| 30th September 2008 |
Open Rehearsal is now 'history'. |
| 1st September 2008 |
Added a new Open Rehearsal advert (with improved 'poster-style' page design) as our opening page for this month. |
| 22nd August 2008 |
Corrected the ticket prices (which increased recently) on the 'Booking tickets' page. |
| 22nd July 2008 |
A few minor updates:
- Expanded the music details for the Winter 2008 concert.
- Made the Summer 2008 concert 'history'.
- Added a new Summer 2009 concert page.
- Tweaked the Spring 2008 concert in the history section to make it match the Summer one in height.
- Reduced the height of the guest artist sections of the three 2007 concerts to save a wasted line and make them match the 2008 concerts.
- Added Alan Rawsthorne's Four Seasonal Songs to the Music Hire Library inventory.
Site update slightly delayed by the need to move to a new machine following the death of my 2.5GHz PowerMac G5. Whoever had the brilliant idea of cooling computers by putting corrosive liquid inside them deserves to be sued. My G5 lived for a mere four years and I feel swindled; it's not as though pro Macs are cheap. |
| 4th July 2008 |
Corrected Elly Bosworth's name in the Easter 2009 concert details. |
| 31st May 2008 |
Finalised the choral music and guest soloist details for the Easter 2009 concert. |
| 24th May 2008 |
Added Christine Stanton's name to the Summer 2008 and Summer 2007 concert pages, from which I had inadvertently omitted it; added the Gardner Shakespeare Sequence to the Summer 2007 page; updated the Handel item in the Easter 2009 concert. |
| 12th May 2008 |
Updated details for the Summer 2008 and Easter 2009 concerts, including the new programme cover for Summer 2008 (Ode to Music). |
| 18th March 2008 |
Made a number of changes to the opening 'Intro' page and generally neatened the layout of its lower links section:
- We now have a much enhanced link with Gerontius.net. As well as including much fuller and more useful details on their site, links have been added to our site that show our concert information on Gerontius and also link to other concerts and choirs in the region. This is useful because our official site only shows the next three forthcoming concerts, and up to six future dates may actually be known to choir members. Including all known forthcoming concerts on Gerontius allows anyone to look up those future dates, even though it's unlikely that there will be any useful information beyond the date itself and the (perhaps tentative) venue.
- The confusion-buster link to the Huddersfield Choral Society has been made as small as possible and moved to the foot of the intro/recruitment text.
- The Digits WebCounter credit has been reduced in size, moved to just below the counter itself, and had its graphic removed.
- ChoralNet's text suffix has been removed and incorporated in a pop-up tooltip title.
- ChoralNet, My Yorkshire and iLike now all appear side by side in a row.
- All links (both text and image) that were missing pop-up tooltip titles have now been given them.
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| 16th March 2008 |
Added a 2008 entry in the 'Concert history' section and made it the default opening page; it contains last night's concert plus two improved 'future concert' placeholders, which can now be clicked in to jump to the 'Forthcoming concerts' page.
Replaced the Easter 2008 concert programme cover graphic with an updated version, since the previous one was based on a late proof programme cover, and the final version had a small change.
Updated the 'Forthcoming concerts' page with a new placeholder for the Easter 2009 concert on 4th April 2009.
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| 26th February 2008 |
Winter 2008 concert details updated (title and organist added). |
| 23rd February 2008 |
Now that PuzzleBee allows its puzzles to be embedded in pages outside Facebook, I couldn't resist creating a new page to host the puzzles that I'd already generated from the calendar images. There are three copies of the same page to host the three available difficulty settings, and I've customised and colour-coded the completion message for each puzzle. Great fun! I feel that these photos make really good jigsaw puzzles.
Added a new entry in the menu system to link to the puzzles page (Medium difficulty level selected by default, as I find that this is a good compromise, although I like playing them on Hard myself) and put up a 'New!' banner about the puzzles on the 'Intro' page to draw attention to the new addition.
Changed the grey backgrounds in the month/location text boxes on the '2006 Calendar' page to rainbow colours, (a) to match the backgrounds on the new jigsaws page and (b) because the rainbow-coloured text actually looks more legible on a lighter version of the same colour.
