| 4th December 2005 | Minor maintenance update:
- Replaced old Yorkshire Arts logo with the newer Arts Council England logo on the 'Choir personnel' page (Sponsors area). Thanks to Roy Carr of Making Music for alerting me to the fact that this logo was years out of date.
- Updated the list of Seasonal Patrons on the same page.
- Updated the 'Forthcoming concerts' page.
- Updated the 'Other choir events' page.
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| 31st August 2005 | Lots and lots of small changes, and a new section:
- Added the new '2006 Calendar' advertising page, complete with downloadable PDF year-plan and Mac OS X screensaver. This also entailed adding a new section ('Choir products') to the main menu.
- Added the latest concert details to the forthcoming concerts page and added 2005's concerts to the concert history section.
- Amended the concert history section to have a two-row set of dates at the top, now that it has expanded to include quite a lot of years. We'll have one decade per row in future. (Numeric decade rather than calendar decade, in fact!)
- Added a new event (Open Evening and Vocal Workshop) to the 'Other choir events' page.
- Created a new page about the forthcoming Vocal Workshop and made it (temporarily) become the opening page for the entire site.
- Amended the opening 'Introduction' page to link to the new calendar advert page. Also altered the animating Musical Ear graphic to have a solid white background, as I didn't like the previous transparency over the page background. Added thick red ('clickable') borders around the cartoon and the calendar preview graphics.
- Amended various details on the 'Booking tickets' page, as the ticket prices have increased by 50p and the choir no longer performs all three annual concerts in St Paul's Hall. Also, corrected June's telephone number. Despite the fact that she's been looking after tickets for several years, I had forgotten to update the phone number; it was still Rita Bailey's! If nothing else, this proves that no-one ever books tickets as a result of reading this Web site... Why do I bother...?!
- With the arrival of the excellent new Google Maps service, I've added location links to various things on the Web site: choir rehearsal venue (recruitment, more info and open evening pages), St Paul's Hall concert venue (tickets page) and, on the individual summer concert detail pages, links to the individual venues for our 2005 and 2006 concert venues. Assuming we continue traipsing around local churches for our summer concerts, I'll have to add new addresses to each of these in the future, and presumably to other locations of special events, too. But Google Maps is great, so it'll be fun and, hopefully, helpful to do that.
- On this credits page, changed the blue and yellow colours in this history table to nicer, paler shades, as my previous choices were pretty strong and revolting.
- Updated this page in recognition of the fact that I now use a PowerMac G5 (mainly) to create this particular site. Eradicated mention of my old 350MHz G3 Mac because (a) although I originally created the site on it, I haven't used it for years, and (b) I don't possess it any more, since some miserable sod stole it from me.
- I'm getting a bit personal now, but then I'm under no illusions that anyone other than myself ever reads this drivel.
- While I'm rambling, I was quite tickled to discover that there's an entry for this choir in Wikipedia! (Yes, folks, we're so famous that we've made it into an online encyclopaedia!) I'm not responsible for it, though I did update and extend it when I came across it, and I added the choir's logo to the page. I'd feel even better about its existence if I didn't suspect that its original creator was under the misapprehension that the Huddersfield Singers is really the Huddersfield Choral Society. But their loss is our gain, so I'm not complaining.
A final important behind-the-scenes change is that I've moved the entire site from my Demon Web space to my FreeUK Web space, as there's much more room in the latter location and my Demon space was virtually full. This shouldn't affect anyone who has linked to the official bookmark location (welcome.to/The.Huddersfield.Singers); I just hope that not too many people have linked directly to the Demon address. If they have, they'll have to find us again... It may upset some search engines, too, but it just can't be helped. I don't anticipate that the site will need to move again. |
| 13th January 2005 | Added details of our next open rehearsal and updated the 'Other choir events' page. Shifted the concerts on the 'Forthcoming concerts' page to bring us up to date and add a 'TBA' concert for Winter 2005. |
| 13th October 2004 | Following another email from someone who thought we were the Huddersfield Coral[sic!] Society, I discovered that the Choral does have a half-decent Web site of its own, rather than the very rudimentary page at http://www.users.totalise.co.uk/~hcs/hcs.htm to which I had been linking previously. So now the small link on our intro page points to the correct site, at http://www.huddersfieldchoral.com/. |
| 9th September 2004 | Several updates and a new section:
- Added the new 'Join the choir!' recruitment page; this is an online version of our new recruitment brochures and features my four Musical Ear cartoons.
- Added the latest concert details to the forthcoming concerts page and added 2004's concerts to the concert history section.
- Added three new events to the 'Other choir events' page.
- Created a new page about the forthcoming Vocal Workshop and made it (temporarily) become the opening page for the entire site.
- Amended the opening 'Introduction' page to link to the new recruitment page, and to have an animating graphic showing the Musical Ear cartoons.
- Made corrections to this credits page and added a link to the recruitment page in the 'Further details' page.
