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Subject: 
Re: Update on new CW Site
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Date: 
Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:29:14 GMT
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In lugnet.castle.org.cw, Richard Marchetti writes:
> Hey Y'all:
> 
> Plagued by problems and laziness I have made no effort to build the new CW
> web site as was once discussed here.  But that will change shortly, and
> there will be a new CW site VERY soon.
> 
> The longer version is this:
> NONE of the previous webmasters maintained an archived (or "backed up")
> version of the CW site (brilliant!!!), and the current host doesn't allow
> FTP access.  For those that don't know what that means, it means that I --
> the current CW webmaster -- cannot download the whole of the existing site
> in any easy way.  If I wanted to recreate what exists at Geocities I'd have
> to go page by page, or link by link, and download it page by page with all
> of the images intact and then reorganize it slightly, etc, etc, etc.  See if
> you can guess the odds of my actually doing that? And why bother doing all
> of that when I can just link to what has gone before with one big link from
> the new main page?  I'll probably call it the "Castle World Archives"  No
> one else archived it and I am not going to bother myself to do it either,
> not when there is no FTP access that would make the job as easy as
> transferring files on my own machine.
> 
> What I will be doing is starting a new page with almost all of the same type
> of links as the original page had.  The new CW site will host mainly links
> to existing material.  What I am expecting of those that wish to participate
> is that each participant send me links to their characters, structures, etc.
> But please wait for a more organized announcement as to how to handle that
> information.  I am not ready for that stuff just yet.

I, Dan, hereby offer my services to the Webmaster of Castle World.  I will
help in any way, shape, or form.  I can code HTML, make images, and I have
time to do stuff (sorta).  LMKWYT

~Dan
http://lsa44.cjb.net <---Popup Attack, be careful!
http://brickshelf.com/gallery/the-lsa/



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  Update on new CW Site
 
Hey Y'all: Plagued by problems and laziness I have made no effort to build the new CW web site as was once discussed here. But that will change shortly, and there will be a new CW site VERY soon. The longer version is this: NONE of the previous (...) (24 years ago, 1-Oct-02, to lugnet.castle.org.cw)

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