WEBSITE NEWS

Date Item News Item
January 2019 website Added top and bottom pagination links to all gallery albums. Tweaked code for better request URI string values
December 2018 website Added new version of previously simple chronology page. Now based on year, trips and albums as it is at amountainlifetime.net
December 2018 website Started mobile device upgrade. Ongoing development but responsive mobile CSS and JS now in place.
November 2018 website Started album image size upgrade project. Eventually default h-size will be 1600px
June 2018 website Another SEO friendly additon. Added a slug based URL system to replace query string variables in the gallery section of the site.
June 2018 website Added a switch statement to create custom page titles for all the content files. Then added a couple of functions to the header file to get the Album name from number value at the end of the gallery page URL. Should help SEO. Also added the year to the peaks page.
October 2017 website Lots of small but important changes to the code driving the site. Changed chronology and news pages from hard coded to DB driven. Improved search function so you can search by phrase too. Re-wrote some content and added some additional images to the home page slide show.
June 2017 personal Five plus months on the path to recovery. Making good progress. Lots of bike rides and walking. One tiring hike in the Whites (Edmunds Path). Knee and heel now correctly climb stairs such that calf isn't struggling to do it all alone. Current plan is to hit the Eastside end of Aug for a month or so in the backcountry.
February 2017 website Added list of peaks climbed with links to albums
January 2017 website Added interactive imageMap and chronology pages to site. Bigger images in some of the older albums too. Also starting to add trail maps by album (newest first)
January 2017 personal Right ankle fusion. Same instability / arthritis issues that the left ankle had (fused in 2005). Left foot has better than expected flexibility. So looking forward to the right catching up.
December 2015 website Register domain and launch website. Hosted by MediaTemple.net. Search page now offers 3 ways to get stuff - a fully indexed search function matching 4 DB columns, a drop down list of album names, both of which add to a tag cloud. Also added a contact form.
January 2015 website Still running website project on Locahost server only. Much work to be done before launch.