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"What Was New!"
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070398-071898 postings:
•Web site location: Obviously, ThinkMills.com is the new location of
the Think Mills Web Site 2! Unfortunately, the reformatting for the
new site was (is) so extensive that it did not get completed by July 1st(!);
therefore, this site is still under construction!
What's up and running:
•071898: The "Games of Skill" can now be played on IE4+!!
•071698: The "choose your browser" graphics & pages for
Internet Explorer have been updated, now that the Mills system has an actually
working IE4! As this site requires Netscape 3+ or 4+ or IE4+ and
works best with Netscape 4+, an "upgrade your browser" page has been
added to these pages.
•The main magazine-style homepage for IE4 has been
reformatted, now that Mills can see what it actually looks like! The Revision
page has also been reformatted to work with IE4. Further IE4 revisions will
continue slowly progressing (but thereby retarding the conversion of the
entire site to its new location!)....
•070698: The "homepage 2" pages for Netscape and the
"homepage 2" pages for Internet Explorer (originally, the first page
of the Think Mills Site 2) are now available. Just follow the flashing
arrow....
•070498: The "Games of Skill" puzzles are up and running.
[No longer applies:] The first puzzle can be played on either Netscape 3+ or Netscape 4+. The
other two puzzles require Netscape 4+ (or possibly IE4+). If you try them
on Internet Explorer 4+, please send an e-mail saying whether they work on
IE4, as IE4 and IE5 drastically crash the Mills system!
•070398: The Graphical Poetry Section with animation and sound has been
completely transferred over including both books, the "make your
own poems" pages, and the Contributors' Corner pages. There are now 7
contributed poems, with one more to be added as soon as there's time to design
the graphics for it!!
•The Mills "bio" pages are available (as if anyone really
cares), as are the "Games of Chance."
•What's waiting in the wings: [as of 7/4/98] The animated comic strips are still
waiting to be reformatted, as are the playable piano, and the movies (such as
they/it are/is!). The original homepage (now "page 2" is also yet
to be done, along with the interactive MillsReaderBrowserBook sample and
the "QuickClips for Sale" pages.
•In all, there are some 328 individual html pages from the previous site
location, of which 199 [as of 7/4/98] have been reformatted and uploaded to
this location, leaving (quick, now, do the math) 129 to come! Please keep
coming back to see how things are progressing here at ThinkMills.com!!
052898:
•Revisons page reformatted 4/23/98 & 5/26/98 to Revisions page and
Previous Revisions page.
•MillsReaderScrollText applet added Mills's first attempt
at Java programing (other than in JavaScript). Applet size and background
colors, scroll speed, text to scroll, font face, text color, size, and style,
etc., are obtained from the HTML page.
Click (and hold) on the applet to pause scrolling. Release from the top half
to continue scrolling up; the bottom half to scroll back down.
•Millss changed to "morphing" version (see top of this page)
on 4/23/98 and resized 5/26/98 to correct Netscape Navigator 3+ viewing error.
•Two new contributors' poems added to the Poetry Section's Contributor's Corner.
•ToC graphics created for Games of Skill Section and Movies Section; both
sections added to both Table of Contents.
•"Choose your Table of Contents" page reformatted so that clicking
each step takes you to the next step.
•The three Table of Contents pages reformatted to get rid of most of the
explanatory comments at the top of the pages (moving them to the bottom
for the actual two ToC pages to improve their first-look appearance.
•Masthead-type banner across magazine-format pages changed/shortened for
shorter download times.
•Magazine-page movie banner changed (since it's no longer new & now in ToC).
•Vast maintenance-type updates incorporating Netscape 4+ changes,
graphics-size changes, et al., performed.
Previous pre-4/23/98 revisions:
Revised 3/14,15,21/98, added 3 games of skill & a movie short
Revised 12/7&14/97 & 2/13&24/98 & 3/1/98,
added contributors' poems
Revised 11/23/97, added new magazine-style
homepage with new banner head; original homepage is now page 2
Revised 11/10-13/97, added e-mail icon;
revised various pages, including biographical sketch & homepage sidebar; added
newspaper reanimation
Revised 8/11, 13, & 21/97, added six more poems to Book
2, with sound and "MiniMovies"; revised main homepage
Revised 8/9/97, added "Play Yer
Piano" & ©
Revised 8/7/97, added new "mouse-over"
table of contents
Revised 8/2/97, replaced and added new Mills
pictures to "biographical sketch"
Revised 7/29/97, added On-line "Games" section
Revised 5/28/97, added 3 more audio animated comic strips!
Revised 5/24/97, added new interactive audio animated comic strips!
