Just *how* basic are we talking about? I'd be happy with a temporary solution, too, for the time being. Just to have the text files of group members' stories posted on the same place. We can always move on and do something more sophisticated later
If it's temporary? Very basic, which doesn't mean it can't look nice.
Two examples, both simple, but figure that you would add a splash page (Intro page) and that would allow visitors to enter beyond that to the stories themselves. Doesn't really matter how it's organised -- that's always up for interpretation, and everyone has preferences. Your old Edhellond site was set up along this idea.
No feedback forms, or reviews (though certainly an email link could be added very easily for each author), nothing really but stories. Like I said, basic and simple. Nice thing with sites like this? They're stable (depending on the ISP). Not a lot of code and programming to muck up someone who might be on a slower dial-up or older system. Loading would be done manually (FTP) and coding would be up to that person(s).
I'm doing this with another couple of authors too -- we're tired of trolling through ff.net, HASA or any of the others "Supersites" just to find our stuff.
I kind of miss the days when authors had their own websites and they were joined by webrings. It took longer for a visitor to get there, but you know....we lost a lot of control and individual taste when we let the gargantuan sites take over for us.
So I suppose what I and a few others are doing is "old school".
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If it's temporary? Very basic, which doesn't mean it can't look nice.
Two examples, both simple, but figure that you would add a splash page (Intro page) and that would allow visitors to enter beyond that to the stories themselves. Doesn't really matter how it's organised -- that's always up for interpretation, and everyone has preferences. Your old Edhellond site was set up along this idea.
http://www.geocities.com/dragonconfused/
http://www.qresearch.org.uk/personal/tolkienfiction.htm
No feedback forms, or reviews (though certainly an email link could be added very easily for each author), nothing really but stories. Like I said, basic and simple. Nice thing with sites like this? They're stable (depending on the ISP). Not a lot of code and programming to muck up someone who might be on a slower dial-up or older system. Loading would be done manually (FTP) and coding would be up to that person(s).
I'm doing this with another couple of authors too -- we're tired of trolling through ff.net, HASA or any of the others "Supersites" just to find our stuff.
I kind of miss the days when authors had their own websites and they were joined by webrings. It took longer for a visitor to get there, but you know....we lost a lot of control and individual taste when we let the gargantuan sites take over for us.
So I suppose what I and a few others are doing is "old school".