tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75601092009-02-21T02:18:31.668-08:00News updates and responses from din-timelines.comRandynoreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1147267346524012282006-05-10T06:09:00.000-07:002006-05-10T06:22:26.756-07:00

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

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1146881106132000962006-05-05T18:57:00.000-07:002006-05-06T04:43:52.946-07:00

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] [

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1146680984776536552006-05-03T11:29:00.000-07:002006-05-03T11:29:45.050-07:00

The 1810 to 1812 CE timelines page has been replaced by three new pages. 1810 CE World History Timeline 1811 CE World History Timeline 1812 CE World History Timeline There is some new information and some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.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1126883933637196612005-09-16T08:16:00.000-07:002006-01-24T19:58:08.996-08:00

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

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1125621940666359762005-09-01T17:41:00.000-07:002005-09-01T17:45:40.670-07:00

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.

Randynoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1125201898953521682005-08-27T20:56:00.000-07:002005-08-27T21:05:54.983-07:00

I worked through a rough edit of the 1910s. Since all the pages are interlinked I have to do swaths of them fairly quickly when I'm changing page ranges, so the information is mostly stuff that looks right on the spur of the moment and I don't feel the need to re-research. I added a stats feature to my page builder which tells me I'm posting about 25% of the raw information I have so I suspect

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1124203792874265762005-08-16T07:43:00.000-07:002005-08-16T07:50:13.483-07:00

I'm having a productive time going through the timelines with the new editor. In the last couple of days I've updated the following pages. [1919e] [1919.q1] [1919.q2] [1919.q3] [1919.q4] [Jazz Age]The following 1920s pages are expansions of one page into four quarter pages. [1920e] [1920.q1] [1920.q2] [1920.q3] [1920.q4] [1921e] I'm trying to decide whether to edit depth or breadth,

Randynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1123722339032073192005-08-10T18:05:00.000-07:002005-08-10T18:05:39.036-07:00

I finally made an update at 800 CE to 849 CE World History Timeline. This also marks My making a database editor that is a little more geared to editing the timelines. I can now edit an entire page at the same time through a nifty little php script I cobbled together.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1111934507914376712005-03-27T06:38:00.000-08:002005-03-27T06:41:47.916-08:00

Ramadan 01, 1376 AH is the same date as Apirl 01, 1957.I used http://din-timelines.com/calendar_converter.shtmlto hunt it down.After a few searches I confirmed with a person's website who was whose birthday is on 10 Ramadan 1376.>submittername: f. Elkafsi>>subject: dates of Ramadan in 1957>>message:>I would like to know to which dates of our calendar correspond>the dates of Ramadan in 1957.

Randynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1111031648919982452005-03-16T19:50:00.000-08:002005-03-16T19:54:08.920-08:00

I made some small, but important changes to the program that builds the timeline pages from the database. One is abbreviated date formatting, which lets me leave out sections of the date I'm not using, the other clears up a simple problem with newlines in the database and how they are handled. The end user will probrably not notice anything different but it should speed things up a small bit for

Randynoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1110881612073339042005-03-15T02:13:00.000-08:002005-03-15T02:13:32.073-08:00

I uploaded an updated version of the 750 CE to 799 CE Timeline. It is slow going doing these pages.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1110721422130391052005-03-13T05:43:00.000-08:002005-03-13T05:43:42.130-08:00

I'm offering direct link advertising on the timeline pages. This would be benificial for history sites, travel sites (targeting the locations talked about in that page), genealogy sites (though I haven't had much luck with them), and retail / auction sites dealing with historical items and replicas. I can provide statistics on Query Strings used to get to particular pages and robots visiting,

Randynoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1109618426987312632005-02-28T11:20:00.000-08:002005-02-28T11:20:26.986-08:00

I'm updating the pages I have already edited and will be fooling with the secondary support pages as soon as I can in response to google's Autolink feature on their toolbar. Here are some threads that explain the feature and the problems some webmasters have with it. Google's Statement on Toolbar Autolink Remember Smart Tags ? :: SearchGuild.com

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1109190699177246822005-02-23T12:31:00.000-08:002005-02-23T12:31:39.176-08:00

The javascript discussed here as Everything Else: Anti Google Autolink Code Released will be installed with new updates. If there are any questions what this is about visit Brad's Talmir blog, he's got plenty of links to the scoop.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1107099957259479342005-01-30T07:38:00.000-08:002005-01-30T07:45:57.260-08:00

I had a person express a little interest in editing some of the timelines. The problems are that I haven't had a chance to discuss it more thouroughly and I have such a proprietary system set up to handle the whole thing I think it would be a bit of a learning curve to get somebody started. So I'm thinking about building an online editor. What would happen is I would export from my database at

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1105280016866995572005-01-09T06:13:00.000-08:002005-01-09T06:13:36.866-08:00

I'm getting back to a slow start from the holidays. I have an updated version of 700 CE to 749 CE Timeline.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1102230351605711692004-12-04T22:58:00.000-08:002004-12-04T23:05:51.606-08:00

I've gotten a few emails over the past week or so alerting me to problems with the site. I had a few about listings in Resgestae and some troubles viewing parts of the site. The listings have been edited but I'm having trouble pinpointing the cause of either incorrect URLs in the menuing or pages not showing up at all. The URLs I belive I've fixed .. but one email about a page not showing up

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1100966079222786512004-11-20T07:54:00.000-08:002004-11-20T07:54:39.223-08:00

I fially rewrote the big menu page program. It was still pointing to many outdated pages from the old templating system. Now when I split pages I can update the Big Menu easily. Big Menu

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subject: timeline 427 BC message: Just so you know, you have it listed in your time line that in 427BC Pisistratus died and was succeeded by sons, Hippias and Hipparchus. That was in 527BC. I\'m assuming it was just a typo but thought you should be aware of it. Thanks for the great site! k. Lomas I checked it out and indeed the date was wrong .. Pisistratus .. The new pages 549 - 500 BC and

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1100781507763417752004-11-18T04:38:00.000-08:002004-11-18T04:38:27.763-08:00

At this time only 11 are listed, but they are great reading and some have maps to help explain the tactics involved. History Forum Simaqianstudio -> Top 25 Greatest Tactical Feats

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Since my server space on timelines is limited I decided to move the news to blogspot. I've huge updates for timelines that I'm slowly getting to so I'm hoping to make as much room as possible on the server. There are many things going on behind the scenes to make this possible.

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1100393392222833972004-11-13T16:49:00.000-08:002004-11-17T07:02:02.450-08:00

A nice little tidbit for you all. History Forums :: View topic - Why WWII soldier = GI

Randynoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7560109.post-1099874212315582732004-11-07T16:32:00.000-08:002004-11-17T07:15:28.870-08:00

Once before the current templating scheme I had a list of hand picked titls from amazon. These were in text graphic ads that fit the era or one of the subjects of the time they were in. I had about 40 titles ranging from one end to the other. Some were books my wife or I read. When these items appear there will be no other amazon graphic ads in the side menu area.

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Great poll and discussion History Forum Simaqianstudio -> Greatest Western Empire in history

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A few tongue and cheek answers and a few serious ones. Take a look. History Forums :: View topic - Englands proudest/greatest moment

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