I’m about half way through and just checking back in to say excellent read and all the formatting is good for Chrome on a Win 11 PC.
I can’t access any of it:
Your Internet access is blocked
Firewall or antivirus software may have blocked the connection.
Try:
- Checking the connection
- Checking firewall and antivirus configurations
- [Running Windows Network Diagnostics](javascript:diagnoseErrors())
ERR_NETWORK_ACCESS_DENIED
I’m not sure why. I don’t have any problems with other sites. I’m using an old desktop running Windows 8.1. I’ve tried with Chrome and Edge.
The site uses an expired, untrusted certificate so you need to allow your browser to temporarily ignore that. This is an issue for the OP to fix, really.
Also don’t use a super, super old browser because you want it to support TLS, SNI, and so on.
The URL begins with http rather than https. I don’t have any trouble accessing the site, but my browser warns me that it is “Not secure.”
I’m getting an SSL. Once I put all the pieces together all should be well.
Thanks. I’m getting a laptop for Christmas to replace my desktop since support for 8.1 ends on January 10. Windows 11 - I’ll finally be up to date for a while. 
I meant the Browser, not the operating system; e.g. use the latest Firefox or something, not Mosaic 3.0
Is that the 90% that Ted Sturgeon was talking about? 
If by that you’re saying that the Campbell crew wrote crap, I’d be the last to stop you.
I purchased the SSL certificate and moved the site to https://. A Wordpress plug-in checks off all the boxes for security. Putting in https://gnomepress.com takes me to the site.
The problem is that I don’t see the seal that’s supposed to indicate the certificate is in place.
Maybe I haven’t gone through all the steps. The instructions pages don’t match what I saw on screen. I feel quantumly superimposed between yes and no. Please help me determine my status.
Works for me as https. No problems w the cert.
No sign of whatever logo/seal you’re hoping to display. FWIW, AFAIK / IMO those things are kinda passe these days. A seal can be faked. The actual SSL connection, not so much.
Now that all even semi-modern browsers do a good job of accurately showing the user whether the site is configured securely, insecurely, or wrongly, the seal concept is mostly past its sell-by date.
It still doesn’t work on my old desktop but I checked my new laptop and there it is. Yay! I look forward to checking it out.
Good to hear. I haven’t bothered to keep up skillwise and trust that Wordpress and the other “we do the hard work for you” bases actually live up to their claims. But another box to check off always appears around a hidden corner.
Thanks for this, I’m really looking forward to reading this. How many different pieces of art do you have for the front page? I’ve seen a new one each time I visit.
You see only about a dozen, slices from the Gnome calendars. Way back when I found a plug-in that shows a random image from a batch whenever a page is called up. The look is impressive from just that small input. Thanks whoever made that plug-in.
Should be fine: you have a Go Daddy certificate that browsers should accept as valid, and no obvious gross problems with the security setup. Maybe a couple of errors upon strict HTML validation but that’s a different issue 
I read the main article and its odd to remember that L Ron Hubbard was considered a pretty good SF/fantasy writer in the 30-50s I wouldn’t know that myself if he hadn’t written battlefield earth and rereleased a few collections of his short stories
Yeah - when Asimov first met Hubbard, Asimov was reduced to a complete fanboy (per Asimov’s memoir), trying to compliment Hubbard but fumbling over his words.
Not to dump on the OPs accomplishment (which is a marvel), but I recently read “Astounding”, which is a history of Campbell, Asimov, Hubbard, and Heinlein. It was revelation how so many of the names I know from reading over the years (beyond the four listed) ran in the same circles.
That was a helpful source, to be sure, and a good book.
As history, though, it didn’t emphasize the parts which I think are interesting and have been neglected by standard histories like that one. (I have literal bookcases of nonfiction about f&sf.) Pretty much the reason why most historians write: we all see the gigantic ball called history through different lenses and want to bring forward aspects that aren’t as well known.
I have about 150 articles on my FlyingCarsandFoodPills.com website and, after I laid down the base, my rule to myself is that I don’t put up an article unless no one else has already written a properly full treatment of the subject online. There’s so much history that is neglected that I don’t want to waste my limited time on redoing work already done elsewhere.
Maybe that’s egotistical, but it’s more fun digging up obscure stuff and putting it into together with other obscure stuff and giving that composite context and completeness for the first time. I love that.