Recent site fixes

The following fixes have been made:

• The essays and presentations have been split onto two separate pages.
• The GDC presentation on Online World Design Patterns is now back on the site. This presentation covers the basic common characteristics of MMOs and MUDs: what characters are like, what game systems are common, etc. IE-only, for now.
• Also back is How to Manage a Large-Scale Online Gaming Community. This presentation is often misread as cynical manipulation of customers. Well, it is some of that, but it’s also intended to be a blueprint for honest dealings with your community. Also IE-only for now.
• Two Models for Narrative Worlds has slightly changed URLs (it is now an SHTML file) and is no longer one of those fancy JavaScript IE-only presentation webpages, but instead a single page of PNGs with the transcript of the talk interspersed. Over time, I hope to change all of the presentations to this format, since most folks who visit here use Firefox (as do I!).
• The snippet “Online worlds and the law” is back on the site — it just had a bad filename.
• Same with “The ethics of online world design”. Neither of these pages, as with several others of the snippets, look correct yet, but at least the material is restored.
• The sheet music for “Alice” and “Memorial” should be legible again.

Since we’re here — what needs to change about the site? What’s working? What do you hate? What do I need to blog about more? Feedback is welcome.