Change log The history of changes to ferryman.ca
| 2016-12-20 | Howe Island Township page added |
| 2016-11-24 | ferryman.ca domain name registered |
| 2016-11-16 | Work started on the website |
| 2017-12-15 | Colour changes. Better side menu. More mobile improvements. |
| 2017-12-08 | Lots of work making everything mobile friendly. Almost OK now. |
| 2017-11-30 | Cleaned up <head>, <meta>, viewport, created test page |
| 2017-11-27 | Added alphabetic index and did more site rearrangement to de-emphasise FOSL. Now 1301 files, 434 MB |
| 2017-11-26 | Added Ostend, Vlissingen |
| 2017-11-25 | Added Ramsgate, Calais, Zeebrugge, air ferries |
| 2017-11-22 | Added Dover. Now 1231 files, 422 MB. |
| 2017-11-21 | Added About page, Grove Ferry, Ramsgate, Dorval Island and Calais |
| 2017-11-15 | Menu introduced, navigation reworked |
| 2017-11-14 | Added flag support. More consolidation of directory structure |
| 2017-11-11 | Added Hřensko, Dolní Žleb and Newhaven. Now 1098 files, 401 MB. |
| 2017-11-10 | Added Quyon |
| 2017-11-08 | Added Masson-Cumberland |
| 2017-11-04 | Additions to Glenora |
| 2017-11-01 | Complete change of directory structure |
| 2017-10-30 | Added Ecolos - Thurso-Clarence. Now 958 files, 346 MB. |
| 2017-10-29 | Added Fassett-Lefaivre |
| 2017-10-26 | Added Carillon - Pointe-Fortune. Created an external links system |
| 2017-10-21 | Added Oka-Hudson |
| 2017-10-18 | Added Île-Bizard |
| 2017-10-13 | Added Horne's Ferry. Created draft logo and favicon. Improved bulk photo layout |
| 2017-09-29 | Summer intervened! Trois-Pistoles stub added. Ottawa-one-day added (words only) |
| 2017-06-29 | Budapest added |
| 2017-04-18 | Borden added, top-nav added. Now 160 MB. |
| 2017-04-17 | Wood Islands added |
| 2017-04-11 🎂 | Entry Island and Souris added |
| 2017-04-04 | Magdalen added |
| 2017-03-31 | Sorel, Levis, Isle-aux-Coudres, Tadoussac added |
| 2017-03-19 | Amherst Island page added. This history page added |
| 2017-03-14 | Generic pages created for ferries not yet visited, or not yet documented |
| 2017-03-11 | Howe Island County page added |
| 2018-12-30 | Add photos and text to Oka ferry for Sept. 2018 crossing
Fixed a few more typos (they're like dandelions in a lawn - better just learn to live with them!) Added "cruise-ferry" to the ferry types glossary Added Stockholm-Grinda ferry page Created a mini-index with flags on the World page and Canada-US page Changed external link icon Added Djurgården (Stockholm harbour) ferry page Changed ca01_... to caon01_... for consistency with plan to categorise "other" Canadian ferries by province Added Grand Manan page Duplicated links to the FOSL under relevant provinces in the Canada-US list to make more complete reference Introduced a FOSL "logo" at the top of FOSL pages to enhance identity Fixes and improvements to the index page Some additions to the Southsea-Ryde Hovercraft ferry page |
| 2018-12-05 | Fixed Grove ferry link on about page
Created a text sitemap, linked to footer Added nav tags to navigation code Renamed this page to "Change log" Created a custom 404 error page, and 403 error message Added auto-generated favicon and apple-touch, Facebook icons Make consistent use of em and strong tags instead of i and b Added aerial photos and text to Oka page Fixed details in menu and other css To avoid confusion, disabled the experimental plus/minus feature that can cut down the number of photos view |
| 2018-11-28 | Fixed index.html that was still calling for an include file removed in the last update
Fixed a few typos |
| 2018-11-26 | Defined a new header/footer include structure, simpler and adhering to better SEO practice. Rolled out to all pages
Some improvements to the "Not yet visited" page template Fixed 1px hover jiggle in top bar menu items |
| 2018-11-20 | Added ads and cookies warning to Google Search.
