Sylvicolus: Out of the Forest

Sylvicolus

Updates

"...my spelling is Wobbly.
It's good spelling but it Wobbles,
and the letters get in the wrong places. "

Winnie the Pooh
Year 2001
October Updated Jedi Knight pages. Posted Bonsai indoors site.
September The NAMA 2001 list is getting many visits per week; either someone linked to it or people are finding it when web searching fungi. Started Bonsai indoors site.
Summer Further work and additions to Jedi Knight pages. Same average daily visits continue because of people linking to both the Spring Flora site and the Cogs page on my Jedi Knight site. Posted species lists for NAMA 2000 and 2001 forays.
Spring Worked with Edna on designing pages for her Spring Flora class. More work done on Jedi Knight pages. Both sets of pages bring average daily visits to a higher plateau.
March
Redesigned lactarius home page. Posted Pat and PatCV pages. Made completely new look for Sylvicolus home page and added links. Started work on Sylvicolus site pages.
January - FebruaryDeveloped pages for the six week course of Plant Families of the Midwest. Designed pages for Jedi Knight Level Design; began receiving visits and comments.

Year 2000
December 28First visit to website, by me from brother's house during vacation.
December 22Lactarius.com is born and registered. First pages uploaded.
December 18Finally gave up on using Netscape for home page because of repeated inability to upload pages on their server.
December 8Started Ph.D. thesis page. Created logo for ChicagoOak Journal.
October - NovemberRedesigned Sylvicolus homepage and learned more DHTML for layers and moving objects. Developed ideas for Patrick's Bookshelf. Designed cover for A Field Guide to Life.
October 6
Updated Home Page (and removed www.XpertSite.com link).
Changed Link of the Month.
Summer Was too busy with mushroom season to work on website.
June 12 Changed Link of the Month.
April 6 Changed Link of the Month.
February 25 - 29 Removed Valentine´s Day greeting and moved the Hug Me heart to Pat´s Page. Revised JavaScript ColorKey program. Modified pages to have a more uniform look and better navigation. Started the Nature Note column. Installed navigation buttons and other graphics. Created index.html pages and graphic sets for Orange Sky, Lemon Bars, Green Plaid, and Blue Horizon.
February 16 - 21 Created Red Book page. Created Lavender Life index page and graphics. Installed the www.XpertSite.com Ask an Expert question link. Planted the tree on the Sylvicolus Home Page. Updated ColorKey JavaScript program and graphics and made it an external JS file.
February 2 - 9Started work on Pat's Page and new graphic layout of background borders meshing with forground graphics. Developed the colorkey idea with numerous graphic components and much JavaScript programming. Developed mushroom graphics (L. oculatus) to accompany page. Translated new layout to Sylvicolus Home Page and graphics (L. subvellereus).
January 29Created new Sylvicolus home page and graphics with Netscape SiteCentral banner on bottom of page. Disconnected the Christmas card.

Year 1999
December 30Received first e-mail from a visitor (unsolicited) to website.
December 14-17 Created Christmas card pages.
November - December
Sylvicolus homepage is simple and under construction. Meanwhile, did graphic designing and JavaScript programming for the cover and lock mechanism of the Red Book.
November 12Sylvicolus Home Page born on Netscape's Site Central.
October 2Joined Netscape for Web based e-mail.
Started learning HTML on October 14.


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