Official Firefly Website Relaunches by NewsAdmin

Actually, I think that the official site is actually the best official site for a tv show that I have ever personally witnessed. It's got lots of neat stuff, and contrary to what some have posted, Kelly's weblogs have a lot of charm. Now the question remains: what ever happened with that monkey?

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:03 AM

SHUGGIE

I'm with LivingImpaired here - they've got lots of great content, what lets it down is the way it's presented.

Oh and "download Flash it's what Joss would want you to do" ? Yeah right!

Shug

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:29 AM

What I particularly dislike are all those silly flash animations. Much too Startrekky, despite all the Kanji.

The basic structure of the site is unchanged. You all know what I think about that.

In all the dust, it's easy to miss the new set of cast interviews. Worth watching, despite some fairly lame questions. My favorite moment is when Adam Baldwin "introduces" Jayne's weapons, much as Jack O'Toole (from "The Zeppo") might. Come to think of it, Jayne and O'Toole are rather similar characters, though Jayne doesn't take himself quite so seriously!

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 6:41 AM

Got a small Question about the site if you can help (Im a newbie and completely clueless) Do we log in and out? If we do log out, how? cause i can't see anything?

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 8:46 AM

No, "clueless" means that you can't stand to reveal that you're a newbie by asking questions!

The official site doesn't have any sort of login. What do you mean by "I can't see anything"? No pictures, nothing?

EDITED TO ADD: Just looked at the main page and it's rendered totally with Flash! Which means you can't see anything (as you said) if you don't have the flash plugin. You can download that here:

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Vers
ion=ShockwaveFlash&P5_Language=English

Alternately, you can bypass the entry page, since it's the only page you need Flash to view. You won't be able to see the silly Star Trek Goes East animations, which I'm sure would be a great tragedy.

http://www.fox.com/firefly/features.htm

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:43 AM

I meant this site.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:50 AM

Likes to mess with stuffs.

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Originally posted by Kaylee:
I meant this site.

What exactly can't you see?

Be specific so that I can help you.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:54 AM

Ok. This site requires you to log in. I can do that. But I can't seem to figure out how or where you log out. Every other site i've been a member of has this and i can't figure out how you log out of this site.

P.S. Do I make the best first impressions or what?

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:57 AM

Don't feel bad. Everyone's got to start somewhere.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 10:57 AM

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Originally posted by Kaylee:
I meant this site.

Duh!

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:16 AM

Likes to mess with stuffs.

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Originally posted by Kaylee:
But I can't seem to figure out how or where you log out. Every other site i've been a member of has this and i can't figure out how you log out of this site.

Would you believe me if I told you that once you've been to FIREFLYFANS.NET, you never leave?

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P.S. Do I make the best first impressions or what?

Asking question is kewl. Ask all you want, especially on this site where I aim to please.

I made this logout especially for you:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/logout.asp

If you (or anyone else) wish to logout, you can find it on the login page:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/login.asp

I haven't fully tested it yet, but it should work. Let me know if it doesn't.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:27 AM

Nope. I didn't mean to start anything, I was just curious. It seems pretty weird you have a re-login part when you never log out.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 11:54 AM

Likes to mess with stuffs.

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Originally posted by Kaylee:
Nope. I didn't mean to start anything, I was just curious. It seems pretty weird you have a re-login part when you never log out.

Don't worry, it's no bother. The reason that there's no logout is because I was short-sighted and figured that people would simply leave when they're done. I was wrong.

And you're not the first to request and wonder about the logout. Many have asked before. But now we have a logout.

FYI, there are many things weird about this website. A lot of it is due to the fact that I hacked together the darn thing and have not tested everything fully. The site is far from being completed, but it's functional enough so people could at least hangout here.

BTW, welcome to our little community.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:25 PM

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Originally posted by Haken:
FYI, there are many things weird about this website. A lot of it is due to the fact that I hacked together the darn thing and have not tested everything fully. The site is far from being completed, but it's functional enough so people could at least hangout here.

Look at it this way. This site works better and is much more user friendly than anything Bill Gates has ever come up with.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:30 PM

Likes to mess with stuffs.

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Originally posted by LivingImpaired:
Look at it this way. This site works better and is much more user friendly than anything Bill Gates has ever come up with.

LOL...funny thing is, this site is built entirely on his technology.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:31 PM

RINGWRAITH

Thanks for posting the "bypass the main page" link, since my poor little Mac can't run Flash 6...and what's the deal with Flash anyway? It doesn't really do a whole lot. I've worked with it, have created animations and such, etc, but it's not the be all and end all of web pages. Anyway....

Too bad they're using a light grey font because it's hard to read anything. Guess I'll have to switch my prefs on IE to use my own font colors when I'm at that site...which won't be often because if you have Fireflyfans.net, why do you need to go there?

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:51 PM

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Originally posted by Haken:
Quote:
Originally posted by LivingImpaired:
Look at it this way. This site works better and is much more user friendly than anything Bill Gates has ever come up with.

LOL...funny thing is, this site is built entirely on his technology.

Color me stunned.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 4:43 PM

CHARLIEBLUE

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Originally posted by Ringwraith:
Thanks for posting the "bypass the main page" link, since my poor little Mac can't run Flash 6.

Why not? I've got a three-year-old (or thereabouts) iMac 400 with OS 10.1.5, and it runs for me. Very poorly, I'll grant you, but it doesn't take much for Flash to run very poorly.

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and what's the deal with Flash anyway? It doesn't really do a whole lot. I've worked with it, have created animations and such, etc, but it's not the be all and end all of web pages.

I know. I hate Flash. The effects you can generally create with it are horribly simplistic, and in spite of that they take way too long to load for anybody who doesn't have broadband (which is still the majority of us, last I heard). You're generally better off with some skillful HTML.

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Thursday, September 19, 2002 5:14 PM

RINGWRAITH

That's cause this is an old 7200/75.

Yes, I will be upgrading it.

Hey, I got it cheap and it runs very well!

For what I need it to do it works. Next year I'm getting a newer Mac, though I'm not sure what. Probably used but hopefully a late era G3 or something.

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Friday, September 20, 2002 8:08 AM