Charles Dickens Page Timeline
This is mostly for my benefit, but for anyone interested in how this site evolved, here it is.
~dperdue
11/16/97 Started putting pages together 12/5/97 Page Debut on the Web 12/8/97 Linked by The Dickens Page 12/18/97 Added quotes to the Works page and Tiny Tim's Ailment article to the Christmas page 12/19/97 Added Dickens signature graphic to the Works page 12/21/97 Added Scrooge section to the Christmas page 12/23/97 1000th hit 1/13/98 Added major characters and links to the Works page 1/20/98 Added footers to all pages 2/10/98 Added Dickens in America page and resized pages from 640 to 600 pixels 3/24/98 Added Dickens' London interactive map 5/5/98 Added Bibliography page 10/11/98 10,000th hit 11/4/98 Added Donnithorne page 11/9/98 Added Dickens by Maclise graphic to home page 11/23/98 Added Monthly Numbers section to the Works page 12/4/98 1 year - 19,186 hits, updated the Dickens and Christmas page with more info 12/9/98 Added RASC link 1/9/99 New Dickens' London page with more info and animated London population graphic 4/18/99 Changed alt tags on the navigator adding more descriptive titles 4/19/99 Added SafeSurf rating 4/22/99 Added Hitbox link to the home page 5/7/99 Added Bibliography page to the navigator 10/8/99 Added Dickens Characters page with links from Works page 10/10/99 Added Awards page 10/12/99 Added Hitbox links to all pages 10/18/99 Added Information page 10/22/99 Added Search Capability 11/2/99 Started adding character images to Character page 12/4/99 2 years on the Web - 95529 hits 12/9/99 100,000th hit 12/13/99 Added Norrie Epstein's 'The Friendly Dickens' to the bibliography 1/04/00 Added note about homework, hoping to stem tide of requests for free homework 2/1/00 Britannica.com-Best of the Internet award 2/2/00 Added Amazon.com links 2/2/00 Linked from BBC Web Guide 2/5/00 Added Dickens Collectionpe 2/7/00 New level-2 page banners 2/13/00 Added Awards button to navbar and re-ordered buttons 3/12/00 Site featured in the Sunday Times of London 4/08/00 Changed font on nav bar to Prose Antique 4/12/00 Re-optimized graphics and condensed home page to increase load time 4/20/00 Added Dickens Place in History Timeline graphic 5/28/00 Added Dickens Works Timeline graphic 8/4/00 Added Privacy Statement 9/4/00 Expanded Dickens Works page (retitled The Novels) with separate pages for each novel 9/7/00 Expanded Dickens Shoppe to two pages with more videos 9/8/00 New Dickens banner graphic on the home page 10/10/00 Expanded Illustrations Page 10/18/00 200,000th hit 11/3/00 Removed Perdue Home page link 11/4/00 Updated Bleak House, Rudge, Our Mutual Friend, and Little Dorrit pages 11/11/00 Cross-referenced links on the Characters page 11/16/00 added more characters to the Characters page 12/04/00 Added Family and Friends page 12/15/00 Added permission to use note 1/12/01 Added Bucket and Spontaneous Combustion blurbs to Bleak House 1/25/01 300,000th hit 1/26/01 Updated Hard Times page 1/27/01 Re-indexed site search 1/29/01 Updated Pickwick page 3/9/01 Added Public Readings to the Timeline page 3/10/01 Added Quick Links Javascript to Home Page 3/18/01 Updated Hard Times page 4/18/01 New Dickens London map with links to the UCLA 1859 map 5/6/01 Updated David Copperfield page 5/24/01 400,000th hit 7/16/01 Added Minor Works page 8/16/01 Updated The Old Curiosity Shop page 8/26/01 Updated Oliver Twist Page 9/14/01 Added Red Cross Link 9/21/01 Updated Edwin Drood Page 10/14/01 Food and Drink added to London page 10/27/01 Updated Great Expectations page 11/5/01 Updated Christmas Carol page 11/17/01 Updated Dickens' London Page 11/20/01 500,000th hit 11/23/01 Updates to Christmas and Christmas Carol pages 12/15/01 Added Reading Dickens page 1/4/02 Updated Dickens Shoppe, Dickens web pages 1/5/02 Re-indexed Search Tool 1/13/02 Added Dicken's Dictionary of London links to London Map page 