| Sept. 2004: Our ISP, e-access is bought
out. We have some e-access problems that aren't getting resolved
so migrate the site offshore. It's a pity to have to do that but
it's all about a service where disk-space isn't such an issue and
where support and downtime are treated seriously. This site
offers 1Gb of disk-space
2003: Updates only were made in 2003 while revelling in
the relatively unlimited disk space. Most of the creative
content happily thieved and transposed from Kim Evans' work on the
newsletter.
The website's counter publisher wanted payment for the use of
their software so I wrote a quick site counter in php, a language I'd
like to use more on the website in the future especially with regards
to merchandising. Rather than change all references throughout
the site from 'index.html' to 'index.php' I put a redirection on the
html file to the php file. Unfortunately this seemed - logically
of course I should have realised - to stop the web crawlers getting
into the site so I lost all the search rankings. In January 2004
I took out the php code and renamed the file back to what it was while
changing the re-visit from 21 days to 5 days in the hope the web
spiders will start to re-index the site sooner rather than later.
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| July to December 2002: Difficulties with
ISPs. Eventually settled on a local Adelaidean ISP who provides
150 Mb of disk space free. A summary
of the difficulties with ISPs ...
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| July 2002: Changed the front page. Took out sprites used for
internal links (onmouseover & onmouseout) and replaced with text having added two
anchor classes (a.menu:hover etc). Moved most common internal links to the top as a
cascading menu. Had everything cascading - had to take out bottom level pages in
cascade. File size increases from 11Kb to 22Kb. Speed ok on my slow machine.
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April 2002: Forgot how to re-index the search - Run: http://www.oldcollegiansrugby.org.au/cgi-bin/search/search.cgi?Mode=Admin
Added it here in case I forget again and as a future reference for anyone else. Is
password protected.
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| March 2002: Had to amend the font-sizes again - small/medium/large is
relative only to the default settings in Explorer. Adopted point sizes.
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| January 21st 2002: Solved long-standing problem with colours not being
recognised and Netscape pages looking different to Explorer pages. I had a number of
errors in the style file - took out the <style> & </style> tags, changed
the colour definitions from RGB decimal to RGB hexadecimal. Also changed the
font-sizes from explicit point sizes to the more relative 'small', 'medium' and 'large'.
I found the errors only after having background problems with another website I was
working on yesterday.
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| December-January2002: I have the source code for the search
software that I've been using and comparing with the original external search engine for
some time now. With the source code I can specify that .shtml files can be included
as part of the search. As well the large number of files makes it difficult to
maintain them now without going back to SSI. I have created both headers &
footers that are Include files - this means that the logs and footers can be maintained
via a small group of files, all in the _include directory (each file is documented as to
it's use). The CSS file has also been amended to include a specific style for the
links only. Also in this upgrade, I changed all the links to go to the top &
bottom of each page rather than clutter up a cell to the left of each page.
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28th June 2001: Installed a message board. A
few difficulties. It is essential that the file & directory permissions are
correct - despite what the documentation says, all directories must be set to permission
level of 777 (refer CHMOD on FTP). Not helped by a bug in the FTP program which
doesn't show changed directory execute permissions, even after refreshing.
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28th June 2001: The search utilities that run
locally are either too slow and/or don't find all references to a search item. After
noticing that a commercial web help site used an off-site search indexer I figured if it's
good enough for them it's good enough for me. Installed a free search engine but
carries the publisher's logo.
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21st June 2001: Search utilities won't go through
the page reference in applets - take out all the applet buttons and replace with plain
hypertext links
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19th June 2001: Too much effort involved in writing
a site search applet so look at a number of applets available over the Internet.
Some require periodic site indexing which is unnecessary and amateurish, others are adware
and others require payment. None appear to search through files with an shtml file
suffix. Two freeware applets look good. One in particular uses only two class
files. Both of these however don't search on shtml files. Use a code
decompiler to get the source but they have been compiled on older versions of Jdk.
At this stage of my Java knowledge it's too time consuming so I have taken out the SSI
footer code and replaced them with the source html code and then renamed all files from
*.shtml to "*.html. I may revisit this another day.
