January 12, 2001: I am starting work that will add over 900 new pictures to the site.  While I can't say how far I will get this weekend, I will say that they will all be available by February 1.  Work is continuing on the new design, but getting all of the new pictures prepared for the web is a large amount of work that can only be done in FrontPage.  For this reason I will be adding everything to the site before the new design is up.  Please feel free to send any questions or comments about the design.  Once all of the major work is out of the way I can look into going back through all the photos on the site and perhaps weeding out some of those that are lower quality and others that are duplicated many times throughout the site.  With luck, by the end of the month I might be able to add updated materials for the Concert Band if I get anything from the winter concert next week.  Check back later for information, or contact me if you have any materials for the site.

January 16, 2001: I fixed the problems with the pictures from the Middletown show.  I discovered this problem as a result of the statistics reports.  This problem has probably been going on since I uploaded that collection in September or October but has never been reported to me.  If you find a problem on the site, please take a moment and drop me a note.  Thank you.

January 17, 2001: Efforts to add the 900/+ new photos to the site are continuing including some new photos sent to me by Alex Bender for the 2000-2001 season.

January 20, 2001: Work continues, updates to concert band and jazz band pages are complete.  Some of the years on the photos got mixed up, but that has been fixed.  I got the years wrong, so I will have to fix that.  The concert band and jazz band pages have been updated, and there are new photos for ACCs 1997-98, as well as 1998-1999.  I originally thought there were new pictures for Carlisle for 97, but they are actually 98-99, so those are online.  New football pictures for 98-99, mixed shows 98-99, 1999 July 4 parade in Washington, DC.  1999-2000 updates include Chapters, Carlisle, ACCs, after chapters, fall 99 preview, mixed photos.  All pages prior to 2000-2001 are now updated.

January 21, 2001: 2000-2001 updates are in progress, please visit the page to sign up for email notification of changes.  This option will be available immediately for the 2001-2002 season, although it is too early to tell what materials I will have available.  At this point, I would like to have more for the concert band and jazz band.  Videos for the marching band dating back to the 1994 season may be available later in the year as well as the formal ACCs photos at least back to 1997.  This is all pending approval of the authors, and I haven't talked to anyone about this yet.

Summer 2000 band camp photos are up.

January 23, 2001: Photos from the preview show presented to the STMS 8th graders are now online.  Thank you to Alecia Hair for those! Work is progressing on senior recognition.

January 24, 2001: Photos from senior recognition are now available.

January 27-29, 2001: Football photos are up, some fixes were made to other pages and files moved around for organizational purposes.  At Harris's request, Cedar Cliff will be the next show to be worked on.  There are 570 photos remaining, other shows in order they will be added are Carlisle, Pocono Mountain, Mechanicsburg, Chapters, ACCs.  This is partially due to the number of photos in each section.  Regardless of numbers, things WILL be completed by Feb 1.

Cedar Cliff photos are done.  Carlisle photos are done.  Pocono Mountain practice images are up.

January 30-31, 2001: All Pocono Mountain materials are up.  300 some photos to go.  Everything will be done in the next two days, however, please allow until Friday morning before reporting incomplete collections.  I will check all of the pages on the site Friday afternoon and correct any problems I find.  Mechanicsburg show materials are up as well.  Chapters and ACCs will be complete by late tomorrow.

February 1, 2001: All site updates are complete.  New photo total is 1296 compared to the old total of 651, so I ended up 6 short of doubling that before all of the updates.  I have just been notified that as of March 1, the Netmind service will become a fee service that will charge webmasters $800 per site per year to allow users to subscribe for updates.  Because of this, I am removing all of the Netmind boxes and code from the site effective immediately.

February 19, 2001: Problems with Interland progressed throughout last week and after at least 4 calls to tech support wasting around 6 hours of my valuable time, the issue still was not resolved over the weekend.  The site has since been moved to Readyhosting.com. 

