Site Credits
To Do
- Add a few more images to RARE timeline
- Add small galleries to Revue and Workshop pages
- Fill in full galleries on Workshop page, and Rally pages 2024, 2023, 2022
- Work on Rag Dolly timeline, using galleries to add photos and posters
- Made a scrollbox class
- Decide how we're going to organize the collection of international Rag Dolly productions
- Re-name the site to RARE Theatricals
Add program photos to the RARE history page (revue & workshop)
New section on the Raggedy Ann media page for other theatrical productions
Find a system for images, possibly a gallery expand template
Make a bare template page
Remove shadows on mobile - overlaps boxes
Consider making a title/splash page? Would definitely help with the change over, and possibly with adding other projects
Add a "back to top" link to new pages and template
Make a new links page for the socials
Make the RARE logo also a link to the main page
Add new RARE logo to all pages
Make sure new favicon works on all pages
Double check that images appear properly on all pages
Add the new table setup to our list of RARE volunteers
Update Log
- May 5th, 2025 - N
- Removed photo galleries from the RARE timeline bc i need to rework them a little
- Checked every link on the resources page, fixed links to our own pages
- Cleaned up links on the dramaturgy page
- Cleaned up and added to miscellany links on the resources page
- Double checked links on Raggedy Ann media page
- May 5th, 2025 - R
- proofread the contact page and RARE timeline
- May 2nd, 2025 - N
- Added more links to the media masterlist
- Copied the listing of the two broadway flop books from dramaturgy to press as well
- Added a whole bunch of links to the media list
- deleted draft sentence on the contact page
- started moving the 2025 workshop photos into the correct folder - finished
- started moving the 2024 rally photos into the new correct folder - finished
- started moving 2023 & 2022 rally photos into the new correct folders - finished
- made template page for gallery
- moved main template page into a new template folder
- started pages for workshop photo gallery & 2024 rally photo gallery
- started gallery pages for 2023 & 2022 rallys too
- used gallery image template to re-do some images on the RARE timeline
- May 1st, 2025 - N
- Added program images to Rag Dolly Revue page
- I'm playing around with the gallery code on RodFireProductions' Lil-Ref now to make galleries on the show pages
- Added hex codes & navigation to the template page
- Gallery images when open look good, but I haven't figured out how to make the gallery appear as a grid when small
- The gallery in the template wouldn't work so I used a w3schools one instead and broke it down
- Moved div and a tags around so active links highlights entire image
- Found code that cropped rectangular images to squares for the gallery thumbnail
- Created some nice placeholder images to test out the gallery, nice and wide to test the limits of the cropping and scaling
- Messed with the scaling and padding of images in full size view
- Cleaned up and annotated css
- Added timeline to template page
- Tried to test it out with a screenreader but im not used to using them
- Added more alt text which should help
- Tested out vertical images nad it broke the sizing. Messed with it a little and ultimately set an upper limit for the height of the image using pixels. This is just what works on my screen so i'm worried that it will still be broken on smaller screens
- Made images centered when full size
- Used object-fit: contain to keep the images in place, looks like it's working!
- I'm still not happy with the way it scrolls when the page is too short vertically, but i feel like that's an edge case
- Added banner and program photos to workshop page
- exported a full size poster pdf and linked on workshop page
- Edited and revised the contact page
- Added show licensing info and character descriptions to contact page
- double checked the links on FAQ page and filled them all in
- April 30th, 2025 - N
- Hid not finished links on resources page
- Added Revue and Workshop production info pages to Resources, and program PDF links
- Added our cast interviews to the Contemporary Press page
- Added the interviews on our channel to the RARE Press page, as well as the banquet speeches
- Updated and added a key to the spreadsheet
- Put Rag Dolly dramaturgy reading list in chronological order, and added a couple more links
- Did some organization on the Raggedy Ann media masterlist
- Links to the Rag dolly proshot and Michaela Bennison videos weren't filled in, fixd that
- Removed social media links from the home page, they'll already be on the links, index, and contact pages
- Re-organized the home page slightly, since feedback said people were confused by the show description at the start
- Added audience and cast responses to the Workshop page, this may look better if i can make it two columns that snap to one when on mobile, but I'm not sure if I want to spend the time and mess with the system
- Added page navigation to Workshop page
- Added same page navigation to Revue page
- Drafted some of the info for the contact page
- April 28th, 2025 - N
- Updated the RARE timeline with recent events
- April 24th, 2025 - N
- Updated and organized the spreadsheet a bit
- Made an image wrapper div to center images and allow them to be smaller than 100% (plus centered captions)
- Used new image wrapper on rally & RARE pages that needed them
- addde new site button to links, index, and home pages
- April 23rd, 2025 - N
- Organized the resources folder and wrote out my organization plan on the spreadsheet
- Created pages for RARE's two performances, the Revue and the staged reading
- Added formatting and links to these pages.
- Went over to the template page to workshop a responsive table system for cast lists
- this new table css is a new file, since it wont be needed on every page and it's beggining to feel cluttered
- The system wasn't working for larger sections like the list of Ragettes, so I made a new table system that opens up to a centered text with the title above it, since the long list of names looks better when spaced out
- Filled out the cast and crew for the ou staged reading
- Started cast and crew for the revue
- Finished most of the info for the revue
- Filled in some details from the workshop
- Made a new table type for song lists where they float to the outside instead of the inside, filled out songs for the workshop
- Added all the new table types to the template page
- used new song list table for the revue page
- moved the list of donors over to the workshop page
- used the new tables to make the rest of the RARE team list nicer looking
- took some notes on the spreadsheet
- April, 22nd, 2025 - N
- made the new index, rally guide, and new links pages public!
