Site History

A brief history of robinmassart.com
I first became interested in the internet at university round about the time that the Mosaic browser was released and have had a very keen interest in the Net ever since. So much so, that despite graduating in Aeronautical Engineering I have somehow ended up as web developer. But I love the possibilities that the Net provides, particularly the fact that anybody can have a 'voice' on it and make themselves heard without requiring millions for an advertising campaign. I used it as my primary information source for preparing my Round-The-World trip and on return decided to give something back to the online community by creating a site about my experiences whilst travelling. Over the years the site has become what you see here today. My first site is presumeably in the Recycle Bin of an older version Windows on a computer in somebodies attic. The first proper, published site you can view here, although I don't think you will see much in Mozilla! The second version, is mainly the same as the current one, but was purely html (no server-side scripting) on the server, mainly because I didn't want to pay too much for the server. It was however 'put together' on my local computer using ASP, in order to have a common layout and menu. The current version has been ported to PHP and placed on the Net using a provider that supports PHP at a reasonable cost.

To Do List:

• Add photos to guideto bulgaria
• Update long comments in the guestbook which got cut off due to short field in DB (see link in old site)

Currently

• Waiting for decent internet connection!

20/10/2003

• Completed text for Guide to Bulgaria
• Changed "About Me" to "About The Site"
• Redesigned DB to be used with mlbuilder
• Removed "Draw" page and merged "fun" and "misc" sections, renaming to "Fun".
• Updated about me page
• Updated design philosophy.
• Sorted out bulgarian version
• Removed html table from navbar

08/10/2003

• Implemented the markup language builder module in PHP
• Went through stylesheets and cut out redundant styles and create a common font sued throughout the site
• Changed travel page layout to remove tables and use float:right to position photos

05/09/2003

• Ported to PHP and found new, good value host (ICDSoft)
• Added photo page to Bulgaria section

29/08/2003

• Removed DTD info for IE and added ie.css for IE.
• Updated "Welcome" and "Who Am I" pages.
• Added Site Info Page.
• Added History Page.

28/08/2003

• Finished off HTML4.01 compliancy. All pages are now compliant.
• Finished off CSS2 compliancy. All stylesheets are now compliant.
• Added 'publish' col to subitem table to hide unfinished pages.

04/08/2003

• Made most of the Travel section HTML4.01 compliant. Except for diary page.

02/08/2003

• Worked on making entry page conform with W3 HTML4.01 and CSS2 standards.

31/07/2003

• Added some info to the Bulgarian section.
• Fixed slight bug in IE6 with the Sokoban game.

04/06/2003

• Finished off thoughts page.

03/06/2003

• Added Bulgaria section to menu.
• Redesigned menu so that it works properly in Mozila.
• Redesigned Sokoban so that it works in Mozilla.

17/04/2003

• Corrected "My trip" menu pages, which had the languages mixed up.
• Corrected enlgish "Australia East Coast" pages, which were using bulagrian menu.
• Created "Italy '00" and "Draw" text images.

16/12/2002

• Modified CV slightly.
• Modified menu to include dropdown for about me.
• Added second page to about me dropdown: thoughts of mine - still to be completed.

15/12/2002

• Updated CV and about me page, to reflect moving to Bulgaria.

14/08/2002

• Added final code for statistics on http://www1.addfreestats.com