FORKNI-L
Digest - 14 Jul 2013 to 15 Jul 2013 (#2013-111)
Mon, 15 Jul 2013
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Topics of the day:
1. Cousins of the Knight
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Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 15:05:50 -0400
From: Greer Watson <gwatson2@r.......>
Subject: Cousins of the Knight
Once upon a time, long long ago, the Cousins of the Knight had a faction
site.
("Wait," I hear you say. "Didn't you put that in the archive already? Ages
ago? At least last month!")
Well, yes. And no. That's the faction's *current* website. The one I'm
talking about now is their original website.
It was started by Angie Lotto in the fall of 1996, perhaps some six months
after the faction had been proposed, and was put on the web early in the
following year. However, it was only added to for another year or so. It
lingered for a bit, but vanished in 1999; and so, since the CotK was still
an active (indeed, a more active) faction, Lisa Harvey started a new site
for them.
The Internet Archive has a copy of the first CotK site, albeit in very bad
shape. Here's a link, so you can see what I mean:
http://web.archive.org/web/19981202052121/http://www.lashersystems.com/fk/cotk.html
No, you haven't made a mistake! It really is all white, except for some
empty rectangles. Mostly, though, it does have its pages: it's just
missing all its graphics.
Nevertheless, I had a close look behind the scenes, so to speak (at the
source code for the page, in other words); and I quickly realized that this
was a very unusual case. In fact, I was struck by the possibility of
restoring or substituting graphics in order to bring back the site, if only
for its historical interest. Usually, this isn't possible: I can't do much
with a photo gallery, for example, since I have no idea what pictures were
in it. (And you'll find that there are no pictures in this site's photo
gallery, for precisely that reason.) However, this site was tantalizing:
the other graphics it was missing had names that made me think I could
locate them (webring graphics, and the faction logo) or come up with
reasonable substitutes (a divider bar named "sword.gif").
Okay, I've had to use a bit of ingenuity in coming up with the background,
which was named "cotkbackground.jpg". I've made a flying leap into the dark
here, trying to come up with a specifically *CotK* background.
Nevertheless, the result (if not *quite* authentic) is certainly a legible
website.
You can find it here: http://www.foreverknight.org/AngiesCotK/cotk.html
Take a step back into the past!
Greergwatson2@r.......
http://www.foreverknight.org/FK4/
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