Neal Stephenson Fan Blog went live November 13th, 2004 around 7:30 in the evening MST. Up until then the Neal Stephenson Fan Page created in early 2004 was located at neal.fautrever.com and served in static html with some images that I didn’t necessarily have permission to use.
This new weblog is a lot nicer since it’s published through Wordpress, and served as PHP templates that the blog’s authors can fill with whatever content they wish. It’s easier to update and since it needed to be moved to the new nealfanpage domain, a few design changes were thrown in as well.
For example, I deleted the images partly since they were borrowed anyway and also because they didn’t really serve much purpose on the site. My mantra for images on web sites has always been: “use only images that are relevent to the web site and it’s purpose.”
Soon I’ll be posting real entries about Neal Stephenson and his work, so stay tuned.
