What's New ( Old, Actually ) (3/4)
April 2007
Merged with NJScuba.com - NJScuba.net is now 464 MB and still growing
- Captain Steve Nagiewicz now has his own page
- Artificial Reef News 2007 & many reef updates
- Added modification dates to all pages ( of course, that resets them all to today ! )
- Species Profiles: Cunner | Striped Cusk Eel | Double-crested Cormorant | NJ Gulls
February 2007
- Added some interesting looking sites from the AWOIS database
- Spellchecked the entire website
December 2006
Found this old photo of the A.H. Dumont
October 2006
- Re-arranged wreck charts to give better coverage to Barnegat area.
- Oct 3 2006 - revamped page counters. I suspect that I have been under-counting the total by almost half, and the site actually gets a lot more traffic than I thought. * The new counter is a custom Perl script, and seems to be much more accurate when counting multiple pages than the old scheme. It also gets rid of the last "FrontPage" dependency in the website, although FrontPage is still useful for some tasks.
As far as what you can see, the new counter is better-situated and less obtrusive on the page, and shows more information in less space. - Most changes continue to be behind-the-scenes updating of HTML. The entire website is now much more compatible with all modern browsers and platforms.
September 2006
- Slight visual changes belie sweeping beneath-the-skin changes. Page layouts now based almost entirely on divisions rather than tables. This allows easier and more consistent formatting with style sheets, and more flexible and precise positioning. Another benefit is a 12% reduction in total HTML "fat".
- Fixed media embedding to work in all browsers the same, now including Opera. Sound and video media is now embedded in controllable players in the web page, rather than links.
- "Validated" new HTML against four major Windows browsers: IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5, and Opera 9. Everything looks good. Firefox and Opera render the new design much faster than Internet Explorer. Microsoft needs to do some work on their browser.
- Almost all files also validate against W3C HTML 4.01 standard, and so should work on platforms other than Windows. Never owned a Mac and uninstalled Linux, so I can't test those. You 3% are on your own.
- Added an extra side panel that I can do anything I want with, without upsetting any of the existing content. Suggestions?
August 2006
Found this old photo of the Maurice Tracy, moments after launching
July 2006
- New bigger reef charts with more consistent scales and new index chart
- Not dive sites, but interesting: Michelle K & John DeWolf II
- United States Coast Guard & History
Heavy Metal - Townsends Inlet Reef
- Fixed some minor layout issues with Firefox & Opera
June 2006
APL-31 deck plans
Take a submarine trip around the Shark River Reef
April 2006
Many thanks to Pat Colligan for this excellent shot of the Cranford ferry as "The Ferry" restaurant in Brielle:
"The Ferry" restaurant, seen from the foot of the Route 35 bridge, probably in the late sixties. She appears to be laid-up at the far side of the Seeker's old dock, behind the present-day Shipwreck Grill, where the Spring Tide ties up today. You might have to stare at this picture for a while, as the ferry is so much bigger than anything else in it that she merges into the background and appears to be a building onshore. Photo courtesy of Pat Colligan.
- Bill Figley - NJ's Artificial Reef Guy
- Marine Life Colonization of Experimental Reef Habitat
- Evolution, Creation, Intelligent Design & Flying Spaghetti Monsterism
- Fisheries Management Primer
- Artificial Reef Chronology
- Artificial Reef News 2006
- Artificial Reef Plan 2005
- Townsend Artificial Reef
Feb 2006
- Elizabeth
- Chauncey Jerome Jr
- Long Branch Pier
June 2005
- What Fish Was That?
- June 27 2005 - main counter passed 1,000,000 ( Google does that in a few minutes )
- All About Artifacts & Identifying the Emerald by Capt Steve Nagiewicz
A photo of the Mohawk that has probably never before been seen in public
April 2005
- 2005 Artificial Reef News
- Shrewsbury / Elberon Rocks by Donna Blasczak | Klondike Rocks
- Started adding videos to the website. These will be short, high quality clips, suitable for broadband connections only. So far: Brunette & Emerald wrecks, locomotives. Also Sharks.
- Updated fishing regulations
- Underwater counts of fish and lobster inhabiting Reef Ball habitats on New Jersey ocean reef sites
- Tagging Study Of Black Sea Bass In New Jersey Ocean Waters
February 2005
- New User Survey | Results - I am interested in feedback.
- Here's a nice new coffee-table book:
New Jersey Shipwrecks:
350 years in the Graveyard of the Atlantic
by Margaret Thomas Buchholz - Major clean-up and restructuring; fixed some errors that go back to the very beginning. Streamlined the whole internal link structure for easier maintenance. Removed a lot of external links, mostly broken. Renamed many files, which will break external references. Until Google catches up, use the on-site search engine instead.
- Crabs | Doing It Right ? | Going Deeper - Tech Diving | Artificial Reef Materials
December 2004
- In 2004, the main counter registered 302928 hits. That's really not much, but it's almost equal to the entire count from 1996-2003 !
- Underwater Rock Formations
- Veronica M artificial reef
- Added a number of articles from Fishes of the Gulf of Maine in Biology
- Added a number of Species Profiles from the US Fish & Wildlife Service ( 35 MB ! )
