< Jun 16th 2009: Posted ALR Newsletter, Two-Wheeled Tuesdays.
< Jun 4th 2009: Posted AL Newsletter. Added a Quick Link to the AL/ALR News Blog. Added a Quick Link to KS Patriot Guard web site.
< May 20th 2009: Posted ALR Newsletter. Posted 2-Wheel Tuesday updates.
< May 13th 2009: Made some internal modifications to the web page code. Changed the page headers for all the pages. Worked on the menus to make them a little more clear. Redesigned the ALR Welcome Page to include many popup pictures to give an indication of some of things that we do.
< May 11th 2009: Posted the AL Monthly Newsletter.
< May 2nd, 2009: Consolidated several of the small info pages for the American Legion and placed them into a new American Legion Welcome Page.
< Apr 29th 2009: Changed the right column of the Home page to Accordian panels instead of Drop Down panels.
< Apr 28th 2009: Implemented the PopUp windows allowing for better display of information in a smaller screen space.
< Apr 27th 2009: Added some command buttons to main index page to allow for Flyout windows when moused over. Posted some new pictures.
< Apr 26th 2009: Had some pages that didn't display properly in some browsers. Cleaned up the html code left over from the conversion.
> Apr 20th 2009: Put the new web site in production. Got the site Search engine running.
> Apr 17th 2009: Set up a new database on the new server for the Event Calendar and downloaded the db from the old server and imported it into the new db. The Event Calendar works. Sweet, was unsure whether this would be possible and it was a major requirement before moving to new server platform. Only thing left is to upload Photo directories to new server.
> Apr 16th 2009: Changed the Drop panel blog window to a tabbed drop down window that allows user to select from the Post blog, the Rags Report blog, several news feeds from within the same pull down window. Also incorporated several "Eye Candy" utilities in the smaller center panel allowing user to open the "Current Weather", "Radar Map" for Kansas & a "This Day in History" window.
> Apr 15th 2009: Implemented the Post & ALR Current News Blog directly into the Home Page in Drop Down panels. Ironed out a few bugs and converted all the pages in the web site to .aspx so that the new menu bar will work on them. > Apr 14th 2009: Redesigned the Home page of the website to take advantage of expanding panels that let's me put more information on one page.
> Apr 12th 2009: Continueing to design new beta site. New site will utilize Server Side programming. Now instead of downloading the entire page when you view it you will only have to download the elements that are common to all pages in the site once and they will be assembled with the non-common elements as you view them resulting in a more efficient schema.
> Apr 10th 2009: Put in always visible menu's on the beta site. No matter where you scroll a page the menu will always stay at the top edge of the center screen.
> Apr 7th 2009: Working on the new beta version of the website for a week or two. Converting site into ASPX code to bring the web pages into the current web compliance standard as well as letting me program expanded features not available with HTML code.
> Apr 5th 2009: Working on beta website. Programed the Event Participation Lists (10 of them so far) into a database. This will allow rapid updating of the lists. Old way took a while as the pages were way complicated. > Mar 10th 2009: Posted ALR Newsletter
> Mar 9th 2009: Posted Rags Report, Pictures, other pictures of recent funerals and send offs.
> Mar 4th 2009: Posted AL Newsletter, updated the ALR Event Participation Lists.
> Feb 22nd 2009: Posted S.A.L. 2009 Officer pictures. Posted pics from ALR Monthly meeting 2-8-2009. Added eagle release pics to the photo pages. Added funeral pics of Gene Kuhns to photo pages.
> Feb 10th 2009: Posted info on the Ks Gold Star Family Committee. Posted Contact list of KS ALR Posts & Area Directors. Posted ALR Mid-Winter Report from Cregg (Bronco6) Hansen. Posted Feb ALR Newsletter. Posted new SAL Officer's.
> Feb 5th 2009: Posted AL Newsletter
> Feb 4th 2009: Posted Funeral pics of Chester Purkey
> Feb 1st 2009: Posted Funeral pics of Don Pederson
> Feb 1st 2009: Compressed file size of the ALR Participation Lists by 75% so they would load faster. Added capability to jump around all 10 lists without having to go thru the menu.
> Jan 31st 2009: Added a submission form for AL/ALR-136 members to update their contact information.
> Jan 30th 2009: Posted the updated ALR Participation Lists. Modified the pages that display them.
> Jan 29th 2009: Posted pics from Mike St.Claire of the Xmas/VA-Banana Run on 12/14/08.
> Jan 27th 2009: Added a "News" button to the menu to group all news areas in one place.
> Jan 27th 2009: Added several news feeds for the topics "American Legion" & "American Legion Riders"
> Jan 27th 2009: Created a new Search Engine that will search ALL Post 136 resources. Located in the Search Tab.
> Jan 26th 2009: Created new backgrounds for the website pages. Posted new RAGS photos. Moved RAGS Report to its own blog. Added AL/ALR-136 blog to display current events & postings. Added links to the new blogs to the menu.
> Jan 25th 2009: Moved & resized some elements of this page to make it a little more readable.
> Jan 24th 2009: Posted the 2008 publications of the 'Free Military Handbooks' under the American Legion menu. These Handbooks have a wealth of knowledge in them. Restructured the menu's, renamed files and organized the file system.
> Jan 20th 2009: Fixed the Search function.
> Jan 19th 2009: Added document of the start of the Patriot Guard from the American Legion Magazine under ALR 136 History.
> Jan 18th 2009: Posted pics of Webber Welcome Home. Copies can be purchased HERE. Re-configured Photo Galleries to automatically resize smaller depending on size of browser window.
> Jan 14th 2009: Updated ALR Newsletter, added information on the VA Homeless, posted the ALR New Membership Packet, re-structured & rebuilt the Photo Galleries, enhanced the menu system, updated 2-Wheel Tuesday's, added a new web page for the Ks Vet Cemetery Program under AL, added a SAL Membership Application to the SAL page.
> Jan 7th 2009: Finalized RAGS page. Added RAGS Photo page.
> Jan 7th 2009: Finalized RAGS page. Added RAGS Photo page.
> Jan 6th 2009: Added a RAGS page to the menu. Look up.
> Jan 6th 2009: Updated AL Newsletter, AL & SAL Membership Join pages.
> Jan 6th 2009: Put Officer pics on the AL, ALR & Aux Officer & Contacts pages. Posted new Contact email addresses.
> Dec 28th 2008: Posted the Ebay Funeral pics on the Photo Page.
> Dec 25th 2008: Updated & Restructured the Photo Galleries.
> Dec 18th 2008: Posted picture of the new 2009 ALR Officers in the ALR Officers page.
> Dec 17th 2008: Updated ALR Newsletter, ALR Officers, 2-Wheel Tuesdays