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August 27, 2010
Updated by Craig
My June 7, 2006 update was incorrect. I thought that I corrected the spelling for Spießträger. I was wrong. It has been fixed for real this time. "I" before "E" or else I am spelling Speiseträger, which means "food carrier."
February 16, 2012
Updated by Craig
Was finally able to log onto site to upload July 7th's updates after a server shift.
July 7, 2011
Updated by Craig
Added Ulrich's biography to his page on the roster.
May 11, 2010
Updated by Craig
Photographs taken by Stephen Jacobson have been added to the School of the Renaissance Soldier: Actions in the Lowe Countries gallery for 2010.
March 08, 2010
Updated by Craig
Scanned, color corrected, and added photographs from the Hanford Fair.
February 10, 2010
Updated by Craig
I added a lot of pictures to Folsom 2008, which was one of my personal favorite Renaissance Fairs in a very long time. We got to march, made trouble with wanted posters for Marti, performed the grand Tyrolean Dance finale that triumphed over our prevous Tyrolean Dances, got into a big fight with the Florentines across the street, Rob demonstrated his brand new Langes Messer with its beautiful sheath and utility knife, we had great food, and I had the chance to spend two days with a very close friend that I haven't seen much since. It was wonderful. I also updated pictures from School of the Renaissance Soldier 2009 and Cain's Crossing 2008 and added pictures from Casa de Faire 2009, Valhalla 2009, and Folsom 2009. Valhalla 2009 was another memorable fair for me for both aspiring to hope and wounds. This has been a heafty update. And good night.
January 18, 2010
Updated by Craig
The default introduction page has been removed, the Fänlein roster was updated for Hanzi, the guild officers have been updated, contact information has been updated, and I made a few tiny changes here and there. I also added more links to the front page so it is easier to access the sub-sections within the website.
April 29, 2009
Updated by Craig
"School of the Renaissance Soldier - Actions in the Low Countries" has been added to the photographs section of the website for 2009.
April 23, 2009
Updated by Craig
Cain's Crossing 2008 photographs have been updated. Yes, despite the lack of photo updates, St. Max was out and about during the years of 2007 and 2008. I simply never updated the pictures section.
April 21, 2009
Updated by Craig
As embarrassing as it is to admit it, I've only just now updated the pictures section with the most recent pictures I have...from Valhalla 2007.
April 13, 2009
Updated by Craig
The 2009 schedule has been added.
March 23, 2009
Updated by Craig
I updated the officers, roster, and the Meta tags. Also, our new name has been applied. No longer "das Todesengel Fähnlein," we are now the "von Fürstenberg Fänlein."
March 05, 2008
Updated by Craig
Officers and scheduling updates.
January 06, 2008
Updated by Craig
I updated the "imagery" section with a previously written introduction page and a page that includes an unorganized mob of tent woodcuts. While all the tents are from the 16th century, some are German, others are Ottoman, and others yet are the background to depictions of Bible stories.
December 19, 2007
Updated by Craig
The officers page has been updated to reflect certain vacancies and the contact page has been adjusted to reflect this.
November 19, 2007
Updated by Craig
Two more people have been added to the Roster: Reinhardt Kranz and Karl Josef, the two founding members of Saint Maximilian.
October 06, 2007
Updated by Craig
Under the mustering section, you will find a new motivational speech, written by our very own Guild Master, Tom Davison. I also added a few links for information on Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and one link for Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. As a big added bonus, I added a section on table manenrs.
September 13, 2007
Updated by Craig
The Fähnlein roster has been updated again. A few names were corrected and pictures of Gita and Liesel were added. I also corrected the glossary and contacts page. Fun stuff.
September 10, 2007
Updated by Craig
The Fähnlein roster has been updated, as has the articles section.
September 05, 2007
Updated by Craig
The officer section has been updated, as has been the roster, the guild retreat information, contact information, and the glossary. It's been a long time coming. I hope to add more names to the roster soon.
July 22, 2007
Updated by Craig
I have added an article on Landsknecht hair styles and added a link to an article on military fifes.
July 01, 2007
Updated by Craig
Dusack fencing has been added to the weapons page. Let us now celebrate.
June 24, 2007
Updated by Craig
I have added four new pages to the weapons section of the webpage. Learn about various weapons of the Landsknecht, pike commands, and longsword stances. It's been a long time coming but it is finally here.
May 27, 2007
Updated by Craig
I simply cut-and-pasted the old woodcut page into the current website format. It looks sad, but at least there isn't a note saying that "this section is coming soon." It obviously is not coming soon.
May 06, 2007
Updated by Craig
Joachim Meyer's Dussack Poem has been added to the really old Fechtweb section of the site.
May 01, 2007
Updated by Craig
The officers have been updated and the roster has been slightly modified.
