Span Events

I added one more new item; Span Events located under the side menuing and ads. The Spans are ongoing events, like wars , eras, periods, etc. that may not have a specific event in a particular timeline page, but are important to what may be going on during that time. I only have a ahandfull done as it is a whole new table in the database and besides the test pages at the bottom of this post it will be an ongoing update. This means I will be adding the span events as I work up through the timelines from my present position somewhere at the start of the 13th Century.


[1090-99]
[1130-49]
[1170-89]
[1190-99]
[1914.q3]
[1914.q4]
[1915e]
[1915.h1]
[1915.h2]
[1916]
[1917e]
[1917.h1]
[1917.h2]
[1918e]
[1918.h1]
[1918.h2]

New Inline Links

I had been thinking about changing the inline links for a while and I finally had time to sit down and hack through a little bit of javascript to make text drop down menus of the inline links. Just clicking on the blue text will drop a menu of the related links for it. There is a noscript option too.

I've placed the new style on these pages.

[5000-3000]
[2999-2300]
[2299-1700]
[1699-1400]
[1399-1100]
[1099-800]
[799-700]
[699-600]
[599-550]
[549-500]

The downside is that is increases the size of the pages by 50%, since all the links must be written twice (with script and without script). So I will be fiddling around looking for ways to lighten the load.

edit
I rethought a few things and now the page size is not an issue. The scripted links are in the text and the direct links are in the 'stick Links' section at the bottom instead of both types being in both places. The size increase is negligable now.

1810 to 1812

The 1810 to 1812 CE timelines page has been replaced by three new pages.


1810 CE World History Timeline

1811 CE World History Timeline

1812 CE World History Timeline


There is some new information and some clarifications in the data.

Encyclopedia

This is one of the many changed parts of the timelines since it inception years ago. I'm still using Wikipedia articles, but there has been problems interlinking the articles that I use with the ones at wikipedia. So this morning I worked out a system to build a better intermediate page between the local articles and the ones I do not have. It seems to be working well so far, but there are a few small additions I want to make to it.

Hurricane Katrina Forums

The people at Skaffe have set up the Hurricane Katrina Forums to help people looking for friends and family in the affected areas and to post information on helping the victims of Katrina.