This is a little interview I gave to my self to tell you something about the site, the why's and how's of it. Since I'm interviewing my self don't expect any really searching questions!

Why?
No easy answer there! Hyperlands came out of my indecisiveness. When I first through about making a web site, I could not decide what the site was going to be all about. I came up with a few ideas about various different things I was interested in at that time and started working on sites for them, thinking I would chose the best of them and use that one for the site. However I couldn't pick! I though what the heck I'll do a site based around all of them. Now I needed a name that was generic enough to be used for all of the sites. Out of my memory came the name hyperland. Much has changed since then (see the history here), but the current site design has come back to this original idea.

Where did the name come from?
Well hyperland was the name of a TV program from the early 90's. It was written and narrated by the late, grate Douglas Adams and stared Tom Baker. It was trying to describe some thing called interactive television. Today we know this medium by a different name, the Internet. It was actually a fairly actuate vision of what the internet is today and could be tomorrow. Tom played the part of an intelligent agent guiding the narrator around the concepts of this 'new world'. Of course this may seem very old hat now days. Many of the visionaries that have contributed to today's Internet where interviewed for the program. A clip from the program featuring Ted Nelson (the father of hypertext) can be found here. You may notice that the preceding link's domain name looks similar. Yes I suspect the hyperland.net is named after the same program.

What tools etc did you use?
This version (v6) this created using rapidweaver from realmac software

This is version 6 are you happy with it now?
More so than any other version of this site, at the moment any way. The use of a template based tool, has taken the design element out of this for me, which I see as a good thing. Also the fact that rapidweaver only generates HTML when the site is actually published means that layout, structure and even style changes can be applied with ease. Having said all of this, I'm not enterly happy with the site and in fact never will be, there's all ways v7 around the corner, but that is a long way of at the moment.

So who are you anyway?
Thats on a need to know basis and...okay you need to know. I'm Mark Keightley. If you really need to know more than that try a google search on my name and try to guess which ones are me! To help you here's a page grabbed from v4 of this site.
So what's next?
More new content for sure. Now that I've got the other aspects of web site creation under the control of software, which is where is should be controlled, I can get down to the bits humans are good at, content creation.

Sounds exciting, any specific things you call tell us about
Well more stories, I've got two which are fairly well developed at the moment which I hope to finish a publish soon. There's also lots of ideas in the file which could be developed in to full stories. Also I'd like to get back in to the old ray tracing game again and dust off pov-ray again. Then of course there's the blog, which this time I hope will get regular postings.

Sounds like there's a lot going on, thanks for taking time to talk to me!