The History of Star Trek Stages
After exactly six months of hard work, I am launching the site devoted to what is my largest non-academic research project ever. Having started on April 23rd, it is pure coincidence that the work is done today, exactly half of a year later.

The site is devoted to the history of the Paramount Studios stages as they concern Star Trek. The series of shows have occupied the soundstages on the Hollywood lot for many, many years. For the first time in many years, no stage of the lot is occupied by Trek. Still, there is a rich history behind so many of the stages. It's neat having the plans, seeing how shots are planned, sets reused, etc.

The site has been added to the Filmography section of my page. It looks like crap in IE, though try as I might, I couldn't fix it. IE is just too damned broken. Instead, when I detect IE used on the main page, I put up a big red DIV-box informing them their browser is broken and to get FireFox (it looks great in Opera and kHTML-browsers as well). But, unlike the numerous IE-only sites out there, I don't actually restrict any content based on their browser.

Working on this site has been a good experience. It makes me realize just how many books on the subject I own. Being able to write about them was surprisingly easy. I really enjoy set planning and design.