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The Pennsic War is an annual SCA event with over 11,000 participants. I have been the webmaster for the event since 2003. Although the site has retained the same basic layout, each year I have made improvements to the appearance and functionality of the site.

The front page of the site contains registration deadlines and important notices, updated constantly in the lead-up to the event. The picture on the left changes every few seconds, rotating between different scenes from the event.

The navigation bar appears on all sub-pages, to give quick access to the most commonly visited sections of the website. To help visitors find their way around the site, each sub-page has a "breadcrumb trail" of links at the top, which shows how they got there, and allows them to backtrack.

The latest update to the site includes a link to the local area's tourism bureau, and to their hotel/trip booking system.

The website contains a great deal of information; the challenge was to make the data easily accessible. (See the previous design, courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.)

The Site Directory page is the heart of the website, containing organized tables of links to all sections of the site. The site-wide search feature also allows visitors to quickly locate information.


Medieval illustrations from the Manessa Codex appear on many of the pages.