- 23 October 2009
- Added information, a group photo, and other photos for the fall 2009 field trip.
- 11 October 2009
- Added information, a group photo, and other photos for the 2009 meeting.
- Added basic information about next year's events.
- Updated the home page and the events page.
- 15 August 2009
- Added information about the upcoming meeting.
- 13 March 2009
- Updated and fixed links.
- Updated bibliography on publications page.
- 06 March 2009
- Added newsletter #21 to publications page.
- 15 February 2009
- Updated home page, events page, and individual pages for the spring field trip, annual meeting, and the fall field trip.
- 01 October 2008
- Added information, a group photo, and other photos for the 2008 meeting.
- Added information, a group photo, and other photos for the fall 2008 field trip.
- Added basic information about next year's events.
- Updated the home page and the events page.
- 12 August 2008
- Added information about the 21st Annual Meeting and the fall field trip.
- Updated home page and events page accordingly.
- Updated copyright notice to include the current year.
- 02 May 2008
- Added a narrative, group shot, and photos of the spring 2008 field trip.
- Updated home page and events page with field trip information.
- 30 April 2008
- Added xmlns definition to all html tags. This had the effect of setting the "last updated" date and time for all changed pages.
- 09 April 2008
- Added information about spring field trip.
- 08 October 2007
- Add link to Glenn Manning's Snakes of Arkansas post to the fall field trip site.
- 07 October 2007
- Added information about annual meeting.
- Added information about fall field trip.
- Added "Upcoming events" and "All events" sections to the events page and updated the former with the dates of the 2008 field trips and annual meeting.
- 05 October 2007
- Fixed link on photo page.
- 01 October 2007
- Updated bibliography on the publications page.
- 21 September 2007
- Formatted publications page for aesthetics and easier reading.
- 20 September 2007
- Fixed the link to the updated bibliography document on the publications page. It was pointing to an older version.
- 30 August 2007
- Verified links.
- 07 August 2007
- Added information for fall meeting.
- 11 July 2007
- Added photos for spring field trip.
- 30 May 2007
- Added group photo for the spring 2007 field trip.
- Changed group photo sizes for all other sites for easier downloading. The original photo is still available by clicking on the image from the group pages.
- 29 May 2007
- 04 May 2007
- Added details for spring field trip.
- 30 April 2007
- Added date for spring 2007 field trip.
- 18 April 2007
- Added Federal government category to links, moved some state government links there, and added some new ones.
- 07 April 2007
- Added custom 404 error page.
- 03 April 2007
- Changed meeting and field trip directory links to utilize automatic loading of index page rather than specifying a page. The post server-side scripts were attracting attention from unwanted robots.
- 27 March 2007
- Block several IP addresses that were crawling site with unauthorized robots.
- 26 February 2007
- Converted and changed links to a standardized table read. Distribution and field guide links moved to the atlas link site.
- Converted site history to a database table rather than hard-coded lists.
- 25 February 2007
- Added current newsletter and updated bibliography to the publications page.
- Home page update.
- Updated information about the 20th Annual Meeting and the spring and fall field trips and added dates for these on the events page.
- 28 January 2007
- Added information about the 20th Annual Meeting and the spring and fall field trips.
- Footer update.
- Home page update.
- 14 October 2006
- Added more photos for the 19th Annual Meeting and the fall field trip.
- 11 October 2006
- Added and finalized information about the 19th Annual Meeting and the fall field trip. Photos are still needed for the field trip and will be added as they are received.
- Changed information on the home page.
- 02 August 2006
- Added details and documents to the 19th Annual Meeting site.
- 05 July 2006
- Minor changes and fixes to some pages.
- 04 July 2006
- Introduced new logo to site.
- 02 July 2006
- Added logos and content to about this site page.
- Changed webmaster e-mail on events, photo, and copyright pages.
- 01 July 2006
- Miscellaneous cleanup on several pages.
- 30 June 2006
- Added a mail icon to e-mail links.
- Added an about this site page for technical information.
- Reformatted the events page with new icons.
- Reformatted the footer section on each page.
- 21 June 2006
- Added information about the 2006 meeting.
- Cleaned up several other pages with more standard HTML.
- Converted links page to nested, unordered lists.
- 20 June 2006
- Added icons and links to Adobe and Adobe Reader pages.
- Populated the events page with all meeting information.
- Removed old history page and put all history on this page.
- 19 June 2006
- Added an early events page but left it unpopulated (later replaced).
