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Post by WIKD on Jan 10, 2024 21:15:30 GMT -5
Maethis,
Are you still building? Do you have a page or site that I can follow you on? Would sure like to admire your work more consistently again. Thanks
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Post by Maethius on Jan 11, 2024 12:44:48 GMT -5
Thank you for the kind words! I have been admittedly derailed since the pandemic. I have been working on a custom dragon and experimented with some stuff, and it really went south. I've almost fixed everything I've wrecked on it, but not quite yet. I fully intend to get back into building again. I have some stuff on Facebook, and my ancient site (which doesn't like modern browsers much!) Facebook: Maethius Custom WorksAge of War - Gallery Site
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Zoidmagnite
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Post by Zoidmagnite on Jan 11, 2024 13:52:38 GMT -5
Zoidsmagnite! Great to see you, I am very happy you are still active. Thank you for the in depth explanation. It makes more sense now, I greatly appreciate you taking the time to reply! I was able to hold on to the domain and the actual collection, so if I were to ever feel ambitious I could attempt to re-do it. I contacted a few companies that offered this service (around 3-4) and never received a response. Maybe it’s too old school to be relevant anymore. Again thank you for your time, I will stop by here more often. Well, thank you! I'm glad to hear that you're still Zoiding right along--glad to hear you still have your Zoids too! I had a moment one evening and went to the Wayback Machine and looked up your site. It appears to be there--scattered about many scans done over the years that your site was up and running. I would reckon that maybe even 100% of your site is in the Wayback Machine archive, if you understand how the Wayback Machine works. When it does a scan, it looks for changes, and doesn't re-archive the whole site. It typically only logs changes. What this means, simply, is that to find your oldest content, you would have to go the oldest snapshot in the archive and newer content would be towards the front of the archive, but I am willing to bet that it is all there among all of the snapshots. I don't think your site is too old school, at all. One of the great benefits to HTML is that it loads fast because there isn't a lot of other code to bring down with the site on a browser. Some of the existing Zoids sites in Japan are just as HTML-ish as your site was and some are even simpler. So...your site wouldn't be the only one out there in HTML in the global Zoids fandom. I looked at the Wayback machine source info for one of your site's archived pages, and it looks like you used Frontpage to build a lot of the site, which makes sense as it was available back then. Modern Webwriters are a bit scarce. I did a search and found that Bluegriffon is available and maybe Kompozer as well--there might be another one, or two, but those two I found pretty quickly. So there are two webwriters that use the WYSIWYG format that frontpage and dreamweaver offered. And Bluegriffon and Kompozer are still free to use! It looks like Bluegriffon even has some Youtube Tutorials on how to use their software. That's a lot more handy than what we had to learn with back in the early 2000s!
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Post by Darth Escargot on Jan 12, 2024 8:46:02 GMT -5
I abandoned mine when the redirect URL stopped working, I think, and eventually the place were it was stored got wiped too. The problem overall, though, is just that the pictures are all so old that with modern screen resolutions they're showing up the size of a postage stamp when you click on them, so there's really no point in having any of it online anymore - I still have the whole website stored locally and could just chuck it all in a folder online to have it working again, but it really wouldn't do anyone any good as the pictures were always the core of what I was doing, and they're hilariously outdated now.
I think "fan sites" in general are just over, whether it's Zoids or anything else. I have a lot more fun running my Youtube channel and actually having people react to stuff.
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Post by Maethius on Jan 15, 2024 1:46:22 GMT -5
Anyone remember Liger Unlimited? For the heck of it, I just updated my WIP post.
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Post by Falcarius on Jan 15, 2024 5:41:10 GMT -5
Good to see you're still around, WIKD ! When you vanished from Discord and your site went down shortly before Covid hit, I feared the worst. As someone who's spent quite a bit of time hunting through old Zoid sites on the Wayback Machine, I can confirm that most of your pages are in there, but unfortunately a lot of the images are missing. If you want, I could probably download everything that got archived and strip out all the Wayback code for you, but if you don't have backups of the photos that were lost, there'll be quite a few pages that aren't worth keeping (As for my own fansite, it's part of the "hasn't publicly updated in years" club, but I've been slowly working on some big projects behind the scenes. With a bit of luck, this might be the year it makes a comeback...)
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Post by WIKD on Jan 15, 2024 19:18:32 GMT -5
Greetings Falcarius!
Awesome to see you still are around as well! I fondly recall all of your translation work. I do hope you have been well. Thank you so much for your offer, I wish I would have looked this morning. I ended up paying someone to do exactly what you and Zoidsmagnite suggested could be a possible solution.
I would have much rather paid you, or tossed you a Zoid for your efforts. It will be interesting to see what comes back. Is it possible (since there are several versions saved) that the images could be scattered across the saves?
I apologize in advance if I am taking up forum space to ask my retro-html questions. I do say we should make this year the return of the vintage Zoids fan sites!
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Post by Maethius on Jan 16, 2024 13:44:07 GMT -5
I would love to see the vintage sites return. Perhaps a Vintage Zoid Sites group on FB? ^_^
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