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May 2001: Given copies of "Old Collegians Rugby
News" for the years 1962 to 1964 and a few up to 1969. Periodically ad in
articles and information from these. Go to Adelaide Advertiser photo library for
photographs. Ordered a quantity from their archives.
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15th April 2001: Given access to copies of
Tregenza Times' for 1985-87 and the programs for the 1966 and 1987 Dinners all of which
were a large source of information.
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22nd to 25th February 2001: Website
migrated to oldcollegiansrugby.org.au site. All references to the main page
index.htm changed to index.html to fit with our new ISP's requirements.
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29th & 30th December: SSI introduced as
a means of displaying a common footer on each page - htm files changed to shtml. All
directory & files names changed to all lower case to avoid case problems on links when
renaming files.
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22nd & 23rd December: FrontPage borders
replaced. Also various minor mods. Recipients of Aussie Sports Medals added to
News and separate History page.
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5th & 6th of December: More mods to main
page, additional functions added to style sheet. Mouseover functions added.
The intention is to move away from FrontPage dependency. Currently using FrontPage
for the left border links, the bottom border, the glowing hover button applet and the yet
to be used comments, forum & search pages. FrontPage slows the site down and
takes too much control of how the site is to be presented.
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16th-19th November: Style sheet added,
common headings now not part of FrontPage borders added & code cleaned up ; nearly all
the pages modified.
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5th/6th November 2000: Photos added
(Juniors Presentation), some screens tidied up, Junior team summaries added (for 1999),
Junior objectives added.
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Prior to 7th October: History expanded, photos added,
year 2000 info moved to history.
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17th September: Year 2000 junior history page redesigned.
More images added to the junior pages for the year 2000. Other images added mostly for the
juniors.
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19th August 2000: More images added to the juniors pages
for the year 2000 - U16, U12, U8
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22nd July 2000: Juniors' Premiership league tables added
- access from Juniors' results
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21st July 2000: Seniors' Premiership league tables added
- access from Results page.
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10th July 2000: Added link to Amazon UK. 5% of sales go
to the Club. Sfter some months, eventually took it out.
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5th July 2000: Changes made to html to make incorrect
direct address references incorrectly created by Frontpage to the correct relative
addresses. This history info taken off the frontpage and added to this website
history page.
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4th July 2000: Problems with the thumbnail images in the
Ms College 2000 and the 1998 & 1999 Junior Gallery. Getting either the full
images or the thumbnails refer back to the source computer (affectionately known as
'zog'). Will fix when logic tells me why & how ... (Needed to
refresh FrontPage rather than select via the search facility)
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1st July 2000: News re Friendly match for the U12's on
the 8th July; news re Junior 7-a-side; U8's Draws; Roy Crawford; Hamish Cranna, Juniors'
photos from 1998, 1999 and for this year added to the Junior Gallery, West End trophy
photo added to Awards History.
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28th June 2000: Senior results; Junior photos from 1997.
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21st June 2000: U10's Draws up to 19th August added;
Match results for 1st's added; Junior match results page added.
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10th June 2000: Ms College 2000 Photos, Photo from 1970's
added to History, Results format changed, June newsletter posted, Site visit counter added
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4th June 2000: Times for state matches on 10th
June. Note Old Colls vs Brighton is on Sunday 11th June. Search facility not
working.
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1st June 2000: Club officials archive added.
Search facility added. Match reports for 27th May added. Details on Black
Falcons.
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28th May 2000: Additional pages added esp. to
History. Results split between seniors & juniors. Women's Draw updated
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20th May 2000: Changes to the draw for 3rd grade , K i m
Evans' report on Ms College 2000
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20th May 2000: Additional links to other rugby sites
added
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13th May 2000: More history added, modifications to some
of the links, women's draw information added, more newsletters added.
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7th May 2000: Other changes since the 30th of March
: Some history pages added, results updated.
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April 2000: The Old Collegians' Website was created
and hosted at the personal webpage address of www.chariot.net.au/~phorne; The ISP,
like most, was not willing to host any of the FrontPage Extensions that allow the more
active options that can be found on paying sites so the site has to remain an html
site. ARU are planning to host all clubs sites in the near future which should allow
for an extension to the options available.
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