BETTER ORGANIZATION
The biggest benefit of this overhaul is the reorganization of information on the site. As the WebLab was the very first website I ever built, it's coding was downright shitty and hard to look at. The organization barely existed because of lack of planning on my part. Unstructured building of a website makes for "frankenstien" websites... websites that have no consistencies between it's own pages, bad design, poor choice of elements...literally websites that look like they were "patched" together. While the original website (which was two revisions back) wasn't the worst website to grace the internet, it was damned near close. Now that I make my living doing websites, it was an embarrasement. The last revision wasn't by any means terrible... but it felt "stodgy" and out of date. The coding definately was. In fact, the biggest obsticle to changing and updating the site was facing the coding nightmare that I myself did. I finally decided to drop the original pages and rebuild the site from scratch. I think it worked out all right.

WHAT'S GONE...
In the revision I dropped the "forum" section, which was originally part of the larger, parent web presence known as "The Expanse". The forum hadn't been available since 1996 anyway, and when it was available, there wasn't a great deal of response. I could rebuild a forum on my server, but what's the point?

PERSONAL SERVER
I had always wanted to impliment a decent size archive of video clips and sounds, but to do it the way I wanted would mean having a website that took up nearly 100 megs of disk space, and last i checked, most ISP's only give you five-ten megs storage space. That was too resrictive even to have a few short clips thanks to the compression capabilities of just three years ago.

Well that is no longer a problem. Recently I purchased a webserver of my own, that I run from my studio here in Omaha, and now that I have a direct line to the internet I can store as much media as my hard drive can hold on it, providing you with a lot of video clips, sound files and images to download for your use. Also, not having to compete for bandwidth on an ISP's server, my pages now load up pretty darn quick. Like toot sweet.

VIDEO ARCHIVE
In the past few years, I have recieved a substantial boost in attaining CREATURE FEATURE memorabilia from the Jones family themselves, who by doing so helps the memory of John live on. Thanks to Jason Jones (John's son) I have been able to add over 20 video files to the website. These files are different than the ones presented prior because these files are complete "bumpers" (the parts of CREATURE FEATURE which Dr. San Guinary in them, before and after the commercial breaks) and not just a portion. All of these files have been converted to ReaVideo format, which is a sophisticated compression system capable of streaming video directly to your browser. Right now, they aren't actually streaming files, as I need to convert them, but they ARE highly compressed files you can download and keep. Each file is around 1-4megs big, but once converted to streaming size will not matter. I actually have a few more to add to the site, but I haven't converted them to RealMedia yet.

AUDIO ARCHIVE
I finally transfered all of those CREATURE FEATURE audio files on those old, decrepit cassette tapes I had to brand spankin' new tapes. The next step will be to digitize them (probably MP3 format) and transfere those to cd rom for future storage. Digital files don't degrade or wear out, and is the safest way to keep items for a long time. Once I do that, I will make them available here on the WebLab.

IMAGES ARCHIVE
This is the largest section on the site. I have combined all the old "Scrapbook" sections with the "Postcard collection" section, and the "Spookarama" section to create a large image directory of items for Dr. San Guinary fans to download and enjoy. I have also added some ads a friend of mine found on microfilm that were taken (i believe) from the Omaha World-Herald t.v. section.

ARTICLES ARCHIVE
I have recently aquired the long lost article that ran in the Omaha World-Herald that ran in April of 1988 about John Jones' battle with cancer and more details on CREATURE FEATURE and it's eventual cancellation. It features a rare picture of John without make-up at the time of the article.

I also (finally) found Teresa Thomas' e-mail she sent me a couple of years ago in regards to her memories of Dr. San Guinary. Her father used to direct the show, so her e-mail is fraught with inside observations of CREATURE FEATURE. I have had a lot of e-mails from the Jones family themselves, fron John's son Jason to his wife Sheila and even john's sister. Unfortunately, i did not back these up and have lost them over the years.

RELATED LINKS
For the first time, I actually got up a "links" section. It's all thanks to my being a slacker that it didn't appear sooner. It's pretty large and has a lot of fun sites similar to this one.

Well, that's it for now. Thanks for coming to the site!