So, you may or may not have visited my HTML love-child, The Jade Sabre, but it has been lying dormant for more than three years. For those unaware, The Jade Sabre is about, as I so timelessly described it, “Mara Jade and all things Star Wars.” And it was the testing ground for my html skills for its first three years of existence. Now it’s pushing six, and doesn’t have much to show for it except dust… oh, and being the number two result on google for “Mara Jade.” (The first one is the official Star Wars site.)
But anyway, I still regularly get mail from the Jade Sabre; none of which I reply to, of course, because it is always from fans asking me crazy questions about Star Wars, the answers to which I might not have known even when I did remember all that stuff. But today I received a particularly helpless-sounding plea from a myserious soul named “Gweniveve.” She was succinct:
“Why haven’t you updated your site lately???”
Apparently she felt that her reprimand may have been too harsh, because two minutes later a revised message appeared in my inbox:
“Why haven’t you updated your site lately?? It is a great site though”
Thank you for the addend, Gweniveve. I appreciate it, and so does the Sabre. And, in answer to your question, I did update something on The Jade Sabre this very evening! I, ah… I updated the link on the homepage so it links correctly to my blog instead of to Lylium.com. Shameless, I know.
May 8th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
Thats the problem with creating web sites, no one sees the work you put in to update the code or other behind the scenes stuff. They only see, or care about the content. Users! Bah!
May 18th, 2006 at 11:02 am
haha, nice. I had the same problem with a Switchfoot fansite I had. And since I had bootleg mp3s on it, I still get requests for switchfoot mp3s in my mail every so often.
Plus people would steal my bandwidth and put my desktop pics on thier sites. They still do, even tho the pics aren’t even there anymore. I axed it.
I just checked the jade sabre, you still have my fan “art” there. Pretty crazy!