Changed images and text on welcome page to be more introductory, with a collage image Fixed "Black left/right-pointing triangle" quirk in MS Edge Made it clearer on the Can-US page that the FOSL existed Finished (for now) the glossary of ferry types and features |
| 2018-11-19 | Cleaned up the coding in many small areas based on W3C page checking |
| 2018-11-18 | Added some hard links and sitemaps to help search engines. Fixed a couple of broken links. 72 indexable pages |
| 2018-11-16 ⛴️ | Official launch - ferryman.ca is now live! |
| 2018-11-15 | Turned on search engine crawler bot access. Turned on Google search features. Coded fallback CSS for IE and similar old browsers |
| 2018-11-14 | Re-configuration of server and first upload to production location ferryman.ca. Now 1451 files, 495 MB |
| 2018-11-13 | Many fixes for old browsers and IE (mainly var() fallback). Could affect 10% of users. Now workable, not yet perfect. |
| 2018-11-12 | Fixed several broken links. Disabled up/down arrow special usage. Added new bridge discussion to Masson–Cumberland |
| 2018-11-03 | Finally back on the job after a 6 month hiatus caused by travel, farm issues and the distractions of summer |
| 2018-05-10 | Improved the menu and main links. Added some color coding. |
| 2018-05-04 | Reorganised the top bar "menu" |
| 2018-05-04 | Reorganised titbits page with accordion and includes. Made ferry page variables global |
| 2018-05-01 | Edited Dolní Žleb. Now completed pre-release edit of all documented ferries. All .shtml changed to .html. Adjusted .htaccess |
| 2018-04-30 | Added standardised css styles for units (like ft), for to-from symbols and for em-dash |
| 2018-04-28 | Edited Belém, Budapest, Hřensko. Now 1420 files, 491 MB |
| 2018-04-28 | Edited Ostend, and Baldur. Removed all the Dreamweaver _notes folders |
| 2018-04-26 | Edited Vlissingen and Calais. Improved Ramsgate and hovercraft sections |
| 2018-04-25 | Edited Southsea-Ryde. Added Titbits section on aircraft and hovercraft ferry types |
| 2018-04-23 | Edited Grove Ferry, Newhaven-Dieppe, Portsmouth, Ramsgate. Improved index page and added keystroke shortcuts |
| 2018-04-22 | Edited Uig-Tarbert, Cross-Channel air ferries, and Dover |
| 2018-04-15 ❄ | Split the "other ferries" pages into one page per ferry. Renamed many files to make maintenance easier |
| 2018-04-14 | Improved the Welcome page |
| 2018-04-11 🎂 | Moved to using Brackets/WAMP/Filezilla. Edited the About page |
| 2018-03-30 🐣 | Improved Contact page and Site contents pages. Moved to Open Sans font for the main body, at 16px |
| 2018-03-29 | Sharing page brought to a good-enough-for-now level |
| 2018-03-28 | Added watermark-style graphics to several plain pages |
| 2018-03-27 | Rebuilt the FOSL index page, with maps and added text. Added stub for Forestville |
| 2018-03-22 | Edited Wood Islands and Borden. And lots of FTP trouble |
| 2018-03-21 | Edited Channel-Port aux Basques and unvisited Gulf ferries. Split LNS and Gulf on the List of... page |
| 2018-03-19 | Edited Souris |
| 2018-03-18 | Edited Entry Island and some of the unvisited ferries |
| 2018-03-17 ☘ | Edited Sorel, Lévis, Isle-aux-Coudres, Tadoussac |
| 2018-03-16 | Edited Magdalen. Added Matane stub |
| 2018-03-11 | Edited Dorval Island and Montreal navettes fluviales |
| 2018-03-11 | Edited Hornes, Howe County and Township |
| 2018-03-10 | Edited Glenora, Amherst Island, Wolfe Island. Improved index page features |
| 2018-03-09 | Edited Ottawa River all-in-one-day |
| 2018-03-07 | Edited Île-Bizard |
| 2018-03-04 | Edited and improved Hudson-Oka. Now 1423 files, 475 MB |
| 2018-03-03 | Edited Quyon, Masson, Clarence, Fassett, Pointe-Fortune. Improved index. |
| 2018-03-02 | Added stubs for four Lower North Shore ferries |
| 2018-03-01 | Added keyboard control to next/previous ferry. Added system to control viewing more/fewer photos. |
| 2018-02-26 | Added Southsea-Ryde and Portsmouth-Ryde. Added Hudson and Pointe-Fortune ice bridges. |
| 2018-01-27 | More mobile-friendly fixes. Rework of the JS and CSS for image display. |
| 2019-12-30 | Added Baños aerial ferry page Fixed regression bug in link to OpenStreetMap Some improvements to the map links |
| 2019-12-05 | Added Auckland Harbour ferries page Added New Zealand Maritime Museum page Added other New Zealand ferries (Whitianga, Wellington Harbour, Clifden, Stewart Island) page Added support to link location to New Zealand topo map Added Cook Strait ferries page |
| 2019-11-25 | Added photos to Newhaven-Dieppe page Some additions to the Sorel ferry page Added Woolwich ferry page Improvements to script showing terminus locations Cleanup on Ramsgate hovercraft page Added three Richelieu River ferries page Improved the index relating to saint-names |
