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November 02, 2004

  • I added Ross, Rachel, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Little Bit and Chandler's stories, you can find them using this link

  • October 24, 2004

  • The catcam and the weather page information are now updated twenty-four hours a day.

  • June 18, 2004

  • Added extended weather to the weather page, where you can also find your local weather

  • May 15, 2004

  • Moved lisaviolet.com to a new host.

  • July 20, 2003

  • Added lisaviolet's interactive story page .

  • July 19, 2003

  • Added twenty-one web tools (automatically generate cut and paste code for html, mouseover, menus, forms, tables and more) to the sitehelp site.

  • June 20-July 13, 2003

  • Moved lisaviolet.com to a new host. It should run more quickly and be more reliable now.

  • May 30, 2003

  • Added five stories to the declaw site.
  • Added pages 60 through 70 to the family album.

  • March 20, 2003

  • Added Oliver's story.
  • Updated Boney's story.

  • March 18, 2003

  • Added a message board to the catcam page.

  • March 17, 2003

  • Revamped lvdesigns.com. Brought back the weekly poll.

  • February 15, 2003

  • Added a chatbox.

  • December 19, 2002

  • Added Moka and Pepper's stories to the Declaw Stories page.

  • December 18, 2002

  • Revamped my Affiliations page.

  • December 11, 2002

  • Added Finding Your Lost Cat.

  • December 6, 2002

  • Added page 23 to the sunset section.

  • December 4, 2002

  • I revamped the Declaw Menu
  • I added buttons to the declaw stories to make them more easily navigated.

  • December 3, 2002

  • Added two articles by Jean Hofve, DVM to the Declaw Menu

  • December 1, 2002

  • The Sunsets page of the website has been revamped.

  • November 7, 2002

  • I changed the way I'll be doing my diary. It looks the same, but the newest entry will be at the top and the reader can leave comments or a "Karma" rating. November 02, page 1

  • November 6, 2002

  • Put a new "updates" bar at the top of certain pages, removed the "update" graphic.

  • November 3, 2002

  • Added our latest "trip report" area to the Disney page

  • October 1, 2002

  • Added a "trip report" area to the Disney page

  • September 27, 2002
    The webrings are back up. Feel free to rejoin.

  • the cathouse webring
  • Educate! Don't Amputate! WebRing

  • September 24, 2002

  • Added 31 declaw stories.
  • Added 4 pages of pictures to the family album.

  • September 15, 2002

  • Lisaviolet designs store is back online, ready to take orders: lisaviolet designs.

  • September 09, 2002

  • Added games to Benny's. They are listed out on a new page: New Games.

  • August 19, 2002

  • Added pages about the Pines fire to the Ranchita site

  • August 10, 2002

  • Added pages to the Ranchita site

  • July 29, 2002

  • Redid the send mail page. Now it's a form instead of individual mail addresses. Too much spam.

  • July 11, 2002

  • Added pages 33 through 55 to the family album

  • February 13, 2002

  • Added another page of backgrounds (page 9) to the cardshoppe. Also added another Valentine card.
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    February 12, 2002

  • Added Valentine backgrounds to the cardshoppe. Also changed the method of viewing the backgrounds.
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    February 9, 2002

  • Added two more games to Benny's. PanneRotto and a different type of Pong game, BAP.
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    February 3, 2002

  • Added Autumn's story

  • December 23, 2001

  • Added 16 more wallpapers to the cardshoppe
  • Added two games to Bens Den: Moonstar 2 and a 3D maze.
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    December 06, 2001

  • Moved all of the cards to the new cardshoppe. The old card page will be disabled in two weeks.
    Added about new sixty images.

  • October 08, 2001

  • The new cardshoppe is up and running. I'll be adding the images from the old cardshoppe as time allows.

  • September 22, 2001

  • Joined more affiliates and added them all to the affiliate page.

  • September 15, 2001

  • Updated the crossword game in Ben's den. You can now undo a play and switch your letters. You can also send a message to the players when you finish your turn.

  • September 5, 2001

  • A Kids 'n Cats section, with information on toxoplasmosis and pregnancy, bringing home baby and training toddlers
  • Added another camera, this one in the office.

  • August 26, 2001

  • Added a table tutorial to the sitehelp section
  • Added the kittens' stories. You can find links at the cats page.

  • August 20, 2001

  • Added a new section to the cathouse. Site help to help people get their webpages up and running.

  • August 12, 2001

  • Major update to the backyard page.

