Updates Page

January - 2007. I began to re-write the entire website to the W3c XHTML 1.1 Standard, including accessibility considerations and valid CSS Coding.
On February 1st. I decided to begin applying to web awards programs with fiteworld.com to see how competitive my design is.
In march I constructed my Insight page to give my readers a little insight into what makes me tick and why I constructed this web sight.

Award won and published from Casey's Celtic Charm awards program.
Award won and published from Lions Club Marseille Prospective awards program.
Award won and published from WM8C's Ham Links awards program.
Award won and published from Tim's Spider Corner awards program.
Award won and published from Pelaquita Persians awards program.
Award won and published from ConceptAnalysis, Language, and Logic awards program.

In May I decided that my awards won page was becoming too heavy and broke my awards down into rated and non-rated awards and broke the rated awards category down into three individual sections.

Award won and published from Jerry D's Site awards program.
Award won and published from Hugs - R - Us awards program.
Award won and published from Penmarric award program.
Award won and published from Mackey Web Design awards program.
Award won and published from the Lagoon View Yacht Club Nautical awards program.
Award won and published from Invision - Graphics awards program.
Award won and published from Storm Keeper awards program.
Award won and published from Southern Nytes awards program.
Award won and published from My Reflections awards program.
Award won and published from Animation Goldawards program.
Award won and published from Fun Tyme Entertainment awards program.
Award won and published from The WOW Factor awards program.
Award won and published from World Wide Web Award awards program.

In June I constructed and published an updates page so that the upgrading and updating of my website can be tracked easily.

Award won and published from Game Puppet awards program.
Award won and published from The Butterfly Site awards program.
Award won and published from The Butterfly Store awards program.
Web Master Tips Tutorial added to the website.
Award won and published from KISS Websites award program.
Award won and published from Morning Star's award Program.
Award won and published from Rudolf's Wander award program.
Upgrade award won and published from the American Association of Webmasters award program.
Award won and published from Lynx award program.
Silver Site of the Month Award won and published from Lynx Award Program.

In July I discontinued using pop-up windows to display my family photo's. I decide to wrap text around them in the appropriate locations on the webpages.

In August I re-wrote the drop down menu located at the top of each page to include titles.

Award won and published form La Luna's Niche award program.
Award won and published from Cameradio Amateur Radio and Photography award program.
Award won and published from the Silver Surfer Friendly award program.
Award won and published from the Phat Gal Store award program.
Award won and published from Doc Jim's Brite Lite award program.
Award won and published from DreamWeaver award preogram.
Award won and published from Timelines award program.

I spent the month of September re-writing the entire website to give it a new look and to bring the mark-up language from XHTML 1.1 down to XHTML 1.0 Strict.

In October I continued re-writing the website. It was actually a lot larger enterprise than I had first anticipated. As I went along it was hard not to continue tweaking the site as new ideas occurred to me. I decided to add a few more access considerations and to add site search opportunities to every page. Along the road to applying for awards I got a lot of good advice from some of the Award Program Evaluators which I decided to act upon as well.

I finally finished re-writing the whole thing on Thanksgiving weekend. I have gone over it with a fine toothed comb to make sure that it passes through all the respective validators without any errors.

I took the whole month of December off from making any changes on the web site. I spent the whole month relaxing and spending time with my family.

January - 2008. The new year kicked off with a couple of my "Cousins" contacting me and offering up a wagon-load of information on their branches of the Fite Family. One of the branches I am referring to is the "lost" Peter Fite Branch. I am currently working on an unlimited level drop-down Java menu to accdomo0date the new info.

May - 2008 After dealing with comprehensive personal issues for the last few months I am turning back to my internet hobbies. I need some diversion to get me back on track. I am working on building a more sophisticated drop down menu which I will be placing on my alternate Genealogy website (same genealogy info) at planetfite.com. This alternate site has about 50% fewer pages and therefor will be easier to write the new menu for. Once I have perfected the new menu design I will be adapting the new menu design to work on this site.

Updates for fiteworld.com