A Phoenix Rises out of the Ashes - The History of Ceramics Today
From your CT Editor
Ceramics Today is a comprehensive, new, independent ceramics site, but one
with a long history. Many of you may be familiar with its first
incarnation as Claynet, which was set up in mid 1995 and was one
of the early ceramics sites on the WWW (predating even the SDSU
web site).
Towards the end of 1996, Claynet evolved into ceramics.about.com.
While Claynet files were still available, the site was no longer
being updated and all effort went into the About.com site (formerly
also known as The Mining Company). At ceramics.about.com, your Ceramics
Today Editor Steven Goldate acted as the 'Ceramics Guide', sifting
through the maze of ceramics sites on the Net, selecting those worthy
of a link, writing articles and answering thousands of reader's
questions. Over the years hundreds of articles were written while
the links database grew to be the most comprehensive on the Net.
It is this legacy on which Ceramics Today is based.
Many features of Ceramics Today will be familiar to you - the links,
the gallery, the newsletter, the forum. There are also many new
features - the daily ceramics tip, the Myster Maker, the pot of
the Week and the Odd Spot. A Ceramics Quiz is planned, where you
can test you knowledge of the field. Believe it or not, this time
there will be no ads and annoying pop-ups.
Currently Ceramics Today is free of ads. I would like to keep it
that way, but to do so I need your support. Many subscribers to
the old site expressed a willingness to support the new site financially.
I hope that many of you will follow through on this and help me
to keep this an unrestricted resource and free of ads. You can do
this by making a donation however large or small via PayPals secure
server. Donations are voluntary and will help me to pay for expenses
such as domain name registration, web hosting and my efforts of
hundreds of hours of work reinstating and maintaining the site.
It's up to you, so please seriously consider making a donation and
make this YOUR site.
Please make a donation.
Steven Goldate
Editor, Ceramics Today
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