  • July 01, 2001

  • Added more stories to the declaw section.

  • May 22, 2001

  • You now only need two players to play the Scrabble game in Ben's Den. The Find It 2 game has been updated to thirty playing levels.

  • May 18, 2001

  • Added a remote control for the roof camera on the "live video" page of the weather section.

  • March 29, 2001

  • I added eight pages of pictures to the family album.

  • March 04, 2001

  • Moved the declaw pages to their own subdomain, declaw.lisaviolet.com. Please change your bookmarks.

  • February 28, 2001

  • Added three more stories to the declaw section: Rescuer, Pinky, and Laura.

  • February 18, 2001

  • Added three more stories to the declaw section: Earl, Sunny and Sandy, and Deborah.
  • Updated the Battleship game

  • February 16, 2001

  • Reinstalled the archives for the catcam when I found out that more people viewed them than I realized. Reset the camera refresh rate to three minutes.

  • February 15, 2001

  • After a minor maintenence problem, the patiocam is back up.

  • February 12, 2001

  • Removed the archives for the catcam, realizing that it was taking to long to upload images. Set the refresh rate to thirty seconds.

  • January 23, 2001

  • I have a new links page

  • January 6, 2001

  • Added three new games to Benny's. Rush Hour, Pingpong and Nibbly.
  • Added more pictures on the Ranchita site.

  • January 2, 2001

  • Added a weekly poll lisaviolet designs

  • December 21, 2000

  • have a new website up: http://www.pinwheelmoment.com
  • Added two more designs to lisaviolet designs

  • December 9, 2000

  • The new camera is on the roof (check out the weather page). I've added another cam page, the patio cam. Live, streaming video is also available.

  • December 5, 2000

  • Extremely frustrated with the amount of time it was taking for the catcam pictures to upload, I changed the software to send the images to catler.org and just point to them from lisaviolet.com. So far, the ninety second update seems to be working. Lately, it had been taking upwards of fifteen minutes for one image to upload.

  • December 3, 2000

  • Using the same applet I used in benny's den, I added the applet to every one of the declaw pages. Many hits were coming to individual pages from outside of this site. It appeared as though people didn't realize how many pages there are in reference to declawing.

  • December 2, 2000

  • I finally made a menu applet for Ben's Den, which lists out every page on that site. I was getting the feeling that the entire room wasn't getting explored and people weren't experiencing the joy of Ben's Den. *g*

  • December 1, 2000

  • I created a new forum for users of the SameGame. It seems that's a pretty popular little applet.

  • November 25, 2000

  • I've updated the affiliates page. One of the companies has gone out of business (mothernature.com) and two no longer use affiliates. I've removed those. I did sign the cathouse up with igive.com.
  • In Benny's, I've added five games. Snakepit, the Same Game, Word Search, a Tank game and another Find It game. The Battleship game has been upgraded, also.
  • I updated "About the cathouse" to reflect more about what can be found here on the cathouse and explained how to navigate the site.

  • November 16, 2000

  • Added the latest Splash Mountain pictures to the Disney page

  • November 11, 2000

  • Added a five day Daily Tabular Data, with ten minute updates while I'm online
  • Joined the Weather Underground weather page

  • October 6, 2000

  • I upgraded the top fifty cat sites page. If you had joined previously, you will need to re-sign up.
  • I also added a list for the top fifty cat cams, so if you have a live webcam with cats as the subject, feel free to join.

  • October 6, 2000

  • Added a Scrabble like crossword puzzle to the gameroom. You can invite three internet friends to play.

  • October 4, 2000

  • Added a "Top Site" listing.
  • lisaviolet.net email is now working.

  • Weekend of September 23, 2000

  • Moved lisaviolet's cathouse (lisaviolet.com) from the YaScroo host (was Simplenet, then YaScroo took over) to CommuniTech.

  • September 19, 2000

  • I added Mystie's and Katie's pages

  • September 14, 2000

  • I've moved both of my webrings from the commercial host (Yahoo). If you belong to the Cathouse ring or the Educate!! Don't Amputate!! ring, you will have to re-sign up.

  • September 5, 2000

  • I've changed the catcam chair page so that it automatically renews the image every ninety seconds. This was done with javascript, so most every browser should be able to view it. You can now open a separate window for remote viewing.
  • I realized there was an error in my midi file coding that made the midis in Internet Explorer sound pretty bad. I went through and changed all of the code I could find. As I find more pages with this error on them, I will change them. And now you don't have to download Crescendo to turn of the music.

