Re: [TML] What happened to Donald McKinney's Traveller page? BK 08 Apr 2016 10:37 UTC

I agree with you Jeff, since my design and web programming skills are
likely in the same league.  I was thinking static stuff like PDFs and so
forth.

"Hall of Meta-Heros" sounds good.

On 8/04/2016 9:15 AM, Freelance Traveller wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Apr 2016 08:06:49 +1000, B Kruger <xxxxxx@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I think it would be great if we could set up a memorial site like J. Andrew
>> Keith's over at Freelance Traveller, with all of Don's best stuff on it.
>> In fact i saw a list of all the greats the game has lost, i think it was on
>> lasts years Traveller calendar. Each one deserves a memorial site
>> somewhere.
>> What do you think Jeff?
> Static memorial sites are no problem; I can root them off the home page
> like I did with the J.A.K. memorial, or I can change that link to a
> "Hall of Meta-Heros" page, and link the static memorials off that (and I
> think that would probably be the better option).
>
> Dynamic is a bit more of a problem; I'm not sure I'm competent to handle
> such magic as PHP, and I'm for sure not confident enough in my coding
> abilities to hack ecmascript. Not to mention that my usual hands-on-my-
> time issues means that I couldn't really touch it for updating more than
> once every two months or so.
>
> Finally, I'm not sure I could _design_ memorial sites for anyone; my
> tastes are my own, my design abilities are focussed to my tastes, and
> those are more-or-less on the minimalist side and probably couldn't do
> justice to the honoree - especially for someone like Andrew Boulton, who
> was the artist for a not-insignificant fraction of Freelance Traveller's
> early covers.
>
> Given the caveats above... Freelance Traveller is definitely an option.
>
>