Are your headlines available for
inclusion on other websites?
We are pleased to say the answer is yes,
the
headlines can be found here in RSS 1.0 format. [Back]
Where can I find that Doom to Quake
TC?
The Your Path of Destruction Doom TC homepage
is on Moxill
Interactive QuakeTC Headquarters. This question
arises from a British gaming mag that included my link
in a story about the TC, but forgot to include the TC's
URL, so people look for it here. [Back]
What do you
use to edit your site?
Until very recently the answer was FrontPage
'98, but Blue's News in now database driven (I had to
enter the '90s before the end of the decade). [Back]
Hey, can I ask
you an HTML question?
Nope, sorry. This is a game-related
site, there are plenty of great HTML resources out there
designed to help with this. A good starting point is
Webmonkey
which is as good a resource for those just learning
HTML as it is for professionals. [Back]
Okay, can
I ask you a game-related question?
You can ask, but in most cases I won't
respond. The reason I don't just say not to bother is
that sometimes questions will reveal an area needing
further coverage, so actually that can be helpful. As
for general questions, the answer is probably available
elsewhere. Please find some other way to get it answered.
Posting it on the appropriate
message board greatly increases your chances of
getting a reply. [Back]
I want to make a news site. Where do you get your news?
The short answer is, you should make a website
about something you know. If you are not already tapped
into some source(s) of interesting information not readily
available, you probably should make something other
than a news site. [Back]
What's Blue's News
best viewed with?
Eyes and brain are required, but no
browser in particular. Blue's News is Lynx compatible,
is viewable with browsers that don't support frames,
and works fine in resolutions as low as 800x600 (try
640x480 at your own risk). The site contains no ActiveX,
is decaffeinated of Java (although it does use JavaScript
for some nonessential features). Other than your browser's
default, the primary fonts used here are Verdana and
Arial with Arial and Helvetica used as alternates, but
everything will work just fine without installing any
fonts. Here are the appropriate font archives I found
on Microsoft's Free TrueType
fonts for the Web page: Verdana for Win32 (320 KB), Verdana for Windows 3.1x (165 KB), Verdana for Apple Macintosh (206 KB), Arial for both Win32 and Win3.1x (415 KB),
and Arial for
the Macintosh (344 KB). [Back]
What did you
use to make those cool graphics on your site?
Nothing: I am not the artist. You would
have to ask the creators that question (see the credits page). [Back]
Who did that cool logo?
Walter |2| Costinak. [Back]
I love
that logo, but the old one was cool too. Could you please...?
...yeah sure, here's a
link to the old one, a link to the even older one (both by Walter |2| Costinak), and here's a link to the
old flaming Q (by Sujoy Roy). You can also check our Old Logos Archive for the full, annotated collection.[Back]
Why didn't
you answer my email(s)?
The volume of my mail is really high.
If I spend any amount of time responding to each message,
I simply will not have enough time to maintain this
site. I'm not happy about not answering mail, but it's
more or less how it has to be. Also, if I don't post
something, and you think I'm blowing it, don't be afraid
to remind me...with my high volume of mail, I am prone
to mailbox glitches, mail client crashes, and simple
human error resulting in lost or misplaced messages.
200
emails at one minute each to read and respond (which
is a low time estimate) is over three hours a day. 300
emails (which happens) at one minute per is five hours
a day. Two minutes to respond to each of 300 emails
is 10 hours a day. This is not a rudeness problem; it's
a math problem. [Back]
Why didn't you print that thing
I sent you?
Most common reasons stories don't get printed:
- The
story was not of the type that usually appears.
Clan news, new site opening announcements,
requests for links to homepages, reports about
mods and TC's that haven't yet been released,
mod reviews, editorials and opinion pieces,
and other assorted stories that would fill
entire news pages of their own, aren't generally
posted.
- The
story has already appeared (we receive dozens of
emails a day pointing to news we've already posted).
Run a search for a word that must've appeared in
the story, it might already be on the site.
- We
also refrain from printing stories about cheats,
hacks, cracks, and proxy bots that help players
cheat in Internet play unless it is already extreme
public knowledge, or the post will help combat the
cheating. I love gaming, and in my opinion those
things are detrimental to everyone's enjoyment.
[Back]
How can I get a link or a mention?
Be significant and/or newsworthy in
some area. The sites I end up linking are the ones that
are sources for news stories, or that fill unique niches.
[Back]
Where does the nickname Blue come
from?
In
the first two Wing Commander games, the main character
didn't have a name (his name was whatever you typed
in), and the developers at Origin called him bluehair
for his Superman-Blue hair. I took the nickname BlueHair
as an homage to that, which eventually became blue (lowercase
"b"), which became Blue when I became weary of half
the people who used it capitalizing the "B." Sorry you
asked? [Back]
What do you do for a living?
How does that work?
You're looking at it, I'm not sure if that makes
me a journalist, or a professional webmaster, but it
does make me one of the luckiest guys in the world.
I have to thank all of you for the support that's made
this possible. How that works is advertising (period).
The only income for this site is from ad banners aside from what little we take in from selling t-shirts. [Back]
Who's da man?
You da man. [Back]
