For detailed Updates of the Guide subsite pages see Guide Updates.

2023: updates to taxon pages, including: Stereum

2022: updates to taxon pages, including new page: Fistulinaceae

2021 January: extensive research to update taxon pages: Aleurodiscus, Stereaceae, Stereum, Xylobolus, and Hydnoporia!.

2020 November, December:

• Major Guide site upgrade modifying code to move from CMS Kirby 1 to the current Kirby 3. This included new working versions of menus and Site Map and Search.
• Website conversion to HTTPS.
• Rebuilt and enhanced PHP templates for new taxon pages. First example: The much researched Stereum page.
• Finished transition (for all 200+ pages) to CSS3 Grid and Flexbox for layout rather than floats; improving the semantic structure; refactoring the PHP templates.

2019 January: finished converting [most] existing pages and these 225 pages were uploaded. Improvements and additions continued during the year.

2018 November to December: website redesign. Rebuilding taxon pages to be mobile friendly and utilizing the current HTML5 and CSS3 supported by modern browsers. Layout floats replaced by CSS Grid and Flexbox. Style sheets with CSS variables to more easily swap themes. Figure and Details elements; pseudo-selectors, CSS animations.

2018 June to October: New pages and edits in Guide.

2018 January to May: worked on genus and species pages for Irpicaceae, Polyporaceae, and many other updates.

2017 January to December: various updates and new pages. Reference URLs converted to DOI links. One major project was creating pages for all 18 families of the Order Polyporales.

2016 January to December: Completed all Orders under Class Agaricomycetes. This year I also added other new pages including the set for Cantharellus chicagoensis.

2015 January to November: Many MANY new pages for both basidiomycetes and ascomycetes. Added content to the pages under Chicago, Methods, Resources.

2015 January: Continued building with Kirby. Laid out major pages for content structure.

2014: Explored CMS options; decided on Kirby; started building site (Apr to Dec).

2013 Jan to Feb: Developed site design (Tric-cali) and site structure (directories).

2012: Started making content. Experimenting with a CMS.

2011: Had temporary home page.

2010: Domain MycoGuide.com obtained.