Site History

 

This page contains a record of all the changes madee to the Web site.  This is not so important with only one person providing content and development, but will be essential in the future when different groups are involved.

Date Posted

Description

Content by

Web Dev by

24th Aug 1999

Initial posting

DB

DB

1st Sept 1999

Structural amendments - additional community groups added.

EM/SK/DB

DB

20th Sept 1999

  • First Prototype presented to Community Futures.
  • Basic style and structure  complete.
  • Counter to record access and statistics.
  • No external links

DB

DB

24th Sept 1999

  • Photos added, some layout changes.
  • Link to William Wallace/Gargunnock info
  • Link to Gargunnock Primary School

DB

DB

30th Sept 1999

  • Screen sizes adjusted down to 800x600 to support older PC’s.
  • Side and Top Frames used on home page.
  • External links added - Search engines, Phone Book etc.
  • Simple music added to home as test
  • Large Help section created with link from top of Home page
  • Site style reset with Black background always and yellow text by default

DB

DB

3rd Oct 1999

  • Frame problems sorted on home page
  • annoying music removed
  • Castle picture replaced with Church
  • Site Map buttons added
  • Minutes pages fixed
  • Com. Futures minutes added for 20th Sept.
  • Virtual Village Tour added
  • Publishing format set to Complex tables to support old Browsers (NS v2 ->) instead of the previous Cascading Style sheets.. Otherwise it’s NS4/IE4 only !

DB

DB

4th Oct 1999

  • Minor edits to correct missing graphics and links
  • No1. Main Street Newsletter added in basic format
  • Some Community Futures docs added
  • Publishing setting set back to NS4 / IE4 due to problems with positioning of overlapping layers. Sorry folks !

DB

DB

5th Oct 1999

  • PG & T Cheese and Wine added
  • Tour fixes
  • No. 1 Main St republish

DB/JMB

DB/JMB

7th Oct 1999

  • Frame removed from left side of homepage
  • Church page updated with some pics.
  • Weather link added
  • Navigation bar narrowed

DB

DB

26th Oct 1999

  • Local Business pages added for May Mallett and Plant Nursery
  • Dodgy Lottery page replaced with official link
  • British Shopping Link added - very comprehensive page

DB

DB

31st Oct 1999

  • General Tidy Up
  • Futures group moved to Organisations
  • School area re-modelled
  • About section broken down
  • PG & T Ceilidh added
  • Old Folk’s Welfare added
  • Old information removed

DB/JMB

DB/JMB

6th Nov 1999

  • Added Church information
  • History page fixed
  • Whole site reposted due to ISP System Failure

JMB

JMB/DB

22nd Nov 1999

  • Home page fix and updates
  • Minutes to Web site correction

DB/(JM)

DB

22nd Nov 1999

  • Google added to Homepage. Not sure of position.  Form fillin setup to allow entry of search condition directly.

DB

DB

5th Dec 1999

  • Minutes in HTML and RTF added, Internet Beginners Workshop added. RTF Minutes may only work in IE5 and/or Word installed - check

DB

DB

30 Dec 1999

  • CCESG plans displayed - no zoom
  • Futures minutes and agenda updates
  • Personal HomePages added

DB

DB

16 Jan 2000

  • Home Page updates
  • CCESG Plans updated with zoomed images of each sketch

DB

DB

26 Jan 2000

  • Primary School photo removed
  • Home Page - background changed to Blue as test style

DB

DB

29 Jan 2000

  • Detour travel added. Single page, lots of layering. Test to be carried out against older browsers.
  • Hedgerow Herbs page tidied up.

DF

DB

8 Feb 2000

  • GuestBook added using internal ISP CGI script (no banner ads!)
  • New graphic to call page added (later)
  • Minutes and other minor mods
  • Old message board link removed

DB

DB

March 2000

  • Church Schedule updated

JB

JB

14 May 2000

  • S. Corry added

DB

DB

21 May 2000

  • Last update to History Page (unless major changes. This is to reduce the time spent !

DB

DB

23 May 2000

  • I lied.  Update to Business section to add in externally submitted content. East Lodge B&B courtesy of Edmond.

EM

EM

2 July 2000

  • Gala Day Update

DB

DB

23rd Jan 2001

  • After a long delay with only minor mods, I decided to change the look and feel of the web site.  The site now has a dedicated ‘site style’ which we will improve with custom graphics.

DB/JH

DB

18th Feb 2001

  • New site design with reduced size header. Not ideal graphics, but a start. Includes items defined above.
  • New site style used throughout, to be used as the basis for future standards
  • New logo due...

DB

DB

4th July 2001

  • Site moved onto new desktop computer, links spread around disk tidied up.

DB

DB

Feb 2003

Well, we forgot to update this bit fairly consistently I would say!

Feb/March 2003 saw a complete re-work of the web site, the first major change since it’s launch. A new look and feel.

JMB/DB

JMB/DB