According to Readyhosting, it will take about two weeks before I am able to access live statistics about the site, so I am not certain if I will be able to have a partial report for February up or not.  All materials and email accounts from the old site were transferred successfully, I actually had the site up and running on the temporary address provided to me while I was waiting for Interland to fix the server.  If you run into any problems, please let me know.

March 9, 2001: Just some small updates to report at this time.  This update and everything that's been done will actually be published a few days late.  Right now I am on spring break and it's too extensive to even attempt on dialup.  To get rid of the white background, I applied a FrontPage theme to all the pages, this is something I had in place on some of the pages before.

Live statistics are now available, as well as stats for any day at least for the current month, and you can also have weekly or monthly reports emailed to you.  Information on how to access complete information for any day you wish or even current and live (real-time) statistics is available at www.sthsband.org/stats.html.

March 16, 2001: Some photos from the high school musical Hello Dolly are up on another site of mine.  Take a look.  In addition, another new thing to mention today and that is the addition of a guest book. 

April 18, 2001: Major updates will be taking place over the summer and I will be starting a series of updates this week.  I have come up with two voluntary guidelines for using photos from the site:

1. Webmasters may download photos from this site, but are requested to email the webmaster with your site address so we can add a link to your site.

2. Individuals are entitled to non-marked photos for personal use.  All you need to do is send a note detailing your request.

April 21, 2001: Design changes will begin in a few weeks after classes end for the spring semester.

May 8, 2001: Photos and information from this years band camp will be available soon.  It also has come to my attention that users behind proxy servers such as the Bess proxy used by the Susquehanna Twp School District, are unable to access the guard site.  Although I requested that it be unblocked, that's not going to happen and I can't do anything about that. 

May 12, 2001: Fixed a broken link for 1997-98, if I find that there actually ARE photos from Carlisle for that year, I'll fix the page.

May 16, 2001: A "coming attractions" page listing some of the planned revisions for the summer is now online.  The marching index has already been revised with the help of some new graphics.  Check it out.  Some small modifications have been made to the information form for webmasters and to the contact information page.  The compatibility statement has been revised.  I have started with my own idea for what I will call design version 2.10R, a preview may be available in the next few weeks.  I am experimenting with different styles of menus and navigation, so of course I will only be doing a few pages with each design before I make a final selection.

May 18, 2001: I'm still working on the new design, and I am going to take a chance and put it in place right away.  Don't worry, I made a backup of the old one just in case.  The new design will take you to all areas of the site, but right now, the ability to go through all areas of the site using the new menus is pretty limited.

The Hello Dolly photos have been moved.  The new address is http://www.sthsmusical.org.

May 20, 2001: Just some minor updates to report at this time.  I guess when I put the new design in place I made a mistake and forgot to check where it was linking for the menus.  That was fixed last night and there shouldn't be any problems now.  I put up one additional page to redirect people to the new location of the Hello Dolly photos, and fixed a design issue on the new marching page.  I'm just checking out some of the different marching pages and posting updates right now.  Work will continue this week on a new menu design and I'll see about getting some updated information on the Concert Band after the concert this week.

May 24, 2001: Additional small updates and revisions to some pages, nothing else of interest to report right now.

May 26-27, 2001: I'm adding the new menus to more pages on the site and making some other cosmetic changes. 

One of the new features that I am experimenting with is the ability to select individual photographs from a page of thumbnails.  This will be integrated into all of the marching band galleries over the next few weeks.  As of right now, the only thumbnail gallery available is 1997-1998.

The other cool feature I am adding is a custom error page.  Should you happen to stumble upon a broken link or a page that was moved, you will see a page with a few standard links and some other helpful tips.  This should be setup immediately after the holiday weekend.

The new style of menus is now in place for the 1997-1998 season.  While working on them, I was able to separate the Cedar Cliff & Chapter Championships photos because of uniform colors.  1998-99 is in progress and will be online shortly.