Revised 4/30/97, added new interactive MillsReader BrowserBook sample
Revised 4/18/97, added Welcome audio to homepage, plus more animation
Revised 4/10-12/97, added navigation "tags" and several animations to poetry section
Revised 4/3-6/97, added marquees; added/adding animation
Revised 3/22/97, adding frames
Revised 9/3/96, always under construction
Revised 8/23/96, still under construction
Revised 8/18/96, still under construction
Revised 8/17/96, still under construction
Revised 8/16/96 (a.m. & p.m.), still under construction
Revised 8/13/96, still under construction
Revised 8/10/96, still under construction
Submitted 8/6/96 (under construction).
New as of March 14, 15, & 21, 1998
Sections:
- •Added Games of Skill section to Games of
Chance section (3/14)
- •Added Movies section (3/21)
Pages:
- •Added 3 new puzzles to new Games of Skill section
·Megaphone Moviecam Madness
·Think Mills Puzzle
·Web Spider
•Added "Ethereal: Mills on Art" movie (with sound) in .avi,
.mov, & .mpg formats
·Created and added movie-screens graphic navigation map for
each format
·Created and added Cinema 1 marquee for top of movie-screens
graphic
·Revised related linked pages
New as of December 7 & 14, 1997, & February 13, 1998
Pages:
- •Added contributors' corner to Interactive
Poetry section (12/7)
·Created contributors' corner logo and page (12/7)
·Created contributors' corner LED-style banner (12/7)
·Formatted and added first contributor's poem (12/7)
·Created graphic for first contributor's poem (12/7)
·Created directory page for contributors' poems (12/14)
·Formatted and added second contributor's poem (12/14)
·Created graphics for second contributor's poem (12/14)
·Formatted and added third contributor's poem (2/13)
·Created graphics for third contributor's poem (2/13)
·Formatted and added fourth contributor's poem (2/24)
·Created graphics for fourth contributor's poem (2/24)
·Formatted and added fifth contributor's poem (3/1)
·Created graphics for fifth contributor's poem (3/1)
- •Revised magazine homepage (et al.) with
new-poem section reference (12/7,14 & 2/13,24 & 3/1)
New as of November 23, 1997
Pages:
- •Added new magazine-style clickable homepages
·With navigation illustrations, banners, arrows, etc.
·Specialized for Netscape and IExplorer, including new Welcome audios
·New animated clickable headline banner
·New graphic "hits" counter
- •Revised original homepage as homepage 2
New as of November 10-13 (and follolwing), 1997
Miscellaneous:
- •Added "Play Yer Piano" & © to table of contents, including new pop-up graphic
in mouse-over version
- •Added sound and e-mail icon to biographical
sketch
- •Added Netcaster Channel selector to homepage
sidebar and revised sidebar layout
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•Added/adding animated e-mail icon
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and related reanimation feature (for Netscape) to various pages
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Refresh/
reanimate graphic?
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New as of August 11, 13, & 21, 1997
Pages:
- •Added "Soulfood," "Singing Squirrels,"
"Thistle," "Nature Calls," "Of Birds and War,"
& "Sans Man" to poetry section's Book 2 [previously
added: "Prologue," "To Boldly Grow," and "God Save
the Queen (Anne's Lace)"]
·Complete with photo graphics and MiniMovies
·Some with sound
- •Revised copy on main homepage (8/21/97)
New as of August 9, 1997
Pages:
- •Added "Play Yer Piano" & ©
-- a playable one-octave keyboard with matching color-responding staff
notes
·Keyboard plays when mouse moves on it and off it
·Keys go down and play when pointed to [object of preposition goes here]
·Notes on staff change color and play when pointed to [object of preposition goes here]
·Notes and keys are synchronized
·Various other play options
- •Added piano directions (and redirecting non-Netscape browsers) page
- •Added piano closing (and ordering) page
- •Updated affected pages, including Homepage
right frame
New as of August 7, 1997
Pages:
- •Added new table of contents with graphics that change when mouse
points to them
- •Added a "choose your table of
contents" page
- •Revised (and renamed) the originalng table of contents page
- •Updated affected pages, including Homepage
right frame
New as of August 2, 1997
Pictures and Pages:
- •Replaced "biographical sketch" picture
- •Added animated picture option to "biographical sketch"
picture
- •Appendeded 4 full-screen picture pages to "More than you ever
wanted to see..." page of "biographical sketch"
- •Updated affected pages, including Homepage
right frame and TofC
New as of July 29, 1997
Sections:
- •Interactive on-line fortune-telling and lottery games
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·2 games with...
·Animation and sound
•Revised/revising Poetry Section to allow for new book
Pages:
- •Game Directory page
- •"Wheel of Future" -- ask a question, spin the wheel!
