~~Charles M. Crowe
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"Easter is the demonstration of
God that life is essentially spiritual and
timeless." ~~Charles M. Crowe |
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site currently resides. In the beginning,
the site was simply an archive for past newsletters but now
it's so much more. Regardless of what you're looking for
on the site, you can always start at www.onthisside.net.
If you want, you can choose to view the site in frames but, to
be honest, I don't know of anyone who really uses frames these
days. Still... options are good! I try to update
the look of the index page depending on the holiday or season
but, regardless, it's always arranged pretty similarly.
At the top of several pages, you'll see a light or bright blue
dove icon. Those will always lead you to our memorial
site for John. 
Now we move into the
second table which is divided up into sections. The
first section is aptly titled "Stuff that's Useful for Using
this Site." (Is that capitalization right?
Hmmm...) Anyhow, the Updates
page comes next. It's pretty rare for me to go more than
two weeks without updating something although right now I am
cause of the hiatus and the
so-long-my-puter-freezes-when-I-open-it story. But once
I finish that, I'll probably resume updating every couple
weeks. I miss it. After that, we have The JABB
Self-Help Page. From there, you can access the Welcome
Newbies! page... all there to help you get the answers
you want/need. If you have suggestions for additions,
please let me know. Next up is the Encyclopedia.
It is huge and getting huger. It also freezes my
computer sometimes. Nonetheless, it is useful for those
times when I just gotta know when Andrew's fondness for red
velvet cake first came up. If you haven't been there...
you do not know the depths of my nerdiness. Then we have
a short page: Useful
Links. It's always a fight to keep dead links off
that so please yell if you find any. Below that is Contact
Info, just in case ya missed the dove. Then we
have the Calendar
which is really just a tool I use to remember birthdays and
anniversaries, real, fictional, and both. The Dictionary
of JABBerisms follows. It, too, could use some
updating. After that comes Things You
Should Know About JABB. At the top, you'll find
links to the other informational pages. Unlike those
pages, this one is more focused on the actual content of JABB
newsletters, stories, etc. Although the fifth sentence
in item 2 now strikes me as particularly hilarious.
Sorry Arthur... you are so much more than Charity Shop
Dude. I should probably reread the whole thing
sometimes. Honestly, after so many years sometimes I
even forget what we have on our site!
traditionally been in a newsletter
(i.e. Christmas and Valentine's stories). When I finish
"The Carpenter," it will go there. Because of the
growing number of stories, I put together the Story
Index. Basically, this lists all JABB stories in
the order in which they were written. JABB
Member Links follows and, right now, it's pretty sad
with only two links. So I may get rid of it. But,
for now, it remains. The JABBers'
Fiction Page is much more enjoyable. There you can
find Yvette's and Kim's stories along with a handful of
resources for writing. Next is a ridiculously out of
date Dyelander
Info Database. Some day I will update it, I
promise! Somewhere Max, Arthur, Violeta, Kemara, etc.
are crying about not being included. The TBAA
Episode Guide follows. Really it's just more like
me giving commentary. At the time it was created, it
didn't occur to me that touched.com wouldn't always be
there. So... one day I'd like to add actual
synopses. Help on that would be welcome! Andrew's
Historical Timeline closes out the section. That's
going to be updated fairly soon when we learn more about
Gospel-era Andrew. 