I'm putting a guarantee in place for the 2001-2002 season for updating scores and photographs.  Because I am now using a camera that writes the photos to CD, I will be able to manage things easier and faster.  Having a laptop is a big help as well.  Starting with this season, I will have the materials online by Wednesday night following the show.  This is an average turnaround of 4-5 days.

May 28, 2001: All of the design changes have been completed for the 1998-99 Marching Band section, and the thumbnail gallery is in place as well.  I have the galleries finished for the other years and they will be brought online as work progresses on the remaining sections of the site.  

Some misidentified photographs for ACCs have been moved from 98-99 to the correct year- 1999-2000.  The updates will be in place later today including thumbnail galleries.  Additionally, in the process of doing the design changes, some additional pages have been added that were not properly linked together, so things may be worth a second look.  The design changes for 1999-2000 are complete and are now available.

May 29, 2001: All work including design, navigation, and the thumbnail gallery has been completed for 1997-98 marching band.  Design work and the thumbnail galleries for 1998-99 and 1999-2000 is complete and these features are available, but I am working on improving the navigation for these two sections and should have that finished later today.  The thumbnail gallery for 2000-2001 has been created, it will be available soon.

Design changes will be done for the remaining areas of the site as soon as I have completed the major work for the marching band sections of the site.  I have new photos for the concert band and will update the page when I get to the design changes.

If you come across a problem or have a question, comment or suggestion, please email me or call me.  I also make it a point to generally be available during practice so you should be able to find me there.  Keep checking back for updates, and sign the guestbook while you're here.

May 30, 2001: Navigation changes to the 1999-2000 marching band section have been completed.  I'm starting the work for 2000-2001 today.  This includes the new design, menus and navigation.  The thumbnail gallery for 2000-2001 will be brought into service when the first set of new pages is uploaded.  

May 31, 2001: I don't know how I managed to leave Chapter Championships off the menu for 99-2000, so that's fixed.

The actual photo count for the site is wrong again.  I based the new number on the galleries generated by Photoshop.  The problem with the galleries is that Photoshop does not know how to deal with the duplicate filenames.  Fortunately (I guess), the problem only affects 2000-2001 because I used digital cameras and never renamed the files when I was done.  This has been corrected and the new thumbnail gallery will be available as soon as I can upload it.  The photo count has been corrected as well.

The ACCs pages for 2000-2001 are done, and I am working on updating the rest of the pages as a result of the photo changes.  As soon as this is done I will get back to all of the design changes which again will take at least a few days.

2000-2001 Band Camp pages are finished.

June 1, 2001: As of this date, all of the work for 2000-2001 Marching Band is complete with the exception of Middletown.  The Middletown pages are under construction at this time.

June 2, 2001: All content for 2000-2001 has been successfully uploaded and is now available to view, including the thumbnail gallery.  I'm getting started on 2001-2002 and have made a few small changes, but at this point in the season, there isn't really any content except for the summer rehearsal schedule.

June 9, 2001: Some small content revisions, but nothing new to report at this time.

June 10, 2001: Added scores for the 1997-98, 1999-2000, 2000-2001 Marching Band pages.

June 30, 2001: All of the photos from 2000-2001 that I took using a regular film camera that were scanned by Shutterfly will be available soon.  I took the negatives from all of the different rolls and sent them off to a mail order lab to be printed, and I expect to have them in a few weeks.  As for scanning them, my efforts are currently being devoted to the development of the STHS Musical pages on my other site.  It will take some time to do, so check back often.

July 2, 2001: Text updates only.  Information on contributing to and helping with the band and this site has been added to the "About This Site" page.  Band news has been updated with this information and additional notes about tomorrow's practice.  As soon as I can get my hands on one of the "ST" decals, I'll be changing the background/watermark on all of the non-photo pages.  I just think it would look better than the Indian head.

July 3: 2001: I did some artwork updates this morning for 2001-2002 Marching Band to fit the show theme that was described to me, made some text updates and some small FrontPage changes that don't really affect what you see, it just keeps everything organized, updated and in order.

