The following is a list of the additions and changes to this web site in the year 2003. In addition to the new pages listed below, a tremendous amount of time was spent rewriting the code for the entire web site as briefly described at the bottom of this page.
20031222 China-Burma-India is dedicated to veterans of this theater of World War II.
20031002 2001-2003 describes changes to my Schwinn in photographs taken two years apart.
20030923 index page to organize the pages dedicated to my Schwinn ten-speed bicycle
20030922 scratch repair, more new parts, and shiny bicycle, more pages about my bicycle
20030820 NOS parts installed on my Schwinn ten-speed bicycle
20030815 NOS replacement parts for my Schwinn ten-speed bicycle
20030617 Ranchero body repair before and after pictures from Spring 2001
20030508 index page for the pages dedicated to my late father.
20030502 improved version of the ASCII-art version of the R Band logo.
20030427 Site Map for this web site, with a link to it from every page!
20030411 Mail form replaces the “mailto:” links throughout the web site.
20030318 di craven is dead, a “die-ary” entry posted here by permission of the author.
20030307 Colorized photographs of the Red Baron and his triplane.
20030301 Schwinn “Sportinental” describes the recent upgrading of my ten-speed bicycle.
20030214 Dennis's 4-wheel-drive 1962 Ranchero, proudly posted on my 1965 Ranchero's web site.
20030128 Death, a song I wrote some years ago about one way to cope with the death of one's parents.
If you don't know what the following paragraph is talking about, don't worry about it. The bottom line is that I put great time and effort into making this web site more user-friendly.
From the spring of 1997 until the winter of 2002, my web site used red button graphics for navigation hyperlinks. Then I replaced them with CSS rollover buttons on a menu bar, a bread crumb trail of nested lists, and a site map. In 2003 I made many other changes throughout the site, such as changing the lyrics on all song pages from all capitals to sentence case to improve readability. Behind the scenes, I upgraded the HTML code to XHTML 1.0 strict on most pages and combined and improved the CSS style sheets. (In July 2007, I converted the pages back to HTML 4.01 strict. Apparently xhtml served as content type html is a bad idea, and if I serve it as xml the most popular browser won't render the pages.)