A new map has been added to this site: 2p_2pc_santa_claus_r.pud. This will be the last new map for 2019. Starting from Januari 2020, more new maps will be added again. I have also decided to make a few changes to this website in 2020, like the Miscellaneous page. I don't believe the differences between the original DOS version and the Expansion set are very interesting anymore today. Instead, I will add more map-editors and other tools to the Miscellaneous page.
Starting from Januari 2020, the old website will no longer be used other than to redirect browsers to the new location at: www.rody.dds.nl/warcraft
The site-move is nescessary not only because Xs4all rewrites http-headers causing my visitors to see outdated pages, whatever they are doing to my site also made Google and Chrome treat my downloads as suspicious. As my downloads are nothing more but zip-files containing a pud-file and one or two plain-text files, there's nothing wrong with these files themselves. So the wrong-doing is completely at the side of Xs4all.
As explained in my previous message, I have begun moving this site to a new location. For a short while this site will be available both on the old and the new address. After that, the old address will redirect to the new address. The funny thing is, that by moving this website, it will return to the exact same location where it started more than 20 years ago...
From now on, I recommend everyone to visit my website at the following location: www.rody.dds.nl/warcraft
Ok, I've had it with Xs4all!
Their policy of rewriting http-headers causes my visitors to see outdated pages almost every time they visit my site. What also happens a lot is that my visitors see some pages in the new style, while they get to see other pages in the old style. It is really ridiculous that I have to ask my visitors to reload all of the pages that they want to visit.
To remedy the problems mentioned above, I see no other solution than to move this site to a better provider. I will make an announcement about the move soon.
Unfortunately, because of these ridiculous policies set by my provider, I am also unable to create a normal 301-redirect for this site. Such a redirect is necessary for the site move to be properly interpreted by search engines. Without it, a website loses all of its built up search-reputation and page-ranking. So I will have to go through a lot of extra work to make sure that the new location of my site will have enough search engine reputation to not disappear from the search results.
20 years ago most of my visitors came from the netherlands. Nowadays, that has changed. Because most of my site's visitors will be from anywhere else, it stands to reason to make english the default language on this site. Therefore starting from today, the site will default to english.
The renewed website now has an english section. The choice between dutch and english can be selected in the upper right corner of the website.
The renewed website is online in Dutch. The English version will follow soon after. Then, more and more puds will be added in steps.
After many years of being distracted by a lot of factors that only kept me from my regular activities, I picked up the work on this website again. To begin with, I checked all links on the signpost page. Most of the websites that were on it now no longer exist and have been removed from my signpost page.
Furthermore, I have decided to give the website a completely new look in 2018. Maybe that is also the best time to finally create an English version of this website. In addition, I intend to place the many thousands of puds that I have collected over the past 20 years on this site too.
The first page of this website goes online.