Site Information

Due to various questions, I have decided to open up a "Site Information" section for the Circle of the Dragon. Here, I will try to answer the most common questions and provide other important information.

• A Quick History
• Site Hosting and Domain Names
• Coding Style and Locations
• Old Site Locations
• Old Site Designs - Screen Captures

This site, The Circle of the Dragon, was started back in 2000 on Angelfire, a free host. It was originally meant to be a small site with only theories on it. In the beginning, the site linked to external information (provided by other sites) when needed. However, soon I started the Dragons of Fame section for important dragons. As this expanded, I saw that the site's scope should widen to include more than just theories.

Most of the information was added from the years 2001-2004.

The Circle of the Dragon was then moved to another free host, Brinkster, in January 2001. This was when the site expanded to become almost what it is today. It also recieved a short-cut url which was used for about a year. After some time, domain name BlackDrago.com was bought for the site. It is currently registered through iPowerWeb.

In 2009, I registered a new URL for The Circle of the Dragon, http://www.circleofthedragon.com/ which now redirects to www.blackdrago.com.

Originally, the Circle of the Dragon was created on a Mac. Then, it was transfered to a Windows NT for about a year. In late 2002, the Circle of the Dragon was transfered back to a Mac, which is now a new iMac.

From 2004-2008, I was at Mount Holyoke College and collected a lot of new information. Unfortunately, I have little to no time to update the website. In 2008, I began to completely revamp the site, moving it onto a new Windows XP Pro machine from its iMac.

This site should look about the same in all new browsers and on all computers. However, I use Mozilla to check the site out. It was originally created using HTML 4.0, the first internet "language" I learned. The new version, added late 2003, used XHTML 1.0 Strict. I use the W3C MarkUp Validation Service to make sure that the pages are coded properly. Only a few pages of the Circle of the Dragon are not XHTML 1.0 Strict.

This website has had many URLs in the past, including the following:
 
http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/MysticCircle/dragons/
http://www27.brinkster.com/blackdrago/
http://dragoncircle.cjb.net/

If you're wondering what the site looked like "back in the day," I've acquired a few illuminating screen shots of this site's growth. Unfortunately, I don't have any screens shots of the original site hosted on Angelfire, but I do have a few of the designs from before. WARNING: The files on this page are short, but if you click them you will see a (much larger) image.

17 January 2003 - Full size screen capture is 800x3065
Background set by Illiana the Golden Dragon

22 June 2003 - Full size screen capture is 800x843
Background set by Quietsiren

5 October 2003 - Full size screen capture is 800x1507
Background set by Illiana the Golden Dragon

22 June 2003 - Full size screen capture is 800x850
Background set by Quietsiren

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Last updated: 7 October 2009