I updated the Trip Diaries main page with some new stats for countries and continents and changed the Upcoming Travels section. Still looking for that major redesign!
Also updated the site-wide copyright files to 2010! I have a nagging feeling that somewhere I have forgotten a gallery page that has the wrong data, but I will check it out throughout the year.
I also in the last week have added nav links at the top of the What's New page to make it easier to get back to the main Club Josh site.
Added the Argentina Trip Diaries to the Mobile Site. Almost three months and still no main Trip Diary refresh. Also looking to add mobile Flickr links to the appropriate diaries. Hopefully soon!
Maybe not massive in the number of Gorn photos added, but it is the first structure change since v 18.1 in March 2001! Since I needed to find a location for the South America photos, I split Asia and Oceania so that now there are 6 photo galleries on the Gorn page instead of 4.
The sections are now: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, and Celebrity. I guess when I make it to Africa, things will get a bit creative. This was an easy fix, so maybe when I go on Safari, I will just go to smaller thumbnails, or god forbid, a redesign of the Gorn pages!
Updates include the addition of nav links to the new pages at the top of each page, the movement of Asia and Oceania to each own pages, 34 new photos of Argentina in the South America section, the change of the Gorn Page 2009 to Gorn Page 2010, and finally an update of the places the Gorn has been. Long ago, I started a Google Map for the Gorn, but got bogged down. Originally, I was going to link to a photo in each pin location, but I think for the sake of sanity, I will just add the pins.
I also discovered that I used a random copyright file for the Gorn pages which is why some of the pages had 2008 copyrights instead of 2009. They have been updated to 2010 in advance of the sitewide change next week.
I started working on a new Club House page and as a result started poking around at a few minor things that were amiss on the site.
First up: Deleted the old Lite site that I no longer use. As a reminder everything is now in m.clubjosh.com. As a result I deleted the old PDA link under the What's New links on the index page.
Next: Updated the old robots.txt file from the old server. There were a lot of directories that no longer exist (old galleries that are long gone!)
Finally: Made the Flickr thumbnail on the index page a local image since if you are looking at clubjosh from behind a domain that blocks Flickr you see nothing.
I still haven't finished the new Club House, but it is close. Hope to get it up before vacation.
Added a photo of Huell Howser to the Gorn page! Pretty exciting that I got a photo of him with the Gorn. Also cleaned up the URL link on the Gorn index page to the Celebrity page.
Added 63 new Gorn photos of the Southeast USA from my recent trip. Updated North America page as well as the index page to reflect the addition.
On the Trip Diaries page, I updated my state count list as well as my forthcoming trip list. Sure need to finish that redesign so all the Diaries on the mobile site can be converted to web sites!! I also added links to the full Flickr gallery for my trip.
In what must be a record, I have posted the Trip Diary for my recent trip to the Southeastern US to the mobile site. It will launch on the regular site with the new TD redesign coming soon!
The largest expansion of the mobile site in Club Josh history!
First the non-diary stuff: I updated the banner on the main index to match the web edition, and I added a new link to my Twitter feed which is also found on the home page of the web edition. I also cleaned up the fonts on Diaries and What's New pages. I left jarrepalooza alone, I think it will be removed at some point..
And now the Diary stuff: I have added 5 new Trip Diaries from Europe 2002 to Alberta 2008! Along with the new additions, I have re-formatted the entire Diaries section so that they all have the same look and feel. I removed the link to WDW 2003 since I did not like the link to a random photo gallery.
Europe 2002 is the biggest addition, since this is a long-thought lost diary that I had to re-interpret some old notes for the last few days of the trip. This update makes the mobile site more up-to-date than the regular site. But now that the includes are all in place, I will be able to push the redesign of the web version of the Trip Diaries.
Another change: The Diaries on the mobile site are now "Club Josh Trip Diaries" to keep the branding consistent. This change will make it into the new web site as well.
Next up: Links to the Mobile Flickr site for the diaries that have Flickr galleries!
Added photos to Flickr of Europe 2002, NYC 2003, and Boston 2005. All accessible via links on the Trip Diaries page.
Lately, I have been reminiscing about times gone by, and for whatever reason it caused me to go through the site and make a list of problems and changes that I want to make. I can't believe how long it has been that the SSIs are not working on the Trip Diaries pages. The older galleries from the 90s really suffered.
Therefore, I finally did something about it and fixed all the old legacy headers and SSI issues so that they are at least presentable and not embarrassing. Heck, I think the Europe 1998 gallery has been offline for at least 3 years!
I now have two pages of notes of stuff to fix and make the site an accurate 2009 representation of what I want Club Josh to be. Diaries has the most work to be done, and I think that is why some of the problems have been left to linger for so long.