- •"3-Pick Lottery" -- choose three numbers and be glad you didn't spend a dollar!
- •Revised Table of Contents
- •Added two-book Poetry Directory
- •Revised Poetry Directory page
- •Revised Homepage embedded sound for Netscape Navigator
- •Revised Homepage right frame with new info
New as of May 28, 1997
Comic Pages:
- •"The Snowpeople in Snowman does Merman"
- •"The Snowpeople and the Psychic"
- •"The Snowpeople in Sininging in the Rain"
New as of May 24, 1997
Sections:
- •Interactive comic strips
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·3 comic strips, more (eventually) to come!
·Animation and sound
·Navigation tags
Pages:
- •"The Little Blue Man on growing older"
- •"The Little Blue Man on international understanding"
- •"The Little Blue Man on having fun"
New as of April 30, 1997
Sections:
- •Interactive MillsReader BrowserBook
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·Color-coded, animated graphics
·Navigation/Table of Contents/Index window bars for easy review
·Self-testing practices with automatic hints for incorrect (or smart-aleck) answers
New as of April 10-12, 1997
Pages:
- •Added an audio welcome to the
Think Mills homepage
- •Added "spin" to What's Newspaper
New as of April 10-12, 1997
Pages:
- •Reformatted Poetry Section for Navigator
and Explorer!
- •Added 5 (6 in 800-resolution) page-base "tags" for easier navigation
within Poetry Section
- •More animation added throughout Poetry Section
New as of April 3-6, 1997
Pages:
- •Animation added to windmills on home
page
- •Marquee banner (readable in older browsers, as well) added to home
page
- •Animation added to "go"light throughout
- •Animation added to "Ode to a Moth," regular
and all-graphicversion
- •LED-style marquee banner graphic (readable in older browsers, as
well)
added to Table of Contents and
Interactive Poetry TofCs and
pages
New as of March 22, 1997
Pages:
- •Original homepage divided into 3 parts
for easier/faster navigation
- •Main page (large frame) now gets to the point immediately without
wading through layout discussion first
- •Layout test and discussion now a separate page, with test first and
recommendations following
- •Links to layout test, Visitor's Page, etc., in side frame
- •Number of "hits" listed in side frame
- •Direct links to specialized points of interest (bypassing Table of
Contents) now in side frame
- •Visitors Page now available!
- •Visitors Page with "hits" info and sign-in form. Sign in and see
if you get a sticker added to the suitcase!
New as of September 3, 1996
Sections:
- •Poetry Section
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·All poetry pages (see below) now viewable on any browser
- •All-graphic poetry pages
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·All poetry pages (except as noted below) are now available in all-graphic
versions for viewing by otherwise non-compatible browsers
·Graphics Test Page added, for checking whether your browser is set up
correctly for regular Poetry Section viewing
·All section pages linked for prewritten poems (Interactive Poetry is linked
back only to regular Poetry Section)
·Each individual poem is linked to its corresponding all-graphic or regular
version
["I Don't (want to) Lubbu Anymore" is included in all-graphic
section in original version, as it required no special formatting]
New as of August 23, 1996
Sections:
- •Poetry Section
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·Final poetry pages (see below)
Pages:
- •Poetry pages
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·"I Don't (want to) Lubbu Anymore"
·"What Is Love?"
·"The Meini?"
·"If I Should Die Before I Wake"
·"Epilogue"
New as of August 18, 1996
Pages:
- •Poetry pages
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·"Butterfly/Fantasy"
·"Dreamstaring"
·"You Could Have Been the Nutmeg in My Brandy Alexander"
New as of August 17, 1996
Pages:
- •Poetry pages
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·"Bored of Education"
·"Owed to a Giraffe"
·"Choochoo of Thought"
New as of August 16, 1996
Pages:
•Poetry pages
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New poetry
·"Neverus"
·"uh, spring"
·"Hooked"
·"Like the Petals of a Rose"
·"On Time" (added p.m.)
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·Rewrite the poems!
·'QuickPick Poetry'
·Write and Submit your own poem!
- Plus 'Warning Ratings': HR, G, PG, & R!
New as of August 13, 1996
Pages:
- •Poetry page(s)
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·"Ode to a Moth"
New as of August 10, 1996
Sections:
- •Poetry Section
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·Poetry directory (under construction)
·Poetry page(s)
Pages:
- •Think Mills opening homepage
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·Page activated
- •Table of Contents
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·Page activated
- •Biographical sketch
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·Page activated
- •Visitors' Page
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·Page activated, but still under construction
- •Revisions Page
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·This page, activated
- •Poetry Directory
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·Page activated, but still under construction
- •Poetry page(s)
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·"How, Old?"
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