| 24/06/99 | Final impulse given by Thomas Mechau concerning the construction of an own web site while discussing during the birthday supper | |
| 28/06/99 | First local draft | |
| since 07/07/99 | Online presence (–20 Nov. with T-Online as the provider) | |
| ≤12 ff. /07/99 | Tables of contents of the compilation books listed in “Layout > Bücher”; of one-author books: in Oct. | |
| 13/07/99 | First scanned artwork: location of Germersheim | |
| 10/08/99 | First results with flat scanner: small-scale covers in “Layout > Bücher” | |
| 16/08/99 | Critics' voices in “Layout > Bücher” | |
| 17/08/99 | New passport photograph on the starting page | |
| ca. 8–9/99 | Link compilations: broadcasting and music resp.;
list: musical preferences; lists: choir performances and presentations of films made by “FAS-Film”; External links page; English starting and “General” pages |
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| 04/10/99 | Photo gallery: short films made by FAS-Film | |
| ca. 7–10/99 | First link pointing from a strange web site to mine: on www.ThomasMechau.de | |
| 17/10/99 | Request of an own domain (with STRATO as the provider) | |
| 07/11/99 | Capacity of T-Online web site (10 MB) exhausted | |
| 12/11/99 | Making accessible of own domain by the provider | |
| 17–18/11/99 | Moving to new domain | |
| 19/11/99 | Initializing the visit counter (since 15 Nov.), my own accesses will be excluded in the future | |
| 20/11/99 | Replacing the old contents by a forwarding page, thereby release of new domain | |
| 20/11/99 | File size optimization of the photographs (down to 1:10) | |
| ≤24/11/99 | Navigation field of the German starting page extended to a site map | |
| 26/11/99 | Visit #50 | |
| ≤29/11 ff. /99 | Links on the authors in the tables of contents of “Layout > Bücher” | |
| 29/11/99 | First audio document: self-spoken welcome | |
| 09/12/99 | First animated GIFs: national flags in the site map | |
| 09/12/99 | First self-created background: thumbnails frame of the FAS-Film photo gallery | |
| 15/01/00 | Visit #100 | |
| 16/01/00 | Site map on the English starting page, too (there, of course, in English) | |
| 21/01/00 | Releasing the guest book | |
| 23/01/00 | This history table | |
| 29/01/00 | Placing the visit counter in a frame of its own | |
| 02/02/00 | Visit #150 | |
| 06/02/00 | Running banner announcing site news on the starting page | |
| 24/02/00 | Visit #200 | |
| 02/04/00 | Index of names;
screen shots for the items listed in “Programmierungen” |
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| 18/04/00 | Visit #250 | |
| 21/01/01 | First link set to a PDF file: video archive “TV series” in “Steckbrief” (now: “Privates > Film/TV/Video”) | |
| 10/07/01 | Visit #600 | |
| 22/01/05 | Visit #2000 | |
| 3–4/05 | Now all pages contain a uniform head field (left above) and new, uniformly designed navigation fields (right above) | |
| 12–22/04/05 | First results using CSS: distinguishing internal and external links by different colours; abolishing underlining in links; formatting names of persons by small capitals (see details in the “Technical Advice”) | |
| 01/05/05 | Own, customized favicon (red/blue “JH”); is displayed by most of the browsers in the address field to the left of the selected web address | |
| 09/05/05 | New portrait photograph on the starting page | |
| 11/05/05 | Visit #2200 | |
| 01/07/05 | “Statistics” page (section “General”) | |
| 28/03/06 | Visit #2500 | |
| 26/04/06 | New design and complete revision of the “Technical translations” section (German and English) |