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Michelle Klein-Häss
Box 2273
Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273
ALL GOOD THINGS MUST COME TO AN END:
ANP FORMALLY ENDS ITS 3 1/2 YEAR ACTIVE RUN ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Panorama City, CA 6/1/99:
It's been a cliche to quote the Grateful Dead and say "What a long strange trip it's been" at the end of one adventure or another. But I'm going to invoke that cliche and sum my adventure with ANP up precisely that way. It's been a long, strange trip. And now I'm going to have to come down.
In the past months, I have been attempting to take the almost 300 pages of ANP and update them to a new visual look and navigation scheme. I learned how to write HTML from building ANP, first on a PowerBook 145 with a black-and-white screen, then on a Performa 460 which I still use now. The structure of the site was fine when it was only a few pages back in December 1995, but when I looked to remake the site these past few months in 1999 it proved to be ponderous.
In order to help myself single-handedly do this update, I have tried WYSIWYG editors like Dreamweaver, the use of PHP server includes (the latter of which actually did work on a small scale) and a few other things, but more often than not wading through the task of updating the site singlehandedly has stopped feeling like fun and started feeling like a job. And this is a job which unfortunately has not paid a penny since its inception. If I'm going to do this site for fun it had better be fun, and now it isn't anymore. The writing is still fun...it's the technical, geeky stuff that is a pain in my behind.
Rather than keep pushing deadlines back again and again, I have decided to just pull the plug on this site and concentrate on smaller, easier to maintain little sites like my "Daria" fansite Lawndale Commons. (http://welcome.to/lawndale/ ) I will also devote more of my energy to working with Animation World Network, my gracious hosts of over a year, and to my responsibilities as Associate Editor of Toon Magazine, as Contributor to Animato! Magazine, and my web design business Catseye Creative Services.
The writing of featured columnists Martin "Dr. Toon" Goodman and Thomas Reed is featured in Toon Magazine quarterly, and hopefully I will be finding their columns a new home somewhere soon. Dragan Kovacevic, Joe Bevilacqua and Lorie Kellogg, Bob Cesca, Joe White and Paul Carhart, Smashing Ideas Animation and Mel Basham all hopefully will have outlets for their amazing comics and animation talents, most of those mentioned already do and the rest deserve attention.
If I were to list all the people who have contributed to and kept ANP going we'd be wading through several more pages of this press release. Let me just mention some very important names here: Dan Sarto, Michael Swanigan, Jim Smith, Mark Segal, Darrel Bowen, Denine Omand, and the late, great Fred Stuhr. And of course my husband and fellow Animation Nerd Richie Häss.
My column, "Confessions Of An Animation Nerd," will be available every quarter in Toon Magazine. The Animation Speakeasy will remain a part of the AWN message boards. And ANP will hopefully remain on the Web for as long as AWN will keep it up, only it will not be updated. I hope to keep it there as a shrine to 3 1/2 cool years of existence.
Sayonara,
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Michelle Klein-Häss
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Page last updated 6/1/1999
This web site was built by Catseye Creative Services, Ink.