| 2019-09-05 | Added Waupoos Island ferry page |
| 2019-05-25 | Major update to Sorel ferry page after a visit in March
New blog article |
| 2019-05-11 | Fixed Oka ice bridge link
New blog article |
| 2019-02-21 | Tweaked robots.txt to satisfy Google
Added the ferry to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport |
| 2019-02-06 | Added Bygdøy ferry/Oslo page
Added own photo album of Stockholm to the Stockholm ferry page |
| 2019-01-15 | Bergen to Tromsø page improved
Improvements to indexing |
| 2019-01-13 | Added Bergen to Tromsø page
Improvements to page head indexes Now 1451 files, 495 MB |
| 2019-01-03 | Added White Head Island ferry page
A few additions and fixes to Grand Manan |
| 2020-09-19 | Background improvements to image handling (removed title=, added alt=, using loading=lazy to improve speed when many images) |
| 2020-07-12 | Several improvements to the 404 error reporting |
| 2020-06-27 | Changed from using the term Contact to using Comments. Too many users were assuming that Contact referred to the ferry operator and were emailing me requests like "Is the ferry open" |
| 2020-05-25 | Improvements to the sitemap, XML and text versions |
| 2020-05-18 | Removed some superfluous divs from the British Isles and World index pages Updates to Wolfe Island ferry page Added Simcoe Island ferry page Fixed upper/lower case image file name problem in the Curaçao page Improved the 404 error capture page to give feedback on missing page Added a classic email form with reCAPTCHA to the contact page and a few related improvements Added Inside Passage ferry page |
| 2020-03-06 | Fixed regression bug relating to the position of the image magnifying glass Fixed width issues for certain mobile device screen widths |
| 2020-02-29 | Added Emirates Air Line cable car across the Thames page Split the Ferry Glossary off into a separate page Added Malawi ferries Improvements to the accordion feature Added Sint Annabaai ferry, Willemstad, Curaçao page Improvements to index pages to World, British Isles and Canada/US Improvements to visual aspects of the multi-line links Changed to using Source Sans and Alegreya Sans typefaces Cleanup of style sheets to make more consistent and programmatic Moved the external ferry links page into "Ferry titbits" Made cleaner my idiosyncratic approach to the em dash Added some and changed some of the quirky colour tags New blog article ... and many other minor fixes and improvements. Now 2,578 files, 1,080 MB |
| 2021-03-05 | Fixed a few more spelling mistakes and other typos Fixed/improved the caption on the enlarged version of the photos Updated to latest JQuery Improvements to the looks of the Slimbox windows used to display enlarged photos on desktop browsers Consolidated my use of Slimbox across all my websites by loading it and JQuery from a single library resource Minor cleanup of the menu code and appearance Yet more minor font and colour changes |
| 2022-06-10 | Fixed minor error on Waupoos Island ferry (thank you Jasmin B.) |
| 2022-05-30 | Fixed errors and tidied up Quyon ferry (thank you Melissa J.) Updated Montreal area passenger ferries |
| 2022-05-15 | Added Kyle of Lochalsh to Kyleakin, Skye ferries Spruced up the Ferries of the British Isles and Canada/US index pages Fixed OS Maps links that were broken by a change in OS Maps Fixed more Google search problems related to too small font size and clickable spacing Added Kylesku ferry Added Hoy ferry Added Yell and Unst ferries Improved some consistencies in the index Added Fishguard-Rosslare ferry (record-only format) Added Passage East-Ballyhack ferry (record-only format) Added Saint-Malo-Guernsey ferry (record-only format) ... and other minor fixes and improvements. Now 2,992 files, 1.24GB |
| 2022-03-19 | Background code fixes to better comply with standards Version numbering of CSS and JS files to improve updating process |
| 2022-03-17 | Fixed an upper case file name type causing a server error 500 Yet more minor fixes to improve the code, especially the header, and mobile features Additional photos, plus info on the new boat for Wolfe Island |
| 2022-02-26 | Fixed small bug in the structured data Added missing alt= for certain images Fixed (at last!) the horizontal overflow for mobile devices with widths < about 400 Replaced many mobile tests in the CSS with pointer coarse/fine tests to reflect reality Increased button spacing for tap (non-mouse) devices Replaced tap/click JS code with CSS Replaced many uses of document.write with OnLoad processing Replaced most icon-style <img> with background images |
