IceWindDale.com

I had good intentions in starting this web site but somehow 2 months flew by and here I am sitting at my terminal and hacking away some ideas for the future of this site.

I ended up having a great summer and you can thank my best friend for all the last minute adventures on the weekends… which led to no updates or progress on the site / blog. I did have an excellent summer:)

I saw someone commented about helping with PHPBB v3 so I’ll be making a contact soon about getting the old forums online… at least from what I had. The hope here is to create traffic for the search engines so they will in turn get the word out that we are back.

This time the plan is simple 3 areas.  Book  Reviews / Character Profiles / Forums / Book Sales (to keep the site running).

This time I am going to try and get a team of people to work on a web plan that allows for growth and “finds” our niche. Which in general is fantasy… but we were a whole lot more as well… so figuring out what that is will be the challenge… also finding a way to keep us social with Facebook and Twitter seems ot be all the rage… so finding our place with those seems useful.

Anyway first the forums… then the book reviews.

Good News perhaps. I found the old tavern forums… which means I can hopefully put them back online. There are some advantages to using the old forums (phpBB I think) it will give us a lot of old pages for the search engine spiders to catalog and start to help people finding us. That could be cool. Then I can focus on the articles while we start to rank in the search engines.

I have some ideas for building a content based site on fantasy mainly book reviews, character reviews, and conversation (down the road).

I am hoping that not this weekend but the next weekend I can look into what it will take to get the old forums working, and upgrade the forums to the latest version… and see about revamping them.

There is a good chance that many of the old characters from yester year will resurvace which will likely include R.A. Salvatore himself, not for chatting but he did pop by from time-to-time to check on his fans which was always cool. Hopefully that will happen again.

I just realized that it’s been 20 years… of Drizzt! I can’t believe it was that long ago when I reist read the original series. I recall that the original editions had typos and grammatical errors all over…

Anywho I am going to begin the journeys a new (read the again).

Anyway it is pretty amazing that 20 years has gone by, but even cooler is the amount of books that have been written about Drizzt who we first met in the frigid IceWind Dales.

I am amazed at all the work R.A. Salvatore has done over the years.

I have some links to the books for anyone who want to know the order of them and more.

The history of IcewindDale.com has been something of a journey in itself. It originally was fan site, that morphed into a Fan Fiction web site, then a pre-Wiki Wiki of Drizzt, then the forums became something of a fantasy Tavern, and of course there was the period when the site supported the game IcewindDale as wel. Towards the end the site became a Tavern (forums) and then it passed hands once, then twice, then the last Tavern owner just let it die.

This was a place that even R.A. Salvatore would visit from time-to-time and why not? We were afterall his fans…

Somehow I managed to hold on to the domain name, and it was never transfered since nobody ever followed up on it with me… and now we are here.

Well I have decided to make a memorial of Drizzt here, a kind of Wiki on Drizzt and help people with the basics of reading the books, the order, who is in them and so forth….

Give me some time I will only be adding a blog or two each month, but with time we will have something worth while. We just have to move forward…

Perhaps even a new Tavern can be created. A general hang out… but that is for another day… for now it is content that is needed.

I quickly made link to a list of R.A. Salvatore’s Book about Drizzt. It should be noted that it is just arough draft but hopefully it will help someone figure out what books have Drizzt in them and their order.

Stories with Drizzt.