HârnPage: Submission Guidelines

General

All items and/or articles submitted to this site is also viewed by Columbia Games for possible publication as an official Hârn material. Columbia Games will contact the author of articles selected for publication and negotiate terms directly. Articles selected for publication will be removed from this site at Columbia Games' request. These guidelines are for articles for publication on the HârnPage website.

For sumbission guidelines for printed publications, click here.

Submission

First decide how you would like to have your file(s) organized on the HârnPage. For example, is your file a story you want readable online or is your file a new utility program which should be downloadable. Make your best guess.

Group related files and compress them together as one file. All submissions should be compressed. Should files need to be viewable online the administrator will decompress them, edit as required, and post online.

Send an E-mail to the HârnPage administrator, Grant Dalgliesh, describing the files and how you think they should be presented on HârnPage. Your description should include the name(s) of individual files, the format of individual files, and the computer platform where the files were created (Mac, PC, UNIX). Attach your compressed file to this E-mail as a MIME attachment (see your E-mail software guide). Should the administrator have a problem with a file, the owner of the file will be contacted directly.

Important Note on File Formats: If you have a file that you wish to be on HârnPage and you have concerns over the format of this file, talk to me about it privately. Do not mail the mailing list about anything to do with file formats. I am the one to talk to, directly, and it is far more important to get the files on the page than to worry about the format.

Having said that, I do have preferred formats for text, in order of preference HTML, ASCII, RTF, and PDF. There's a simple reason for this - everyone can read HTML and ASCII, and I can easily convert ASCII and RTF into HTML. PDF viewers are free and print very well on a wide variety of systems (caveat - avoid use of uncommon fonts unless embedded in file). However, don't be overly concerned if you can't manage to get your files into one of those formats - I'll deal with it, and if necessary leave it as is.

Thank you,
Grant Dalgliesh