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| 20th February 2008 |
To reclaim some disk space on our hosted domain, removed the 6MB video from the 'Private area' page. A lower-quality version of this video can now be found in the choir's Facebook group, where it can be viewed (only) by group members. |
| 10th February 2008 |
Updated the Easter 2008 concert with the new poster/cover design and changed the title of the Schütz to English, since that's the language in which the work will be sung. Also added 'The' to the title and shuffled the order of the works to reflect the details on the new poster. |
| 7th February 2008 |
Added the Clifton Handbell Ringers to the Winter 2008 concert details.
On the 'Intro' page, reduced the length of the text credit for the Digits counter, and added a new link to the My Yorkshire site.
Amended the image attributes of the ChoralNet and iLike links on the 'Intro' page to set their border widths to zero.
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| 9th January 2008 | Major and minor updates:
- New Music Hire Library section: We now have a new site page listing the full catalogue of music owned by the choir and available for hire by other organisations.
- New photos: Thanks to Peter Rice for supplying pictures of our Winter 2007 concert, which now appear on the opening 'Introduction' page and on the 'Booking tickets' page.
- Minor (largely invisible) improvements to the menu at the left, in addition to the insertion of the new 'Music Hire Library' entry.
- Added some initial music/performer details for the Winter 2008 concert.
- Removed the sentence containing three links to other pages from the foot of the 'Press clippings' page, since it really didn't do anything useful. It dated back to the very first version of the site (when there was the choice of a frames-free version in which navigation was less straightforward), and one of the links was actually called the wrong thing ('introduction' actually referred to the 'further details' page; I don't know how I missed that for nearly ten years!). Now, the 'Press clippings' page contains nothing more than press clippings, which seems logical.
- Added the new webmaster@huddersfieldsingers.com email address to the 'Recordings' page alongside my personal email address as an alternative means of contact.
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| 9th December 2007 | The choir now has a presence in iLike, and hence I've added an iLike button to the opening page, which can be clicked upon to 'like' us. iLike links in with Facebook, so members of Facebook now have an easy way of finding and expressing an interest in us (though iLike can also be used on its own). iLike lists our forthcoming concerts and provides a map, and thus gives us a little more publicity.
Made the Winter 2007 concert 'history' and slightly decreased the vertical space requirement of all the 2007 concerts in the concert history page. 2007 is now the opener-year for the history pages.
Added an initial details-free entry for the Winter 2008 concert, publicising its date and venue.
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| 23rd November 2007 | Added organ music details to Winter 2007 concert page. |
| 11th November 2007 | Updated Winter 2007 and Easter 2008 concert pages. |
| 20th October 2007 | Not that Facebook is really my kind of thing, you understand...
Having been invited onto a different Facebook group recently, it struck me that it might possibly be a good idea to set up a group for the Huddersfield Singers to use for the sorts of 'matters arising' that don't make it onto the official site. Things like one-off events, notices, dates for madrigal evenings and the like. And having explored Facebook briefly after signing up, I realised that a handful of Singers were already members, so why not give them a new group to join to discuss choir matters?
So I've set up a The Huddersfield Singers group on Facebook and sent out invitations to those choir members whose email addresses I know. As for the official Huddersfield Singers site, I've added a link to the menu at the left which opens the Facebook group within the site's overall structure, although one can of course find the group by going straight to the Facebook site.
(Also spotted and corrected a typo in the pop-up help text for The Tempest entry in the menu.) |
| 28th September 2007 | Improved the layout of the 'A Century of Officials' table at the end of the 'G & M Centenary' page. |
| 22nd September 2007 | The Open Rehearsal is now 'history'. |
| 11th September 2007 | Added Mark Anyan to the Easter 2008 concert page. |
| 7th September 2007 | Reorganised the way in which non-concert events are publicised on the site:
- Added a new opening page for the forthcoming Open Rehearsal on 17th September, now complete with attractive 'Calling all singers!' graphic to make it more attention-grabbing (like the associated poster).
- Restructured the way such events are publicised and archived. Rather than being a 'pre-site' page to click through, they now open within the frames as the first page. Reorganised the previous event pages (and the latest one) in a new folder, which will make things much neater for organising in future. Updated the old event pages so that they now open within the main site, as the new one does. This is much neater for the case where they're accessed from the history section of the 'Other choir events' page.
