March 7, 2008: Added a picture to chapter 1. You will have to dig to find it, it's in a footnote. There have been a few other minor changes since last year, but not much.

Aug 5, 2007: Installed Opera again and as usual tested my site. Had to correct some css, also stumbled across some old stuff that should have been removed, a broken link, etc. And did a few minor content edits. Opera 9.22 is nice, might become my default browser. Back in January Windows 98 choked on my new tuner card, so I upgraded to XP and lost (looong story) Opera then and had forgotten to put it back.

July 15, 2007: Added a picture of the Hebrew letters for the Name of God into chapter 4. Corrected a filename error that affected the Next and Previous chapter toolbar buttons.

June 13, 2007: Got the new Safari beta for Windows. Fonts don't look so good and doesn't yet use "padding" in css, but in running tests did find a few errors in my html, fixed that.

May 28, 2007: Found that IE7 doesn't show everything correctly, so did some tweaks, and revised the appearance in other ways. Also improved some wording in the "contact us" page.

April 14, 2007: Added a favicon. You may need to "refresh page" to see it. If you want it in your bookmark list that too may need to be refreshed. Completed scriptures for chapter 8.

Mar 26, 2007: minor revisons to Contact Us page. Added scripture popup also.

Mar 10, 2007: revised introduction to chapter 4.

Mar 9, 2007: new picture added near the end of chapter 10. Adjusted footnote nearby.

Feb 14-17, 2007: Added a picture to chapter 10, also some paragraphs; the first 13 scripture links activated in chapter 8.

Jan 26, 2007: Uploaded revised layout to lifespurpose.net. In the process found some typos, corrected lifes-purpose.info as well. The two sites are now identical.

Dec 30th, 2006: Chapter 7 scripture links added.

Dec 29th, 2006: Published upgrade begun Nov 29th. Includes minor improvements to wording in a few places and scriptures for chapter 9 (6-8 will follow shortly).

Nov 29th, 2006: Found why my unframed version doesn't work well in the newest tabbed browsers: window.open() code has fallen out of favor due to popup ads, so newer browsers refuse to transfer focus to it on command. This keeps the scripture window out of view behind the chapter, which is not very handy. (See Feb 17th below) After some thought decided to try having each scripture page open in a frame alongside its chapter, while eliminating the frames on the home page. The four auxiliary pages (Introduction, Usage Notes, Contact Us, and this Update Log) are moved to their own frames. Eliminated the brightly colored buttonztilez buttons.

October 17th, 2006: Improved presentation concerning "Cross" in last subhead of chapter 4.

June 23rd, 2006: Added a link to this book from OyMap.com (specifically Alabama at OyMap.com - a world directory)
Sometime since April added some content to chapter 3, but neglected to note it here.

April 11th, 2006: Added a link to these sites at the small search engine Zepti.

March 4th, 2006: New website Lifes-Purpose.info opened. It is the same as lifespurpose.net except there are no frames. All scriptures, review questions, and auxiliary pages open in their own window or tab. This simplifies the code and should work well in tabbed browsers. Slimbrowser allows the tabwindows to have different sizes, which looks good. While checking the new variants, found that Firefox doesn't always update correctly: an revised file is not fetched when either the Update button or Reload icon is pressed. It reloads the file from its cache, not from the source folder. The only way to force a true refresh is to exit and restart the browser.

February 17th, 2006: Added some scripture links to chapter 12. By the way, if you are using the unframed site in a tabbed browser, the best way to see the scriptures is Window|Tile Vertically, then resize the windows to your liking. This way you can see both the chapter and the references at once. If you use normal tabs, the scriptures come to the front only the first time they load. I don't know the code to force the tab to the front without reloading it.

February 16, 2006: Added footnote about UN to chapter 8.

February 6, 2006: The update is the button you just clicked on. Credit a freeware program called "buttonztilez". The original source link is no longer valid, but it can still be obtained online.
Also updated the non-frame introduction. It uses a legacy toolbar which I had overlooked for over a year.
Firefox users: if you can't see the refresh button in the chapter toolbar, you are reading an outdated version. Rightclick on the chapter, DO NOT CLICK RELOAD, go down to "This Frame" and select "Reload this frame". (If you use the browser toolbar reload button, it may pop you back to the opening page, and not refresh the chapter at all.)

January 23, 2006: Finally finished the scripture links in chapter 5. That was a big one! (The scripture file is bigger than the chapter text file.)

December 24, 2005: added a footnote to the Contact Us page, and discovered a better way to code the footnote action. Now to dismiss a footnote, you have to click it directly, and only that note will vanish. (Before, any click anywhere would close all footnotes.) If the footnote has a link in it, it will work, but the footnote will be gone when you return to the page. Just touch the anchor again to restore it.
FireFox 1.5 users: Reloading the page while in frames doesn't seem to reload the js (code script) file. If your footnotes won't go away, go back to the opening page, click Remove Frames, then open any chapter. This will refresh your cached js file. Then the footnotes will behave correctly. You can go back to the framed version if you prefer, it will also be OK (they use the same js file).

December 21, 2005: Finally gave up and removed document.lastModified code. The server doesn't send that information, so all the pages were showing either today's date or 1970, depending on the browser. Will just let this file alone be the record of updates. Minor adjustments (typo corrections, little rephrasing here and there) will not be mentioned.

