"The Land" Website

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:56 pm

I found this the other day, rummaging around for some movie news.

» The Land

There's a few interesting things here. For example, Timeline of the Land seems to be very well done. It's definitely worth poking around here.

Whoever had put this together is such a devoted fan that we can be sure he is now a Watcher. I wonder who it might be. There are no names given in the site itself - but there are clues: likes hiking and weightlifting, knows Nietsche, and might say "Selah". The website seems to have been built in the 2000-2001 timeframe.

???

Post by **High Lord Tolkien** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:06 pm

It's a very clean and well done site.
I like the small pics on the main page too, very representative of what I think things look like.
Come on!
Who did it?

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:15 pm

Wow. Is this the same 'The Land' that many posters say led them to the Watch? If so, it appears to have had a significant redesign.
The Land and Kevin's Watch were the two big TC websites, back when the Watch was young. The timescale makes me want to think it's the same site, but I'm not sure - can anyone tell me if this is the same place or not?

Post by **safetyjedi** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:27 pm

It's not the same site that drew me to the watch, that site is:

theland.antgear.com/

Post by **dlbpharmd** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:49 pm

Thanks for the link - I'll have a good look at this tonight (with my home DSL.)

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 1:55 pm

Looking at both - well, the content is identical.

Aha! From the Land's updates page:

Someone who actually knows what he's doing spent some time demonstrating how a makeover of this site could appear. For personal reasons I'll stick with the current setup, but there's no comparison ... his site visually kicks ass.

It's a redesign someone posted up as an example of how the site could look.

Post by **safetyjedi** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:02 pm

So the question remains,,, who did it?

Post by **Furls Fire** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:08 pm

His name is Sandor Szabo, I emailed back and forth with him several times back before I started coming to the Watch. His site led me here. He's a nice guy and I tried to talk him into the joining the Watch because his insights on the Chrons are awesome.

I like the new layout of his site. Way cool

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:13 pm

Well, it's not really the 'new layout', as such - he said on the updates that he liked it, but wouldn't use it (which is why the site still exists in it's original form). I don't think that new version gets updated.
It certainly does look good, though.

Post by **matrixman** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 3:23 pm

Yes, it's the site that led me to KW waaay back. That sample layout does look great!

If I'm not mistaken, his Watch username is Mr. Land.

Post by **danlo** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:00 pm

I'm not sure he posts here much--he went by the Land on the old ezboard...

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:17 pm

The site looks stunning.

I hadn't seen it in a couple years.

However, it still links to the ezboard, not to this site.

Post by **wayfriend** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:35 pm

Murrin wrote:It's a redesign someone posted up as an example of how the site could look.

Ah.

I had been to theland.antgear website; I failed to see the similarity to this one.

Thanks one and all - my little mystery wasn't so much.

Post by **Edelaith** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 4:26 pm

I hope that one day, after he has finished the Last Chronicles, that Stephen Donaldson will flesh out his world's history even more, and give us some concrete dates for events. Just me, I guess, but I'd like that.

Post by **Warmark** » Wed Jun 22, 2005 5:53 pm

Just me, I guess, but I'd like that.

Definalty not just you.

Post by **Billy G.** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 9:55 pm

Edelaith wrote:I hope that one day, after he has finished the Last Chronicles, that Stephen Donaldson will flesh out his world's history even more, and give us some concrete dates for events. Just me, I guess, but I'd like that.

Couldn't he do that in the three years he says it'll take between books? I was disappointed after finishing TROTE that the sequal won't be out until Oct. 2007.

Post by **kevinswatch** » Sat Jun 25, 2005 10:05 pm

If you were slow like me, you could still be reading TROTE for the first time. Hehe.-jay

(Page 216 and counting)

Post by **Furls Fire** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 12:49 am

kevinswatch wrote:If you were slow like me, you could still be reading TROTE for the first time. Hehe.-jay

(Page 216 and counting)

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 10:02 pm

Lord Mhoram wrote:The site looks stunning.

I hadn't seen it in a couple years.

However, it still links to the ezboard, not to this site.

He seems to have fixed the link.

The redesign certainly is pretty.

But I like the original design too, which seems to have evolved a bit over the years - the middle area isn't as busy as I remember it being.

Post by **Dawngreeter** » Fri Nov 18, 2005 5:51 pm

Furls Fire wrote:His name is Sandor Szabo.

Hungarians do everything well