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March 12, 2000

A Few Comments on Canon

A fair percentage of the nitpicks that are submitted to the NNG deal with differences between the movie and the television series. As I've noted on the Nitpicking 101 page, for the purposes of this web site, I am only considering the events of the television series as canon.

I made this decision because odds were that the series creators would like to (and in some cases, would need to) change some of the premises laid out in the original movie in order to fit the weekly series format. The NNG is a Stargate SG-1 site, not an overall Stargate site, and thus this seems a logical boundary to me.

One way to think about it that may help: just consider the events of the original movie and the Stargate novels as having happened in a slightly different alternate universe. Even the Stargate SG-1 novels should be treated as secondary sources of canon, as the series does not have any obligation to treat the events described in them as having ever actually happened.

In other words, we really can only ask that the series maintain internal consistency, since the series creators have complete control over what they present and how they present it. (At some point, I do plan to add an overview of the major differences between the movie and the series, but this will be a single article, rather than individual nitpicks for each episode.)

This still leaves us plenty to talk about and plenty to nitpick, however, so keep your eyes glued to the episodes and keep those submissions coming. I plan to get the first large batch of them added in the very near future. *grin*

-- Meli

p.s. Due to a number of requests from current members, I've added a Nitpicker's Forum to the SG-1 Beta Site. Stop by sometime!

The Book Nook

This month we have two books that are great references for all those current and would-be SG-1 web builders. Neither is a "teach yourself HTML" guide -- there are plenty of web sites (and dozens of books) that cover that subject. Rather, these two books take a broader approach to web design, so that they are useful references even after you've mastered the HTML.

Web by Design: the Complete Guide by Molly E. Holzschlag (March 2000)

This is one of the very best books I've run across about overall web site design process, not just on how to use specific tags to create effects. It covers initial planning, choice of capabilities, color palettes, use of fonts and spacing, etc. Definitely a nice reference for your bookshelf.

Sybex / ISBN 0782122019
Web Design in a Nutshell by Jennifer Niederst (March 2000)

O'Reilly does a great job of publishing "definitive" computer books, and this is no exception. The book covers HTML, javascript, browser compatibility issues, style sheets, and more. It is designed as a quick reference for a lot of web design topics, rather than as a textbook to teach those topics, however.

O'Reilly / ISBN 1565925157