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Website / 16.09.2013

Today I emailed my second Newsletter to 10 subscribers 3 days after emailing my first to 7 subscribers. Today’s email concerned the 3 latest videos. Given that we have only uploaded 37 of the 100+ short, grant aided videos and the completion date is December 15, I expect to be informing subscribers of many videos being uploaded at a time in the next little while. The first Newsletter concerned a new Gallery page.

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Website / 01.09.2013

Today the new look website went live after a year of hard work, twists and turns, aggravation, trauma, moments of triumph and hundreds of emails between me and the site developers. This process has resulted in a site which is a testament to their skill and ingenuity in retaining the beautiful design and structure of the original as much as possible while introducing major new elements. These emphasize the site’s main function which is to be informative and educational. Just as vital, are the features which allow me to take on the role of webmaster.

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Website / 22.08.2013

My website’s first entry is dated 16 December 2005. The site architect was Clive Tempest and its designer and webmaster Christina Dreesen. From its first appearance, the site was captured for Australia’s national web archive and has been recaptured every two years. The structure and scope of the site remained unchanged until its new incarnation was completed on 22  August 20013, thanks to the IT skills of Ben Sinclair and Andrew Nagy.

New are:

  • SUBSCRIBE FOR FREE, find out when new videos and Gallery Pages are added to the site.
  • ALBUM PAGES, devoted to a single subject such as Moths, Fungi, Birds
  • BLOG CATEGORIES, to make the blog more reader-friendly.
  • VIDEOS, every video on my Vimeo pages appears on the site’s Videos page.
  • TEN additional GALLERY PAGES.

Equally important to the visible changes are the features which enable me to be the webmaster and generate all content (other than the videos, which will continue to be uploaded by Steve Guttormsen), plus XML data files for the Encyclopaedia of Life (EOL).

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Website / 09.05.2013

After 3 turbulent months, Henry Hardy proved incapable of completing the website. Today I accepted Andrew Nagy’s quote to repair the damage Henry had done to Ben Sinclair’s good work and complete the further changes required. Andrew, whom I have known for some time, lives and works on the mountain. He looks after my computer. Unfortunately I was only made aware of his web design work at the time I was commiting to Henry.

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Website / 18.02.2013

During the past few days I have been able to confirm that Ben’s website set-up also extends to quick, operator-friendly generation of XML files for EOL. After having my computer serviced last week, I found that I could not create an underline space needed for 2 of the XML boxes. After a flurry of emails, the person who serviced my computer guided me to a solution. Today I sent 67 new files to EOL, the first in over 2 years.

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Website / 09.02.2013

I accepted Henry Hardy’s quote for additional work on the website.

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Website / 08.01.2013

Ben suggested a while back that I contact some people he knew, about additional work to the website which I want doing but was not part of our original agreement. Today, I spoke on the phone to Henry Hardy who does work for the people Ben recommended to me, outlining my requirements.

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Website / 20.12.2012

Today I received confirmation that my website had been moved to a new plan as advised by Ben, to accommodate the greatly increased content resulting from his work.

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Website / 02.11.2012

Today Ben came to my place to give me a tutorial in operating the website. I am confident that he has created a quick, operator-friendly set-up as far as the gallery and blog are concerned. We didn’t have time to try out generating XML for EOL. In any case I was hard-pressed to absorb all the information on creating gallery pages and blog entries.

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Website / 31.07.2012

Ben Sinclair sent me his invoice to inaugurate work to the website. The big project has begun within two weeks of my return from overseas. Great.