[Twilight Time] Burning Void site update

[Heather Grove]

I only very rarely use this list for anything other than an actual 
article, so I hope you'll forgive the update. I'm buried in the middle 
of updating and re-vamping the site, which means it'll be a bit longer 
before another Twilight Time issue comes out, and I wanted to give you 
some idea of what we were up to in the meantime.

As practice for the stuff I needed to know in order to revamp the site 
itself (like some php), I made us a bookstore powered by Amazon and 
Barnes & Noble:

http://www.burningvoid.com/bookstore/

I've been playing around with a graphics program a bit, so the site's 
going to be a little prettier when I'm done with it. I'm trying to stay 
semi-graphics-light on the main site on principle, but since the 
bookstore uses some iframes stuff from Amazon anyway, its graphics 
quotient is a little higher. If you want a sneak peek at the kind of 
stuff we're doing with the site, the bookstore will give you at least a 
loose idea. There are also new banners on the various resource pages of 
the site.

Or, you could just wait a bit and see the site itself! I'm currently 
putting our ridiculously long links listings into a decent link 
directory so they'll be easier to navigate and update, and not too long 
after that pieces of the main site will be ready to go up. I'll 
probably do it a chunk at a time, and individual articles will come 
last. The site will be organized much better when I'm done, and we 
aren't removing anything major. The resources for writers and 
roleplayers will still be there, as will the Twilight Time zine.

We'll do our best to put in redirects to anything that moves, but if 
you link to us, you might want to consider switching to the main page 
if you haven't already:

http://www.burningvoid.com/

By the way, while I'm at it, I have a bit of a question for you all. 
Some people have expressed interest in PDF compilations of our articles 
for ease of reference and printing and such. I was thinking about it 
and realized that if I was going to do that, I'd want to do some 
rewriting first since a number of the articles are getting a bit out of 
date. That led me to the idea of taking the articles, fleshing them 
out, trimming redundant bits, filling the holes, and otherwise turning 
them into coherent e-books. If I was going to spend that much time on 
this, though, it's something where I'd really have to charge a few 
dollars for it, probably selling it through RPGNow for $5 or something 
like that. If you think you'd buy such a thing, drop me a line to let 
me know. If enough people are interested then I'll look into doing it.

Thank you for your time, and have a great day!
Heather


Heather Grove
heather at burningvoid.com
http://www.burningvoid.com/