- Moved ALLLL the old pages into the graveyard (I will move photos and other important things out of it as I need them)
- Changed over page not found
- Started a new folder on the main page for misc main photos, added RARE co-director photos and updated them on the about us page
- Added all the newsletter archives to the news page (no way am I copying them all over again, I just linked to the Mailchimp archive)
- Made an article about the website update. I'm not 100% on it yet but i need to test out the article system with actual examples
- April, 22nd, 2025 - R
- cleaned up text on new index, rally guide, and new links pages in preparation to make them public
- April 22nd, 2025 - N
- Made new favicon and named it correctly to be universal without need for a link in the header
- Uploaded new RARE heart logo by November
- Made a new landing page to replace the current main one. This is mostly to have a nice page while we continue to rework the rest of the site
- Copied over the important links
- Made a news post for the upcoming proshot release
- Made a news post for the 2025 rally
- Updated all my current main pages with the correct link on the header and icon, new icon, and new favicon
- Started preparing the new links directory to take over for the old one
- Made a new page to copy over my Raggedy Ann Rally guide
- Copied over most of my rally guide as well as some new info from 2025
- Broke the extra nav links (footer and sidebar) on the rally guide since I want to put it up along with the new temp page, the main header still works but it links to index instead of the new home
- that's right we're using the timeline template for the schedule!
- Added images to rally page
- Wrote the same warning about the temp nav links on the temporary header & nav of the new index and links pages
- Changed my devlog format
- April 15th, 2025 - R
- cleaned up text on all pages using the new template
- April 12th, 2025 - N
- Started going through my google doc of Raggedy Ann links that we've been collecting since the beginning
- Made a new page for International Rag Dolly productions and wrote an introduction
- I'm not sure if a timeline is the best way to organize the information on these shows. The order of events is far from the least important way to organize them. Matching the spreadsheet we have now, I could choose to use a table
- Added more of my link collection
- Updated the RARE press page to have places to put some of our mentions. i'm also not set yet on the organization for this page, but I'm going by topic for the moment.
- April 10th, 2025 - N
- Started adding info to the Rag Dolly timeline
- Messed around with implimenting citations
- April 9th, 2025 - N
- When the site is in mobile mode, made the nav turn invisible and the text white to match. Hopefully this will fix it looking too same-y on mobile
- Also the link hover is red since the text is white
- Added a little more padding between the main and footer to show off the background a bit
- Testing icon image in nav as a link to main
- Made the white background on hover specific to the header, main, and nav, so that it wouldn't include the icon image in the nav bar, it was showing as just the bar at the bottom
- I'm not sure if this will come back to bite me when I want to make an image link that is in the main
- Messed around with it a bit more to try to get the img to cancel out the hover on the white. I suppose I can make it specific to just p and li instead of the whole main, but I'd have to keep adding more h1 h2 h3 h4 each time I discovered I'm using new brackets
- The "active link" border also only showed as the bar at the bottom, but moving the a to be outside the box div helped
- Bonus now is the box stretches to fill the entire top on mobile mode, which feels intuitive
- images in the main still have the annoying box at the bottom, which I can't seem to get ride of with "transparent" or "initial"
- It does go away when you put a div between the a and the img, so maybe the solution will end up being to make an image div that holds the rest of the style for it as well (i still need to get images looking nice anyway)
- updated the RARE timeline a bit
- Okay yeah I listed every attribute to get around there being a white background on links. and wrote a note to my future self that it may be a future issue if my links aren't hovering correctly (this is my second note to self)
- more timeline additions
- typo fixes and links added to reading list
- April 8th, 2025 - N
- Started pages for RARE press and modern press about the show
- Added my current collection of links to the modern press page
- Added page links so far to the resources hub, double ched that all icon images show up correctly and links work
- Template for the timeline added to Rag Dolly timeline page
- RARE timeline added dates for Wikipedia and Lost Media Wiki pages
- April 6th, 2025 - N
- So the reason that the nav image wasn't showing up is I was messing with the wrong one
- Created a new timeline class, similar to the quote class but edited slightly to pack closer together
- Started filling in the RARE history timeline, this took more digging for dates than I expected
- Sidequest! saved all of the correspondance involved in getting the 1984 ESIPA footage from the New York State Archives. Not a website thing but it's relevant.
- Back to the timeline with new info in hand
- Finished timeline for the moment with my current information and ideas
- April 5th, 2025 - N
- Moved over the new home page and created a template page
- Changed home link to newhome on each current page
- Started a spreadsheet to format a system before I start making pages
- Made a "back to top" button and coppied it from the template to all current pages
- Made a new links page for the socials
- Rag Dolly reading list & Raggedy Ann media list pages created
- began adding links and information to both
- I believe I can use my quotes boxes to create an interesting timeline look, or at least I can make a new class inspired by them to create something cool
- RARE timeline and Rag Dolly timeline pages created
- Added a placeholder for download links to the RARE program pdfs
- April 4th, 2025 - N
- Filled out informatin on the FAQ page
- April 3rd, 2025 - N
- Second day really playing with the site, started off with messing with backgrounds again to find at least a good starting point I can work with
- Made "Meet RARE" page, created a column system specifically for these bio sections, and coppied over information
- Made "News" page, added basic template for my formatting plan
- Made "FAQ" page, also just basic template for my formatting plan
- Made this Site Info & Update Log page, began adding my collection of links
- Made "Resources" page and began layout of what pages I plan on putting there
- Made "Contact" page as well
- Connected links from all the new pages
