Site Updates

This section records the changes an updates to this site about George Cruikshank and his art. Although the site has been up an running since around December, 2006, I did not previously keep track of changes to the site, so the "what's new" section may look a bit skimpy for the moment. However, there were in fact quite a few changes that were not recorded.

George Cruikshank News

May 16, 2011 -- created and added a favicon to the front page only.

May 8, 2011 -- redid the front page and made minor tweaks throughout. The new front page uses server side includes and the next step is to standardize the appearance of the site throughout. Moved the content of the "George Cruikshank" page to the front. Built a page about cartoonist James Gillray

January 29, 2011 -- built a new section on the art of George Cruikshank, which consisted of a reprint of an 1865 article by Thackeray

January 24, 2011 -- added a picture of George Cruiskhank to the front page, and increased the occurrence of the search term on the index.

November 21, 2010 -- added more links to the George Cruikshank illustrations gallery

November 13, 2010 -- made some seo improvements to the George Cruikshank page, which on this date ranked on the 11th page of google for the same search term. We'll see if the SEO tricks move it up the rankings at all.

October 30, 2010 -- built the galleries of George Cruikshank illustrations. Will deepen content later.

October 21, 2010 -- made some minor fixes to the front page.

October 17, 2010 -- added more content regarding George Cruikshank to the front page.

February 11, 2010 -- added photographs of George Cruikshank

February 9, 2010 -- added a new section about the life and art of George Cruikshank, as well as articles on caricatures and the John Bull

January 24, 2009 -- added a section summarizing the top search terms that people use to find their way to this site. George Cruikshank is the favorite. Few people seem to search for Isaac Cruiskhank.

September 21, 2009 -- changed the privacy policy.

December 19, 2008 -- added a privacy policy.

October 22, 2008 -- added text descriptions to the first 37 images in the Robert Cruikshank gallery.

March 29, 2008 -- created a 404 error page. Improved the look of the About Us page.

March 16, 2008 -- fixed some broken links. Added a robot.txt file. Added captions and title tags to the following pages: 1, 2, 3,4,5, 6,7,8, 9,10,12

March 15, 2008 -- added a section of illustrations about the criminal underworld of Victorian London by George Cruikshank

March 14, 2008 -- revamped the front page.

November 3, 2007 -- added alt tags, improved the headings and added text from the book Frank Fairlegh to the George Cruikshank gallery.

October 20, 2007 -- added this page to keep track of all future site updates :). Made some minor tweaks to the front page to improve the linking structure and menu a bit. Improved the layout of the index pages for the George Cruikshank and Robert Cruikshank galleries. The next major planned upgrade is to create an xml feed of the images on this site. Note to self: add the feed to yahoo and other directories for faster indexing by the search engines; also need to add text to the alt tags for all of the illustrations on the Robert Cruikshank section.

Planned Future Upgrades

Fix the biography of Robert Cruikshank
Add text and commentary to each 219 images of Robert Cruikshank gallery
Add the text and images from The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman to the George Cruikshank Section
Add a proper h1 tag and title to the Robert Cruikshank gallery pages
Add meaningful captions for the Robert Cruikshank drawings.
Add text from the book to coincide with the Robert Cruikshank illustrations
Improve the navigation menu in the Robert Cruikshank section so that each page can access the site map, the home page and also gives you a "you are here" link. Also crosslink with George Cruikshank
Add addthis social bookmarking button to each of the pages in the Robert Cruikshank and George Cruikshank galleries
Add meaningful alt tags to the George Cruikshank illustrations - Done
Add captions below each George Cruikshank illustration. The captions would be taken from the text or the image istelf. The point is to make the pages more google friendly because currently they are heavy on images and light on text.- Done
Add title tags to these sections etc
Fix this page which currently points to a broken link (nonexistent index3)
Use auditmypc.com to create a link report, site map, and google map. Identify and fix any broken links.
As these to do items are crossed off the list, add the completed items to a what's new section on the front page itself.