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Ten Years of Fan Madness in the Fan Sites Social Thread
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
5/7 7:35pm
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RE: Got Code? || Fan Sites Social Thread
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I got involved with fan sites when I joined the Sith Trials group here a while back. I created a message board for them, and then branched off into an actual website for them. I became interested in HTML and coding and stuff, so I looked at quite a few tutorials. My skills are basic right now, and will remain so for a while. I am hoping to take some web design courses at my college if I can find some.
That's pretty cool Bac, let me know if you need any help with that. I was thinking about putting together an index myself, and would love to help out.
I got involved in this specific forum when I posted a link to my Sith Trials fan site here. I thought it was a pretty cool place because I enjoy coding and such. I made a banner a few years back, but they switched back to this one since then. I thought I would create several threads here to help out the fan sites, so I have created a few, one I just sent in to DV. Though he has since stepped down, so...this place is modless! ~weaks havoc~ 
No, I kid. I applaud DV for what he did for this board.  
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Trika_Kenobi
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5/7 7:44pm
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That's very cool. Your experience sounds a little like how I started out, nemesis. I basically poked around in HTML back in the day and coded stuff in Notepad for the old Talon Intelligence Squadron series on the fanfic boards. Most of that stuff really never needs to see the light of day again, honestly. 
I now poke around in Dreamweaver and have taken some courses in web design. Unfortunately, my creative side has the excitement of a bag of bricks, so I'm more tech-head than anything.
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darth_nemisis
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5/7 7:48pm
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Yeah, that's all I do. I have Dreamweaver, but I don't know too much about it; just recently acquired it. I usually just code things in Notepad like you said.
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jedimasterbac
Title: Fan Sites Manager
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Date Posted:
5/7 7:53pm
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RE: Got Code? || Fan Sites Social Thread
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Will do, Nemesis.
Trika_Kenobi posted:
What is your website experience? How did you get involved in design/code in the first place?
I got involved with websites with a project that started in the CT boards back in 2004. It was to create a website that acted as if Episodes IV-VI had yet to be written and would be released in 2008, 2011 and 2014, respectively. The intention of the website wasn't to mislead anyone, unlike sites such as SuperShadow.Com, but rather to give readers a look at what internet spoilers for Episode IV, Episode V and Episode VI might have looked like had that trilogy been released second. The website had a discussion forum that saw moderate use, but after a few months interest in the idea waned. However, we didn't want to give up on the site altogether, so we merely abandoned the original idea and changed the focus of the site to general Star Wars news and fan fiction.
I was originally just a collaborator but I now run the site, but I'm not the designer because my artistic abilities don't go beyond stick figures in MS Paint. It's used as a general Star Wars news site but it's also to showcase my Alternative Star Wars Saga. The way I like to describe my saga is like this: Brandon Rhea's Alternative Star Wars Saga, or simply the "Alternative Saga", is an epic saga of science fiction novels spanning over 100,000 years that serves as a re-imagining of the Star Wars Saga. They are written by Brandon Rhea, based upon the Star Wars Saga created by George Lucas. The Alternative Saga story employs archetypal motifs both common and uncommon to both science fiction and classical mythology, going much more in depth with the religious aspect of the Force, known in the Alternative Saga as the "Force of Others".
I'm also the Head Administrator of a popular role-playing forum called TheStarWarsRP.Com, where we're currently role-playing in a timeline that we created ourselves based on a small and insignificant canon event called the Alsakan Crisis. The year is 13,000 BBY and there are no Sith and Mandalorians, but rather it is the Jedi, the Republic, the Alsakan Union and an upcoming faction of Dark Jedi. It's pretty cool and rather unique. I'm also one of two very active Administrators on Star Wars Fanon, the Star Wars fan fiction Wiki. That's where most of my fan fiction work is.
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darth_nemisis
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5/7 7:56pm
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I remember that website from a while back, bac. Interesting stuff you had there.
That Fan Wikia is pretty interesting. I have a page on there, and I have helped edit the RPF page there. That was a lot of fun to do.
You say one of two...out of curiosity, is the other one Squishy_Vic?
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jedimasterbac
Title: Fan Sites Manager
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5/7 8:02pm
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Yes, it's Vic. I didn't realize you were a member there, or maybe I did and just forgot. Now I'm confused. :S
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DVeditor
Title: Evil Overlord (manager)
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5/7 11:10pm
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darth_nemisis posted:
Though he has since stepped down, so...this place is modless! ~weaks havoc~
I ain't gone yet mate.
//bans 
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darth_nemisis
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Date Posted:
5/8 4:43am
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Oh sure, you can't quote the next part, DV. 
Bac: That's what I thought. Vic and I are pretty good friends, that guy is very creative. But, yeah, I have an account over there. I don't head over that much, but I do sometimes.
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jedimasterbac
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5/8 6:45am
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Ah, that's cool. Yeah, he's creative as well. We actually just recently merged our two fanon continuities (Brandon Rhea's Alternative Star Wars Saga and the Squishy Vic Series) into one, calling it the overall "Alternative Star Wars Saga".
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darth_nemisis
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5/8 7:42am
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Interesting...I will have to check that out. I know that Vic had gone into great detail with some of his characters, especially Narod (speeling?). That plus your fiction would be a great read.
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jedimasterbac
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Date Posted:
5/8 9:38am
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Yup, Narod Antrell is the correct spelling. His Squishy Vic Series has always revolved around the Antrell family, starting around KOTOR and ending in something like 100 ABY. However, his was always in line with canon. Mine never was since it was designed as a re-imagining of not just the Star Wars films, but the entire expanded universe, so when we merged his basically became Alternate Universe as well, though it could still fit in with canon if he wanted it to whereas mine could not. Granted, I keep a lot of canon intact like the formation of the Sith, the Great Hyperspace War, the Mandalorian Wars, KOTOR and the Bane era, but the films are totally re-imagined and the entire story basically is as well, starting in 100,000 BBY with what I call the Order of the Jedi Bendu of the Ophuchi. Because of this huge evolution, the overall story ended up becoming more about the Bac family, which is my creation, but the Skywalkers are a large part as well.
If you're interested, my user page on SWF with links to all of the sub-pages can be found by clicking here!
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DVeditor
Title: Evil Overlord (manager)
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5/8 11:16am
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darth_nemisis posted:
Oh sure, you can't quote the next part, DV.
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darth_nemisis
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5/8 12:49pm
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DV: 
bac: Yeah, I will have to check that out. My user page can be found in my bio.
I like how you have Nathan Petrelli
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darth_nemisis
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5/19 10:39pm
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Hmm...has this place been forgotten already? It was only a week and a half ago that we were posting in here! 
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Trika_Kenobi
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5/20 11:36am
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I'm still here, lurking as usual.
I'm actually working on a new website spawned from JC fanfic. TalonIntelligenceSquadron.com is soon to be the rockin' resting place of the longest-running, largest JC fanfic ever. Pretty sweet, eh? I feel that like many social groups who have spawned similar sites, TIS and other fics like it deserve somewhere to expand their worlds. The fics that have grown beyond a "workable" size here on the JC exist within Star Wars, but definitely exist in a world of their own. I'm hoping, actually, that the website promotes not only TIS and the "Talonverse" in which it exists, but also the potential for other fics and groups on the JC to move into the Web.
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