The Midlands Churches of Christ
Web Site Revision History
I will not revise this page for every new piece of information added to this web site as it would take up too much time (no doubt some bit of software can do this). However, if many pages need changing for a single reason or if a new page is required, then I shall aim to annotate them here.
Significant Revisions (latest first):
- June 2007 - No major revisions as life has been too busy (twins!) but I have been through the pages to ensure accuracy and remove some old information.
- Aug 2006 - (summary of recent changes) Changed logo to a more contemporary one. Have also started to change the 'top' link as it doesn't work in Firefox (IE takes viewer to top of page without any defined id set, Firefox does not).
- 09 Jan 2006 - Added trial logo for church onto front page. Logo originally produced by Georgia and then digitised and amended by me. Not sure that image is correct yet but it's a start (maybe a more contempory logo is required?). Font used for title is Copperplate Gothic Light which some people may not have so still at trial stage.
- Sep/Oct (?) 2005 (I must remember to do these notes at the time) - Corrected CSS for home page 'buttons'. Now look similar throughout browsers and buttons indent as intented. Charity Reg added and coding of pages passes validation checks so logos for HTML and CSS added to footer.
- Sept (?) 2005 - Added audio files of sermons to resources page. I use Windows Media Encoder Audio 9 voice codec (the whole program is actually free from Microsofts website) to give 20 kbps, 22 kHz, mono. This was about as compressed as I could get whilst keeping the quality reasonable and not grating. I hope this is in keeping with my original ethos of keeping the site fast and accessible to all users.
- 09 Aug 2005 - Added library listing and corrected use of id's throughout the site to comply with W3C guidelines. The library table has been sized to fit on an A4 sheet with 5mm margins - a style sheet for printing will come later. NB Firefox repeats the headers on each page but IE does not. The information has not been auto-generated yet as I'm not that advanced yet - keep it simple!
- 17 Apr 2005 - Added favicon to website. Created using utility from Keeps disappearing from IE but lasts on Firefox browser!
- 06 Feb 2005 - Added DOCTYPE, META tags and robots file to all files. Also created new resources page including photos page.
- 20 Jan 2005 - Having just celebrated the site's first anniversary, the site is moved to a new domain www.mcoc.org.uk. Simpler to remember and allows a few new things to be done. (major rejig is due...)
- 15 May 2004 - 'Latest News' is now a series of highlighted menu items rather than a list. This helps to reduce the length of the column as no bullets are required or additional links. Unfortunately the old problem between browsers still needs resolving (margins and padding work differently; anchors cannot be forced to full width in Gecko)
- 27 April 2004 - Articles page added
- 31 March 2004 - Introduction of more interesting front page. Images to act as contents page and a 'Latest News' feature so people can quickly see if anything has changed. The introduction of the Trustees has also been made along with other structural reorganising to help navigation.
- 14 March 2004 - (i) All Brum's events now on one page; (ii) list of 2003 minutes moved to seperate page to reduce clutter.
- 22 February 2004 - Leicester's event page added
- 18 January 2004 - (i) Statements by Shepherds added; (ii) Locations of churches improved with link for maps; (iii) Wolverhampton location added as useful information; (iv) External links now open new windows in an attempt to remove the ad banner.
- 04 January 2004 - hyphens replaced by underscore in filenames, server does not seem to like hyphens.
- 03 January 2004 - site first posted.
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