Fantasy and Science Fiction Database

About the Site

This site was produced initially out of a need to list some of the books in our collection at home. It then grew as I increasingly surfed the net for information and got frustrated when there was no single site to go to. Here I'm comparing with I Md B? for films.

So I started with my lists. They became a spreadsheet then a full blown database with queries to extract the data. I've previously tried two 'commercial' solutions.

The first one was the well known PHP-Nuke. Unfortunately the software is too well known. After the site was hijacked. I had to rebuild the site.

The next version used PHP Wiki. I liked the idea of a communal input to the content of the site. Unfortunately something went wrong and I seem to keep getting a number of PHP errors and as the software was quite complex I was not sure where to start to put it right.

My next step was a result of me biting the bullet and producing the site myself. I tried to copy the Wiki layout but with use of the 'latest technology' xhtml, fully Accessible and with full Privacy Policy (see below).

Latest update resulted from a clearing up of the accessibility notes, corrections to accesskey links on each page and correcting errors in xhtml and css validity.

This latest version again uses software produced by someone else PM Wiki, but a) I can follow it better and b) is so easy to back up and restore in case of infiltration.

Me

If you are daft enough to want to know anything about me, then I have a profile page on Geocities.

Version

v4.0.1