July 8, 2001: The links page has been updated, and I will be continuing to add to them over the next few days.  I am also locating and joining a few webrings and continuing to work on making the site a bit more search engine friendly.  

I've been seeing a number of errors when I view the site statistics, but I haven't gotten any reports of problems.  In order to work on correcting this problem, the custom error page has been temporarily removed.  With that removed, I will be correcting as many of these errors as possible when they come to my attention.

July 17, 2001: I'm correcting broken links on the site as I notice them in the statistics report, but I am also aware that many of the problems are caused by outdated search engines.  I'm working on the webring membership, and in the meantime I've started a webring for TOB Chapter 6  bands.

July 19, 2001: Just routine weekly updates at this time.  I have requested a meeting with the high school administration to discuss formal approval and recognition of this website.  Your continued support and patronage of this site is greatly appreciated! The prints that I sent out for have arrived, but I have no idea when I will get the chance to work on them.  I'll see what I can do.

July 22, 2001: Seems that the errors this week are related to search engines, so there isn't much I can do about that.  The band news page has been updated, and after checking all of the menus on the site, I fixed a problem with the 2000-2001 ACCs pages.  Other than that, there shouldn't be any other problems going on.  If I see a bunch of recurring errors, then I will put some pages in place until the search engines are updated.

July 26, 2001: The 2001-2002 performance schedule is now online.  Make sure you print off a copy if you didn't pick one up already.  Also, I just got my hands on the 2000 show overview, so that is now available.  Other text updates have been made and I fixed a navigation problem on one of the pages.

August 2, 2001: Important updates to the boosters page including information about some of the upcoming events.  The sub sale has started and if you're interested, you can order online.

September 17, 2001 2am: I have not had a great deal of time to work on the site because of my varying work schedule and the usual beginning of the semester rush for computer services in the residence halls.  I will be at the Lancaster Catholic show to take pictures and will start this week to try to get my summer photos online or at least get started on them.

My work has also been delayed because my new laptop has not arrived.  I've been waiting a long time for it, and it was going to be an essential item before a complete reload of my desktop PC and I was planning to take the laptop on the road so I could get some work done at home or at the show.  I'm not even sure what is going on with this anymore, just that I have been working at this since late July and it is now mid September.  Regardless of any difficulties with equipment, I will have all the photos online within a week following the Lancaster Catholic show.

Anyone who has a digital camera and would like to help me out, please contact me.  Thank you for your patience.

September 20, 2001: Site updates will take place as time allows over the next few days.  I will be at the Lancaster Catholic show on Saturday, and will have photos from this show and prior performances online by Wednesday.  Following the latest round of updates, free email will be available to any and all current/former band members, staff members, band parents, supporters who are interested.  You can pick whatever address you want @sthsband.org and have it as a regular email account, web based email, or have it forward to your address of choice.  Details after this weekend.

September 24, 2001: Imaging work is nearly complete.  I am working on cleaning up the pictures from the football games, and then I will be ready to integrate everything into the site.  I expect the work to be done either Tuesday or Wednesday depending on the completion of a programming assignment due Tuesday that I didn't start yet.  That's as honest a timeline as I can give.  If there isn't a note on the home page, check here or email me for the latest status reports.

My laptop is due to arrive today and I will get that setup as soon as time allows.  I am also finding out interesting things about my camera including information about the camera settings that is embedded in all the images.  So starting this season, in addition to my usual visual marking, I am also embedding the website address and author information in the image file.  This won't affect how anything is displayed, it's just intellectual property protection for me.

September 25, 2001: Imaging work is complete and I am working on my laptop so everything will be ready for the next show.  Check back tomorrow for the site updates.  However, it will be a little longer until you will be able to download full resolution photos.  As a full time student and with setup on the new equipment, I am extremely busy and I am doing the best I can to get things updated here.  Partial updates are available, I figured it was better to post them than have nothing up at all.  I originally expected to have them done within a day or two, but I am not sure about that.  My timeline now seems to be Friday at the latest.