| 2022-02-19 | Automated the creation of metadata, title and SEO info Now able to remove the second header include Cleaned and simplified some background code and HTML Adjusted kerning in masthead Improved handling of the FOSL subheader Countless CSS and related changes to clean up consistency and quality of code Moved the top-bar links to inline code instead of written by the JS Added a "Jump to top of page" button to make long pages easier to use |
| 2022-01-17 | Renamed all the .html files to .php - a more robust solution than using .htaccess |
| 2022-01-16 | Changed the Change log page to show different years in tabs .htaccess server change to allow .php files to run PHP scripts All the old SSI includes now replaced by PHP equivalents Automated file update dates Consolidated and made consistent button and input styles Fixed some Lighthouse reported font size and spacing issues Reprogrammed the share to use a simplified popup Consolidated the Welcome and Contents pages into one Home page |
| 2022-01-12 | Updated to JQuery 3.6.0 Abandoned the concept of showing more/less photos in order to simplify Added links YouTube videos of 1950s 8mm video of Oka and Île-Bizard ferries in operation Introduced "last edited" date stamp for pages - will only show for edits 2022 and later Added Halifax Harbour ferries Added Little Narrows ferry Added Englishtown ferry Added LaHave ferry Started adding MMSI numbers ... and other minor fixes and improvements. Now 2,829 files, 1.17GB |
| 2023-08-03 | Added Scott Island ferry Updates to the Hornes Ferry page Now 71 ferries, 3108 files, 1.31GB |
| 2023-07-16 | Major additions to the Chi-Cheemaun across Georgian Bay page |
| 2023-03-05 | Minor improvements to the meta tags |
| 2024-09-15 |
Changed development environment from Brackets/WAMP to Phoenix Code/XAMMP
General clean-up of code using features of new tools
Added Thames River Bus page
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| 2024-08-18 |
Improved the code and standardised the big image display and slideshow features
Fixed broken image links on Entry Island and Inside Passage pages
Introduced the All Ferries page that lists all ferry pages with photo and coordinates
Minor fixes to many ferry pages to support the Show All Ferries page
The Ferryman's blog removed. Menu tuned up slightly
Simplified sitemaps to just one file
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| 2024-06-25 |
Added a feature to link from ferry boats to vessel tracking sites to show the boats' current location
Fixed title-image on Bremerton, Circular Quay, Bainbridge, Daintree and Seattle pages
Moved from PHP 7.x to 8.x
Removed dependency on JQuery - not useful for this site
Replaced the use of the Slimbox code with my own lightbox code in pure JS
Added featues to display a slideshow of all the photos on one page
Changed the mobile detection from 500px to 700px
Many minor layout tweaks, especially for mobile
Removed the rewrite rule that would map searches on .html to .php. (Now over two years since change to PHP.)
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| 2024-06-09 |
Fixed bug on Ferry Types and Features page
Fixed broken image links on Ottawa River all-in-one-day page
Updated Hornes open status
Fixed bug - Portsmouth to the Isle of Wight not displaying
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| 2024-02-25 |
Removed Sitemap link. Was not working and not needed
Fixed layout problem with footer of Australian pages
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| 2024-02-24 |
Added feature to deliver photos as WEBP image files instead of JPEG, where supported, to significantly improve performance
Replaced original system of shipping two sized of JPG file, with just a single size
Added feature view in a tab, copy or download any of the regular photos in different, convenient sizes (The "Katka" feature)
Added Whidbey Island ferry
Added Seattle Puget Sound ferries
Added Bremerton ferry
Added Bainbridge Island ferry
Adjusted the layout to remove big blank areas (new pages only)
Rationalised some of the file structure, especially for includes
Automated the creation of sitemap XML files
Added location and other info to the index files ready for future features
Removed outdated and unused system to control the number of images
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| 2024-01-11 |
Added Australia to the world list
Added Circular Quay
Added Cockatoo Island ferry
Added Manly ferry
Added Daintree ferry
Added Bruny Island ferry
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Dates prior to the launch (2018-11-16) indicate the date of change. Dates after indicate the date the change was published on the web.
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