Site Changes

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Aug 2006Updated my Curriculum Vitae and added some information to the "About Me" page.
Jul 2006Added automatic resizing and dating functionality to picture uploading. There are no visible changes when browsing, but it's *much* easier to upload new pictures: it used to be a matter of manually resizing the image and creating a thumbnail, then specifying the size of each, entering a 16-character timestamp, and finally uploading everything using a complicated form. Now, I just select the image from my computer and the rest is done automatically.
Feb 2006I added some background images that are hopefully the beginning of making the site look a little more artsy.
Jan 2006My Curriculum Vitae has been updated, and (for better or worse) hyperlinks have been added.
Aug 2005My bio has been updated.
Jun 2005After about a week of down-time, the server is up and running again. Although all my files were preserved, I had to make several permissions changes and code changes to accomodate the new software.
Jun 2005A few pictures of my new microscope were posted.
Jun 2005Several pictures of April and my new rental house were posted.
May 2005A dozen pictures from my classroom have been added under 'pictures.'
May 2005My TAPP portfolio was added under 'writing.'
Apr 2005I've done some significant editing to make the site valid XHTML. This has no noticeable effect upon the site's appearance, but it makes me feel better. In the process, I discovered how much I hate different character encodings.
Apr 2005I'm adding pictures! Let me know if you have some that you think might belong here.
Apr 2005There are several new items available under "formal writing."
Apr 2005The site index has been tweaked to make it (I hope) a little better-looking. (The general layout is a Gmail "Inbox" clone. It took me a loooong time to figure out exactly how to do this.)
Apr 2005The "favorite quotes" page is now generated from a database.
Apr 2005I created a database to keep track of all these site changes. :) You're looking at it right now.
Apr 2005 Created a file called 'blackhelicopters.php'. If I told you what it did, it wouldn't really be appropriately named now, would it? But it's out there. And it does something. Something bad.
Mar 2005Added code that allows me to edit blog comments via html forms. It's functional but not user-friendly. (Fortunately, I'm the only user so that doesn't much matter.)
Mar 2005I changed my "contact me" link from my actual address and phone number to a form. When someone submits info from this form, it is e-mailed to me and also added to a database, thereby immortalizing it.
Mar 2005Released the new site layout. The biggest changes: Blog entry titles are now listed from the main page, and navigational links now display on the right side of every page.
Mar 2005Continued working on the new site layout.
Mar 2005 Began working on a complete overhaul of the website's layout. The biggest change: Individual blog entries will be linked from the main page.
Mar 2005Big surprise: I've been tweaking the formatting of my blog over the past few days. I've also been adding quotes.
Mar 2005Slightly modified the way the blog is formatted.
Mar 2005 Made vast improvements to the blog, especillay including the ability to leave comments.
Mar 2005One of my students overheard me say that I had a website today, so I had to go back and edit all the cuss words out of my blog. (I rather not lose my certificate to teach in the State of Georgia.) This required that I write some code to be able to edit existing blog entries, so that's a good thing.
Mar 2005With all my blog posts displaying on the same page, it became obvious to me that the page would quickly become large and unfriendly. So I added an automatic id to each blog entry, and modified the code to display a menu of entries to choose from. In addition, now each entry now has it's own unique url. Not bad for 30 minutes of work from an amateur. :)
Mar 2005My blog is up and running!
Mar 2005Added custom page titles to each page. Wrote most of what I'll need to start my blog.
Mar 2005I rewrote the Bat Cadets page of the Batfolio and made it interactive. It uses a MySQL database and a good bit of PHP.
Feb 2005In a rare midnight frenzy, I have finally completed my high school portfolio!
Feb 2005Worked on my high school portfolio.
Feb 2005Worked on my high school portfolio.
Feb 2005Continued working on my high school portfolio. It looks like that's going to take several evenings.
Feb 2005Restructured the index a little bit. Added a new page to organize my writing. Began (re)adapting my high school portfolio to go online. Changed my "résumé" to my "curriculum vitae" cuz that looks and sounds better. :)
Feb 2005Added my AMCAS personal statement. I fleshed out my plans for the site on my "to do" page.
Feb 2005Restructured and expanded my quotes page. Changed the message on the index. Added my résumé.
Feb 2005Added my "favorite quotes" page.
Feb 2005 Added a copy of what I see when I go to butzon.com from work: This page has been blocked because it contains "pornography." Ha! Yeah right. Good stuff.
Feb 2005Tweaked the formatting. Changed the index text. Added my picture to the index. Added the "Who am I?" section.
Feb 2005Added a style sheet plus a validation link. No content yet, but it's pretty now. Added a small bit of PHP to do routine page formatting. Nothing special. This file tracking the site's changes was created. :)
Feb 2005 Removed the old wedding information (which was over a year and a half old). Replaced it with a brief "under-construction" type message. Validated the pages as xhtml strict and added the validation link at the bottom.
May 2003Old webpage was removed. Created a no-frills webpage containing all the pertinent information for my wedding in June.
Jan 2002Inception of this site (as far as I can remember). At one point between 2002 and 2003, the page was fairly nice. It contained my résumé and a bunch of stuff I wrote in highschool, as I recall.

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