Almanac – Saps
June 22nd, 2012Hello, Diane here. Sorry for the late update – since Eric and Brit are off to HeroesCon, they left me in charge yesterday, but I got an emergency call late in the night and went to the hospital for a close friend. I dropped straight into bed when I got home, and completely forgot the update until Eric texted me this morning.
So, here we present our next Almanac entry: Saps. I’ve known what a lot of the weapons on our Weapons page are ever since I started playing D&D in elementary school, but reading the details and history about each one always absorbs me. Eric’s a fanatic about research, and it really shows in his writing. Take a look for yourself!
New Almanac Page Format
June 19th, 2011Hi, everyone, Diane here! Today’s update to the Almanac is not in the form of a new entry, but rather a new format that I’ve been working on for a while. Now that I have a month of summer break, I will (hopefully) be bringing a few more interesting site updates.
Eric and I were brainstorming how best to organize the Almanac after deciding our old system just wasn’t going to work. I think this one works out much better, but please let me know what you think! Thanks!
Creator Pictures
May 29th, 2011Instead of an almanac entry, this week I’m uploading creator pictures for the Snow by Night team. Now you can see artistic interpretations of what we may look like if we were living in Sherbourg in 1686. Brittany has done a fantastic job with them. Thank you, Brit!
Edit from the Webmaster, Diane:
Hi everyone! I don’t normally pop in on Eric’s Journal posts, but hey, he’s at Balticon so I’M in charge now! For today’s update, I’ve uploaded a bunch of new code into the site. The most obvious is that the width of our main content area has expanded, and some images are changing to accommodate that. Please excuse the odd proportions for another day or two while I’m waiting to have access to my desktop – this week’s graphics were brought to you with the power of my cell phone! I promise the quality will greatly improve once I have Photoshop again. Thanks very much for your patience!
Almanac – History
March 13th, 2011Today our Almanac entry delves into the history of Aradie and Sherbourg. The entry covers the founding of the city, which was a dangerous time. It took three tries for the city to take root. While you’re there, check out the lovely new bookcase graphic that Diane put together for us.
And now some huge news: some of you may have noticed that the copyright information at the bottom of the page has changed. This past week I organized an LLC, which will be acting as a publisher for Snow by Night. This is the first step to bringing Brittany on full time. With her dedicated to Snow by Night, we can double the number of pages we post per week. So starting with Chapter 2, expect to see twice as much Snow as you’re currently seeing.
Sneak Peeks as Incentives
January 20th, 2011I’m pleased to announce that we’re now offering incentives to vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comic. When you vote for Snow by Night on Top Web Comic, you’ll get to see a sneak peek at next week’s page. Even better, I’m going to change the sneak peek on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That’s three different peeks, so please vote for us early and often. We would love to have your support.
In case you’re wondering how to vote for us on Top Web Comic, We have a lovely graphic link for us. It’s on the sidebar to the right. Just click on it and you’ll be taken to the voting portal. Thanks!
Links Abound
January 14th, 2011One of the new additions to the website is the Links page. I’ve started off with links to five other websites that I highly recommend: LaSalle’s Legacy, Tamuran, The Dreamer, Today Nothing Happened, and Raging Swan. Rather than just post the banner, I’ve added a short personal note explaining why I am recommending it.
I have also created a number of banners to link to Snow by Night. Feel free to use the banners to link back to Snow by Night, and help me spread the word of our tale of colonial fantasy.
Website Refresh
January 5th, 2011As you have probably noticed, the new year brings a new website for Snow by Night. The beautiful revised design is the creation of Diane Hazlett – our new webmaster. When Diane joined my team in December, I asked her to give the website a facelift. I wanted the new site to (1) be accessible by the widest variety of devices possible, (2) load quickly, and (3) be easily to navigate. I think she’s succeeded admirably.
The new story pages are resized for easy loading, and they come with navigational controls at the bottom. She added in a Table of Contents to help readers sort through the different chapters as we continue to add more pages. The new journal page allows for comments without needing to know to click on the headline and I love the color scheme. The Almanac page is now set up for me to add more information about the world. She also added a Links page with links to other websites we enjoy and banners for others to link to us. Even the background got a make-over to a simpler graphic that loads faster and is easier on the eye.
We’ll continue to make more changes to the website as we grow. I’ve got several plans that will keep Diane busy.
A Farewell and a Hello
December 6th, 2010Our Webmaster, Shawn Peirce, has done great work in setting up our website and giving us an excellent foundation to start our tale. However, he is leaving the Snow by Night project and pursuing other opportunities. Please join me in wishing him the best in the future.
I have asked Diane Hazlett to take over webmastering duties. Diane has an excellent skill set that is perfect for this position, and she has grand designs for this website. We’ll be rolling those out later this month. For now, let me introduce her properly:
Diane Hazlett
Webmaster
Diane is a long-time Internet lurker with a memory best described as “a pile of loose Post-It notes that fall out of her head every time she sticks a new one in there.” Despite that, she has a passion for learning and spends most of her free time reading articles, debates, or fiction of various genres. Every weekend she attends one of many ongoing RPG campaigns, usually in the Dungeons & Dragons setting, which has captivated her interest since she first joined her father’s 2e home campaign at age nine. Around the same time, her obsession with Pokemon led to a Neopets addiction, where she dove headfirst into HTML/CSS coding in order to craft sites for her beloved pixel friends, and has been teaching herself IT through trial and error ever since. Her idol and favorite storyteller is Watase Yuu, an internationally famous Japanese manga-ka, whom she dreams of someday meeting. Until then, she is attending Western Governors University full-time, working as an Executive Assistant part-time, and slowly worming her way onto the Snow by Night team through sheer fangirl determination.