- Updated the 'Other choir events' page to link to the new event.
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| 12th July 2007 | A few small updates:
- Changed the Summer 2008 concert title from St Paul's Waltz Songs to Ode to Music. Removed reference to the programme being provisional, since what we've got seems likely (more can be added later).
- Minor update to the Winter 2007 concert listing.
- Removed the strong emphasis from the composer names in the Easter 2006 and 2007 concert titles, to match other similar entries.
- Added an ellipsis to the Winter 2004 concert title (Monteverdi, Mozart and More...) to make it match the pictured front cover of the programme.
- Added a forthcoming event entry for our open rehearsal in September; this will gain a more prominent advert page nearer the time.
- Gave the 'History of previous events' heading on the 'Other choir events' page a red colour (like that of the top heading), to make it easier to see where the future stops and the past begins.
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| 10th July 2007 | Minor tweaks to the menu system at the left of the site: made the headings refuse to split over two lines; closed the section gaps so as to save space vertically; altered the pink/white backgrounds so that they continue to alternate between sections. |
| 4th July 2007 | Changed Philip Sykes' committee title from Member Without Portfolio to Assistant Secretary. |
| 27th June 2007 | Added four recent press clippings; thanks to Elizabeth Jones for finding these. |
| 24th June 2007 | Small updates:
- Made references to the choir's size consistent across multiple pages. We had 40 in a couple of places, 'around 35' in one place and 'around 30' in another. Settled on 30 (or 'around 30') everywhere.
- Updated details for the three forthcoming concerts (Winter 2007 to Summer 2008); the information is still provisional, though.
- Changed the instances of "Mr Chris Hartley" to "Christopher Hartley" on the 'Choir personnel' page. I'd used the Mr to clarify the fact that he's male, but it did look rather odd given that other names have no associated titles; the full Sunday-best name seems preferable! For consistency, also made a similar change to our seasonal patron: "Mr J. G." to "Gordon" Sykes.
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| 23rd June 2007 | Official launch date of the new site!
Notified those choir members who are on email about the new site and domain, and updated various links on the Web to point to the new version. Took the old site down. |
| 14th-23rd June 2007 | Conducted a comprehensive redesign/revamp of the site's appearance in time for its official relaunch in its own domain. This involved changes to virtually every major section of the site, so here first is a memory of what the opening page used to look like, followed by a summary of what was altered:
- Page border: Did away with the old double-red-pipe border and replaced it with a new 'blank music staff' surround. Unfortunately we can't have any music on this because of the arbitrary size of the browser window in which it's viewed, but having notes would probably look too fussy in this context anyway. The style is a red version of the grey border around the Calendar 2006 page, and matches the recently-established style for choir posters, programmes and other publicity. The Huddersfield Singers logo is now the centrepiece of the top border, and the charity number and conductor's name now appear in the centre of the bottom border in very small type. Although the top border (with logo) is considerably deeper than the previous version, the remaining three borders are actually smaller, and the fact that the border now contains useful information makes the use of space more efficient overall.
- All pages: Replaced the Huddersfield Singers background pattern with a 50%-lighter version, as I felt that the old one was too dominant. When I first designed it, it was intended to show up well on computers that displayed a restricted number of colours on-screen, but now that nearly everyone uses true-colour displays, it's better to lighten it off. The old, darker version had begun to look very heavy-handed.
- Top-left corner: The small Huddersfield Singers logo (and charity number) has been removed because it had become reduntant. All the information it contained is now incorporated in the border. Also, now that the unwanted banner advert across the top of the site is no longer a problem, it's no longer necessary for the user to be able to click on the logo to reload the site without the advert.
- Most pages: The big Huddersfield Singers logo (and conductor credit) has been removed from most pages since the logo in the centre of the top border doubles as an overall heading, and renders this duplication largely unnecessary. The removal of the big graphic also makes the pages more space-efficient. Most pages have had this graphic replaced by a single red title line. The only pages that do not now have a red title are those that subdivide into other groups or have a specific style of their own (concert listings and the 2006 Calendar page). I have also streamlined the HTML of many pages, which may or may not make a visible difference (depending on your browser).
