I have a website!

[regshoe]

Ye Jacobites By Name

(which title I have already discovered was a bad idea, because I get the song stuck in my head whenever I look at it. But I think it suits!)

I have been having a lot of fun putting this together, working out my aesthetic taste in CSS and organising everything. Currently the contents include all my fic for FotH, Kidnapped and other related canons (organised under the correct titles! freed from the tyranny of wrangling policy!); various bits of meta and some things about the books, including the timeline; and some other Jacobite stuff, including a historical summary written by luzula.

Of particular interest amongst things that haven't already been posted here: a collection of reviews of The Flight of the Heron's early editions, compiled while I was doing research for the Wikipedia article; and a catalogue of all the old Jacobite novels currently within my ken.

There is of course way more I'd like to add! I hope the website will provide a good structure to motivate me to keep working on meta and background research, and just putting it together has already generated several ideas. Also I want to add more of the biographical material I've dug up on D. K. Broster, but that currently exists in the form of some highly disorganised notes that'll take a while to sort out into anything coherent.

Neocities has been really pretty easy to get set up on; the website is just there when you make your account, there's a very nice comprehensible HTML editor and most things have been intuitive to figure out. It tells me the site has had 331 views since I first created it on Wednesday, which strikes me as slightly doubtful since this is the first I've said to anyone about it—perhaps, unlike AO3, it counts logged-in views by me, since there certainly have been a lot of those. The only real snag I've hit so far is that photos hosted on Dreamwidth are not showing up properly. This is clearly a problem with Neocities or how the images are formatted there, because the same photos show up perfectly when I load the page as an HTML file on my computer, and it's clearly a problem with these images in particular and not with Neocities, because photos hosted on Wikimedia Commons and formatted in exactly the same way are showing up fine, so I'm slightly stumped. Hopefully I manage to figure it out soon. ETA: Thanks to everyone who commented about Dreamwidth's onsite-only image display! Touch wood, the Geography article is now sorted out. Besides that there are various bits of messiness and the site as a whole is still very much under construction—I want to add a proper menu and improve navigability, and perhaps decorate a bit more.

It'll be a good ongoing project!

Thanks very much to luzula and hyarrowen, some of whose writing and photos appear on the site :)

Comments

[muccamukk]

I've only got one Kidnapped fic, but you're welcome to crosspost it there if you'd like. It'd be fun to have a mini-archive.

I like the look of the site so far, very cool!

ETA: Poking around a bit more, I'd add a home button to... basically everything, but especially the index pages.

ETA2: Photos hosted on DW won't show up on other sites, at all, ever.

[regshoe]

Thank you for the offer! Although a mini-archive would be fun, I think I'd rather not get into the complexities of hosting other people's fic; but I might make a recs page at some point, and your Kidnapped story will certainly appear there if I do :D

Poking around a bit more, I'd add a home button to... basically everything, but especially the index pages.

Yes, definitely on my list to add soon!

Photos hosted on DW won't show up on other sites, at all, ever.

Oh, wow, OK. Thanks for letting me know—I'll have to figure out something else for those, then...

[sanguinity]

Hooray, the website exists! \o/

My experience with DW-hosted images is that DW blocks hotlinking from other websites -- you can't link DW-hosted images on AO3, either. You'll probably either have to host the photos on the site itself, or host them from a site that does allow hotlinking, like squidgeworld.

*pokes through the pages* Yay, so many things! But no list of birds of Lochaber?

[regshoe]

:D

I did not know that about DW-hosted images, which is an annoyance! However, looking at the amount of storage I've got on neocities, hosting there should work—I'll just have to sort out moving them all over.

*pokes through the pages* Yay, so many things! But no list of birds of Lochaber?

A while ago I was contemplating compiling a list of birds and other wild species mentioned in FotH—perhaps eventually... :)

[sanguinity]

A while ago I was contemplating compiling a list of birds and other wild species mentioned in FotH

Of course you were! :-D

I was actually thinking of your list of birds that could be put in a FotH fic, that you compiled after your trip to the Highlands. Which I might maybe have consulted for fic-writing reference once upon a time...

[regshoe]

Yes, that's a good idea! Hmm, I'll see if I can tidy it up and include something :D

[garonne]

The website looks so cool! Love the background thistles. I'm looking forward to reading through it.

(And yes, I also have that song stuck in my head now :D)

Regarding the photos hosted on Dreamwidth, I guess it's because DW doesn't allow hot-linking. The dreamwidth FAQ says:

"You can embed images you've hosted on Dreamwidth in your own journal, in other journals, in communities, in comments, and on other Livejournal and Livejournal-based sites like InsaneJournal, but Dreamwidth does not allow images to be embedded on other non LJ-related sites."

