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Updates to the site are detailed below (one year of updates is shown).
General site and dragon news is found in the News section.
18 January 2008
14 January 2008
- Updated copyright dates to 2008 on most pages.
- About the Author: Added link to personal blog.
28 December 2007
5 December 2007
26 June 2007
25 June 2007
24 June 2007
22 June 2007
21 June 2007
- African Dragons: Leviathan - Added a picture by
Gustave Doré
18 June 2007
14 June 2007
13 June 2007
11 June 2007
8 June 2007
1 June 2007
31 May 2007
30 May 2007
29 May 2007
28 May 2007
- Capacti - Added picture from the Codex Borgio.
- Added St. Benedict story (with picture) to
European Dragons.
27 May 2007
- Added Egede's Serpent entry (with picture) to
Sea Serpent Sightings.
- Saint George - Added a 'Votes for Women' picture and
a copy of the Uccello picture (previously only found in 'Dragon Types').
- Nova Scotia Serpent - Added 'Sea Serpent Polka' picture.
26 May 2007
23 May 2007
- Oceania Dragons - Rainbow Serpent -
Added the story of the Ngadjonji volcanic eruption.
22 May 2007
- Campaign Graveyard - Added 'Long Live Dragons' in the
current campaigns.
- Dragon Links - The pending links list has been cleared. All
links were either added to the directory, or were rejected (if your site isn't about
dragons, it won't get in!)
- TV and Film Dragon List - Brief note added to 'Spike' to talk about the new version.
4 May 2007
12 Jan 2007
15 Dec 2006
12 Dec 2006
9 Dec 2006
- Linked the site news into the main homepage (a link to the latest news
item now displays).
8 Dec 2006
- Dragon and Site News - Replaces both the site news and
the dragon media stories page. This is in blog-style, so you can post comments
on items etc.
28 Nov 2006
27 Nov 2006
26 Nov 2006
- Dragon Artist List: Moved MerlynHawk to old art
page (site link has been broken for an extended time).
- Asian Dragons: Expanded
Apalala entry by adding a retelling of the
story as told by Hsuan-tsang.
25 Nov 2006
24 Nov 2006
- Asian Dragons: Finished separating dragons onto their
own pages (all the continents are now reformatted).
23 Nov 2006
22 Nov 2006
21 Nov 2006
- Historic Dragon Texts - New section. Enuma Elish and
Lambton Worm folksong were moved here. Added two versions of the Wantley dragon poem.
- European Dragons: Finished separating dragons onto their
own pages. Added the Wantley Dragon (England).
19 Nov 2006
18 Nov 2006 (News) - The World Dragon Mythology
section is going through a layout change. Each dragon will have its own page, indexed by
the page for that continent. This should hopefully make it a bit easier to find things, as
you can bookmark individual dragons. The changeover will take about a week.
18 Nov 2006
9 Nov 2006
8 Nov 2006 (News) - I now have a MySpace profile, should you need some other way to contact me. Or
just because you want a shiny mushroom on your friends list.
28 Oct 2006 (News) - The discussion forum is now online. It is still having
some configuration done, but it is working and you can post to it. The forum is here:
[Now removed due to inactivity]
28 Oct 2006
25 Oct 2006
24 Oct 2006
22 Oct 2006
- South American Dragons: Added feathered serpent
picture. Changed the sections slightly. Moved Capacti here from North America.
21 Oct 2006
- European Dragons: Picture added to Uroboros.
- What is a Dragon?: Essay has been updated. Some
sections are rewritten. A section on common mythical themes added. More links to
further reading in the site have been added.
19 Oct 2006
- Asian Dragons: Added Imperial Dragon picture (China). Added
entry on Muchilinda (Cambodia), with picture.
- Mythical Origins: Added Snakes.
18 Oct 2006
17 Oct 2006
- Asian Dragons: Expanded naga (Indian) entry. Altered
wording in the Vitra entry to be clearer. Added basic entry on Ananta (Indian).
- Dragons and Serpents in the Bible - Some text
corrections. Added two illustrations from an 1873 Bible.
16 Oct 2006
14 Oct 2006
- Mythical Origins: Added instinctive fears.
- African Dragons - Anzu: Added the story of
Anzu and Lugalbanda.
13 Oct 2006
12 Oct 2006
- References: Split references onto their own page, and tidied them up.
- Basic Dragon Mythology Quiz added. This covers
more common mythology. It has a results chart and award pictures.
- Dragon Mythology Quiz: Changed its name to 'Advanced
Dragon Mythology Quiz'. The quiz now has award
pictures you can take away. They are four flavours: normal, bronze, silver and
gold, depending on how you do.
11 Oct 2006
- Link Banners: Added new colour versions of banner 1.
Added a new design of banner (several colour versions).
- Dragon Biology: Added text for sea dragons,
quadruped dragons and unique dragons. Corrected some other text errors.