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| 21st April 2004 | 'Intro' and 'Further details' pages: changed rehearsal time back to 7:30pm after our relatively brief flirtation with a 7:45pm start. |
| 18th March 2004 | Minor updates. Corrected date of Spring 2004 concert and added soloists; updated concert history and forthcoming concerts; updated 'Other choir events' page. |
| 31st August 2003 | Various updates after another period of stagnation:
- Got rid of the initial opening page (which was rightly criticised for being too technical) and eradicated the entire non-frames version of the site. Maintaining both frames- and non-frames-based versions of the site doubled the amount of work involved in keeping it up to date, and it's likely that no-one used the non-frames version anyway. It was provided for maximum browser compatibility, but hardly any modern browsers fail to offer good frames support, now, so it really wasn't needed. Getting rid of the non-frames half of the site should hopefully allow me to update it more easily and regularly in future (fingers crossed).
- Revised the 'Intro' page to include the information we needed to keep from the scrapped opening page.
- Replaced the choir photograph on the 'Intro' page with my most recent effort.
- Added several missed events to the 'Other choir events' page and actually managed to include Patricia Hamilton's Vocal Workshop a month before it happens...
- Went through the entire 'Concert history' pages, added categories for 2002 and 2003 to take the history up to the most recent concert, and corrected various minor errors in existing pages.
- Updated the 'Forthcoming concerts' pages.
- Made minor revisions and corrections to the text of the 'Interview with Philip Honnor' page.
- Amended various details on the 'Booking tickets', 'Choir personnel', 'Choir 125th anniversary' and 'Further details' pages.
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| 4th May 2002 | A few minor changes and updates:
- The site is now a member of the West Yorkshire Arts & Entertainment Web ring, set up recently by the Webmaster of Pennine Brass;
- Added December coffee morning to the 'Other choir events' page;
- Expanded the list of sample works on the 'Further details' page to include pieces performed after around 1995(!), including our 125th Anniversary Commission, Arthur Butterworth's Haworth Moor;
- Changed telephone contact from M. Bailey to C. Hartley on the 'Further details' page;
- Corrected the title of audio clip 2 on the 'Hear us now!' page (previously this was referring to the wrong track).
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| 1st January 2002 | After a long period of neglect, made some significant changes to the site:
- Found a work-around for the 'broken border' bug in Mac Internet Explorer 5
- Replaced the awful-quality WAVe files with MP3 versions on the 'Hear us now!' page, and rewrote the text slightly;
- Replaced MyComputer's 123Counter Web counter, which suddenly became commercial, with a new free one (which, incidentally, is much superior!) from www.digits.com;
- The Web counter now appears on the opening pages of both versions (framed and unframed) of the site, though the initial entry page is still the one being tracked;
- Added a note to the intro page to explain that we are not the Huddersfield Choral Society!
- Reduced the size of the text in the menu area to make it less cramped on browsers that use large fonts by default, introduced another Mac IE5 fix, and performed other fine-tuning in this area;
- Recreated the personnel page virtually from scratch, with a better-designed table and new sponsor Web links and logos;
- Greatly improved the layout of the 125th anniversary page to make it look less cramped and generally work better in a wide range of browsers, and fixed a silly typo on this page;
- Updated the forthcoming concert and event details, and amended a few details in the concert history pages;
- Redesigned all the concert history (and forthcoming concert) pages to reduce the size of the text and headings in order to make them look better on more modern browsers, which mostly now use larger fonts by default;
- Established a new, more space-saving style for concert details from Summer 2001 onwards, allowing two concerts per column, to accommodate the choir's intention to have six major concert-style events per year rather than the previous three (i.e. the usual three St Paul's concerts plus three other concerts or services elsewhere);
- Rewrote parts of the site entry page;
- Updated this site credits/history page, added the 'Revolutionary RISC OS' Web button and changed the recommended RISC OS Web browser from Fresco to Oregano.
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| 28th September 2000 | Updated most of the main pages with new details. In particular, updated the next season's concerts, the ticket prices and the choir's rehearsal venue, replaced the old picture on the intro page with a recent digital photo, and added a photo of Philip Honnor to the interview page. Found and corrected several hundred mistyped entities!
Two important site modifications:
1. Added a 125th anniversary page in celebration of the choir's recent landmark event, complete with some of my digital photos;
2. Recreated the border (in the frames version of the site) using a new method. This is likely to make it look a lot better in a wide range of browsers. Netscape 4 still makes a bit of a pig's ear of rendering the frames, but it's a lot better than before. |
| 5th December 1999 | Added a gratuitously tacky animation in the main menu of the frame-based site (the note-bullets dance when you point at their associated links). Corrected a few more minor errors in the concert details (e.g. the date for the Spring 2000 concert was wrong) and updated the details of the Winter 1999 to Summer 2000 concerts. Updated the other choir events details. |
| 26th July 1999 | Corrected a few minor errors, made the Web counter work, and added a nice new colour Kirklees logo on the Personnel page. Also made the sponsors' images link to the appropriate home pages. |
| 25th July 1999 | Finished off and uploaded the first version of this site, after several months of creating it in odd moments. It's complete and fully functional, but could do with a few extra trimmings, such as some more recent photos, and press clippings dating from 1996 to 1998. A few minor details also need to be checked. |
