DOCUMENTATION OF SITE CONSTRUCTION 1st Nov 2000: Site structure setup by KTY 2nd. Nov 2000: (i) Added sections in About Australia (ii) Added shopping section navigations in footnotes 9th. Nov 2000: (i) Signed up as paying YahooStore account. (ii) Setup e-mail as [email protected], which is located inside NetworkSolutions and then forwarded temporarily to [email protected]. 15th Nov 2000 (KTY): (i) Introduced UpFromAustralia logo (ii) Used cropped/transparent Kangaroo icon 16th Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Scanned and inserted images of AyersRock, Boxing Kangaroos, Sydney Harbor Bridge, Gum Trees...in the About Australia section(s). (ii) added new section "Australia - Music & Entertainment", and added image of "Guitar & Gum Trees". 17th Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Scanned and inserted skyline images of Sydney, Adelaide, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane in the "KEY CITIES" section. Do not have good images of Melbourne & Darwin. (ii) Added image & icon of Koala-Bear_Sign..use for Virtual Tour 20th Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Added little boomerang to UpFromAustralia logo. Created booerang icon. (ii) Completed "Chronology of Australia" section. (iii) Restructured Homepage. Added "Uniquely Australian". Dropped "Aussie Sports". iv) Added "Stereotypical Aussie Male" v) Images for aborigines people 21st. Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Completed "Australia - A Quick Summary" section. (ii) Started on "Did you know that ?" section. This will continue to grow as we go along, and stumble along fascinating facts ! (iii) Added some images for "Wildlife" section: koala, kangaroo, possum, crocodile, dingo, emu, Tasmanian Devil, funnel web spider, platypus. (iv) Added image for States of Australia. 22nd. Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Completed "Aussie Slang" section. Need to add audio examples later. (ii) Added cartoon of yobbo to "Aussie slang". (iii) Set Inset image size" setting to 120 x 120. 27th Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Changed size of a) thumbnail images to 70 x 70 b) Insets to 180 x 180. (ii) Added Tom's images of a) Aussie Gentlemen b) Sheila c) Aussie BBQ d) Aussie Lingo. 28th Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Changed size of thumbnail images down to 60 x 60 (ii) Created new section: a)Australin Gentleman vs British Gentleman, and b)Australian Lady vs British Lady (iii) added Tom's Chiko Roll write-up (iv) Added Tom's images of 12 Apostles, Melbourne-by-night into Virtual Tour section 29th Nov 2000 (KTY) (i) Added cartoons & writeup on Aussie Gentleman/Lady vs Brits (ii) Created and uploaded images for "Australia-Her People". (iii) Added Tom's (a)"Melbourne skyline by day" to "Key Cities and (b) Image of Pinnacles, WA into Virtual Tour 1st Dec 2000 (KTY) (i) Processed and added Him yen's images of a) 4n20 pie wrapper b) Lifeguards at sea c)Opera House by sunset d) Abo hunter. KIV hopping kangaroo image. 5th Dec 2000 (KTY) (i) Processed and added Him yen's images into Virtual Tour a) Penguin parade b) Grampians - Jaws of Death c) Cuddling koala d) Cuddling wombat e) Yarra River e) Flinders St station f) Tram restaurant h) sheep shearing i) puffing billy (ii) Added Chiko roll wrapper picture ... still need shot of A Chiko Roll!! 6th Dec 2000 (KTY) (i) Processed images of the signboard merchandises (ii) Created animated gif image to pan between the signboards, and posted in Souvenir merchandise. (iii) Processed and added merchandize images of a) aussie gentleman mousepad b) Souvenir CD of Australia c) Boomerang Info book d) Didgeridoo Beginner's Book 7th Dec 2000 (KTY) (i) Added Tom's Aussie Roadsigns. Made it a new section in Uniquely Aussie. (ii) Reduced signboard image sizes, and recreated animated gif file as well. 11th Dec 2000 (KTY) (i) Processed Tom's images of merchandises. (ii) Inserted merchandises of a) Boomerang b) Coasters c) Mugs Sydney 2000 2X d) Vegemite e) Abo