History

Update (January 10, 1998)

Image Contributions

Troy Juzeler submitted Cover nad First Page of Story images for Savage Sword of Conan issues 2, 4, 12, 14, and 18.

Update (December 31, 1997)

Image Contributions

Troy Juzeler submitted Cover images for Conan the Barbarian issues 17, 18, and 22 and provided Cover and First Page of Story images for issue 23.

John Bryson submitted First Page of Story images for Conan the Barbarian issues 17, and 22. And submitted Cover and First Page of Story images for issues 37, and 44.

John Bryson also submitted images for The Savage Sword of Conan Super Annual Issue (Summer 1975).

Frequently Asked Questions about this Conan Project

I really do enjoy recieving email concerning the Conan Site, but it does get old answering the same questions many times a month. This FAQ should help to standardize my responses and better serve the Conan user community.

Update (November thru December 1997)

Image Contributions

Troy Juzeler submitted Cover and First Page of Story images for Conan the Barbarian issues 7, 8, 9.

Conan The Barbarian Web Ring

Joined the Robert E Howard's Conan the Barbarian Web Ring sponsored by Mark Butler.

Update (September thru October 1997)

Image Contributions

Began accepting image contributions for the Conan Comics Section. The following are a list of contributors and the issues covered by their contributions:

Steven Topper submitted Cover images for Conan the Barbarian issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Pers Nilsson submitted Cover images for Conan the Barbarian issues 11, 12, 13

Cam Villar submitted Cover images for Conan the Barbarian issues 16, 24

The Conan Links

Reworked the Links Section to provide for better navigation.

Update (June thru August 1997)

Conan Comics Section

Added issues 31-51.

While working on the scans for the above issues, I decided to begin creating a "poster" size image (???x400) for the Issue Cover and the First Page of Story images. Now the "thumbnail" images (175x???) are linked to a Poster Image page.

After completing the scans for issues 31-51, I went back and rescanned issues 10-30 (well, those issues that I actually have on hand); somewhere along the line I lost the Master Images for these issues.

Per Site Table of Contents

Originally had a single Table of Contents which was sectionalized for each subsite under The Journey Project. This file was at (27k) and growing and I was not pleased with the navigational problems inherent in such a large text file. Now each subsite has its own Table of Contents with links to all other subsite Contents and Main Menu pages.

The following sites (sections) have been effected:

Journey Project
The First Twelve Books
Conan Comics
Giant-Size Conan Comics
Savage Tales
Savage Sword

Update (May 1997)

Savage Sword Update

Added Savage Sword of Conan issues: 13, 15, and 17. This is the end of my collection. Future postings will have to come from user contributions.

Modified Savage Sword Main Page from an Unordered List to a multi-table layout similar to the Conan the Barbarian Comic Main Page. This was necessitated because the Unordered List had grown to more than a screenful, and in the hope that there would be future postings from user contributions.

Update (March/April 1997)

Corrective Links Page

After restructing the site some of the directories (and page locations) changed, not knowing all the references that exist to the old locations has nescessitaed this addition.

Conan Links Page

A long list of links garnered from various forays into the net from search results returned by Yahoo, HotBot, and others.

I'm not very happy with the way that this page works, both from a presentation and from a maintainance standpoint, but it's something and may be of use to others.

About This Site

Mostly useless information about the development hardware and software used during site creation, some things I've learned a long the way, and a rough history of the site.

Third Posting (December 1996)

Made some presentation decesions on what I was trying to achieve with the site, and undertook a major site revision.

Further refined scanning techniques and settled on a generally global layout scheme.

Added Table of Contents page.

Upgraded system to Windows 95.

Second Posting (September 1996)

This is an incremental update. Corrected alot of the factual errors, added the graphics for bookcovers and Frazetta images, began work on the comic book and comic magazine sections.

I'm still developing the site with QuickSite, but am having problems reconciling what I want to do with the way that QuickSite wants to do things. After this posting I plan to stop using QuickSite and turn to a text editor for page creation.

QuickSite has allowed me to learn html, and has taught me to view a website as a structured heirarchy.

First Posting (April 1996)

A site developed entirely with QuickSite. It contained a menu of the First Twelve Books leading to the book page which conatined a list of the story or chapter titles and author and publisher credits. The only graphic was the Conan Sword image on the home page.

It wasn't much of a site, filled with errors of fact and spelling; posted to an obscure server of a small town college as a personal learning project.

I submitted the URL to a couple of search engines. I started getting email from users, and I was faced with taking the project more seriously than I had first considered.

Unfortunatly, at this time I was turning my attention to developing a website for the local computer user group, and the site languished for a while.

Thanksgiving Weekend (November '95)

Discovered QuickSite

Internet dialup access became available in my location in September of 1995.

I began working with html in November '95 and discovered a program called Quicksite which is a website creation and management program. I like this program because it forces a structural approach to site layout, allows for global changes of basic style elements, and generates the html pages.

As a jump start learning tool this program is great. Make a small change to a page, rebuild the page, look at the html markup to see how the tags work, run QuickSite and Netscape to facilitate page development.

I need a project to work on, a reason to persue html and a reason to spend time learning a new program (QuickSite). I decide to catalogue my Conan collection. This seems like a fun project and useless enough to hold my interest for a while.

My ISP has promised html hosting in the near future, so it seems a good time to get started on this project.