10 Oct 2006
- Dragon Biology: Split the different sections onto
pages. Added a page about dragon flight theories. Updated some of the other text.
9 Oct 2006
- Sources/Copyright and Help:
The copyright and use information has been updated. People have been allowed to use
bits of this site, with some conditions, for some time but this was not made very clear.
It has now been clarified. Also added in some picture-specific comments due to the
recent increase in pictures.
- Polenth's Gallery: Added to photographs - 3 butterflies, 2 penguins,
mountains
8 Oct 2006
- Numerous small updates and corrections to text and metatags.
7 Oct 2006
5 Oct 2006
4 Oct 2006
3 Oct 2006
2 Oct 2006
1 Oct 2006
- Dragon Clipart: Added seven versions of
an 'Old Style Bat-Winged Serpent'.
- Links Directory: Added new catergory
Education with sites that might
interest teachers (dragon lesson plans etc.)
- Fish: Added African dragon moray, Deep sea
dragonfish and Japanese dragon moray.
- Mythical Origins: Added cryptids.
30 Sep 2006
- Links Directory: Added new catergories - alt.fan.dragons
(under communities), Pern (under roleplaying), Cryptozoology (and two subcatergories) and
four alphabet subcatergories for Personal Homepages. Moved relevant pages to the categories.
- Sea Serpent Sightings: Added Nessie and hoax photo.
- Added extracts of The Book of Wonder to 'Modern'.
- Added Dragon Fairytales section (under 'Myths').
Moved 'More English Fairytales' here. Also added dragon stories from 'The Yellow
Fairy Book' and 'The Crimson Fairy Book'.
29 Sep 2006
28 Sep 2006 (News) - The site now runs a webring for dragons pages. If
you might be interested in joining, check it out here:
Dragon Mystery Webring.
28 Sep 2006
- Added more 'click the thumbnails' comments to various pages... it seems some
visitors weren't realising they were thumbnails leading to bigger pictures.
- Added Dragon Mystery Webring - A new webring for
dragon sites.
27 Sep 2006
26 Sep 2006
25 Sep 2006
24 Sep 2006
- African Dragons - Added these pictures:
Musrussu, Tiamat and Anzu (1853).
- European Dragons - Added these pictures:
St. George and Dragon (from 1878); Herakles and the Hydra (1882); Lindworms (1678)
- South American Dragons: Added some basic text on Vision
Serpent, Coatlcue, Mixcoatl, Cihuacoatl and Xiuhcoatl. Expanded Quetzalcoatl entry
to tell the story of the creation of humans.
23 Sep 2006
- Links Directory - Added in a total links count.
- Links pages removed - The general links pages have now been removed. All the
working links from them were moved to the Links Directory. Check out the 'New Links'
page of the directory for any future link alterations.
22 Sep 2006
- Mythical Origins: Corrected some errors in the
pterosaur entry. Also added a photograph of a pterosaur fossil.
21 Sep 2006
19 Sep 2006
- Changed settings to stop hotlinking images on this domain. A warning
image now displays if someone tries this.
- Links Directory added, under the links section. This
is the new links list. Links are split into themes, you can submit links and the most
recent links are listed seperately. This may have some bugs, so it would be appreciated
if you email if you have a problem.
18 Sep 2006
- Links Note: The general links section won't be receiving any more updates for now.
Soon the new directory will be in place and all new links will go there. Watch this
space for when that happens.
- Site Awards added (linked to from 'About'). This has
a few web awards that have been give to the website over the years.
11 Sep 2006
- Added Dragon Name Generator. This generates five different
styles of dragon name (including Pern and Swamp Dragons). Linked to from 'Fun'.
10 Sep 2006
- A few new links added to the links section.
- Dragon Mythology Quiz - Online quiz added to the 'fun' section.
6 Sep 2006
4 Sep 2006
- Added new field to guestbook (for how this site was found).
- Added custom error pages.
- Added some links to General Dragon Links.
3 Sep 2006
- Search page links now point to the new addresses.
- Link Banners: Banners changed to new address.
- Changed Dragon Artist List banner to show new site address.
2 Sep 2006 (News) - The move to the new server and domain is pretty
much complete. If you have links/bookmarks to pages within the site, you'll find all
you need to change is the domain part. The directories and filenames are the same.
1 Sep 2006
- Site moved to a new domain (www.polenth.com).
- Harry Potter Dragons - The start of a page adding Harry Potter dragons.
- Pernese Dragon List - New dragons added from 'Red Star Rising'. List is in
the process of being made easier to read.
- Page footer changed to SSI, and altered to reflect new details.
30 Aug 2006
- World Dragon Mythology - Africa: Added Bida (Mali version). Added five new
location maps to West Africa section (West Africa, Benin, Mali, Kingdom of Ghana and Guinea).
29 Aug 2006
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