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More treks appear on ghost-of

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:40:20 +0100

We've been on some more treks! There have been 2 more to Hellingly and one to a completely new location: Runwell Hospital in Essex.

As a result, I have spent the last 3 weeks collating and sorting out Panoramas and sorting out and improving pictures from these treks, which is a complicated and highly time consuming process.

I have uploaded the images into 3 new folders in the File Manager, pending production of pages for these treks.

We in the ghost-of team have agreed that we will be returning to Hellingly once a month to chart the progress of the demolition as the place gradually changes over the next 3 years, so what I intend to do is just put a new tab under "places", which will take the viewer to a sub-page and the treks will be listed by date, rather than numbered, as there is so much information available in this context. This will take place over th coming few weeks.

Some new developments! At last!

Tue, 04 May 2010 12:15:53 +0100

After a month or so of deglitching and messing around doing little bits and pieces, we got our heads together and got back out there! We have had 3 very successful treks this month: 2 to Hellingly Lunatic Asylum and one to West Park Lunatic Aylum. We were always a little unsure about going back out to Hellingly and West Park, because we had heard so much about the places being locked down, overly secure and numerous arrests made. However, we just couldn't help our curiosity and figured that, as we could more or less stroll onto the grounds unchecked, we would have a look around outside the place and see for ourselves what had changed.

In the last week, I have compiled the photos which should be panoramic stitches, produced the stitches and uploaded to ghost-of, for both Hellingly treks. I have produced the commentary for the first trek in which the external investigation was made. 2 pages have been produced for the treks and the photos have been laid out for the second trek page. The first page is entirely complete.

There have also been some improvements, changes and alterations over the last month:

Additional material added to the Hollingdean website.
New links back to master page have been installed into all the West Park pages in ghost-of.
A new skin and layout has been purchased for ghost-of and I am in the process of fixing the glitches this has caused.
Reinsertion of banner images
More work on optimising images and improving loading speed across the entire project
The new skin and layout for ghost-of has caused some issues with centred text being offset, so instances of this are in the process of being found and corrected.
Video footage of both Hellingly Treks and the West Park trek have been processed and uploaded to Youtube, pending inclusion and appropriate links added into the appropriate web pages.
A preliminary trek to the National Gas Turbine Engineering Centre at Pyestock near Fleet provided a couple of interesting photos, but the place is patrolled very well and they have huge guard dogs loose inside the barriers, so we will not be checking this place out any time soon!

The Cuckoo Line Treks Stage2

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:11:22 +0100

New page generated about the 2nd stage of the Cuckoo Line trek between Heathfield and Markham Wood / Colytons Farm.
Pictures uploaded to new folder within "Cuckoo folder"
Panoramic stitches generated and uploaded
Links back to Stage1 created
Links to other pages/New Inn page created
Commentary inserted and page complete.

New webpage created for The New Inn at Hadlow Down

Photos, comments and Links created and inserted into page body.

West Park Lunatic Asylum 2nd visit

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:28:32 +0100

A page has been generated for the 2nd visit to West Park
Photos of the visit have been uploaded to the website
Panoramics have been stitched and uploaded
Video footage has been uploaded to Youtube
Youtube links posted into the West Park 2 page
Some comments have been added to the page

"Meet the team" page updated and revised.
Index start page for ghost-of updated and revised.

New bits in Brighton Works

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:29:02 +0100

New photos of OneBrighton development uploaded to the site.

New comments added into various sections of the site.

Upgrades to Brighton Works

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:17:36 +0100

New photos of OneBrighton Uploaded to the OneBrighton page, stitched and inserted into page where appropriate.
New commentary added to OneBrighton

New page added to the Redevelopment Tab: A then & now page has been created
Photos compared, found, time aligned and uploaded with dates of capture.

I have found a glitch in the Kemptown redirection page, which was stopping access to the kemptown website. This now works fine, so people can got to Kemptown from within ghost-trains.

Upgrades to the Hellingly Asylum section

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:00:06 +0100

2 new pages installed in the Hellingly Lunatic Asylum section (which I have been sadly neglecting recently and it needs a bit of TLC).

1. page created for the Acute Block
2. photo sequence from Nokia N70 arranged
3. photo sequence from Nokia N73 arranged
4. photos from both sources cross referenced and a final sequence order has been faithfully created
5. photos uploaded to the File Editor
6. some photos have been compressed, but not all
7. Panoramic shots arranged and uploaded
8. Panoramics inserted where appropriate into sequence

9. page created for the Accomodation Villa
10.photo sequences arranged and uploaded from the 2 camera phones
11.some photos have been compressed, but not all
12. Duplicated uploads removed to ease lack of storage space
13. Link added into Tunnels for Acute block, then link forward added
14. Link backwards to Acute Block placed into Accomodation block
15. Links tested. All fine

Commentary will be added into both places in due course

Mixed Updates and Additions to Pages

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 08:58:46 +0100

ghost-of:

1. Hints and Tips tab inserted at top of homepage
2. Hints and Tips page constructed with links to sub-pages
3. Preperation & research sub-page constructed
4. Clothing & Equipment sub-page constructed
5. On Site sub-page constructed
6. Links inserted into sub-pages to redirect to auxilliary websites
7. Jpeg images installed into sub-pages, compressed and resized

8. West Park page sets updated and expanded with more pictures
9. Pictures for West Park compressed and resized in File Manager and Picnic

10. Additional photos of Melbourne Street and Connaught House taken and uploaded to ghost-of
11. Connaught House photos stitched, compressed, resized and inserted into addendum for this page, covering demolition of the site.

ghost-trains:

12. Web Page constructed for Tram53 Project.
13. Pictures of Tram53 "found" have been resized and compressed and uploaded to the ghost-trains File Manager.
14. Pictures insrted into text.
15. Pictures of Tram53 in service uploaded to ghost-trains pending inclusion into site.
16. Tram53 Project button created and installed on ghost-trains home page with appropriate links, tested and works fine.

General improvements & Additions

Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:35:34 +0100

New Transport Buttons designed and uploaded into website. These are page specific and topic specific, so have been produced from scratch. Transport Buttons introduced to more pages.

Transport Buttons Help page updated.

Assorted Updates to the site.

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:45:55 +0100

I have discovered and corrected a glitch in the "Future Projects" page. When anyone tried to return to ghost-of homepage from this page, they ended up at some strange domain registration site. The link has been fixed and works as it should do.

The future projects page has been updated to include details of the "Past2Present" and "Tram53" projects. A web page for the Tram53 project will be constructed in due course.

Additional pictures have been added to West Park Internal page.
Additional pictures have been added to West Park External page.
Page constructed detailing the wards at West Park along with various freaky pictures and strange rooms etc.
All photos used in the West Park pages so far have been condensed where appropriate to aid loading speeds.

The demolition of Connaught House in Melbourne Street, Brighton has commenced. Photos taken 22/12/09 have been stitched and uploaded to the site, pending addition into the Melbourne Street page.

I am currently working on a draft of a page for Hints and Tips for ghost-of, which is being assembled in Word and Dreamweaver and will be uploaded to the site once I am satisfied with the results.