After three weeks of confusion, bad links and mostly being offline, Web3D.ORG is back online. Needless to say, the wait was much worth it. The slightly dated "navy blue" look from 2003 and before is now a much slicker Nuke style. Internal navigation is still being reworked, so expect a few dead links, especially anything that points at Navy or Military.

All the truly important parts work again, the ancient VRML1/VRML2 resource archives are fully functioning and a complete new resource archive for X3D is being put together. The visionary freeware X3d-Edit can once again be downloaded for those needing to translate their unzipped VRML2 to X3D.

One of the nicest changes is that news is now carried right on the first page. No more hunting through dozens of pages, nor looking at cryptic headlines hoping to understand what story they top. Things can only get better from here.

Inside sources revealed to The News Letter that what caused the loss of site cohesion was an internal miscommunication among the webmasters responsible for the Web3D.ORG site. A change in server farms was taking place and the main server was accidentally turned off two weeks early. Data on this server was lost, and the only way to make the site cohesive again was to recreate the missing pages, their content (from scratch) and navigation. As any webmaster who has had to deal with this type of mess knows, it's very time consuming.