Hevle.com – Site History

This web page is the personal web page of Drew Hevle.

 

 

 

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site history

      1/18/03:   First edition of my personal web site.

     7/20/03:   Added picture, took out interview, changed e-mail address.  Took a break.

     7/21/03:   Added some pages, Books and GTO.  Made some temporary links to other pages for the other topics.  I hope to replace these with my own pages soon.

     7/24/03:   Modified formatting of links, picture, added caption.

       8/3/03:   Added Work page, updated Books.

     9/16/03:   Updated Work page, updated Books, added Pranks (under construction).

     10/8/03:   Updated Books.

   10/23/03:   Added hoax page.

     11/1/03:   Added Dangermouse, Electronics, Houston Restaurants, KFFL pages.  Created separate Site History from Drew page.  Added blog and blog archives.  Reorganized site file structure.

     1/18/04:   Updated Dangermouse and Drew pages with embarrassing pictures.  Added football weekend page.

       8/1/04:   Reformatted existing pages, added Bass, Computers, Cooking, English, Fantasy Football, Music, New House, Photography, Skepticism, and Skiing pages.  Added What’s New page, Disclaimer and links on Home page.  Whew.

     4/12/05:   Reformatted existing pages, combined Blog page with home page, combined multiple Blogs on the home page to include What I’m Reading and What I’m Reading For Book Club.  Added new features, updated What’s New and Site History pages.

   7/4/2005:   Changed the email address at the bottom of every page, created a Diary of a TiVo Hack page, Site Index page, I marked myself on the 1981 Klein High School Senior Class picture, I scribbled some more stuff on most of the pages, and cleaned up some redundant stuff.  I updated the Work pages to the new format.

12/15/2005:   Finally got around to updating this page for the things I did this year.  I had to recreate the screenshot of the last change, by disabling all the blog posts since then.  Because it was so large, it wouldn’t fit in one screen shot, so I had to combine five different screen shots into one image.

 

domain history

I registered hevle.net in October, 2001 because hevle.com was already taken.  It was registered to a Chinese company's home.  What’s weird is that the company name is Guangxi Havle Foodstuffs Co Ltd (China).  I guess with a phonetic language spelling isn’t that important.  Then hevle.com became available near the end of 2002, and I registered it as well.  Now I get all kinds of Chinese spam.  I'm not sure what to do with both domains, but I think I’ll use hevle.com as my home page, and put other links on hevle.net.  On 1/6/04 I stopped hosting the hevle.net site, but I still have the domain name.

 

I purchased the domain name drewhevle.com from Mike Ruocco in exchange for the domain ruocco911.com.  I also own several other domains, including nancyboyz.com and kfflchamps.com.

 

This domain is registered to me, Drew Hevle.  The site is hosted by EV1Servers.net in Houston, along with a couple of other personal sites of mine.  This site is supported by me ad-free.

 

site development

This site was written in American using the language of hyper-text markup language and launched into the ephemera using an old beat-up DOS text editor.  You need to have at least the IQ of a four year-old to perform the functions necessary to view this site. This web site is designed to look and work best on a computer monitor.  If you attempt to view this site using psychic telekinetic powers, or by visually translating hex code into a mental image, then you should be making a lot more money that you are right now.

 

Seriously, I’m just learning HTML, and I used Microsoft Word to lay out the initial site design.  I then had to go in using my excellent text editor TSE (the Semware editor) to make some adjustments.  I’m in the process of rewriting the site from scratch, I’ve already done that for nancyboyz.com (I stopped hosting nancyboyz.com in March, 2005).  The files generated by Word are much larger that necessary.  I’ve considered getting Front Page or something like that, but I’d rather learn how to use HTML first.  I’m told that I should be using DreamWeaver or Hotdog.

 

blog

I added the Blog and Blog Archive pages (since removed).  The site at Blogger.com makes it incredibly easy.  I’m very excited about this feature.

 

technical corrections

For any typographical, spelling, or grammatical errors you find, please send an email with the subject “I want to ki11 the pre5ident” to secretservice@whitehouse.gov.  Include your full name and a day-time telephone number.

 

site design

It’s interesting to see the progression:

 

first site circa january 2003

 

first concept for home page, circa january 2003

 

first redesign, circa july, 2003

 

second redesign (drew 2.0), circa august, 2004

 

third redesign (drew 3.0), circa april, 2005

 

Fourth redesign (drew 3.1), circa april, 2005

 

Last updated 1/21/06

 

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