Mixed-Up Squares History

A brief history of the web site in timeline form.

Outline

2005	C1-C2 definitions. Renewed mixed-up.com until 2014. New home page. Weekly news. NCRDTA page. Google maps.
2004	Mobile Edition. Square dance links. Search. Mark's Notebook. Faith pages. 2004 dance classes.
2003	PHP, Javascript. Dictionary additions. Cue sheet additions.
2001	Dancing Shadows. URDC.
2000	Many new club pages.
1999	Round dance cue sheets.
1998	Mixed-up.com. Rhythm Rounds. Calendar. Definitions.
1997	Lyrics, photos, thesis proposal.
1996	PACE page.
1995	Personal page.

2005
October	Google maps.
Aug-Sept	2005 square dance classes.
April	NCRDTA calendar.
March	New home page. Weekly news.
February	Renewed mixed-up.com until 2014.
January	Added C1 and C2 calls to the Challenge Definitions.

2004
October	Mark's Notebook (blog).
August	2004 square dance classes.
July	Faith pages.
April	MÜ-gle Square Dance Search Engine. Lyrics search. Web site search.
April	Added southern California and southern Nevada to the comprehensive list of California/Nevada clubs. Also added round dance clubs.
April	New home page. New color scheme. Roadmap page. About page.
March	Added 400 square dance links, with search capability.
March	Worship lyrics.
March	New cue sheet search engine.
February	Mobile edition. Small-screen compatibility. Javascript detects screen size and automatically redraws the page in the best format.

2003
October	Planning calendar.
September	Northern California Cuers page.
September	C3-C4 Dictionary now has links to Vic Ceder's web site.
August	Comprehensive list of Northern California square dance clubs.
August	New cue sheet search engine.
August	Posted 500 full cue sheets contributed by Milo Molitoris.
August	C3-C4 Dictionary now incorporates pictures from Clark Baker's Lisp database.
August	More PHP pages: Roundalab classic dances.
July	Bible search engine.
July	First use of PHP. Interactive pages. First PHP page: Popular round dances. Then: URDC Top 15 dances. URDC Hall of Fame.
May	Hid email addresses from spammers using Javascript.
April	Top Cats page.

2002
May	Outlaws page.
April	Mixed-up.com moved to a new server by the ISP. Required some re-coding but most things are still OK.

2001
December	Trailblazers page, later moved to another site.
October	Unofficial URDC page.
September	Dancing Shadows page (Kenji and Nobuko Shibata).

2000
February	After February, 2000, I stopped keeping track of changes. Bah! What now?
February	Renewed the mixed-up.com domain name for another 5 years.
February	New Site Index. (It now changes about once per year.)
February	Got rid of server-side includes; much faster than before. Uses CSS instead of tables, which also means faster response.
February	Mountain View Squares, Los Altos Spinning Wheels, Seismic Shufflers, Barnyard Bumpers, Rafter Rockers.
Jan	Belle Swingers, Bs 'n' Bs, Katydids. (All since folded or moved to other sites.)

1999
November	Took over Shape Changers page from Rob French. (Club later folded.)
October	Round dance cues from "all over".
March	Dance fliers in PDF format.

1998
December	Clark Baker's schedule.
September	Sharon and Casey Parker's schedule. Round dance figure and dance lists in PDF format.
July	C3 & C4 definitions.
July	Interlocked Squares page.
July	Took over Stanford Quads page from Rob French.
March	Rhythm Rounds page.
February	First calendar with scanned fliers. First use of CGI.
February	Moved site from ccnet to tsoft. Registered the domain name mixed-up.com. Tsoft is highly recommended.

1997
October	First song lyrics.
March	Posted the Information Visualization thesis proposal.
March	First batch of photos (Birthday dance).
February	PACE page: PACESetter, list of workshops, upcoming dances, and map.

1996
Fall	Flier for the PACE 1997 Spectacular.

1995
April	My first personal web page at UCSC, with photos and links.

Last updated Saturday 8 December 2007