Email is now available, if you are interested, complete the form and I will get you setup within 48 hours.  This is the only way I can process requests because you must agree to the policies.  If you have any questions, let me know.

September 27, 2001 (3am): Work on the football and Lancaster Catholic sections has been completed.  Work on images taken over the summer is in progress and will be completed sometime tonight.  I will have to go back and do some remarking on pictures and add the links to download the full resolution photos once everything is remarked.  I know how I want to setup the download section and how I want to work that in, but that is #2 on the list.  I need to finish the remaining sections first.

I took some time to review this week's statistics so far and noticed that the two most active days were Monday and Saturday.  Therefore I will do my best to provide information about the performance information for the week, and get the photos online within 24 hours of the show.  Hopefully, having the new laptop should allow me to get started while at the show.

If you have any suggestions on how I can improve the information that is available on the site, or there is something you think I need to add, please let me know.

September 27, 2001 (5pm): All updates are complete and are being published now.  I will be working on remarking the images tonight but that won't affect anything on the site.  I am aware of possible problems viewing the updated content, possibly because there were a number of people on the site at the time I was publishing updates.  The problem should be fixed and I will publish everything again to be certain.

September 30, 2001 (3am): Pictures from Friday's football game at Middletown are now online.

October 6, 2001: Earlier this week, it was brought to my attention that the site was blocked within Susquehanna Twp. School District for a short time.  As far as I know, this should be corrected.  If it ever happens again, let me know, I have several different ways to restore access to the site.  Unfortunately, I can not apply these to the guard site, and I'm told they will not unblock it.

I made some revisions to the email policy and I plan to do some additional design changes over the next few months in order to replace the FrontPage hovers to something a little more friendly to all web browsers.

Photos for the upcoming performances should be available within the given 3-5 day time period.  I've had a number of problems with my new laptop, so that's going back, and I don't have any idea when I will be getting a new one.

October 12, 2001: Streaming video is now available for ACCs performances dating back to 1994.  I noticed that Middletown, PA was going to start this and it was suggested to me, so I figured since I've been planning it for a while, now would be a good time to do it.   Right now, I am only offering 56k dialup quality, but I will be producing new videos for high speed connections sometime in the future if permission to use the videos is granted.

Photos from Senior Recognition and the Carlisle show will be available by the 16th or 17th which is Tuesday/Wednesday.  Full resolution portraits of this year's seniors will be available for download or for reprint as well.

October 13, 2001: I fixed a broken link in the 2000-2001 ACCs show pages.  I've been seeing it on the weekly stats reports, but nobody reported the exact page until yesterday.  Please, if you come across any problems or broken links, contact me right away via email so I can fix the problem.

This afternoon, I completed the photos for Senior Recognition including high resolution images for download or reprint.  The Carlisle show photos are complete as well and are online.  This is the benefit of having all my equipment at the show.  I will keep an eye out this weekend for TOB scores and look into posting group 2 rankings on Monday after most of the scores are in.  Happy Birthday Mr. Perbetsky.

Apparently there was a problem preventing access to the summer 2001 photos.  I forgot to remove a temporary index file, so this should be fixed now.

October 14, 2001: All updates for the weekend are complete and have been uploaded.  Any updates or additions for streaming media will have to wait for a while because I have some other projects unrelated to this site that are top priority right now.  As for next week's show, I probably will not have a laptop so it may take a few days until I am able to post new updates.  Questions or problems, let me know.

October 15, 2001: I am currently seeking authorization for the ACCs videos, and expect to hear back from BVP Marching Videos later in the week.  I am going to leave the 56k streams up as a sample or a test.  If approved, I will produce broadband quality videos, if denied, I will have to remove the existing videos.  More news later this week hopefully.

More broken links were fixed, and I removed the sub sale link from the boosters page.  That ended 2 months ago, I didn't think people would still be trying to order! I also fixed it that you can get back to the home page from the boosters page.