  • September 4, 2000

  • I've listed out some informative and fun cat books on the Amazon.com link on the affiliate page (click on "support the cathouse" on the menubar at the top of this page).

  • August 16, 2000

  • I'm in the process of removing the banners, index links and email links and putting the navigation bar (see the top of this page) on all of the pages to make getting around the cathouse easier.

  • July 22, 2000

  • Added three more games to Ben's Den; Iridium, MoonStar and Rock, Paper, Scissors.
  • Added a new free mail service for the ranchitaranch domain.
  • Starting Monday, July 24, 2000, there will be a scheduled holistic chat for alternative treatments for our pets

  • July 21, 2000

  • Added to the anti-declaw section, pictures taken during a declaw surgery

  • June 26, 2000

  • You can now sign up for automatic updates (just fill in the form above)

  • June 24, 2000

  • Tally's Tales are back!!
  • Registration is working on the Cliffie game for those who want to try their hands at winning a teeshirt

  • June 21, 2000

  • Added three more games to Benny's gameroom, "Benny", "Splat" and "Pigs"
  • The high score is working on the Cliffie game

  • June 19, 2000

  • Added four games to Benny's gameroom, "Find It", "Defender of the Moon", Yahtzee, and "Tux on the Run"

  • June 8, 2000

  • The live video for the backyard camera now runs ten minutes (up from two)

  • June 4, 2000

  • Added a vet tech's guide to training cats not to scratch to the declaw section

  • June 3, 2000

  • Added Maya's Story to the cathouse; Maya is an internet rescue kitty. It is in journal format and will be updated
  • Added links to the general store, dogs, breeders and personal pages
  • Added George's story to the tributes page

  • June 2, 2000

  • Added a cat health forum to Benny's Fun Forums

  • May 31, 2000

  • Added an affiliate banner for Andy's Garage--great prices and selection, wonderful customer service

  • May 20, 2000

  • Finally got the remote arm set up on the weather camera, now I can change where the camera is aimed; look foward to some beautiful, live San Diego sunsets
  • Added a back function for those who use the right click to go back

  • May 13, 2000

  • Upgraded Ben's Chatrooms. You can now ignore other people (you don't see their messages)

  • May 11, 2000

  • Added Pew's story to the declaw page. Pew is a cat at my vet's office

  • May 7, 2000

  • Moved lvdesigns to a different domain host

  • April 1, 2000

  • Added live video to the weather page

  • March 21, 2000

  • Added a page about why I set up the weather page and what hardware and software I used

  • March 20, 2000

  • Changed the way the two player (you can invite an internet friend and chat while you play) checkers game in Ben's Den looks.

  • March 15, 2000

  • Changed the way email is sent. Email links now go to a single page, where different subjects are listed

  • March 8, 2000

  • Added a four day forecast to the weather site

  • March 6, 2000

  • Added a camera to the weather page

  • March 5, 2000

  • Added the local weather to ben's den (we got the weather station set up)

  • March 2, 2000

  • Added Ramona's, Eileen's and Arthur's story to the declaw page
  • Added a game, "Cliffie" to ben's den

  • February 29, 2000

  • Added more forums to benny's fun forums---a forum for dreams and a forum for gardening

  • February 20, 2000

  • Added 28 more background images to the postcards

  • February 19, 2000

  • I added more table and font colors for the postcards. I also added a popup window option to view the colors/backgrounds on the cards. I always disliked having to preview an entire card to see what colors looked best with which background.

  • February 9, 2000

  • Added more Valentine's cards

  • February 7, 2000

  • The Cathouse Cardshoppe now has Valentine's cards. More to be added.

  • February 5, 2000

  • Updated the postcard page. You now have more options, such as choosing a different background.

  • February 4, 2000

  • I think I finally got the affiliate ads down. To get to the affiliate page, just click on the banner above. I think that looks nicer than regular banner ads.

  • January 31, 2000

  • Added banner ads to some of the pages. *sigh* Got to make money, someway.

  • January 30, 2000

  • Added more forums to Benny's fun forums...music related

  • January 29, 2000

  • Moved Benny's fun forums to a faster server

  • January 11, 2000

  • Added Razzerz' story to the declaw page

  • January 07, 2000

  • I got highspeed internet access yesterday, a cable modem. Now that I can do things more quickly online, the new image for the catcam uploads every minute and a half. I changed the java reload page accordingly and added more pages for the entire set of pictures for the last four hours (one hundred and sixty total).

