HisDarkMaterials.org

We are pleased to announce that the website has been successfully moved to our new server. Compliments go to Nick Stallman for his excellent work.

At the moment Photograms and Srafopedia are still inaccessible, but these will be restored in the coming hours. We would like to thank everyone for their patience.

Update: Photograms and Srafopedia are now online.

Update: Cittàgazz now has RSS feeds allowing you to subscribe to the latest posts for a forum or topic.

Once more the time has come for all of you to have your say. Last year saw the creation of the Cittagazzean Scholar Awards and due to the massive response, we are holding them once again. We want you to vote for your favourites and give credit where it's due.

BBC iPlayer has recently uploaded and made available for download, the new Ruby in the Smoke film for tv.

On behalf of the HisDarkMaterials.org’s team, I’d like to wish all His Dark Materials fans a happy and prosper 2008!

This past year has been a very interesting and exciting year for all of us, with the release of The Golden Compass and everything surrounding that. The release of The Golden Compass teaser trailer was the best viewed news article, followed closely by Chris Weitz’ message to the fans about the cut ending, and our The Golden Compass reviews. We welcomed over 3.700 new members this year, breaking the 10.000 members mark, and all of those people posted over 120.000 messages and comments!

Thanks to everyone who’s been involved with HisDarkMaterials.org in any way. We are confident that 2008 will bring a lot of new exciting things for us His Dark Materials fans.

As always, you’ll be the first to know here on HisDarkMaterials.org!

Just as it's not easy being green, it's not easy being popular either. It seems that so many people dropped by last night that our server complained and suspended our account.

Luckily everything should be fixed by now. Apologies for any traumatic experiences involving error pages.

Thank you for bearing with us!

New Line Cinema is unveiling the final version of The Golden Compass trailer on October 9th in New York City. We offered three of our readers a chance to take a friend along to experience this exclusive event, in return for dressing up as their favourite character.

First of all we’d to thank everyone who entered! We have selected three entries for originality and style.

Today we launched two major additions to our website. First of all the information menu has been recoded to ease navigation around the website. Secondly we are proud to present the Cittàgazze Connection, your one stop shop for all your His Dark Materials needs.

If you have any remarks about these additions, or if you have ideas for items for the store please leave a comment!

Before I post my extended opinion on the movie I just wish to thank a few people who made my stay in London possible and/or a lot more enjoyable.

First of all Gordon Paddison for inviting me in the first place, Samantha Shuman for making last minute travel arrangements, Nicole Butte, Joe Whitmore, and Clare Anne Conlon for being helpful and generally nice people to hang out with. Thanks to Deborah Forte, Mark Ordesky, and Ileen Maisel for being so accessible and willing to shed some lights on the movie's development. A big thank you to Chris and Dakota who took the time to talk to us; also everybody on set who introduced themselves and talked about their experiences.

Also Scott from Hollywood.com, Jenny from JoBlo, and Heather from ComingSoon for explaining what a per diem is and being cool people to hang out with. Drew from AICN for making some good points about the movie. Kyle from UGO for accompanying me on my final day in London. Finally Jennifer from MTV and Devin from CHUD for brightening up the evening.

The HDM.org crew would like to wish you all the best for 2007! The coming year is bound to be a very important year for all His Dark Materials fans, as we'll witness one of the biggest adaptations ever, the first His Dark Materials movie!

Thanks for your continuing support, we'll keep growing as a community in 2007!

The HisDarkMaterials.org site team would like to wish the whole His Dark Materials fanbase a Merry Christmas!

Because our members are spread out all over the world we would like to break the English-only for once and wish you a merry christmas in your mother tongue.

I realise that it has been a while since we first announced that we were going to implement theme switching; this week I finally got round to actually coding the system, L!NK being so kind as to style two new themes for us.

To change the website's theme simply click on one of the links in the theme switcher on your right. Most of you will probably want to try out 'Classic bright,' our answer to all the people we had complaining that the "website was way too dark." (Ladies and gentlemen, the books are called His Dark Materials...)

Secondly, as you might have noticed, I also added an overview of the five most recent posts on Cittàgazze, as I thought that might be useful.

If you have any remarks or suggestion about the theme switching, possible themes, etc, please drop us a line.

As some of you might realise it was HisDarkMaterials.org's third birthday on the 1st of September. As we had been planning to redesign our website for a long time we thought it would be a good idea to have that done in time for our birthday.

However, as I was coding the new website I realised that Cittagàzze needed to recoded as well, Svalbard had to be rebuilt from scratch to make the website into a coherent whole. This meant that it was more than two weeks before we arrived at the point where we are now.

Hopefully all of you will enjoy the new and improved website; as always, if there are any comments or suggestion you can always contact us. I've listed some of the changes below.

I would like to wish you a happy new year in the name of the HDM.org staff! I hope that everyone's plans for 2006 will work out. Thanks for visiting HDM.org and making it the great community it is.

Thanks for your support and be sure to stick around in 2006!

The staff of HisDarkMaterials.org would like to wish all our members and visitors a very merry christmas!

Hopefully everybody will have a wonderful christmas, free from unplanned mishaps.

Still no christmas card from us this year, so instead we have a nice picture of a christmas tree!

You can join the christmas festivities here and here.

It has been two years ago since HDM.org was launched as a small His Dark Materials Fansite. Since then, we've grown a lot to become one of the leading His Dark Materials websites on the net. We'd like to celebrate this event with you all by unveiling some of the new features of His Dark Materials .org.

• Today we officially launch our His Dark Materials RPG (Role Playing Game): The Realm of Dust. Roam Svalbard as a Panserbjørne, explore Lyra's Oxford or make friends with Mulefa with your own character(s).
  Please have a look around the RPG's website for more information!

• In an effort to make the Cittagazze Forum even more pleasant to you we've worked hard to enable theme selection. The fact that you don't like the dark theme shouldn't be an excuse anymore to join our His Dark Materials Community!
  Please refer to the theme switching thread for more information and support. You can also suggest more themes there.

• If that's not enough for you, we'll unveil more new features to improve our site in the coming weeks.
  (And remember, if you have any suggestions please let us know!)

You can celebrate on the boards.