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About, history, and pages of interest of this website. Last updated: 11/12/2006

Summary

http://www.samliew.com is a personal website about Samuel Liew, created and maintained by himself as a hobby.

History

The content at http://www.samliew.com was created in late 2001 from a web-design course taken by Samuel Liew. He constantly improved on it, adding features and information along the way, changing self-created templates, while seeking reviews from friends and forums.

During the early beginnings of this website, it was hosted in several addresses as the need grew, and more space and bandwidth required, or there were annoying advertisments added by the host. Here is the list of the sites that it was hosted at (in chronological order):

  • 2001 - http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/samliew/
  • 2002 - http://www.geocities.com/sam_2912/ (Annoying ads)
  • 2003 - http://free.7host06.com/samuelliew/ (Annoying ads, certain file types disallowed)
  • 2003/04 - http://b.1asphost.com/samuelliew/
  • 2004 - http://samuel.g-e-tech.com (This host closed down)
  • 2005 - http://samuel.byethost24.com (Now Samuel is hosting his cell group photos there)
  • 2006 to 2010 - http://www.samliew.com (Hosted by w3hub.com)

Currently the website's template is the 10th version.

There were other hosts that were used for testing and development of scripts. Here is the list of the sites that were used (in no order):

  • http://b.1asphost.com/samuelliew/
  • http://www.samliew.somee.com

A blog (http://samuelliew.blogspot.com) was started in early 2003, and it was linked to from the site. There were several revisions to the template. Now it is re-created at (http://www.samliew.com/blog/), powered by wordpress, with most of the archives from the old blog.

A guestbook (http://htmlgear.tripod.com/guest/control.guest?u=samuelliew) was created and hosted by tripod in 2002. The newer guestbook on this website has been removed on 29 Mar 2008 due to inactivity.

To view other past updates on the website, you may visit this link:
http://www.samliew.com/news_archive.php

Scripting

Although simple DHTML was used during the first few versions of the website, JavaScript (or JScript) was added during the period when it was hosted at g-e-tech.com. The host offered free hosting with PHP and without advertisements, which allowed for improvement and addition of ideas not possible with the previous hosts.

PHP & JavaScript is currently used in most of the pages of this website.

Also, Samuel joined HTML Help Central forums in April 2005, and overtime have helped code several scripts for the members there. These and other scripts that he programmed are showcased in the programming page.

A few of his scripts are worth visiting for effort and popularity:

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