Matt-Thornton.net Site History - Changelog 9/03/07 -- realigned the goals of the site -- which is a wanky way of saying I removed some stuff -- well I didn't really remove any stuff -- I just hid a bunch of stuff -- and basically left my flickr and blog 20/03/06 -- updates to the design -- fixed some sloppy CSS -- improved random colour generation -- removed redundant content -- complete redesign of homepage -- Wordpress upgraded to 2.0.2 -- now over 100 reviews 15/10/05 -- all sorts, since the last, cos I forgot to update the changelog -- updated Wordpress to the latest dev version -- tidied up the CSS a bit, cleaned up the links some -- added a comic strip "Fingers" -- added a "Top Fives" section 31/03/05 -- added a moview review section importing the old Weirdbeard reviews and some of the blog reviews 18/03/05 -- tidied up some code -- removed some banners and adverts -- finally put some basic spam protection on the comments page -- updated the ebook stuff 11/01/05 -- added Google adsense to the blog pages and the topic pages :( Need cash! -- tidied up text -- changed some CSS -- updated the printable page so it no longer redirects (just displays a message) Can't believe the site is now over 2 years old! Crazyness. 12/12/04 -- more CSS fixes -- killed some broken links -- Wordpress blog incorporated, and all old MT entries imported -- text updates and linkaging 06/10/04 -- Fixed some CSS bugs on the topics pages -- edited, managed and updated some of the text in the topics 25/02/04 -- finally managed to fix the footer that had been fucked since the start -- tidied up lots of source code. replaced dodgy tags with proper ones. -- fixed some colour issues 20/12/03 -- more sounds in download section -- tidied up some of the code in the topics section so prev/next should work properly -- added text to DVC walkthroughs -- updated about me text -- added more Friends quotes 30/11/03 -- Surf portfolio now on its own at www.matt-thornton-surf-photography.co.uk -- new DaVinci Code walkthrough 30/08/03 -- Have added a comments section to the site so you can leave notes or whatever on the topics -- added a content section on the DaVinci Code -- updated a few other bits n bobs 11/08/03 -- WOW, the site is a year old! Thanks to everyone for comments and so on and to Google for giving me so many visitors! 12/05/03 Wow it's been a long time, eh? -- have moved site stuff of mt.net and put it on thornworx.com -- reorganised main page to give more focus to topics and surf photography -- more to come... 17/02/03 -- changed the download section so it was directoried -- adding heaps more stuff to be downloaded -- added a new forum to the, er, forums -- added new subcat to the spam topic -- added new topic "Jokes" with, well, erm... jokes -- updated some text and changed colour on front page 15/02/03 -- added a download section -- did some stuff to the forums... changed the style a bit, added some hacks and update to 2.0.4 15/01/03 -- added some error pages and protected some shit. See if you can find it! -- added a new category to the blog to organise the random junk I seem to find on the web TBH I have plans to do quite a lot -- I'm just really lucky everything is still here in one piece after BF blew up. So yeh I'm gonna do some stuff when I can. Erm. Dunno when it'll be though, but basically gonna get rid of some stuff, improve the database bit, and also integrate the blog with the site better. Easy. 25/11/02 -- reorganised the menus a bit -- optimised some of the SQL code -- updated the blog and other random text -- added a blog box on the front page 3/11/02 -- added a new topic -- "SPAM!" -- added topic titles to each subcat in topics section, help improve readability 28/10/02 -- site up for review at SPF: http://www.sitepointforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82006&perpage=20&pagenumber=1 24/10/02 -- fix tracking program which was up the duff -- reworded some of front page and descriptions -- changed style of right hand nav -- forum back online -- fixed another bug with prev/next links -- added image capability to topics pages -- added an about me page and quotes thingy 12/10/02 -- added more photo's to the portfolio -- other gallery up -- added few extra links to improve navigation 6/10/02 Finally found some time to work on this a bit more! -- added the photo portfolio gallery thingy, I will add more photo's soon -- added a few more pages and updated some of the content -- changed the look of the frontpage to put less emphasis on the sites and more on the photo's and the topics -- put the blog up as well (which means I have to start bloody writing in it doesn't it!) 6/09/02 Haven't done much to the site recently cos I have been really busy at work. I have also had to move loads of stuff over to the new server, but might have a bit of time this weekend to get some stuff done (like getting the forums back up...) 26/08/02 -- added more quotes and put them on a little popup alert thing -- rewrote some content stuff -- changed the link colours, but now I'm really not sure about them! Grr. I reckon it looks dull. What do you think? -- made site selection on the left random -- added a site map styleee thingy, well just a list of all available links on the right -- rejigged the forum stuff including adding a S&F section -- added contact form -- fixed more bugs with prev/next links -- finished off content for Tanzania. Still more to follow when I get my diary back. Need to add photos too -- added sbs.com section 25/08/02 -- cleaned up some of the source code (so it reads better if you're trying to pinch it!) -- started adding content to a new area, Frontier Tanzania -- added "Tell a friend", "Discuss this in the forums", "Photo Album" and "Print Page" options to the topics bit -- updated some of the stat tracking -- updated the content of right hand boxes on the index page seeing as my news feed isn't written yet :p -- experimented with getting rid of some of the white, but it wouldn't play nice so abandoned that :p -- started this changeloggy thing. Should really do it DB'd but much too lazy for that! I have hangover for the third day running :( 24/08/02 -- fixed the prev/next links that weren't working in the topics -- moved index page around a bit to put more emphasis on the topics which is rapidly becoming more interesting than the original intention of this site! 23/08/02 -- added new content section on Environmental Protection -- prev/next links don't work :( 21/08/02 -- built topics section -- added Eva Cassidy section -- subsect navigation and prev/next links 18/08/02 -- more DB work. meta tags and stuff like that for the SE's -- simple stat tracking program -- forums -- rewrote Thornworx index page -- WB up too (in its limited capacity) 11/08/02 -- site up! WHoo! :D