- Added list of events.
- Converted publications list to an unordered list.
- 26 May 2006
- Added a group photo from the spring field trip.
- Added information about the spring field trip to the home page.
- Added photographs from the spring field trip.
- 15 May 2006
- Added information about the spring field trip to the home page.
- 06 February 2006
- Added new version of the bibliography--updated from the 2004 and 2005 newsletters--to the publications site.
- Updated home page with new document information.
- 31 January 2006
- Added Newsletter #18 to the publications list.
- 20 November 2005
- Added the ability to disable cascading style sheets in the footer. This will make it easier to test pages for accessibility.
- Changed contact information page details.
- 30 September 2005
- Added group photo and candid photos for the 18th Annual Meeting (2005).
- 20 November 2004
- Additional changes to the style sheet. This included making links default to blue and underline only in a hover state. Visited links are green and active links are red.
- More changes to the Links page. Several links from original site added.
- 14 November 2004
- Added group photo and candid photos for the 17th Annual Meeting (2004).
- Modified the Links page to build from a database of links. These will be added soon.
- Standardized the header information for each page. This is in preparation to implement a "look and feel" for the site that will include content on the top and left side of each individual page.
- 12 November 2004
- Rearranged footer on all pages, including adding a link to the XHTML validator provided by the World Wide Web Consortium.
- Started the process of ensuring that all pages are compliant with XHTML 1.0 Strict. Click on the "W3C XHTML Validator" link in the footer of each page to see if that page validates to the standard.
- 07 November 2004
- Added standard cascading style sheets to all pages. All elements are controlled by a single sheet copied into the top of each page.
- 30 September 2004
- Added details about the 2004 meeting.
- 31 August 2004
- All pages touched with at least one change so all document dates set to today.
- Updated all PHP documents with CSE HTML Validator Lite.
- 29 August 2004
- Added information for the upcoming 2004 meeting. Included are the original letter, announcement, and registration documents.
- Updated the bibliography from the article in the 2003 newsletter.
- 01 July 2004
- Most content was moved within a few weeks but some features were not implemented in the same way.
- Moved site from pghoster.com to a2webhosting.com.
- 09 December 2002
- Converted Newsletter #10 (1997) to Adobe's PDF format.
- 05 December 2002
- Converted Newsletter #7 (1994), Newsletter #8 (1995), and Newsletter #9 (1996) to Adobe's PDF format.
- 04 December 2002
- Converted Newsletter #5 (1992) and Newsletter #6 (1993) to Adobe's PDF format.
- 04 November 2002
- Converted Newsletter #12 (1999) to Adobe's PDF format.
- 10 October 2002
- Converted Newsletter #11 (1998) and Newsletter #13 (2000) to Adobe's PDF format.
- 08 October 2002
- Converted bibliography page to Adobe's PDF format.
- Converted Newsletter #3 (1990) and Newsletter #4 (1991) to Adobe's PDF format.
- 07 October 2002
- Converted Newsletter #1 (1988) and Newsletter #2 (1989) to Adobe's PDF format.
- 05 June 2002
- Reloaded entire site to fix some intermittent display problems.
- 17 March 2002
- Added some new links.
- 10 February 2002
- Expanded information and added links to the organization text.
- Verified that our site is listed on most major search engines. On the majority, entering the text "Missouri Herpetological Association" (sans quotes) brings this site as the top hit.
- 05 February 2002
- Minor changes.
- 22 January 2002
- Added newsletter Number #14 to the list of available newsletters.
- 16 January 2002
- Added "keyword" and "description" META tags to the home page. This enables search engines to examine and index the site.
- Site registered with Open Directory, Yahoo!, and Zeal directory sites and AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, and HotBot web crawlers. Although your favorite search site might not be listed here, chances are it actually uses one or more of these other sites for its core listings. If you would like the site included at a search site not listed here, please contact the webmaster. Please note that non-commercial sites can take up to three months to be listed in search results.
- Updated bibliography with this year's additions.
- 15 January 2002
- Added a new form to contact the meeting coordinator. Forms are used instead of MAILTO tags to prevent robots from harvesting e-mail address information.
- Added meeting announcement to the Activities page.
- 14 January 2002
- Added the appendix to the new records article in newsletter Number #7.
- Removed the popup ads from the production site.
- 02 January 2002
- Announced plans to republish on-line newsletters to Adobe's PDF format with the side benefit of restoring the original page numbers.
- Slight modifications to the organization page and the copyright information page.