- Site menu: The contents of the menu at the left are almost the same as before, but the presentational style is quite different. The previous free-form text has been replaced by a superior table-based structure with clearer headings and alternating pink/white lines that make the entries easier to distinguish.
- Private area: Having our own private hosting opens up the possibility of some new site features, including a private area, so I've set one up. Yes, the private area does contain a number of interesting/amusing items, but one needs to know the appropriate username and password in order to access them...
- Forthcoming concerts: Updated with details of the next three concerts (Winter 2007 and the first two of 2008).
- Booking tickets: Small amendments to the text.
- Other choir events: Brought up to date (no other events listed at present).
- Introduction: Updated and corrected several aspects of this page, but kept the large logo in addition to the new red 'Introduction' heading, because it's important to see the big logo on the opening page. Eradicated the credit for the V3 URL redirection (which gave us the old welcome.to/The.Huddersfield.Singers/ address) because we don't expect people to use that address any more (though it'll be updated to point to this new site once it's officially gone live).
- Further details: Updated various aspects of this page (such as contact details), expanded the repertoire list, and amended the text about the longest-serving conductor. This was still crediting Richard Steinitz for his fourteen-year stint. However, Philip Honnor has comprehensively shattered this record now (seventeen years and counting). Congratulations, Philip!
- Join the choir!: Updated contact details.
- Interview with Philip Honnor: Generally tidied up the HTML; no visible changes other than the revised title.
- Press clippings: No significant changes. (I hope it may be possible to add some more up-to-date quotes before long.)
- Choir personnel: Completely revised this page's layout; nothing much of the previous version remains. Now we have a much more visibly table-based layout, and a list of all the members who do things of importance for the choir, from comittee members to other smaller-scale assistants. Also added a new section devoted to contact details for the most important official positions and their incumbents, complete with our new set of ...@huddersfieldsingers.com email addresses. Finally, for reference, added a summary about our new domain names.
- Hear us now!: A couple of major improvements! First of all, the sound clips are now embedded directly in the page so that you can see them all at once and control them individually from the same basic page. Previously, you had to open each in a new frame and control it from there, and then navigate back to the page. Secondly, changing the way the clips are embedded has meant that not only can clip 1 (which plays automatically as the background sound) be controlled by the user, but the user should hear the sound in all browsers, not just in Internet Explorer. (Internet Explorer still works, of course.) Finally, also added a clip from the choir's Easter 2007 twinning concert with the Reigate choir and cross-referenced the choir's contribution to The Tempest from its dedicated page.
- Recordings: No significant changes.
- Concert history: Improved the layout of a significant number of concert listings in this section. I intended also to revise and expand these pages further in future, when time permits.
- G & M Centenary: Created a new, much less strident background texture for this page: a paper-effect background with embossed G & M logo. Also added a nice little G & M logo at the top-right of the page and generally improved the HTML.
- 125th Anniversary: Updated to use the nice (less distracting) new background texture from the G & M Centenary page. Created an improved replacement heading for this page which displays the G & M logo alongside the Huddersfield Singers one.
- 2006 Calendar: There have been no changes to this page at all. However, it provided inspiration for the site's new border, and also for contents of the private area!
- The Tempest: A brand-new page containing details about the Huddersfield Singers' contribution to the production at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre, starring Pete Postlethwaite. Thanks to Peter Rice for providing the full recording (as used in the production) as an MP3 file, writing some covering text and gaining permission for the use of production photos from the play's Web page.
- About this site: Revamped this page by deleting most of the boring and increasingly outdated technical credits at the top of the page, and changing the colour scheme of the site history (for new entries). I don't know what made me pick the rather yucky blue and yellow colours that I was using before, but pink and white are easier on the eye and more in keeping with the style of the site.
