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FAQ
Main Information
Q. What is this website?
A. This website is VikRandell.com, if you have not yet realized that. A few may recognize this site as being similar to Drakas.com. To explain: Drakas.com was the old site preceding this one. Unfortunately the hosting company holding Drakas.com quickly went out of business. For the sake of continuity I purchased a few domain names and thus VikRandell.com was born.
Q. Why is this website here?
A. As I stated, this site is meant for me to dabble in web design. To give a brief history: Drakas.com.v.1 was little more than a few tables. V.2 added a forum, a cleaner layout, a few graphics, and greatly expanded content. V.3 included php includes and tables. V.4 used CSS for layout. This site, currently V.5 (though under a different domain name.) uses CSS for layout and presentation as well as php includes. The menu was built using flash. As my understanding of flash and gimp grows, I've created the various graphics used throughout the site.
While web-design is the primary intent of this website. That's all...that and to claim that it was I that brought both St. Drakas and Robert Drake to the masses. I have been accused of using this as a creative outlet to the world, but I scoff at such a silly idea.
Q. Who is Robert Drake
A. Robert Drake is the content supplier of this website. While initially skeptical about putting any of his work online, he eventually allowed me to place various of his writings here. Just as web-design is my amateurish hobby, writing is Mr. Drake's side project. When not providing the various musings found on the site, he travels the world, lives like a hermit, works as network admin, and pretends he's a jet-setting secret agent. (At least one of those is true.)
Q. Who is Viktor Randell
A. I am Viktor, called Vik, Randell and I run this site. I designed it as a hobby and needed content. Robert Drake most generously donated material from his vast archives to fill my hard-drive and suck my bandwidth.
Q. Who is St. Drakas
A. Despite the name change, St. Drakas is still the patron saint of this website. For those unfamiliar with St. Drakas he's the man in the top left corner of the website. He's also the special protector of talent-less amateur authors, dangerously incompetent flash designers, owlbears, goats, Switzerland, Morocco, Japan, Jorocco, fake countries, Drakesgiving, Medialannum Drakas, fake holidays, satire, crappy websites, and "Usuals." (see below)
Q. How can I contact Viktor Randell, Robert Drake, or St. Drakas?
A. For Vik Randell: egoleader@yahoo.com. Give it a good title or it goes straight to the trash. Attachments will not be opened under any circumstance. For Robert Drake: don't. Email me and I'll make send it his way if it's important. For St. Drakas: Pray, especially on the holidays of the Drakonian Calendar.
Website Quirks
Q. Does this website have quirks?
A. Absolutely not, but if we did, they'd be explained (or not) below.
Q. Why does this site have a patron saint?
A. We needed all the help we could get. Also, Mr. Drake and I have an unhealthy number of private jokes that St. Drakas has been privy to over the years. After years of ignoble silence he has been resurrected as the guardian of this humble, amateurish website.
Q. What is a Usual?
A. A "Usual" is what St. Drakas calls the nectar of the gods. As any good Drakonian can tell you, a Usual is made from 1 part Blue Spring Water (the blue tab on a water cooler), 1 part White Spring Water, 1 part Hot Tap Water, (from a faucet) and 1 part Cold Tap Water. The Usual, when made correctly, rejuvenates and strengthens the body. All the great men of history have drunk Usuals. Only now has St. Drakas managed to give the formula to humanity as whole. (He's like Prometheus.)
Q. What are the Holidays of the Drakonian Calendar?
A. <<Here>>
Q. What is Van Gregr?
A. The careful effort of a historical revisionist. It's either that or a made up parody of everything that came to mind at the time. It is loosely based on Don Quixote, King Arthur, Sam Fisher, Dracaula, The Maltese Falcon, and a whole bunch of ancient epics. Robert Drake reads medieval/ancient myths/histories as a hobby so much of that, along with bits of pop culture and historical minutiae, led to ideas used in the occasional plotline.
In short, Van Gregr is another joke-turned-website-content. The flash movies are "intentionally" atrocious in design, but there is a rumor that a new breed of slightly higher quality movies will be forthcoming. (Mr. Drake got a book on flash.)
For more information on the characters, I would direct the careful reader to the Character Bios located on the Van Gregr page.
Q. When will the site be updated?
A. Web-design wise, probably not until '08. I shouldn't put dates on my site, since when I forget to modify this FAQ I'll be horribly dating myself, but overall I don't expect to be doing too much modification unless a new technology pops up. If I get a new idea I'll throw it in, but the current site is modular enough that a redesign likely (hopefully) wont be necessary.
The second part is content. Mr. Drake tends to withhold a large amount of his output as he attempts to get published. As mentioned previously new Van Gregr's may appear shortly and I expect a constant (but slow) addition of written works as well. I'll endeavor to keep the main page content updated more frequently, but I suspect this site will never become anyone's daily distraction.
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