- Update copyright date to 2002 and changed the url at the bottom of each page to the more consistent members.tripod.com/moherp (instead of moherp.tripod.com which didn't seem to work all the time).
- 30 December 2001
- Added newsletters Number #2, Number #3, and Number #4.
- Added some links to the links page.
- Added some long-overdue information to the Organization page.
- Compiled the bibliography page from the newsletters.
- Minor changes to the copyright information page.
- 04 August 2001
- Added some links to the links page.
- Change the webmaster's e-mail address to avoid being inundated with spam.
- Fixed some strange problems on the forms and other pages.
- 26 July 2001
- Added some university links and fixed some others on the links page.
- Fixed the form confirmation page.
- 24 July 2001
- Formatted and added county records tables from newsletter Number #10.
- 19 July 2001
- Added some new entries to the links page.
- 18 July 2001
- Added information about the 14th annual meeting on the activities page.
- Double-checked all links and removed those that were dated, had little useful content, or were otherwise of poor quality. An essentials section was added to link to other comprehensive sites.
- 17 July 2001
- Re-organized links page and added more links.
- 12 July 2001
- Added newsletter Number #1.
- 11 July 2001
- Added newsletters Number #11, Number #12, and Number #13.
- Fixed some problems with the member list page.
- Reformatted "Literature cited" sections of newsletter Number #5, Number #6, Number #7, Number #8, Number #9, and Number #10.
- Store all newsletters in their own folder (newsletter) within the folder pubs. Renamed mhan5.htm through mhan9.htm (and associated files) to mhan05.htm through mhan09.htm.
- 01 July 2001
- Changed "Last modified:" to "Updated:" at the bottom of each page.
- Fixed some problems with the member list page.
- More testing with ASP (active server pages) for county records that can be easily updated from our master database records.
- Removed the "Coming soon!" text from the Amphibians and Reptiles pages.
- Tested and double-checked the forms pages to ensure all were setup to e-mail the webmaster and record information in text files.
- 30 June 2001
- Added Glossary page.
- Simplified member list and added a detailed information page.
- Site URL added to copyright tag at bottom of each page.
- Updated the copyright information page.
- 29 March 2001
- Fixed "double" link list on the Checklists page.
- Minor changes on all forms and some miscellaneous cleanup.
- Updated Links and Site index pages to display main information on first page without scrolling.
- 26 March 2001
- Changed word "Volume" to "Number" on Newsletters page.
- Finish formatting for newsletter Number #9 and added Number #10.
- 25 March 2001
- Added Bibliography page.
- Added Newsletters page and text for Number #5, Number #6, Number #7, and Number #8. Started formatting Number #9.
- Added new taxonomy pages for Amphibians and Reptiles.
- Created a new format type with no background for pages with small or detailed text. This can be seen on the Bibliography page or on a newsletter page.
- Reorganization of the site's folders.
- 21 March 2001
- Added several new links.
- Fixed width of URL field on the Submit a link page.
- Updated member list.
- 18 March 2001
- Downloads page added.
- Links page formatted and updated with Missouri links.
- Submit a link page added.
- 17 March 2001
- A Thank you! page added for all form submissions.
- Contact the webmaster form changed to resemble a regular e-mail form.
- Member information form added.
- Privacy policy page added.
- The Member contact form button fixed.
- 16 March 2001
- Checklists pages changed.
- Contact the webmaster form added.
- Member contacts page updated with a form button to protect e-mail address information from spambots. The member list page is not accessible from anywhere but this page.
- 15 March 2001
- County records by species and county records by county pages added but not yet populated.
- County records database added but not yet configured.
- 14 March 2001
- Broken links fixed on checklist pages.
- Copyright information page added.
- Footer text "Copyright" and "Last modified" linked to Copyright Information and Site History pages, respectively.
- 13 March 2001
- About this site page added.
- Checklists added: home, alphabetic, taxonomic, common name.
- Main link buttons updated with a custom design.
- Most components left-justified to accommodate multiple screen resolutions. Home page components centered.
- Page banner was updated to include the logo within the double line design.
- Site history page (this page) added.
- Site Index was added as a main link.
- Taxonomic checklists added for each group: Caudata, Anura, Testudinata, Lacertilia, Serpentes.
- The text "Coming soon!" added to sites not yet started.
- 03 March 2001
- Logo, copyright / webmaster footer, and general layout introduced.
- Site added to the commercial web server Tripod as moherp.tripod.com.
