LOG OF UPDATES

cjvlang originally started in mid-July 2000. 'Pictorial' is a relative latecomer. It was originally part of Spicks & Specks, which was started in the early summer of 2003. The project was split off from Spicks and Specks in late 2003 as 'Photos', and later renamed.

These logs begin on 21 December 2003 (starting at the bottom).

11 October 2019 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Slight changes to the layout of the header.

18 November 2017 (Ulaanbaatar)

• More tinkering at the section on Stone Lions.
• Added a page on a stone lion guarding a park in Haikou.

17 November 2017 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Formatting changes at Stone Lions. "Figure" is hopeless for formatting anything.
• Tentatively added page on stone lion in Haikou Stone Lion (Haikou).

11 November 2017 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Fixed photo size at Goomeri Pumpkin Festival, along with slight changes to navigation.
• Also fixed photo size at Chinese congregation halls in Hue, Hlai village of Baoding, Hainan Girls, the Hlai House, the Naze of Lingao, and some final pages at Qizi Bay.

15 October 2017 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Made considerable changes to the section of photos of Stone Lions (Guardian Lions) from South China.

14 October 2017 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Fixed photos at the section on Gladys Aylward and also one or two pages at Qiziwan.

31 August 2017 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Updated navigation, formatting.

7 January 2017 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Uploaded section on Photos again. For some reason the section disappeared from the site in February 2016, probably due to an oversight or error on my part.

22 June 2013 (Beijing)

• Deleted two pages (A-Zhen and Budget Hotel in Haikou).
• Updated Home page

7 May 2013 (Beijing)

• Further slight editing of the Legacy section.

6 May 2013 (Beijing)

• Some editing of the Inn of Eight Happinesses (especially the Legacy section).

5 May 2013 (Beijing)

• Added two pages on Yangcheng and the Inn of Eight Happinesses (about a visit in search of Gladys Aylward). The photos were taken in May 2006, a full seven years ago!

28 December 2007 (Ulaanbaatar)

• Returned photos of Hainan from "World of Hainan" to Pictorial. Includes some rewriting for clarity.

27 September 2006 (Beijing)

• Added Adsense above each page title.

20 August 2006 (Beijing)

• Page layout has been changed and the Milonic Tramline navbar (navbar on the left) implemented.

5 August 2006 (Beijing)

Most sections relating to Hainan have moved to the Photologue section of the World of Hainan.

8 April 2005 (Beijing)

• Added more Stone Lion links (mainly Chinese) and fixed broken links.

6 April 2005 (Beijing)

• Updated Stone Lion Links.

8 October 2004 (Beijing)

• Added links to Milonic at home page.

26 September 2004 (Beijing)

• Fine tuning of the follow-scrolling menu.

25 September (Beijing)

• Added follow-scrolling menu using the amazing menu licensed from Milonic. This eliminated frames at a swoop.

3 September 2004 (Beijing)

• Added Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
• Added sections on Baoding, a Hlai Village in Western Hainan, and Lingao and the Naze of Lingao.

15 June 2004 (Hainan)

• Deleted dead link from Stone Lion Links.

14 June 2004 (Hainan)

• Added two new entries to Hainan Girls.

10 June 2004 (Hainan)

• Changed the name of the 'Photos' section to 'Pictorial'.

23 April 2004 (Hainan)

• Added a few entries to Stone Lion Links.

21 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Added extra stone lion photos, as well as a page on Western-style stone lions in China.

17 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Added a link to Stone Lion links.

15 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Minor additions to Stone Lion links.

3 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Small photos added to Stone Lion Links.

2 March 2004 (Hainan)

• Many new links added to Stone Lion Links.

9 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Slight rearrangements and deletions of photos in Qizi Bay.

7 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Added yet more links to Stone Lions.

6 January 2004 (Hainan)

• More minor adjustments to Qizi Bay.

5 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Minor adjustments and corrections to Qizi Bay.

4 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Uploaded a section on Qizi Bay in western Hainan, which I visited just after Christmas. 13 pages in total, filled with photos.
• Wrote a brief 'blurb' on the index page, designed to give it some focus.

3 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Reorganised stone lions (again!)
• Did some reformatting of Photos.

2 January 2004 (Hainan)

• Added photos of A-Zhen in Hainan (since deleted) and reorganised the section.
• Added a selection of stone lion photos and reorganised the section, including a vastly improved selection of links.
• Made slight changes to the navigation of Goomeri Pumpkin Festival.

21 December 2003 (Hainan)

• Added small pictures to entry pages for Photos, Goomeri Pumpkin Festival, and Stone Lions. Aim is to make these dull-looking pages more visually attractive.
• Changed the colour of link text.
• Photos: Improved layout of Stone Lions links page and fixed navigation errors.

Oct, Nov, Dec 2003:

The main changes during these three months have been:

• Photos have been given a new section, separate from Spicks & Specks.
• A section on Stone Lions has been added to Photos.