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Update History

This page contains update notes and changes made to this site as I have continued working on it. With each "update" I release, a note will be posted with the date the update went live on and all the changes I made to the site.

These update notes may also contain plans for later updates, such as a notice saying new content will be added or new features will be developed. Click on the "Preview" button to get a glimpse into what the site looked like at the release of that update.

My goal as of now is to update the website about once a month. This may or may not happen depending on how busy I am, especially with busy season coming up. If you have any ideas, recommendations, or feedback of any kind, please email me directly at reward1799@gmail.com.

UPDATE 5 - January 6th, 2026 - Preview

This update combines effort from December and January. There's a lot that's changed and even more that's been added:

✎ Added update numbers for all updates. Release is version "1", each update after increments it up by one. This is update "5".

↳ A "Preview" link is now available for each update. This will take you to a page that shows what my site looked like at that update. All links from the preview page will simply redirect here, to the update log.

✎ Added a new page when clicking on the "Gallery ▼" button. This will take you to a page with all the galleries listed out, showing an overview of that gallery with a description.

↳ This was added to help as more galleries are added.

✎ Added three new gallery pages.

↳ This includes a title, location, and about for each image, the gallery, and the page itself.

↳ The Gallery Grid page was updated with these images, now totaling 603.

↳ I added a button to go to the bottom of the gallery grid since it's so big.

↳ Now when hovering over an image on the gallery grid page, it will slightly grow in size.

↳ Now when clicking on an image in the Gallery Grid it will expand to the size of the screen.

✎ NEW PAGE: Settings. Here you can change the background or the filter on images!

↳ More customization settings may be added in the future.

✎ NEW TAB: Blog. I am now adding "blogs" to my site. Although no articles are currently available, I've left a hint as to what it'll be about. I am mainly adding this now for future use.

↳ Each page will be unique, having it's own style that wildly differs from the main look of the site. Each blog will have its own stylesheet to use. The settings page will not affect the blogs.

✎ Added more links to the Hot Tub.

✎ Slight formatting changes. Mainly to the Quick Links Menu and how the page looks on smaller screens.

↳ I fixed an overlay issue that happened on the gallery pages.

↳ Now when hovering over a menu button, the font will change to italics. The font will remain italicized while you are on that page.

✎ Improved the hidden page stylistically ;) I added a lot of new stuff too hehe

✎ Organized the file system.

↳ Since I've been adding a lot of new pages, images, and other files, I organized things into their own folder. This is solely a backend change; this also required most href links to be updated to new file locations (which was a pain!), but this will help keep things sorted as the site grows.

□ One issue that has not been properly addressed since I started this website is the poor loading speed.

□ I may in the future move this site to an AWS box or similar cloud environment, as the speed problem is due to how the site is hosted (on a dinky laptop).

PATCH 4.1 - November 25th, 2025

✎ After the previous update I noticed some mistakes that needed correction.

↳ The confirmation window when selecting an option under the Quick Links menu did not work for the "About Me" page. The script for this function was broken and needed to be fixed.

↳ The Gallery Grid page had a broken link to an image, thus it displayed nothing. The broken link was simply removed.

↳ Updated the text on the Welcome page to be more accurate and more grammatically correct. Also capitalized a 'W'.

↳ Fixed formatting issues when viewing on a mobile device or a thin window on a desktop.

UPDATE 4 - November 22nd, 2025 - Preview

✎ Reverted a change made in a previous update.

↳ That is, the website URL previously didn't display the ".html" extension via a configuration made on the web server. I changed my mind about this and reverted the config.

✎ NEW TAB: I have added a new feature tab. It works similar to "theuselessweb.com", where a button will randomly take you to different sites across the internet.

↳ The pool of sites are all places I've found randomly; they are mainly old websites that haven't been updated in a while, amateur websites, or sites that try to replicate an old look/feel.

↳ You can see all websites in this 'pool' by looking at the HTML code (right click --> view page source). You can freely observe this list in case you do not trust the button or to find a particular website you want to visit.

↳ This will be another thing I update periodically as I come across more interesting sites. No virus I promise! Feel free to email me with any recommendations.

✎ Added "Lazy Loading" to all gallery images.

✎ Fixed the automatic renewal of the website certificate.

✎ Updated the icons to pencils on the update and about page.

✎ Completely rewrote the about me page. It read to much like a resume, which I don't like, so I cut most of it out and made it more fresh and personal.

✎ Added a new page which shows all images posted to the galleries on one screen. This can be visited by clicking on the "i" which is on all gallery pages.

✎ Added a "hidden" page somewhere.

UPDATE 3 - October 15th, 2025 - Preview

✎ Redesigned the website with a new look, now matching closer to my original intent.

↳ This includes under-the-hood changes to the code; I have separated CSS code from the HTML files into its own "Stylesheet" file.

↳ All pages to my site are affected by this change. Gallery pages have their own CSS stylesheet since they are formatted differently. I may try to combine the two different stylesheets later, although this isn't needed very much.

↳ Doing this makes the code cleaner and more readable, and makes it easy to be consistent across pages especially as new pages are made. More work is still needed as this removed unique properties each page had. There are also slight adjustments I'll end up making to better tune the site to my preference.

✎ Added the "Quick Links" menu to the gallery pages; this was previously missing.

✎ Gallery pages have been updated visually. I removed bordered from the boxes and images, emphasized the shadows, and made image previews square for all images.

✎ All images from the first gallery have "Lazy Loading" enabled. This is in attempt to improve loading time. If it works well I will update the other pages with lazy loading enabled.

✎ All images across all galleries have been converted to ".webp" format in effort to decrease load time and increase efficiency. This comes at a cost of reduced image quality, so I will consider whether or not this change is permanent.

✎ Removed some images from the galleries.

✎ Added descriptions to all remaining images that were missing this field. Also went through and updated the descriptions for some images.

✎ Rewrote some things to sound better across all pages. Also updated to contact information on the "About Me" page.

□ I have nine more rolls of film needing to be developed. Once the film is developed I will add multiple new pages with these pictures, although it'll be a while before then.

□ I am also looking to implement a new page. This will be something more interactive than what is currently available. More details will be provided in later update notes.

UPDATE 2 - September 8th, 2025 - Preview

✎ Quality updates, including better visuals, an updated look, consistency across pages, and more.

✎ Fixed many broken links.

✎ Divided the Serbia Photo Gallery into two separate pages, due to it's massive size.

✎ Gallery Pages have also been given a green color in lu of the previous grey color.

↳ All the Gallery Pages have also been updated stylistically, as I wasn't very happy with the old look.

✎ Added descriptions to gallery images that were missing them.

✎ Added a subtle texture to the white content area.

✎ Made the HTML code more readable and corrected some formatting issues.

RELEASE 1 - August 10th, 2025 - Preview 1, Preview 2

✎ milktealol.com officially goes live.

✎ The site in it's current condition still has a lot of work needing to be done. These are noted below:

↳ The website's visuals need to be update as to improve consistency between pages.

↳ Other stylistic updates to make my website look stinkin' cute.

↳ Spelling and grammar checks are needed across the entire site.

↳ Issues, like formatting for mobile viewership, needs to be adjusted.

↳ Contents for the "About" portion of the Serbia trip photo gallery needs to be added.

↳ More pages are to be added. What these will be have not yet been determined.

↳ Additional galleries will be added once film is sent out, developed, and digitally scanned.

↳ Back-end web server will need some modifications. These will improve performance, reliability, and security.