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Daily in Yesteryear

This page summarizes the development of the web-site version of the PCCWeb Daily devotional, from its inception within PCCWeb on May 25, 1996 to the present. The quickest tour is to sample the numbered pages that show the six generations of graphics. Don't expect the links on these archived pages to work. The site has been re-organized many times over the years.

1. January 29, 1997: This is the earliest available version of the page with the original Daily graphics. The first Presbyterian Church in Canada web-site was called "PCCWeb", and the address of the original web-site was "http://www.pangea.ca/~pccweb". The "tilde" appears in the logo as the landscape under the rising sun.

2. February 28, 1997: The PCCWeb webmaster, Michael Farris, changed to a different, lowercase version of the Daily graphic.

• May 25, 1997: Michael Farris urged the Daily Editor, Robin Ross, to take more responsibility for the site, and his first introduction was the "PrayerLine" feature, where people could post their prayer requests on the main devotional page.
• July 15, 1997: The resignation of Michael Farris as PCCWeb webmaster left the future of Daily uncertain, but the readers voted overwhelmingly to continue it. Read their comments at the link to "Survey Results". The parent website was re-organized as "PCCNet".

3. August 21, 1997: Ian MacCready, the new webmaster for PCCNet came up with a catchy graphic analogy likening the "Net" to that used by fishermen, and by "fishers of men". The Daily page tried a more colourful column style that emphasized the "PrayerLine" feature, as it was not used as much as the Editor would have liked at the time. For the first time, the links on the page referred to recently developed features within Daily, rather than features of the parent site.

• August 29, 1997: In honour of having 365 different devotionals, a different header layout was used for a few weeks until a more permanent style could be developed.
• September 14, 1997: The column format was abandoned in favour of placing the PrayerLine requests first on the page.
• October 25, 1997: It was decided to put the PrayerLine requests after the Daily devotional. We also figured out that the PCCNet logo looked better when the figure was casting the net toward the rest of the page!


4. November 3, 1997: The Internet Task Force had by now determined that the name "PresbyCan" was better than PCCNet, since the address already had "presbycan" in it. John Crowdis, the graphics expert at PresbyCan, came up with new ideas, and the Daily Editor came up with a new logo featuring a triquetra as a symbol of the Holy Trinity.

• December 17, 1997: The first music was introduced onto the website, as part of the Editor's invitation to view his first Blue Mountain electronic card to the Daily readers.
• April 20, 1998: This was the day we began sending out Daily by e-mail, and the subscription form appeared just below the devotional. Over 225 people signed up in the first 48 hours. By the end of December 1998, there were 485.

5. May 25, 1999: This day we celebrated Daily's Third Anniversary with a whole new look, to bring Daily in line with John Crowdis's new graphics for PresbyCan. Note the e-mail subscription count, and the link to a devotional on how the Daily got its start, Bread On The Waters. Another related historical devotional was Death Of A Vision.

6. January 3, 2000: The sixth major revision of Daily's look came with the introduction of a frames version. Note the e-mail subscription count.