April 18, 2007
Updated by Craig
I have an update with substance! Courtesy of Liam's attention to the website, I have removed three sub-par photgraphs from the Golden Gate 2005 gallery and added three to the Valhalla 2006 gallery. From Erin I have three excerpts from Dawn of Modern Warfare in the articles section. A major thanks goes from me to Erin for that. Jared brought to our attention an article from Bonn University, to which we now have a link. It has some good woodcuts in the second half of the article. Courtesy of Michelle's attendance poll, I can provide a better approximation of our 2007 schedule.
This has been the biggest update in a long time! Let's see what else can go up in the next few months.
April 08, 2007
Updated by Craig
Happy Easter. I updated our 2007 schedule based on my memory of our guild meeting, where we voted on what events to attend. Expect corrections to be made.
March 12, 2007
Updated by Craig
Actually, the update was uploaded on the 11th of March, but nobody is going to see it until the 12th because it is late night right now. I drew a bunch of pictures for the roster section and made place-holder pages for the people until they write their biographies.
February 25, 2007
Updated by Craig
I wrote an article on the slashing of the backside of Landsknecht doublets. It's in the articles and essays section.
January 09, 2007
Updated by Craig
The Merry Gamester by Walter Nelson has been added to the Daily Life section.
January 08, 2007
Updated by Craig
Photographs taken July 2006 of our weekly Saturday sword practice have been added.
January 07, 2007
Updated by Craig
Happy New Year to everybody who reads this dark, boring corner of the website! A page for donations and merchandise has been added to the guild page.
December 13, 2006
Updated by Craig
I added pictures to Golden Gate 2005. None of these pictures are in any sort of chronological order. This update is almost exactly like the Folsom update a few days ago, except I did some color correcting to turn some ugly gray pictures into pictures with contrast and color. "Selective Color" is such a powerful tool in Photoshop, but it is easily misused. With any luck, the pictures look better than the muddy raw pictures I was given to upload.
December 10, 2006
Updated by Craig
I added pictures to Folsom 2005 and removed some as well. None of these pictures are in any sort of chronological order, but I managed to put all the pictures of the Flag Tearing Ceremony at the end of the page.
November 01, 2006
Updated by Craig
I added pictures of the Golden Gate Fair that came from Liam. I still have pictures from him that need to go up. At least I got some of them done.
September 24, 2006
Updated by Craig
I added pictures of the Golden Gate Fair. That was a fun fair with all of our brawling. I'm told that one of the fair veterans had to let the SF police know we were only playing because our gig was convincing. These pictures were added over the course of a few days. About a week ago I added 16 pictures and forgot to add it to the update log. Now that I've added a few more, I've remembered to write it down.
September 16, 2006
Updated by Craig
Changed the schedule to reflect Hanford and Sonora being cut from our list of events. Sad things, indeed. I also added a link to the contact page from the home page.
September 9, 2006
Updated by Craig
The documentary has finally been officially added. Better late than never and four months isn't too late for a feature such as this. Yes, it is still shameful to be tardy, but worse events have happened.
September 6, 2006
Updated by Craig
I have recieved e-mails from Erin and Liam with suggestions regarding website improvement. Erin has pointed out fixes for the links section, guild officers, guild events (I forgot to mention sword practice was held Saturdays), and the educational discussion of Landsknechte clothing. Liam has been keeping a sharp eye on the photographs, making sure that we look our best. I've made some changes based on his suggestions. Thanks to both for keeping an eye out on the site. It's not a job one can easily perform well alone.
Another new update is the glossary. Now people can find definitions of all the German words that get thrown around on the site. Confusion averted!
August 22, 2006
Updated by Craig
It is now possible to click the "© Saint Maximilian Landsknecht Reenactment Guild" text on the bottom of each page and have it direct you to the contact page. Hardly noticable, but I'm sure a few people will find this little goody hidden on every page. It's a little secret, kind of like how the floral border at the bottom returns you to the top of the page. Perhaps I should add more "Easter Eggs" for people to find. For the curious, no, the names of my CSS classes and comments in the HTML are not Easter Eggs.
August 20, 2006
Updated by Craig
I have updated the links page by removing one dead reference, I have brought the schedule up-to-date, added more song lyrics to the music section, created an area for information on religion, and have added a whole lot of books to the bibiography. I also re-arranged all the directories on our server. The old site is now in a folder called "OLD_SITE" and this site is now in the root directory. I didn't delete the "Redesign" directory because Ted still has some drafts in there. With this update, I have single-handedly ruined everybody's bookmarks and have thrown all the search engines that reference us off track. But that is what happens when a new site replaces an older site. Things change.
August 19, 2006
Updated by Craig
At long last, I have finally added the Valhalla photographs, which were taken by David Ventura. Hooray! Additionally, I made a few minor changes to the character builder. Scrumptious.
July 20, 2006
Updated by Craig
I am very behind on getting photographs online. That will come soon. What I have tonight is the addition of the Rottemeister on the contact page. How spectacularly boring this update is.