1/15/02 Updated Dickens' London Map 1/29/02 600,000th hit 2/15/02 CyberSafari link 3/6/02 changed font to Arial 3/10/02 Added Giddings Reviews, Video link to novels 3/28/02 Updated Oliver Twist page 3/30/02 Added London Locations and fixed broken links 5/27/02 700,000th hit 6/5/02 Updated Barnaby Rudge and Characters pages 6/16/02 Added Dickens Glossary page 10/05/02 Updated Character Page 10/09/02 Updated Bleak House Page 10/11/02 Added more pix to the Character Page 10/11/02 Added Giddings' Ackroyd-Callow Page 11/12/02 Updated Dickens and Christmas Page, adding A Darker Christmas and Roasted Chestnuts 11/19/02 800,000th hit 11/20/02 Updated Christmas Carol page, adding Sabbatarianism segment 11/22/02 Re-arranged home page, added Carol graphic 01/02/03 updated Reading Dickens page, rewriting Dickens' Genius segment 01/02/03 Added Bill-Sticking page to Reading Dickens 01/02/03 updated Bibliography page 01/16/03 900,000th hit 01/20/03 Rewrite of text for Reading Dickens page - added R.W. Buss graphic and story 02/09/03 Updated Dombey and Son page 02/24/03 Added Flash Timeline, moved Public Readings article to Dickens Web 03/05/03 Updated Illustrations page with sample illustrations 03/20/03 Updated Nickleby, Characters, London Map pages 04/09/03 Updated Dickens in America page, added Steamboat Trip and Haves...Have Nots 04/23/03 1,000,000th hit 06/07/03 Added Equestrian Journey to Dingley Dell, Seymour illustration 06/16/03 Added Pickwick and the Lady in Yellow Curl Papers 07/30/03 Updated Pickwick page 09/06/03 Put hits chart on separate link 10/05/03 1,100,000th hit 10/05/03 Added Google search to site, removed Hitbox search 10/08/03 Added Thackeray in Memoriam page 10/13/03 Added Dullborough Town page 10/21/03 Added Waterloo page 10/30/03 Changed banner images for Dickens Shoppe 10/31/03 Added Cratchit's Christmas page 11/11/03 Enlarged and updated the Dickens London Map 11/23/03 Added a right column with Amazon ads to top view pages 12/06/03 1,200,000th hit 12/09/03 Added interview with Michael Patrick Hearn 12/18/03 Added style sheets to all pages (not fully implemented) 12/23/03 Added Amazon links to books in Bibliography 01/09/04 Converted all pages to style sheets, added right-side Amazon ad to major pages 01/11/04 Widened home page to 740 with right-side ads: Added Bite Sized Dickens 01/15/04 Added the Mrs Gamp page 01/23/04 Updated the Martin Chuzzlewit page, Characters page 01/31/04 Checked links and reorganized Dickens on the Web page 02/12/04 Placed 4 rotating images w/links on the home page 03/04/04 1,300,000th hit. Finished adding Dickens' life during the novels to all novels pages 03/05/04 Added Williams and Maclise to the Illustrator page 03/13/04 Added 2 more rotating images w/ links to the home page 03/17/04 Added illustration methods article to illustrations page 05/15/04 Updated glossary page 06/22/04 Added Glossary Splash to home page 06/24/04 Updated Dickens London page 07/06/04 Updated glossary page 08/11/04 Updated Little Dorrit page 08/14/04 Updated Fast Facts page, added pix to characters page 09/10/04 Added Browne's disappointing illustration page 09/16/04 New text for the home page 09/18/04 Added Fanny's death page; Theater in Sunderland page 03/11/05 Added Transportation, more characters, and map to Great Expectations page 04/08/05 Added link to hi-res Dickens London map, updated Family and Friends page 07/11/05 Added Dickens on Stage page 10/22/05 Separated Christmas Books from Minor Works page 12/22/05 Added Google Ads 01/07/06 Updated Pictures from Italy 02/18/06 Updated the A Tale of Two Cities page 03/05/06 Added David Perdue's Portable Charles Dickens Page book (lulu.com) 03/17/06 Added Google Maps aerial photos to Dickens' London Map 03/18/06 Added Dickens Family Tree 03/24/06 Added Staplehurst story to Our Mutual Friend 04/16/06 Divided Characters page into 8 pages 04/16/06 Added Google