The Immortals Handbook

[Knight Otu]

Just thought I would let you know that I updated the website with a few new elements including the first parts of the testimony section (writing credits and my favourite television),

Hi, UK! I saw that you got your contributor copies for Strange Lands as well. I was a bit shocked to not see your name in it.

I don't know if you missed it, but we've discussed the book a bit over here, though the thread became needlessly bogged down in a discussion of Otossal's alignment (it's resolved now, so try not to rekindle that particular discussion ).

Thanks for posting the original crown naga - I wanted to ask you about that for some time now... but have you checked it with Sword and Sorcery Studios?

 

[Zoatebix]

Hey U_K,
The link to the Crown Naga on the Credits page is broken, it points to "http://www.immortalshandbook.com/testimony.htm" and should point to "http://www.immortalshandbook.com/freestuff8.htm".

I'm really enjoyed you favorite television list, and I'm reading the rest of the updates presently.
-George

 

[Anabstercorian]

Is that the original Crown Naga? I thought the Crown Naga could cast one spell per round per head.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi, UK!

Hiya mate!

I saw that you got your contributor copies for Strange Lands as well.

Yeah, it looks like a pretty good book, although I haven't had time to fully read it yet.

I was a bit shocked to not see your name in it.

I didn't submit that much for this book and although I did have stuff chosen it didn't make the final cut when they changed the format from full monster book to half monster book.

I don't know if you missed it, but we've discussed the book a bit over here,

I saw the thread last week and I meant to stop by and voice my congratulations when I got reading a bit more of the book.

though the thread became needlessly bogged down in a discussion of Otossal's alignment (it's resolved now, so try not to rekindle that particular discussion ).

Well it should probably be the same as his herald.

Thanks for posting the original crown naga - I wanted to ask you about that for some time now... but have you checked it with Sword and Sorcery Studios?

To be honest no.

If they want me to take it down I will do so (out of courtesy), however I don't think they would have any legal precedent in preventing me from showing that monster which is totally different from what they ended up with in the book.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey U_K,

Hiya mate!

The link to the Crown Naga on the Credits page is broken, it points to "http://www.immortalshandbook.com/testimony.htm" and should point to "http://www.immortalshandbook.com/freestuff8.htm".

Fixed. The links to the various television show websites on the left of the favourite television page should also be red, instead of white, but I'll get to that later.

I'm really enjoyed you favorite television list,

I am concerned there may be sentences missing from that article, I'll have to read over it later. I had it about 90% finished a few months back and I had been meaning to finish it and get it online, so I rushed at it a bit last night.

You'll notice I also have the favourite movies section listed but not yet linked. It is also about 90% finished. I'll probably finish that next weekend.

and I'm reading the rest of the updates presently.

I'd love to get some Bestiary previews up as soon as possible, not to mention finish the Gods with stats article and the Theory of Superhero Relativity.

I also need to change the way the links on the website are working with subdomains, but all those things would likely take more time than I would care to spend at the moment.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Anabstercorian mate!

Is that the original Crown Naga? I thought the Crown Naga could cast one spell per round per head.

So it can. I must have missed that section or pasted up an even earlier incarnation. Next time I make any revisions to the site I will attend to it.

By the way I added the website to a number of search engines, though I may have to go back and tweak some things - can anyone find the website with them easy enough?

 

[historian]

Thanks for the updates U_K!

 

[CRGreathouse]

So it can. I must have missed that section or pasted up an even earlier incarnation. Next time I make any revisions to the site I will attend to it.

By the way I added the website to a number of search engines, though I may have to go back and tweak some things - can anyone find the website with them easy enough?

I'd really like to see the correct version of the crown naga.

As for search engines:

Google
The top three websites all refer to your book, but your site hasn't appeared yet. (This will likely take a few weeks, until their big crawl.)

AOL Search
It looks like this works off Google's data, as the results are the same for me.

Looksmart
The first two results are your threads here, but I didn't see your site.

AllTheWeb
The second of the actual results here is your web site; the first and third are EN World threads. OF course, there are three 'sponsored results' above the real results.

Lycos
The second result is your site, and the first is an EN World thread.

Alta Vista
The first result below the five sponsored results is an EN World thread. Your site didn't show up.

HotBot
The first result is the EN World thread, the next is your site.

Conclusions
Your site is reasonably likely to show up in a search, but the EN World threads are always there. Good thing the two are linked, eh?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey historian matey, thanks for the support, and I appreciate the search engine help CRGreathouse dude!

I'd really like to see the correct version of the crown naga.

I will update it tonight if I can find the original data on my hard drive - I am sure I had a spell-list for it as well somewhere...but where did I put it.

As for search engines:

Seemingly the heading it always goes under is Immortality, which is the name I have my design folder for the website in. I'll have to ask if I can change that to Immortals Handbook without repercussions.

One possible problem was that I had a message saying I was timed out on two of the website search engines when I was uploading the data, so I am not sure if that is having any impact.

Google
The top three websites all refer to your book, but your site hasn't appeared yet. (This will likely take a few weeks, until their big crawl.)

I can get my site up on google by typing Craig Cochrane Immortals Handbook, perhaps this was something to do with the time out message I got while uploading?

AOL Search
It looks like this works off Google's data, as the results are the same for me.

Thats a free one. I didn't upload to AOL Search, so your theory is probably correct.

Looksmart
The first two results are your threads here, but I didn't see your site.

There was no option to submit it to their search engine, the six I was given were:

Alltheweb
Directhit
Google
Hotbot
Lycos
Mixcat

Of those I know at least two were timed out, one of which was google.

AllTheWeb
The second of the actual results here is your web site; the first and third are EN World threads. OF course, there are three 'sponsored results' above the real results.

Lycos
The second result is your site, and the first is an EN World thread.

Alta Vista
The first result below the five sponsored results is an EN World thread. Your site didn't show up.

Actually its the 8th result on that list as far as I can see.

HotBot
The first result is the EN World thread, the next is your site.

Conclusions
Your site is reasonably likely to show up in a search, but the EN World threads are always there. Good thing the two are linked, eh?

Well I'd like it to show up properly in google, and I'd also like to change the title to Immortals Handbook rather than Immortality. Also if I could get it to link directly to the news page rather than some subordinate page that would be nice.

 

[CRGreathouse]

I can get my site up on google by typing Craig Cochrane Immortals Handbook, perhaps this was something to do with the time out message I got while uploading?

No, it just means that Google hasn't done a full crawl of the web since it noticed your site. Until it does a re-crawl, your site has PageRank 0 (out of 10), so it appears after all pages with a higher rank. On the search Craig Cochrane Immortals Handbook, only one page has PageRank > 0, and that's the BadAxe Grim Tales page (which appears above yours). On a broader search, there are more sites with positive PageRank.

You'll have to wait a few weeks before the next crawl.

Well I'd like it to show up properly in google, and I'd also like to change the title to Immortals Handbook rather than Immortality. Also if I could get it to link directly to the news page rather than some subordinate page that would be nice.

You don't even need to submit it at all to Google, although it can help. Again, once it does a complete crawl it should see your site and rank it.