Two completely independent projects, one for the Institute for Educational Leadership and another for the Fund for Investigative Journalism, expressed interest in a timeline component for their website.

Jquery was heating up, so it was the perfect time to put together a working prototype. I toyed around with some variations, including some horizontal ones. Ultimately, I found the vertical version, similar to the current, the most flexible.

The initial working code was first launched at http://www.ncld-youth.info/index.php?id=61. This version actually has come features that I like that I never implmented in the final plugin (e.g,. century > decade > year/event).

I really started to fine tune the code for InvestigatingPower.org. This was also the first time where all of the content was loaded via the CMS, which was important given five timelines for a total of a few hundred data points.