October 20, 2001: Photos from the Cocalico show are online now, and I fixed the Carlisle pages so you can get to the download gallery.  I have not heard anything back about the videos yet, but I will get to work on producing new videos as soon as I get permission to use them.  Fruit sale information will be available as soon as I have the information, which will probably be next weekend.

October 21, 2001: In response to feedback received in the few hours since the Cocalico photos were online, I ran everything through another program to sharpen and brighten all of the pictures.  I will probably make it a point to do this from now on, and at some point I'm sure I'll get bored and go back over all the other photos on the site.  If you have any specific feedback, let me know.  If there are any particular requests for photos, I can always try, but no guarantees.  Remember, I don't know who everybody is, but I can easily target a section at a point in the show which would get the desired individuals.

October 24, 2001: BVP Marching Videos called me this morning and said that I have permission to use the videos for the website.  Streaming video for high speed connections is now online.

Small updates were made on the menus for the various years in order to include "Streaming Video".  Because I'm offering two different speeds, and I want to keep things nice and simple, it won't take you right to that year.  Besides, this way you see everything that is available.

October 26, 2001: I looked at creating new videos for dial-up users, but did not notice any difference in quality, so the existing ones will stay.  I created an "FAQ" page about the videos, which should answer some of the most common questions.  Cedar Cliff pictures will probably be available early Sunday depending on what time I get back from the show, and how long it takes to upload the stuff on dialup.

October 28, 2001: Fruit sale information is now available on the Music Boosters page.  The Cedar Cliff pages are under construction at this time.  The variety of photos may not be what they normally are due to some camera problems.

November 6, 2001: The Chapters photo pages will be completed tonight.  I do have a video of a run-through at practice and the celebration after the show, but right now I am not sure if I can use them or not.  Either way, I won't post a show video until after ACCs.  I fixed up a few things in different areas of the site, nothing special or important.

November 10, 2001 2:40am: I just moved the Chapter 6 webring over to the new systems as I was instructed to do by Yahoo.  I know that the picture in the little navbar there doesn't work, that can't be helped.  Also, there's a whole 2 other sites  on there and they aren't displaying the code, so I am probably just going to forget the whole idea.  I have links to them anyway.

November 14, 2001 1:30am: So far the best I can say for a 2001 season video is I can put something up as soon as I get my hands on an ACCs video.  The chapters celebration video will be available when I have time to create the video streams.  The ACCs pages are under construction, I am still working on the smaller images, but using the "download" feature you can view the thumbnails and full size photos before the other pages are completed.  There is also an important announcement on the band news page regarding the start of indoor guard.  If this interests you, have a look and be sure to attend the informational meeting.

November 15, 2001:  All of the ACCs photos are now online.  Also, I fixed a problem where the wrong navigation bar was being displayed on the ACCs problems.  I am also inserting the correct nav bar into all of the ACCs pages so you can get to the various sections from any page.

November 26, 2001:  I fixed a problem on the ACCs pages, so now when you click on high photos you will be taken to the correct page.  I do have the ACCs video now, but the sound quality is very poor.  Because of this, it may be a while before I have something up on the website.

November 30, 2001:  Design changes will take place over the next month and message boards will be added with the next update.  I changed how the videos are being served, although this shouldn't affect anyone.  The change will allow me to move videos between servers if needed without making any updates to the site or dealing with broken links.

December 9, 2001:  I am working on the design changes now, and the changes will start to appear throughout the site immediately.  Everything except 2000-2001 has been converted to the new design.  I will finish these pages and start working on message boards within the next few days.

December 16, 2001:  Design changes for 2000-2001 have been completed.  I will put together some stuff for the message boards starting this afternoon.  Check back later or look for the announcement on RAMB.

December 19, 2001:  The band history section of the site has been updated to include the show overviews dating back to 1991.  If you have any additional information, or a good ACCs video, please let me know so I can update the site.

December 31, 2001:  I am working on scanning some of the images from 2000-2001 that were developed online with Shutterfly.  Check back soon for more news.  Today this site was recognized as the Pennsylvania Destination of the Day.  Pretty cool, huh!