Analytics to all 1+2-level pages 04/22/06 Added Search and Site Map pages 06/03/06 Added complete Oliver Twist illustrations 06/12/06 Moved site to charlesdickenspage.com 06/22/06 Added complete Bleak House illustrations 08/21/06 Added complete David Copperfield illustrations 08/26/06 Added Millbank to online map 09/08/06 Added Best Characters page 10/04/06 Added Dickens Christmas aStore link 10/07/06 Updated the Our Mutual Friend page 10/10/06 Added Annotated A Christmas Carol reading text page 10/21/06 Linked to Feed the Children on the home page 02/19/07 Widened top-level pages to 850 - added Google medium rectangles 07/09/07 Updated Copperfield page 10/12/07 Added Dickens in America newspaper accounts 11/13/07 Added complete The Old Curiosity Shop illustrations 11/18/07 Added complete Pickwick Papers illustrations 11/24/07 Added complete Nickleby illustrations 02/22/08 Added Southwark Cathedral, George Inn, and St. George's church to the map 08/09/08 Added photos to the Dickens London Map taken April 2008 09/07/08 Added article about Childs and Co and Temple Bar to the Tale of Two Cities page 09/25/08 Updated The Old Curiosity Shop page and added new characters 11/01/08 Added Pain no longer to Curiosity Shop page 10/02/09 Uploaded top-level pages converted to CSS layout, centered, and increased width to 900px 11/17/09 Finished converting site to CSS layout 11/20/09 Reworked Reading Dickens page and added article on Nonesuch Dickens 09/03/10 Added Twitter to the site 10/08/10 Added Photo Gallery - bumped up text size on Character pages 11/07/10 Added more information to Dickens London Map including links to Google Maps and Wikipedia. Exchanged graphic buttons for CSS rollovers 11/08/10 Added Lant Street page with photos of Lant Street in 1935 02/05/11 Added London and Paris maps to the T2C page 01/07/12 High resolution Dickens' London Map updated 01/10/12 Added Google Analytics to the site 01/31/12 Updated the Dickens in America page with more info on the 1867-68 reading tour 02/20/13 Dickens' London page updated with info from Mayhew 03/12/13 Added Dickens on Film page 03/24/13 Added Dickens' Rochester and Vicinity Map 04/28/13 Updated Drood page 08/21/13 Updated Family and Friends Page 08/27/13 Amazon Associates account ended because of Missouri tax law 08/31/13 Reorganized Awards Page 10/02/13 Updated Pickwick Page, added Wellerisms page 10/18/13 Updated all pages, removing many Amazon ads, adding links to larger images, corrections. 10/21/13 Added the Little Dorrit illustrations 10/27/13 Added the Edwin Drood illustrations 10/31/13 Added Pailthorpe's Great Expectations illustrations 11/28/13 Added Sketches by Boz illustrations 12/27/13 Added The Mystery of Ellen Ternan, The Violated Letter, and The Personal Statement 01/29/14 Added Dickens' age to each novel page 03/01/14 Uploaded new Timeline page with updated timeline charts 03/21/14 Updated Dickens London Map with new map background 05/10/14 Updated Hi-rez Dickens London Map, digital and Zazzle 05/17/14 Added characters to Dombey page 05/22/14 Added 2014 London photos to Gallery 06/05/14 Added Dombey and Son illustrations 08/22/14 Added Hard Times characters and illustrations 10/06/14 Added Night Walks and Captain Murderer to the Reading Dickens Page 10/07/14 Added The Uncommercial Traveller page 10/22/14 Added The Uncommercial Traveller Illustrations 11/25/14 Added Dickens and Journalism Page 12/10/14 Added The Frozen Deep to the Stage Page 12/11/14 Added A Christmas Carol: the Films and the Players to the Carol Page 3/240/15 Added Boz Spotlight to Home Page 06/21/15 Updated Oliver Twist Page with new maps 10/12/15 Updated the David Copperfield Page 10/19/15 Widened the site to 960 pixels, making the right column 220 pixels wide 11/24/15 Added Dickens Rochester Map to site 11/28/15 Updated Great Expectations Page
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