So not neocities fault. I guess maybe you could host the images on neocities? It's not something I've experimented with yet, though I plan to.

[regshoe]

Thank you :D I took a while to settle on a background I liked, but I'm quite pleased with the thistles.

And yeah, I think hosting the images on Neocities should work—a brief comparison of file sizes suggests there's plenty of room. Just a matter of moving them all over...

[garonne]

Love the list of Jacobite fiction. Lots of books I didn't know about!

Another possible entry is Midwinter by John Buchan.

[regshoe]

Ooh, thank you—I'll add it to the list!

[rosemary_green]

Hooray! The website looks great -- I am looking forward to reading through. (And I too am now singing :) )

[regshoe]

Thank you, and I hope you enjoy it :D

[sovay]

Ye Jacobites By Name

Mazel tov, website!

[regshoe]

:D Thank you!

[dr_zook]

Oooh, how very neat!! You must feel super satisfied, and should be proud of yourself! I especially like the thistle backdrop, very awesome. :3

[regshoe]

Thank you!—yes, it is pretty satisfying :D The thistles are the decoration from the map in the first edition of Flight of the Heron, and I do like them.

[phantomtomato]

I love the look of that, font and color scheme and background and all. It’s a very nostalgic sort of web design that I’ve always been fond of. ❤️ Good luck with the project!

[regshoe]

Aww, thank you—I've enjoyed designing it to suit my tastes, and I'm glad you like it too!

[hyarrowen]

Yay, that's a wonderful site! If you want to have another go with my pics, let me know which ones and I'll look them out and email them to you. Meanwhile I'll be over here clicking on links on the site...

[regshoe]

:) Thank you! I think I should be able to transfer the pictures across myself, but I'll let you know if I need you to email anything—thanks for offering. And enjoy looking around the site :D

[zero_pixel_count]

...yep you have successfully shared the earworm. Whatever this morning's previous earworm was is GONE. :D (But I do think it's a good title, I hasten to add :D )

[regshoe]

Hee, it's a very catchy song... thank you! :D

[scintilla10]

Yay, congrats on the website!

[regshoe]

Thank you :D

[luzula]

If you want to be retro, you could have a MIDI version of the song that autoplays when one opens the site. : D

Anyway, I wanted to look through all of the site before I commented! I have got the pages with reviews of FotH open for further reading.

I think the site is lovely, with the thistles and the simple layout--I wish more sites looked like this, instead of being all bloated. And I liked the way you divided up your stories into different categories; I hadn't thought of them that way, but it made sense.

All the content is great! One good addition would be theseatheseatheopensea’s list of Broster’s works and where to find them, if they agreed to have it there. Another possible category would be Jacobite related nonfiction, including 18th century sources, with links to our reviews/summaries of it. Of course that would by necessity be very non-comprehensive, but it would be a handy reference for research sources. (Here is the comprehensive list of Jacobite non-fiction, btw...)

By the way, how did your intervention in the Wikipedia edit war over Davie’s age go? : )

[regshoe]

If you want to be retro, you could have a MIDI version of the song that autoplays when one opens the site. : D

XD Excellent suggestion...

Aww, thank you—I'm glad you like it. :) I agree about simple website design, and I've enjoyed the process of figuring out how I want it to look and then making the CSS to do that. For the story divisions, I was inspired by tei's website and thoughts on how having one's own site enables one to divide up fic in the way that makes most sense for these particular stories, vs. a universal fandom/tagging system—the current division is not absolute, but I think it works well for now.

Thank you for the suggestions! I'm definitely planning a list of non-fiction at some point, and the Brosterlist of course is great. Oh wow, that really is a comprehensive list of sources (although it hasn't got Fight for a Throne??)—thank you, I might link to that.

By the way, how did your intervention in the Wikipedia edit war over Davie’s age go? : )

No one has challenged me or tried to change it back yet, so I think it's gone well :D

[luzula]

although it hasn't got Fight for a Throne??
It only goes up to 2012! Sadly not updated after that...at the end it says that Eveline Cruickshanks is the one compiling it, and it looks like she died in 2021. Perhaps she retired some years before she died.

No one has challenged me or tried to change it back yet, so I think it's gone well :D
Congratulations! : D

[luzula]

A contemporary non-fiction book to add: Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel by John Drummond.

[regshoe]

Oh yes, thank you!