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| 14th June 2007 | We have our own new domain! The site will shortly be updated and moved (again, and finally) to <http://www.huddersfieldsingers.com/>. The alternative URLs <http://huddersfieldsingers.com/> and <http://the.huddersfieldsingers.com/> also work. New email addresses of the form <...@huddersfieldsingers.com> have been set up. The old <http://welcome.to/The.Huddersfield.Singers/> will be redirected to the new site and will continue to work. However, its use is now discouraged, primarily because it causes an unwanted advertising banner to appear at the top of the site. Also, the new URL is shorter and easier to type. |
| 28th May 2007 | Updated the Summer Concert 2007 page with the programme cover and further details, and promoted it to being the next concert. |
| 8th-16th March 2007 | A significant rejuvenation of the 'Forthcoming concerts' and 'Concert history' pages:
- As of the Winter 2004 concert, to match our new presentational style from that event onwards, concert listings are now colour-coded, with appropriate pale background colours and a stronger equivalent colour for highlighted text. Our concert colours are seasonal: green for Spring/Easter (new life), blue for Summer (blue skies) and red for Winter/Christmas (holly and red noses!).
- Again starting with the Winter 2004 concert (which was when our new presentation style was initiated), each concert page now has an image of the front cover of the concert programme. Programme covers are now in full colour and are designed individually.
- Programme covers have also been inserted for the two special-event concerts in recent history: the 120th anniversary concert in Summer 1995, and the 125th anniversary concert in Summer 2000. The 125th anniversary concert details have also been updated to mention the new commission, Arthur Butterworth's Haworth Moor.
Plus other smaller changes:
- Updated details for Spring Rossini concerts and promoted them to the next event slot.
- Corrected date and changed venue for the Reigate concert; new Google Maps reference required.
- Corrected details for the Reigate concert on the 'Other choir events' page and brought the page up to date.
- Replaced old Making Music logo with new 2006 version on the 'Personnel' page.
- Replaced old Kirklees Metropolitan Council shield logo with new 2007 Kirklees Council turbine logo. Amended link text and URL to remove references to 'Metropolitan'.
- Added Yorkshire Arts logo as a companion to the Arts Council England one (as both appear in our programmes).
- Amended list of patrons.
- Changed Wendy Brook's contact details to Barbara Lockwood's on the 'Recruitment' page and corrected a typo.
- Added 2007 to the dateline for the concert history (though the section will still default to 2006 for the rest of the year).
- Expanded number of META keywords in index page in an attempt to improve search site rankings.
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| 1st November 2006 | A banner advert has appeared above the site in recent months, which I find most irritating. This is the work of V3, which provides our free welcome.to/The.Huddersfield.Singers URL redirection. I was willing to consider paying the annual fee to get rid of this but, on enquiry, it seems that they've discontinued their paid service, so there's no official way of getting rid of the banners. I've therefore taken steps to circumvent the advert myself, and browsers that support JavaScript should now reload the page immediately, without the advert. Unfortunately, this does have the effect of losing the nice 'welcome.to' address in the browser's address bar; this now shows the site's real location instead, which is a shame. Still, I think this is preferable to having obtrusive adverts. For browsers that don't support JavaScript, users can also now click on the Huddersfield Singers logo at the top-left of the page to reload the site in the frame that previously contained the advert. This achieves the same effect, with the benefit that the 'welcome.to' URL may be retained.
- Updated the 'Intro' page to include a note about getting rid of the banner advert, and made the date of the last site update link to this 'Credits/Site history' page.
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| 31st October 2006 | Minor update and various small improvements:
- Moved site once again: now it's hosted on my .Mac iDisk. As before, this will be transparent for anyone who has bookmarked the official welcome.to/The.Huddersfield.Singers URL.
- Updated the site with the latest concert details for 'Forthcoming concerts' and 'Concert history' pages.
- Rejigged the 'Personnel' page to reflect current details and make the table-based layout of names much more compact and neater.
- Improved the venue formatting in all concert details pages, right back to 1990.
- For all Google Maps URLs, updated the URL to make the map use 'Hybrid' view mode (drawn roads overlaid on photos). The view is also now centred on the venue location; unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be possible to move the place-markers themselves to be in precisely the right position without delving into JavaScript and the full-blown Google Maps API, which is overkill for this site (and I haven't time to investigate it at present).
- Removed the 2006 Calendar 'news flash' (almost a year old!) from the 'Introduction' page, and reworded the choir details section slightly.
- Added Huddersfield Historical Society and Reigate concerts to the 'Other choir events' page.
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| 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. |
