The History of Ultima Online Travelogues
n this page
you will find some background information about the history of the Ultima Online
Travelogues web site. This web site has been existing for a very long time,
being changed, enhanced, restructured and re-designed several times.
Some of you may even remember the launch of this site as "Mad Biker's Ultima
Online Travelogues" in February 1998.
Ultima Online Travelogues, April 1998
n the
beginning my Ultima Online page was a collection of information for all who
started with the game. Since there were few other pages about Ultima Online at
that time I decided to write everything down which helped me understanding the
game. I also found that there was no page on the web which showed player
screenshots or told real stories about Britannia. That's how the idea of the
travelogues was born.
Ultima Online Travelogues, January 1999
oon
web sites like UOVault and Stratics were offering far more information than I
could keep up to date, so I removed my tables and statistic pages one by one
from my web site. I renamed my page to Ultima Online Travelogues to show that
my focus is more on telling stories and showing in-game pictures.
Ultima Online Travelogues, November 1999
ow my
web site had become a pure travelogues site. I exceeded the number of 800
screenshots and 200 stories, and my web space was limited. I even had removed
the older stories to save web space, but decided to put them back on, as people
kept asking me for my old stories and they still were an essential part of the
Ultima Online Travelogues.
Ultima Online Travelogues, October 2002
he
purpose of the Ultima Online Travelogues was, to give new players as well
as veterans an incentive on what they could do in Britannia, and to keep the
readers up to date with the latest news of Ultima Online.
After I quit playing UO in 2001 I still kept this site online for sentimental
reasons. During the following years I noticed that a lot of people kept visiting
this site, enjoying the stories and the old screenshots. The Ultima Online Travelogues
was even referenced in Wikipedia.
This site had been created using Microsoft Frontpage. In October 2007
I decided to finally get rid of the crappy HTML code generated by Frontpage, get rid
of the frames and the poor structure, and migrated the site to efficient CSS code. I also gave the site a
small facelift. This is how the site will remain for the time being.
Ultima Online Travelogues today