Volume 1, Issue 1 Newsletter June 2000
If you are a new web master and you are planning to make and or update your site drastically, here are some of the things MOST people are looking for. A easy navigation would be nice. Links should be repeatedly put on each page in the web site to ensure travelability If copying and pasting HTML documents isn't your kind of work, some frames may do. A frame could be put so that you won't have to keep putting Cavern Hole and Home in your HTML. Good content is also important. Finally, some neat graphics and pictures is also nice. Don't forget to come with something original, not something that you found out in another club. It's okay if the web site your making is based on something that is in any Redwall books. Mossflower News is completely original as a example.
Anyway, 'tis sad to know that the U.S. (United States of America) WETA public TV programming has canceled the term for a Redwall series in fall sue to budget reasons. However, another company, it's name I can't recall, is interested in publishing the Redwall series in U.S. Thus, it will still come out but at a later time.
Some of the major things that you should check for before you join a Redwall club is to see how many members there are. For example, if there is a club that only has one to ten members in it, reconsider and check for other clubs before you make up your mind. Additionally, those 1-10 members should be active and not be turning in activities every two months. Thus, check their "points" or "grading" rates and make sure the members are semi-active and up. A web master should also update their site AT LEAST once every 3 weeks. It's sort of weird to turn in your join form and then get enlisted 3 weeks later. A good example of a club that portrays these things is Camp Willow and MLA club. You should also be judging the club's graphics, content, navigation, activities, and members. You don't want to join a club that you are ashamed of also. Plus you don't want a club that has only pictures copied off from the Official Redwall Site or any other club/site. That is cheap and a ineffective way to improve his/her site. For content, a club that has a few words and plenty of graphics is a club that is cheap. (Not focussing on any web site) Unless it's a Redwall site made for fans art. Easy navigation is a fatal point in web making. A club with no links to other pages is seriously messed up. You would have to keep backing up to get to other key points in the web site. Frames are good (The things on the left/right hand side of a web page that isn't connected to the main web site) for navigation because no matter what you do, except adding a code, it will stay there and you won't have to go back up to the top of the club to go to a page. Activities are also a fatal point in a club. If there are no activities, you couldn't do any thing in the club. That's impossible though. More activities, the better unless you have no participating members. If the club has more activities, you have more different choices to choose from when you want points. ex: instead of just writing missions over and over again, you could do namedays or quiz's. Finally, good members make a good club. Participating members are a key point that you should take notice of before you join. Additionally, if the members aren't nice and polite as they should be, ditch the club. If you join, most likely they will start swearing at you and tease you until matters get worse. Try to look for original clubs, not ones that are copied off another but changed minorly. It is okay if you want to join a club that is based on something that Brian Jacques wrote in any Redwall book.
It is kind of ironic that there are so many Redwall clubs
that some of the are taken in the same place. For example, there could be an
Abbot Mossflower's Redwall and then another Abbess Trees's Redwall page enlisted.
Both taking place in the same area and supposedly the same time. Like your in
a site where Cluny dies and then in another site where Cluny rules Redwall.
Very ironic. I'm just making a point, not accusing. There should be a rule that
only 1 Redwall club can be made in which that club is focusing on something
like "Abbot Lightbulb's Redwall Club" and then other clubs could be made but
only one can be focusing on a certain area or topic like "Salamandastron". Then
when that "Salamandastron" mentions Redwall the building itself, it will have
to say Abbot Lightbulb currently rules there right now, not some other Abbot,
Abbess, or any vermin leader. But then again, that will be very limited and
many Redwall fans may get mad and boycott Redwall. Not that it's likely to happen
or anything. It's confusing . . . I know. It took me a while to put it in words.
It's my opinion so you don't have to agree with it.