History of the website

• Willem Ellis started a website on leafminers in Europa. Determination of species through dichotomous tables. The site is in both English and Dutch and generously provided with images.
• de site is coded with HTML using TextWrangler
• hosting is provided by XS4ALL on the URL http://www.xs4all.nl/~wnellis
  

• links are maintained using Dreamweaver
• the site contains some 1300 links
  

• copyright under Creative Commons license
• hosting by HostingXS with URL https://bladmineerders.nl/
  

• extension with a glossary
• introduction of visual design with CSS
  

• website statistics with Google Analytics
  

• extension with information and determination of galls
  

• files and folders on October 27, 2016:
  • 9,086 HTML-files
  • 9,222 images
  • 9,384 folders
• Willem Ellis is awarded with the Uyttenboogaart-Eliasen prijs, honoring his lifelong work in entomology
• start of conversion to WordPress with Jaap Wiering from Fanagalo
  

• 1500 host plants on genus level (March 2017)
• The Uyttenboogaart-Eliasen Stichting provides a grant for further improvements on the website
• conversion of the website to the open source content management system WordPress
  • English and Dutch language version are shown on separate pages
  • improved visual design
  • usable on smartphones and tablets
  • navigation through higher and lower levels in the taxonomy
  • simplification of writing and editing
  • automation of hyperlinks, dates and backup
  • preparation for future changes
  • anonymized Google Analytics
• second domain https://plantparasites.eu
• the old version of the website stays available on https://html.bladmineerders.nl

September 2017

• extension with information and determination of fungi

October 2017

• extension with tabular determination of host plants on species level, 9,279 pages are added
• 12,998 records (bilingual pages) in database (October 9, 2017)
  

• improvement and speeding up of the editorial process
• financial support for hosting by Naturalis and EIS
  

• addition of errata “Plant Galls of Europe” by J.C. Roskam
• addition of dichotomous determination for galls by J.C. Roskam
• some 26,000 pages (November 2019)
  

• technical renovation of the theme design
• some 32,000 pages (December 23, 2020):
  • 606 higher taxa of host plants
  • 1,573 host genera with dichotomous determination
  • 1,572 host genera with tabular determination
  • 9,439 host species with tabular determination
  • 3,221 higher taxa of parasites
  • 15,120 parasite species
  • 569 stages of parasites
  • 356 galls with dichotomous determination
    

• hosting by VDX
• count of parasites on February 8, 2021:
  • 3,367 higher taxa of parasites
  • 15,617 parasite species
  • 569 stages of parasites
    

• technical improvements
  • changes in editorial process
  • acceleration of pageview
• almost 50,000 pages (February 12, 2022):
  • 10,048 references
  • 14,234 hosts
  • 25,222 parasites
  • and 18,325 images
    

• currently the site bladmineerders.nl contains:
  • 47,101 pages with hosts and parasites, both species and higher taxa
  • 11,672 references
  • 149 posts, mainly news
  • 262 glossary items
  • 19,863 images