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Because the site is being hosted by a crazed group called TMG (the mad goners) I thought a less than serious approach to the layout would be a good idea. Hence the “school desk” look.
The “site” started with an idea for the ships page which would hopefully make it a little different. The inclusion of the fading images in the episode guide was to hopefully make that section a bit more “interesting”. Bad spelling and typing errors aside, it hopefully works.
But I ran out of ideas, 😕 there is so many sites, doing so many things on the net that trying to come up with something different started hurting my head after a while, and I didn’t see the point of creating just another dry, run of the mill layout.
Yeah, I realised it may have not been the best choice once I moved it off the machine I had put it together on with it’s particular graphic settings. The problem was the texts where held as gif files so changing it quickly/easily was not going to be possible, and I can’t allocate too much time to it for a while. But it will be on my “to do” list when I add other pages.
I think the perceived demographics of your supposed Sci-Fi viewer might play a part in this. More relevantly it may be the way T.V execs then act based on those assumption.
Not everyone who enjoys sci-fi is under the age of 15, cleavage and special effects play their parts but so does, character developmen and treating the audience like they might just understand a more “complex” story, look at B5, that surprised a few folks.
If the “quality” of programmes decrease, or it is aiming to narrowly at a specific target audience then, of course, viewing figures go down. The execs panic, try focusing even tighter, figures still going down, they put less money into the programs, now the viewing figures are in free fall, then we are told people don’t like sci-fi anymore. There are exceptions of course.
It’s just part of the commercial driven world we live in to-day, but like was previously said, it will turn around again, hopefully.