  • December 28, 1999

  • Added sites to the following link pages: dogs, miscellaneous, breeders, general store, important causes and personal pages

  • December 26, 1999

  • Added a driving game to Ben's Den gameroom
  • Also at Benny's, the first television show is running on BDTV

  • December 20, 1999

  • Added a page about internet "trolls"
  • Added Pistachio's story to the declaw page

  • November 26, 1999

  • Added a crossword puzzle to Ben's Den (on the table)

  • November 25, 1999

  • Added our latest disney passport
  • Added a program where you can recommend the page you are on to a friend (the page must have the recommend button on it)

  • November 21, 1999

  • Added a page for fun links

  • November 11, 1999

  • Added Freddy's story to the declaw page. Was sent in by a woman who works for a vet

  • November 6, 1999

  • Added Peter's story

  • November 5, 1999

  • I added a new game to Ben's Den, "Concentration"

  • November 2, 1999

  • Added Mr. Twink's and Kidders' story to the declaw stories

  • October 27, 1999

  • Added a forum where you can find all of the statutes in each state for animal abuse

  • October 26, 1999

  • Added links to personal home pages, breeders, and the general store

  • October 25, 1999

  • I added more regular Halloween cards

  • October 23, 1999

  • I added more java Halloween cards

  • October 20, 1999

  • Put up the latest Splash Mountain picture. And I didn't cover my face.
  • Added another declaw horror story...Abigail's story

  • October 13, 1999

  • Added Magnolia's story to the declaw section
  • The Halloween cards are back up and I'm in the process of adding more

  • October 2, 1999

  • Designed the teeshirt for the blockbuster winner, put it up for viewing

  • September 30, 1999

  • On the pages with music, I added a link to http://www.liveupdate.com, for the Crescendo player. This will give the surfer the option to prevent the music from playing on his system. I also disabled the automatic replay.

  • September 29, 1999

  • Added twentyfour new postcards

  • September 28, 1999

  • Now you can send postcards in advance

  • September 23, 1999

  • Neatened up the first webcam page

  • September 21, 1999

  • I added a little streaming video (java) to the webcam
  • Listed out how many "toonas" which three of a kind wins on the slot machine in Ben's Den

  • September 20, 1999

  • Added more sites to the cat breeders, dogs and personal links pages

  • September 15, 1999

  • On benny's chatrooms I added more emoticon images to the chat, as well as a listing of them, available through the chatroom help page.
  • And, finally, the high score function is working on the "Tetris" game in Ben's Den gameroom. Beginning in October, the high score of the month wins a free teeshirt.

  • September 12, 1999

  • On benny's chatrooms you can now register your "nickname" so that no one else can use it. Also added more word substitutions for the "naughty word" function.

  • September 10, 1999

  • On benny's forums there is a survey set up to share a little bit about yourself.

  • September 5, 1999

  • The mailbag page is finally set up. This is where I share some of my email from readers of my diary.
  • Changed the poker game in Ben's Den. A more detailed version with the capability of splitting and doubling bets.

  • September 4, 1999

  • A vet on a bulletin board posted about euthansia It's very helpful and it's now on my website.

  • September 2, 1999

  • I got Jackie's page up. (Jackie is our new arrival).

  • August 23, 1999

  • I added two new awards, one I just received today, from Nancy at NetJunkies. To find out why, go to lisaviolet's guestbook and read her entry. Bring tissues.

  • August 20, 1999

  • Added two new games to Ben's gameroom. A "pacman" game and another version of "tetris", this one looks more like the original.

  • August 16, 1999

  • I finally got the rest of the smileys added to the cathouse forums. I think they are fun. I also added instructions for them on the help portion of the forums.
  • August 13, 1999

  • I finally caught up with adding the awards I've received. I hadn't added any since the beginning of March.
  • links....added to important causes, health, noncat, breeders, personal cat pages. I also started putting the date the page was added to the links.


    August 11, 1999

  • Added more rooms to Benny's chat. Changed the logon and logoff URL.
  • Got the lisaviolet forums back up. You can get there from lisaviolet forums. Click on "the cathouse forums". So far, there are only two, one for television discussion and one for bad (as in stupid) jokes. If you have any suggestions, please let me know.
  • August 10, 1999

  • Ben's Den....added a new chatroom.....click on the telephone in the den to access the chat. In this chatroom, using smilies is a treat, and you can even make private rooms.
  • Added this page
  • August 7, 1999

  • Added a new forum...."cat fight!!!".....

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