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# - Description ------- 3rd most - 2nd most - Most
-----------------------------recent ---- recent ----- recent
-----------------------------visit ------ visit ------- visit

- Forms to set sites. Back to visits/top


After popup window shows site about to be added, close popup and reload original page.
New site should then show.

Slot#:

URL: of site to visit

Description (17 bytes)

Click to add above site:

Remember to reload page.
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Click to clear slots:

Click to init to Fred's sites:

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- About the Visits page. Back to visits/top

This page is under construction. Comments encouraged. 4/5/04
Fred H. Olson email: fholson at cohousing.org - 612-588-9532

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The intent is to make a page that facilitates periodically "visiting" selected web pages such as mailing list messages archives by recording and displaying the date of "visits". In the case of mailing lists this allows one to know where to start if one wishes to pick up where one last left off reading.

This page stores info about sites and dates in cookies on the users computer only so each user (who has their own cookies) can use it independently. It uses JavaScript so both cookies and JavaScript must be enabled to be used.

I am thinking of using the area on the right of the page to be configurable short cut links to frequently used pages (without dates) so the page can serve as a custom all purpose "start page" (also known as a "home page" tho that term also refers to the main page on a web site so I prefer "start page").

Fred, fholson at cohousing.org , novice JavaScript programmer 2/26/04

Todo: (possible changes, which order should they be implemented?)
0) Consider only storing and showing one date - last date visited.
1) change dates to be stored in string array rather than long string
2) add feature to move series of slots up/down
3) add feature to upload/download descriptions,sites and dates to file
(these files could be edited and moved to another computer)
4) ? make two columns so all sites on first screen?
5) add checkbox to allow heading at top of visits
6) allow for link to associated page - e.g listserv info page.
7) put shortcut links w/o dates on right (could serve as 6) ? )
refer to these by row/column
8) calc and display days since most recent visit

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99) write some documentation, (always done last if at all :)

Should it be 25 sites or 25 "slots"?

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