Category: building AotW
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Site Redesign Complete
Antietam on the Web was a bit overdue for an overhaul: some of the PHP code had been deprecated (gone obsolete), much of the HTML was clumsy and likewise obsolete, and the site navigation didn’t make it easy to find the information on the site. Most of the navigation dated from 2005, and even the…
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Front page imagery
The home page of Antietam on the Web is a simple table of contents decorated by a photograph. Since a major redesign of the site in 2010, I’ve used about half a dozen pictures to represent the place and the history of Antietam. Here are their stories …
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The Antietam Roster
There were something like 160,000 soldiers in Maryland in September 1862. I’d like to learn all their names and list them on AotW. I can’t get them all, but I’m working on ’em …
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So long, GeoCities
The end of an era. Yahoo! GeoCities, our free web site building service and community, is closing on October 26, 2009. Your GeoCities site will no longer appear on the Web After years of playing with Antietam battle information and biography on paper, then in spreadsheets and text files, I started putting it online in…
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New required reading
Your assignment: catch up with some new and fascinating online work about the Maryland Campaign of 1862. Recent and ongoing now is an excellent discussion about who did what at Sharpsburg on TalkAntietam*. Beginning with fine-grain research Dean Essig is doing for his new wargame–with other genuine experts weighing in–the group is exploring the reality…
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JEB Stuart in Maryland
It is well that Antietam on the Web does not depend entirely on one person for new material, as I am again overwhelmed with my vocation and necessarily neglecting this avocation. Thankfully, AotW is also served by a large group of people who each contribute in many ways, large and small. We’re at 85 enrolled…
