This page is intended to give details about our Beach Buggy web sites, including what changes were made, when and perhaps even why.
This page contains the following sections:
The Shining-Wit web site is hosted on an old Compaq Proliant 1600 server (bought from eBay) with dual Intel PII 450MHz processors and 640MB RAM. It is running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP1 and IIS 6.0 and also doubles as my email server. The site is published to the web via Microsoft ISA Server 2000 and Cisco PIX 501 firewalls. The whole thing is located in my house and sits on the end of a 2Mbps home ADSL link provided by PlusNet.
The vast majority of the site is written and maintained using Microsoft Windows Notepad, the only significant exception to this is the slide show pages, which are generated using the Windows XP Slide Show Wizard Power Toy.
Date |
Site Update Details |
Why |
|---|---|---|
| 25/01/08 | Copied the Design Detail section from Rick's buggy site to Tina's buggy site and edited it as required. | To transfer the relevant information along with the parts from one buggy to the other. |
| 01/01/08 | Created a basic home page for Tina's Buggy web site. | To provide information on the build of a very simple roadster buggy using as many stock VW parts as possible (mostly parts left over from building my buggy). |
| 12/04/2007 | Renamed 'Buggy Diary' page to 'Build Diary'. | To fit in better with the naming of the new place holders added below. |
| 12/04/2007 | Added place-holders in main menu for proposed new sections 'Build Details' and 'Build Costs'. | To indicate that new sections will become available and to define their home within the site structure. |
| 12/04/2007 | Moved Doon Kit Photos slide show to the Design Details/Body sub-page. | To minimise number of menu items on home page. |
| 12/04/2007 | Moved Donor Vehicles slide show to the Donor Vehicles sub-page. | To minimise number of menu items on home page. |
| 12/04/2007 | Changed Donor Vehicles section from a slide show to a sub-page. | To enable further details about the donor vehicles to be added. |
| 12/04/2007 | Moved UVA Fugitive slide show to the UVA Fugitive sub-page. | To minimise number of menu items on home page. |
| 12/04/2007 | Changed UVA Fugitive section from a slide show to a sub-page. | To enable further details about the fugitive to be added. |
| 07/04/2006 | Added 'Latest Photos' slide show to the 'Home page'. | To show the current status of the buggy without having to navigate any of the menus. |
| 02/04/2006 | Added 'This page last updated on:' Java script to the bottom of all pages. | To enable regular visitors to quickly see if anything on the page has changed, without me having to manually maintain this information for every page. |
| 26/03/2006 | Added 'Design Overview' page. | To create a location for information on the general design aim and factors which contribute to it. |
| 22/03/2006 | Added 'Legal Stuff' page. | To create a location for information on registering, taxing, MOTing and SVA-ing a buggy. |
| 21/03/2006 | Renamed 'Design Discussion' page to 'Design Detail', fragmented it into multiple sub-pages and added place-holders for proposed new 'Design Detail' sections. | To reduce the size of the 'Design Discussion' page so that relevant parts will load faster on low bandwidth connections. |
| 19/02/2006 | Added Sub-Page Content Links to 'Design Discussion' page. | To make the 'Design Discussion' page easier to navigate prior to fragmenting it into multiple pages. |
| 19/02/2006 | Added place-holders in main menu for proposed new sections. | Beginning of new layout as 'Design Discussion' page is getting too long and needs to be broken down into sub-pages. |
| 19/02/2006 | Added Site Details page. | To keep track of site changes and to help people find sections that have 'gone missing'. |
| 19/02/2006 | Moved 'Rail Photos' link to 'Plan B' section of 'Why build a Doon Buggy?' page. | To reduce number of menu items on home page. |
| 19/02/2006 | Added 'Back to Rick's Buggy Project Home Page' links to the bottom of all pages, except the 'Home Page'. | To enable location of the 'Home Page' for people who may have found only a sub-page via a search engine. |
| 18/02/2006 | Moved 'Chassis Photos' link to bottom of 'Chassis Shortening Tasks' section of 'Design Discussion' page. | To reduce number of menu items on home page. |
| 18/02/2006 | Added links to www.redbuggy.com and www.2ridetheworld.com to the 'Why build a Doon Buggy?' page. | Newly discovered relevant sites. |
| 17/02/2006 | Removed frameset from the 'Home Page', so site no longer uses frames, and moved side menu to top of page. | To improve layout when site is viewed on narrow screen devices like PDAs and Smart-Phones. |