Frequently Asked Questions

This might help some people, if not, then I'm typing this for no apparent reason.

Can I use pictures on this site on my own site?

Of course you can! That's what this site is here for! All that I ask is that you link back to my site somewhere. I don't care where, your Links section is fine. And that you don't remove any of the tags placed on the photos. Some images are tagged with www.nika-summers.com (or other various addresses for this site) but others are also tagged by the scanners. This is to give them credit and I feel they deserve it. So please leave the tags on.

 

Are you associated with the cast?

Nope. Did this site all by myself. Nice eh?

 

Are you Canadian?

Damn right.

 

Can you teach me to make a web site?

As much as I'd like to I just really don't have the time. Plus it's ever so hard to try to explain how HTML works to someone through e-mail especially if they have no idea what's going on. So do like I did back in 1998. Go to a search engine (try www.google.com or www.yahoo.com) and look up HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). I'd recommend starting with Notepad and learning the basic codes and *then* using an editor because then you at least have the basics to work with.

 

How much do you pay for your web site?

Originally, when I was running this site on fortunecity.com's free servers for the entire run of the series. But I finally decided to move the site over to my own web space about 6 years into running the site. Currently I'm paying $19.95 a month for the space.

 

Do you have a life?

Umm... the word duh crosses my mind. Followed by "who doesn't?"

 

Why do you do this?

Because I got so fed up or seeing Buffy web sites that had old content, old pictures and no new updates that I decided I wanted to create the end all resource for Buffy fans. Course it's not exactly the "end all" resource but I'd say it's pretty huge.

 

Where did you get a certain picture?

While this question does aggravate me, I usually can remember where I got them from. Be warned that sometimes people send me zipped files full of pictures so sometimes I don't know where the pics came from. If you want to ask me where a certain picture came from just e-mail me the file name and I'll try my best to let you know where you can find it or where I got it from.

 

Why don't you post screencaptures?

Because there is an insurmountable number of screencaptures that can be taken from a Buffy episode. Think about it. My galleries are large enough, if I went in and posted screencaptures then I'd have twice the number (if not triple or quadruple) of galleries and it would take forever to find a certain picture. So why'd I post the screencaptures that the WB made? Well, for one, they were decent quality and for two, they don't make an insane number of them.

 

Can you send me...?

No. That's what this site is for. Everything that is found on this site is all that I have. I don't have any other pictures that I'm squirreling away. This is it. Now I do have all the Buffy episode on tape but I don't have the time to copy them for people. It may sound mean and nasty but there are plenty of people out there who are willing to do this job. I'm just not one of them.

 

How long has this site been running?

Ever since May 2, 1998.

 

What kind of hits do you get?

I'm now at 10000 hits a week. (That was way back in the day, it's probably closer to 2000 a week now since the show is over.)

 

Why haven't you update your web site?

The show has been over for over a year now and there isn't much to warrant updating a Buffy site when there aren't many things left to update. If I get a mass of stuff to update then I'll do it, but I won't be posting very small pieces of information which would make for an essentially useless update.