Tribute to My Vanity
A message from the curator:
Hi. If you're looking for 5-megabyte push-pull animations or wicked-ass
backgrounds or other gee-whizzery, then you're SOL. Webderland doesn't
have real-time pictures of my book collection or automatic recordings
of the blood sugar levels of the last 50 visitors. What it's got is
me, and you're stuck with it.
The primary purpose of this site is to provide a resource for anyone
interested in learning about Harlan Ellison, and to try to give a first
point of contact to those unfamiliar with his work a good introduction.
The secondary purpose of this site is to keep fans of Harlan's work
and (sigh) Harlan himself up-to-date on the latest developments affecting
both.
The design philosophy of Webderland is to concentrate on content. I
avoid HTML coding that will prevent those with older (or even text-only)
browsers from enjoying the page. As time has gone by most surfers are
using graphical browsers that support tables I've added some to allow
easier side menus and formatting. Image size is kept to a minimum with
thumbnails used where possible and all images given specified sizes
to speed text loading.
I do have permission from Harlan to run this page.
I've done the best job I can, but I would like your input, as to what's
missing, what you like and dislike, and what else you would like to
see here now or in the future. E-mail me at webmaster@harlanellison.com.
I review this site with the latest version of the
Netscape Navigator. If you're not using Netscape, the pages probably
look even more funky than I intended...
Technically, a lot of these are Ellison's awards too, as I am certain
I wouldn't have got some of them if I had been doing a web page for,
say, John Gorman...
Ellison got a shopping-cart full of Hugos, I got this. Go figure. This
award, from The Point, supposedly
means this page is in the top 5 percent of pages on the web.
Magellan has chosen Webderland
as a 3-Star Site. A very nice review of the site can be found online
at Magellan.
Netscape's Open Directory has Webderland
as a Cool Site in their Harlan
Ellison section.
Netwatch runs a number
of "top ten" site lists, one of which is for Science
Fiction. I was lucky enough to be included.
Ben and Jesse's Soup Kitchen
of the Bizarre awarded Webderland their ICP Award. What does that
mean? You tell me...
The Wave of the Day
for some day in December 1995 was Ellison Webderland. I was on vacation
at the time, but I'm sure my Webmaster was pleased at the way it must
have whacked his bandwidth...
BobaWorld has Webderland on their cool sites page. Okay, so there are
a jillion sites there, so what's your point?
In fact, the Bobaworld guy picked this as oneof his Kool Sites of the
day. Sorry for the non-links, but Bobaworld has apparently dropped off
my rader. Geez, maybe I should have shrunk that GIF a little...
Ellison Webderland was the Sublime
Site of the Week in January 1996.
When Netcom established their 200th POP (point of presence),they posted
a list of 200 great POP Culture sites. Webderland was found worthy.
Jesus wept.
Cinescape's Web Magazine, a NUKETVScape,
picked me for one of their four NUKE Hot Sites for their 10/5/95 edition.
As of 10/14/95 (when I wrote this), it was still there. (Note: as
of 06/01/97, it wasn't.)
Paul Riddell was kind enough to include Webderland in the Cyber section
of The Met, Dallas's arts and entertainment weekly.
There was an online versionof the Webderland review available on The
Met's web site. If anyone can FIND the web site, let me know. It used
to be at http://themet.computek.net, but it seems to have disappeared.
Webderland was recently added to many link pages on The
Dark Side of the Web, the premiere Dark/Gothic/Dressing Like Someone
fromThe Cure/Punk/Whatever Else You've Got page on the Net.
CentreSquare's District
Map contains a section on literature with a link to Weberland.
 Event
Horizon, the SF/Fantasy Cyberzine, has included Webderland as one
of their "Hot Spots".
 My
Harlan Ellison Chatroom was the recipient
of a Useless Web Pages
award.
Stacey's Web Designs was good enough to give Webderland a True Style
Award
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