diary page so that when the banner on the front page is clicked it goes to the SBF2002 entry. Removed the Waterloo beer festival. This bit was re-doing what Pete did as I over-wrote it earlier (sorry!).
• Sorted out the linked Eastleigh and Southampton pages. Moved them under /ebf2001 and /sbf/2001 appropriately.
• Uploaded the the 2002 staffing form to /sbf/2002/staffingform2002.pdf
• Deleted all the local guestbook stuff - it isn't needed as it is still running under freenetname
• Added the checkpages.shtml page. We can now easily confirm that our pages have valid HTML in them after they are edited. Added links on this page to validate all other pages.
• Ran the W3C validation on all the pages - we passed! Added the appropriate icons to the footer in celebration!
• Backed up the entire website to my PC
• Decided that going to bed for some sleep before work tomorrow would be a good idea! :-)

• Home page
• Diary Page
• Hop Press (all three electronic editions)
• Local Breweries

• Updated all the dates in the history.htm (this) page to dd/mm/yyyy format
• Deleted all unnecessary content, old photos, etc (don't worry, I archived it all first!)
• Moved all images to the images/ folder (in order that we've only got one copy of everything - previously stuff was in index_files/, diary_files/, images/ and others.
• Sorted out the links on the left-hand bar (and put them back on). Edited the GBBF2002 logo on the left-hand bar so that it had a white background, and looks good on the left-hand bar.
• Modified last year's animated SBF banner with the correct dates and put it near the top of the page.
• Completely re-vamped the main page layout. However, main content is still in its former state.
• Moved diary, breweries and Hop Press into sub-folders. Put in redirection pages in the root folder. Updated the wevemoved.htm page as ell.
• ...and finally, tested that it all still works! :-)