Art -Kangaroo Tracking (ii) Added images of a) A big country - comparison b) outback dunny c)real Aussie roadsigns d) Melbourne in summer (iii) added images of (a) London Bridge (b)merchandises of 1. Autsralia souvenir (book) 2. We'll Be One (CD) 14th Dec 2000 (KTY) (i) Added Tom's product descriptions of Dec 13 ps short of some merchandise graphics wrt descriptions (ii) added Him Yen's Kookaburra image 30th Dec 2000 (KTY) a) Added images of i) House of Parliament, Canberra ii)Australian War Memorial; into Virtual Tour. (b) Processed new road sign product images of crocodiles, kookaburra, trams, dingo. Need to recombine into animated GIF. 8th Jan 2001 (KTY) a) Added Tom's description plus spiced it us on Vegemite b) used Tom's signboard descriptions for i) echidana b) emu c) crocodiles d) great white .. for the Animal section. d) added pic of Soverign Hill in virtual tour 9th Jan 2001 (KTY) a) processed and added images of Great White shark and Greg Norman into Wildlife section. (b) processed and added Tom's image of echidna c) processed and added Tom's vegemite sandwich and label 11th Jan 2001 (KTY) a) processed and added images of Fairy Penguins in wildlife section 14th Jan 2001 (TT & TW) a) Testing, correcting spelling mistake in Australiana from Autralia to Australia - Sydney Book. 17th Jan 2001 (KTY) a) Added Great Ocean Rd Book images b) changed over to new mini didgeridoo image, but left boomerang alone as new image too bright c) replaced Kangaroo Tracking aboart with new gif d) added aboart Serpent merchandize image e) replaced with new image of Vegemite bottle f) replaced white syney 2000 mug, with image of mug of one pair g) added aussie stamp book into Collectibles section 29th Jan 2001 (KTY) a) Added Tom's 4n20 pie description b) added Tom's product description on yr 2000 Stamp collection c) added Tom's "did you know that?, and encountered difficulty in LI formatting...hence the large gap 11th-13th June 2001 (KTY) Got back from Aussie trip, with 1000+ images & merchandizes. a)Started creation of panoramas b) Revamped Home page with a "portal" look ala MalaysiaStall 14th - 22nd June 2001 (KTY) Went for broke on the Australian panoramas. Processed, stitched and created 32 panoramas and e-postcards. Going blind... 23rd June - 10th July 2001 (KTY) a) Enhanced branding of UpFromAustralia. Main Imagery, logo & tagline. b) Panoramas now up to 42 count. Increased panoramic aspect ratio to 600x200. Created static panorama image for section branding. c) Created new Virtual Tour concept. Tours not Tour now. d) Images & concept for Natural and Scenic Wonders Tour e) Images, concept & structure for Wildlife Virtual Tour f) Created Site Structure powerpoint file. Tightened site concept. g) Created Comments, Tell_a_friend community builders components. 11th July - 16th July (KTY) a) Heavy work on Aboriginal Australia tour, Wildlife Tour, Natural Wonder tour b) Added Tom's firts segments on Aussie Jokes 17th-18th July 2001 (KTY) a) Created virtual tour of Sydney b) compiled Amazing facts about Australia and entered them into the "Did You Know That ?" section. Section now segmented and has 70+ amazing facts about Australia. 19th-20th July 2001 (KTY) Added 9 more panoramas, bringing no. of panorams to the 50 (half century) mark ! Top that ...! Next step is to sort and make a simple selection menu...hmm? 21-27th July 2001 a) added virtual tours of Canberra, Melbourne b) added Waltzing Matilda song & lyrics to Uniquely Aussie c) re-arrnaged and segmented Uniquely Aussie 28th July - Sept 18 (KTY) A. Completed and written up ALL virtual tours: 1) Aboriginal Australia tour 2) Natural Scenic wonders tour 3) Wildlife tour 4) Historical heritage tour 5) Australian cities tour 6) How to live like an Australian tour. B. Completed "Did you know..." section. C. Completed basis of "Aussie Humor". Now need to write and clean up About Australia Sept 19 - Oct 2 (KTY) Completed all key sections of ABOUT AUSTRALIA. |
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