Category: Site maintenance
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oncewasacreek, once more!
I was beginning to think I’d never write this post. After eight years of inactivity (or ten if you ignore the two hopeful posts in 2018), this project seemed to have run its course. I’d come to accept that I might never get around to reviving it. But, I am delighted to say, oncewasacreek has…
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Map overlays, revisited
Historical maps and survey plans were central to oncewasacreek from its inception. Reading about Milton’s lost creek in the archives of Trove and in Matthew Condon’s book Brisbane was intriguing, but seeing Western Creek depicted on one of the early maps — probably it was McKellar’s map from 1895 — was for me a revelation.…
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New site map
When I created this site, my vision was of a neat history of the Western Creek catchment. Each part of the catchment would have a page devoted to it, and each page would fit snugly within the structure of the site. But as the site has progressed I have ended up writing about a wider…
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oncewasacreek: a words-eye view
Note – the pictures in this post contain two images, which flip back forth when you hover your mouse over them. On a mobile device these images will switch when you touch them, and then switch back when you scroll away … if you are lucky. For best results, please view this article on a…
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Email problems
UPDATE (15th January) — The contact form is now working, so please feel free to use it. Please note, though, that I cannot retrieve any messages that were sent while it was not working. If you have tried to email me recently via the contact page, the chances are that I have not received your…
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Page display problems
Just a quick note to acknowledge that there is evidently something wrong with how some pages on the site are displaying. No, I have not deliberately made some pages green and made random parts of the text small and unreadable. The cause is a WordPress plugin that I use to generate footnotes, so you’ll notice…
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Site performance issues
Over the 24 hours or so that the site has been live, I’ve found that on my PC it occasionally runs very slowly, sometimes to the point of pages timing out altogether. I’ve noticed some other occasional glitches too, like the picture at the top of the page not loading. Both have these problems have…
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Hello world!
Welcome to oncewasacreek.org! After a very lengthy gestation period, I am excited to finally have the site online. Now I get to find out if it makes sense to anyone else! This site is a work in progress. There are pages still to be written, and many that have been written will surely undergo further…