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• March 5, 2023 -- Added a new article Walter Crane: A Pioneer of Children's Book Illustration. Added ads for Redbubble store. Tweaked the front page.
• February 26, 2023 -- Added articles about The Influence of Japanese Art on Walter Crane's Style and Technique and Walter Crane's Illustrations and Their Impact on the Golden Age of Children's Literature<
• May 21, 2021 -- Created a new xml map and submitted it to Google
• December 1, 2021 -- Added a new section devoted to a beautiful coloring book illustrated by Walter Crane.
• October 31, 2021 -- Expanded the gallery of Kate Greenaway Illustrations.
• May 21, 2021 -- Created a new xml map and submitted it to Google
• March 26, 2021 -- Improved the listing for Kate Greenaway and added illustrations. [Nex: added sub pages showcasing individual pieces by Greenaway and the other featured illustrators.]
• March 26, 2021 -- Added a small gallery of Caldecott illustrations and expanded his information page.
• May 5, 2020 -- Added a contact form.
• May 3, 2020 -- It's been a while! Made some improvements to the biographies of Kate Greenaway and Edmund Evans. Added a section on Crane's socialist political art work.
• November 18, 2017 -- added a short biography of the French artist Eugene Grasset, who is often compared to Crane.
• February 25, 2017 -- added illustrations from Goody Two Shoes. Fixed a problem with the Illustrations main page. Added images to Kate Greenway bio. Improved linkage on front page.
• October 8, 2016 -- Submitted pages and sitemap to Google Index. Set preferred site format as WWW. waltercrane.com and targeted USA audience through Google Webmastertools.
• October 1, 2016 -- Added an article on Victorian artist Helen Allingham. William James Linton and Edmund Evans
• December 12, 2015 -- Added data high lighting with google webmaster
• November 7, 2015 -- fixed some CSS rendering issues and broken links
• November 6, 2015 -- updated sitemaps and submitted them to Google
• October 21, 2015 -- added biographies of Walter Crane, Thomas Crane, Lucy Crane, Thomas Crane, Jr, Caldecott, and Kate Greenaway.
• October 20, 2015 -- Completed conversion of site to responsive template - rearranged the ad units a bit.
• October 19, 2015 -- Began process of converting site to a new mobile friendly format
• December 8, 2014 -- Optimized some images on the front page using http://compressjpeg.com/



• November 8, 2014 -- Added an article about William Morris.



• November 1, 2014 -- Added a gallery of drawings from the book titled Queen Summer about the heroic deeds of beautiful flowers. Also changed the front page to provide direct deep links to the inner galleries.



• March 16, 2014 -- Added a new section of illustrations from Beauty and the Beast. Registered the site with Google Webmaster tools. Made new site maps including an image site map.



• March 1, 2014 -- Added a lengthy section on decorative art, taken from the Century Cyclopedia



• February 23, 2014 -- Added a customized 404 Error Page.



• February 21, 2014 -- Added new gallery of illustrations from Sing a Song of Six Pence. Standardized image sizes on the illustration section. Fixed some broken links. Built a visual navigation menu.



• February 14, 2014 -- Added images to the front pages and video to Frog Prince.



• February 13, 2014 -- Created content for the front page.



• February 9, 2014 -- Added a gallery of illustrations from the Frog Prince



• February 7, 2014 -- Revamped the Princess Belle Etoile section and also the front page of the Illustrations. Added a gallery of illustrations from the Baby's Own Aesop.



• February 1, 2014 -- Built front page for the Illustrations section as well as a content gallery for the Princess Belle Etoile.



• January 31, 2014 -- Developed the new site design. Created About and Privacy Pages.



• January 29, 2014 -- Harvested images from old books in order to build the content for the site.



• April 2, 2013 -- tweaked the site title and some other minor things. Converted site to use server side includes



• March 20, 2013 -- set up basic place holder site and configured the server.



• March 19, 2013 -- Purchased the Domain Name.

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