November 19, 2005: Added thoughts on why this site exists to the "Contact Us" page.

October 8, 2005: Upgraded the scripture code for the unframed version of the site; solved the off-scroll problem with a single word of code. Duh! And added about a dozen scriptures to chapter 5.

October 2, 2005: Had changed scripture javascript, then found Opera didn't work, so changed most of it back. If you visited in the midst of that and have the old copy cached, your scripture clicks may fail. Just "Refresh", it will load the corrected code back to your cache and start working again.

Sept 11, 2005: I should read my own work more often. While reading chapter 4 I discovered bad scripture links due to careless capitalization of anchors. Then I found the site navigator outdated, referring to the old unsplit chapter 4. If you find blank scriptures, first make sure you are scrolled to the top of the scripture frame (it sizes to the longest element in the group, so shorter passages appear at the top of a long window). If it is blank even at the top, do a "refresh": you are using an older copy from your cache. If that fails, please email, you've found more bad code.

Sept 3, 2005: A new paragraph added to chapter 8 in response to the devastation of hurricane Katrina.

Aug 6, 2005: Removed the "make a donation" link from the Contact Us page. Was, shall we say, "very ineffective." I was laid off in June, am starting my own business (not related to this website) so updates may become less frequent for a while.

June 8, 2005: Just found out that Norton Internet Security removes the javascript code required to access the scriptures, footnotes and toolbar, and puts in its own code instead. So if you cannot access these features, you will have to disable your Norton popup blocker and reload the web page. These features are not popups, so it appears Norton is using a sledgehammer to kill mosquitos. You might want to use another product, such as AVG (grisoft.com) or Zonealarm for security, and Opera, Firefox or Slimbrowser to block popups.

June 7, 2005: New subhead added to chapter 3, about logic, science, and the Bible.

May 12, 13, 2005: re-validated xhtml on site (corrected many accumulated minor errors) and added some scripture links to chapter 6. Used HTML Tidy to correct many more minor script errors. Even found one Tidy missed, present in most scripture files. We hope those odd rare script-error screens are gone for good. (Most browsers had worked well anyway, but we like things to be right.)

May 5, 2005: Polished new subhead and added minor subhead "Environmental Activism".

May 3, 2005: Added most of a new subhead to chapter 11, on "Social Activism." It is in Part 3 rather than at the end.

Mar 23, 2005: Added a small photo to chapter 1 and increased the clickable scriptures in chapter 5. Found that mamma.com metasearch lists this site favorably, and discovered that my old site at http://www.geocities.com/purposeoflife2000 still exists! So if you want to compare what it looked like in 2003, check it out. It will not be updated anytime soon.

Mar 2nd, 2005: completed scriptures for chapter 4. Caught mistake in chapter 2 scriptures that prevented proper display. "We appreciate your patience."

Feb 20th, 2005: split chapter 4 in half, added more clickable scripture references. Minor revisions to chapter 1 footnotes. Noticed that Avant browser seems to think my butterfly picture in chapter 1 is a pop-up: it blocks it (even with pop-up blocker off??). Slimbrowser, IE, Firefox, Opera all happy to show it.

January 12th, 2005: recoded scripture files so that creating them is less work (so more should be added shortly) and they are now visible for those with javascript turned off. HTML links to the scripture files and the review questions have been added so that they are accessible without js. The footnotes are still set hidden by css so those w/o js must still "view source" to read them.

December 18th, 2004: Split chapter 11 into 4 sections to make it easier to download. It was almost 90K and has more to come. In time chapters 4 and 12 will be split (in half) as well.

December 11th, 2004: Major addition to Chapter 11; minor adjustment to beginning of chapter 4.

October 26 2004: Revised introduction again. Added a picture to chapter 11 and revised code in firstpage.html to make it practical to read the book with javascript disabled.

Aug 5 2004: Moved chapter-button code out of chapters, to the js file. This saves 2.3K per chapter.

June 8 2004: Revised introduction and added links to prototype chapters 13 and 14. Signed up for Amazon Honor System so appreciative readers can support the site.

April 30 2004: Added subhead "Guarding the Kingdom" to chapter 11 and "Should Women be Preachers?" to chapter 12, and 1 picture each to chapters 7 and 9. Checked compatibility to Avant Browser, good.

Feb 14 2004: Improved opening background. Got Knoppix, corrected defective rendering of chapter 1 in Konqueror due to sloppy html. A few scriptures made clickable in chapter 10.

Dec 4 2003: New background for opening page (framed version only for now.) Also about half of chapter 4's scripture links activated.

Nov 1 2003: Introduction rewritten. (Other places edited constantly, these are not mentioned here unless rather substantial.) A new background for the table of contents is in the works.

June 10 2003: All chapters validated xhtml 1.0 compliant. (Many minor errors corrected.)

May 27 2003: The long-delayed Chapter 12 (first half) uploaded! Minor adjustments to 4 and 11.

March 03 2003: Revised discussion of God's Name in Ch 4 to reflect information found at divinename.net.

January 03 2003: Review questions added. Buttons at top of chapters improved and animated (rollover). Major revisions of existing text may be in green font (for a month or so) to help you find it.

January 2003: What's New? page created. Obviously a lot happened before that, but no calender record kept.