Due to lack of interest (mine and Domania/d21c members), Site Showcase is now closed to new submissions. For more information on this please see the Site Showcase FAQ page.

Domania's Site Showcase began back in 2005 when Paul Ding bought the web host. At the time, Domania was getting back on its feet after a hacker attack. I supposed that episode brought Domania/d21c members together, forming a community reminiscent of the old GeoCities days. Anyone recall how truly helpful the "community leaders" were, that anyone could ask for help or resolve a problem. That was before the small, friendly web host was gobbled up by the bigger fish, thus killing the community.

I guess interest in Site Showcase waned after Domania changed hands the second and third times. In the past year I've had only one person submit pages. In the past I'd have more than a dozen submissions a month. Within the past year I was lucky to get 4 or 5 new submissions.

It's been fun, but all good things must end. The archived links are still available but I'll need to edit several entries. Some pages are no longer available.

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Yes, Domania Site Showcase is still around, but I haven't had many submissions this year. Only one has sent in pages, but that is all. I'm now wondering if it's all worth it. My online time is really precious these days, what with full-time work and taking care of my elderly (almost 90!) mother who has really bad arthritis and can't do much for herself these days. I clean her house, cook her meals, do the shopping, et.al. That and all the professional responsibilities of work. Then I have my own sites that haven't been updated as they should. I have outstanding online projects that haven't seen any action in almost 2 years!

Therefore, I'm suspending all SSC activity until further notice. The archived articles and links are still online, but I'm in process of deleting dead links. Several pages submitted over the years no longer exist; some domania/d21c accounts are completely gone. I'm also getting a few site submissions from spammers, another reason I've seriously considered scrapping SSC altogether.

For now, please do not send new site information; it will not get posted. I'll revamp the SSC home page to reflect the changes. I just hope I won't have to pull the plug for good. It was fun while it lasted.

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A longtime Domania member passed on this Memorial to Craig Daniell. Just a simple page with a photo of our beloved founder of Domania. Craig loved his baseball as evident here. He was quite a guy and we still miss him.

For those unfamiliar with Domania and the man who began what was a boon to WebTV webmasters, here is a capsule history. Back in the late 90's, when WebTV was in its heyday, we users of this wondrous Little Black Box had already begun our foray into the world of website design. We had — still have — and maintain a wide variety of personal and business sites: Family photos, slide shows, graphic shares, HTML help and tools, original writing, games, handmade items for sale. You name it we have it.

Of course, back then we relied on free web hosting such as GeoCities, Tripod, Angelfire. We knew those hosts' TOS forbid remote loading of images and sounds, but what else could we do? WebTV doesn't have a hard drive to save images or sounds. If we wanted to display images or play midis on our email signatures that's what we did: remotely loaded or hotlinked our stored files. Then came the big bummer. The free hosts pulled the plug on remote loading and hotlinking unless we paid for it. Then again, looking back on it, those free hosts really didn't have a lot of bells and whistles. Just a place to store our files and host our pages with stringent strings attached. Oh yes, don't forget all those ugly banner ads and annoying pop-ups mucking up our pages.

In 1999, enter Craig Daniell and Domania. Domania was the first truly WebTV friendly web host. An easily navigated file manager, a file mover (similar to the transloader), a directory mover to transfer entire directories from previous hosts, and friendly, very helpful customer service. All this and no banners or pop-up ads spoiling our pages. Finally, a place to store our files to use whatever way we wanted. We could use the space for pure storage or, of course, to build a website. We couldn't do that with the free hosts. For as little as $5 a month, Domania offered the WebTV community a viable alternative to the major free hosts.

Domania also provided a true user community when the major web hosts (Tripod, Angelfire, GeoCities, Free Yellow, Freetown, et.al.) were either on the verge of being gobbled up by the Yahoos and Lycos of the world or going belly up, thus that sense of community gone forever. Craig provided an active member forum for timely updates on service, help for newbies, a place to show off our page building efforts, or just to chit-chat and make friends. It can be generally said that without Craig and Domania, subsequent, and highly successful in their own right, WebTV friendly hosts — Zone, ZBox, Webbywarehouse, PDHomes, Amish Hosting, etc. — might have never been born.

Since Craig's death in 2004, his legacy lives on. We've weathered hackers, changes in owners and managers, but that sense of community is still with us. And Craig Daniell is looking down from Heaven and smiles.

Mare's Menagerie has something for everyone. Image shares, clipart, sound files, links to newsgroups, WebTV/MSNTV help sites, seasonal web graphics, and so much more. The site is perfectly accessible and navigable with all browsers (a big plus for WebTV users), and it's easy on the eyes. Love that triple back effect!

I love Eleanor's pages. So much variety from slide shows to image shares. This time Domania's Site Showcase is proud to show off her Halloween image shares. Just in time for the spooky holiday, this page is full of graphics, clipart, backgrounds, and animated gifs for your email sigs or web pages. Snag away!