June 29, 2006
Updated by Craig
One good update deserves another. Rather than updating the Valhalla photographs, I decided to add something in the education section instead. You can now find five Lutheran church hyms in German accompanied with a MIDI file. This was previously tucked away in the members-only section of the old version of the website. It's time these songs reached a broader audience. Besides, I don't think anyone has listened them in a very, very long time. I'll add more songs to the list.
I also began adding little woodcuts all over the place. These should make the site a bit nicer to browse through. The woodcuts are somewhat relevant to the page they are placed on. On the photograph page we have a little wood-cut printer man. He's printing images of soldiers. The music section has people playing flutes and the campaign page has a bunch of soldiers marching. Wheee!
June 28, 2006
Updated by Craig
New pictures have been added for Fair Oaks. The ones from Valhalla are coming, I promise.
June 7, 2006
Updated by Craig
I changed the spelling of Speißtrager to Speißträger because the former is an incorect spelling of the latter. What a boring update that doesn't really warrant a place in the update log.
May 24, 2006
Updated by Craig
What better day to launch the site than on the day that two of the guild members have their birthday. This makes remembering the day easy.
On the one hand, I jumped the gun a bit launching the site on the 24th of May. Several sections are still incomplete. On the plus side, all these incomplete sections weren't on the old site anyway. Plus, stuff from the old site that wasn't updated is still accessable. The old site is still up, I simply have the default page link to the new site instead of the old one.
Today was rather busy. I went through three years of photographs, deciding against linking to the old site. Since most people would be interested in looking at recent photographs for the time being, I put those up first. Finishing the photographs, which required removing a lot of bad pictures and making new thumbnails, I wrote up several sections in the Guild portion of the site. We have the description of Saint Maximilian and a bit about our goals. With the editing done, I had fun with my FTP program and got things in general working order. Fun.
May 23, 2006
Updated by Craig
In all honesty, I forgot to write my log for the 23rd day of May. I am writing this at 12:30 am on the 25th, having just completed my entry for the 24th. On the 23rd I wrote added all the content in the muster section of the site. I adjusted the cascading style sheets, wrote about school visits, Renaissance fairs, filled in the officers, and did other simple but very important tweaks and additions.
May 22, 2006
Updated by Craig
Content has been added to pages including Renaissance Fair, School Visits, FechtWeb, Bibliography, Fähnlein History, and I fixed a typo that was preventing a link in the drop-down menu from working. The Muster section is almost done, having added a section on how to interact with us at fair. I also fixed some links (where certain pages were using old names), added new a alphabet letter to the collection of Has Holben letters, made a new header, and did some re-writing of older content. I am confident that I will make the June deadline, but not all the pages will be complete. My goal is that a page that is still under construction will provide a link to where the information can be found. In some cases, that means linking to the old site, which means I can't reorganize everything just yet. It's kind of sloppy in those folders.
I dread having to go through the pictures. There's about five years worth of pictures to process and each year has sub-categories of what event they were taken at. So far I have shifted that task really low on my priority list. So long as I have at least three years worth of pictures online, I will be happy. I'll direct visitors to the site to the old archive of pictures if they really want to see oldies.
May 19, 2006
Updated by Craig
I have added the Guild section to the site. It is the last section that needs to have pages added to it. This brings me one step closer to meeting my June 1st deadline. The only items I need to complete the Guild section is the SOP, guild history, "Who Was Saint Maximilian" (which I can copy-and-paste from the old site), and how to join. I also need a current officers list. Everything else in the Guild section is all done, which would make it the first complete section despite the fact it was the last one I started on.
To complete the Campaign section, I need to add pages about Renaissance Fairs, school visits, and mustering information. While going through the old site, I found a lot of files that aren't accessable from any of the visible pages. A lot of this can go into the muster, where visiters can have tools to create their own character before they guest with us. It will have other guesting information there too.
The Education section will take a lot of time to get it where I want it to be. So long as I have something on each page, whether or not it has any detailed content on it, I am willing to declare it fit for uploading before heading off to the Valhalla fair at the beginning of June.
May 17, 2006
Updated by Craig
I updated the structure of the webpage. After sending out several e-mails to the group lists, I have recieved no complaints about this layout. Because people have no issues, I have put into motion the completion of this wepage. My goal is to get it online by June.
I've simplified the subcategories and renamed about 50% of all headers and categories. I also added this update log, so that everyone can see what has been updated and when (this is the very first entry). Once I have the layout created, I will begin to fill in content. One of the new sections is the event history page, which lists all the schedules I have available. I'm sure people will find it interesting to look at these old schedules after 6 years.
Overall, I updated the structure, adjusted the pages in the Education and Campaign sections, and began to add some content. It was a busy day and these three paragraphs fail to relate the work done. Oh well.
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