Xanthe

My new-look website is now up at www.xanthe.org!

I'm really excited by the new look. Please visit and take a look around - there's more functionality if you create a login as you can participate on polls, and use the shoutbox, and add stories to favourites etc.

There are also forums where people can chat about their favourite TV shows and many other topics – I especially wanted a place for spankers and slashers to meet and chat in peace as well so there are boards for that. You have to register for the boards separately from the e-fic part of the site, but you can use the same username and password to avoid confusion. Please do feel free to join in and chat.

I’ve already started a number of discussion topics and there are also polls hidden in there too, as well as the poll on the front page. You are welcome to start your own threads too – just remember to read the rules before starting. There is also a shoutbox where you can chat live if anyone else is around to chat back.

It’s much easier to search, find, navigate, interact and generally chat on the new website. You can search by story type, fandom, pairing, characters, rating, genre – pretty much whatever you like.

We decided not to have a music vid section. Partly because I no longer make them, partly because when I did make them I wasn’t very good at it, and partly because we actually can’t find the files *g*. I think it’s better to keep the site just as a story archive.

Despite the fact it has an “add author to favourites” button, the only author on the site will be me. We have to keep that button for various reasons I won’t bore you with. However, if you click on it you will be informed every time I add a new story to the site so it does have its uses.

We are still tweaking things behind the scenes and tidying up etc, but all the stories should be up there.

Thanks to Jacci for her amazing work over the past few weeks! She’s been absolutely wonderful, and I suspect she is an artificial life-form who doesn’t need sleep or something *g*. Thanks also to bluespirit_starfor the gorgeous rotating banners. I keep clicking refresh just so I can see a new one!

Thank you also to my site beta testers, especially Hilde and Haggy who have been busy testing things like crazy and reporting back any problems.

I’m so happy to finally get this done and have it looking so beautiful :-)