Website Development
1997-Present
The first Texas Ranger Hall of Fame website went on line in 1997—just six years after the first web page premiered on the World Wide Web. It was likely the first law enforcement history website. Twenty years ago, a desktop or laptop computer was the only way to access the web. The iPhone was still a decade away, and Nokia had just issued the first text-only internet capable phone.
The site was designed, coded in HTML and CSS, and redesigned over the years as a donation by:
Sharon P. Johnson
Web Developer & Coordinator
Baylor University
with assistance from
Electronic Communications
Marketing & Communications Department
Baylor University
Content was provided by many TRHFM staff members and by the late Robert Nieman, who published the on-line The Texas Ranger Dispatch magazine for ten years. Byron Johnson, TRHFM Director, served as webmaster for the site.
2018 - Future
Today 81% of Americans and 35% of the world population own smart phones . Cell phones and tablets are increasingly replacing desktop computers as the primary means of internet access worldwide. With this in mind, the Texas Ranger Museum staff has designed a new smartphone and tablet-friendly website. This new site launched February 22, 2018 after a year-long venture in building over 300+ web pages and transferring thousands of pages of content.
The staff development leaders, who implemented the new site in WordPress were:
Casey Eichhorn
Education Programs Manager
Christine Rothenbush
Marketing, Communications and Development Specialist
Byron Johnson
Director
Shelly Crittendon
Collections Manager
Christina Stopka
Deputy Director and Head Archivist
Tobin and Anne Armstrong Texas Ranger Research Center
Rusty Bloxom
Research Librarian
Tobin and Anne Armstrong Texas Ranger Research Center
External consultants who greatly assisted in facilitation of these improvements were:
Carla Pendergraft
Waco Convention & Visitors Bureau
City of Waco
Jeffrey Cannon
WP Waco
WordPress and Technical Consulting