Raymond E. Feist is a New York Times bestselling author
In the beginning, back in 1979, there was a small fansite, with less than a dozen pages, but during 1998 it grew quickly into a structured layout till in 1999 Crdyee.com was born as the Raymond E. Feist Reference Pages.
Within a year there was a whopping 100 pages, all created using the one tool I knew, MS Frontpage (OK I didn’t know any better), By 2002 the site was the most comprehensive reference site for Raymond E. Feist on the web, evident by its number one Ranking on Google for the Authors name. At one point, in the old Google way of listing, Crydee.com took over 150 of the top 200 pages.
Nearing the end of 2002, and after discussions with Feist himself, the site became semi-official. The author had investigated putting up a site, however it had been pointed out Crydee already did most of it.
By now the site was already getting harder to manage due to its size, and remember this was a one man operation. So during 2003 the idea of moving to a database driven site came to the forefront. After an offer of assistance, some initial work took place, but after 3 months contact with the said party, was broken.