Blue Trident is an
unofficial fan
website dedicated to Rick Riordan's children's fantasy series, Percy
Jackson and the Olympians, and the sequel series, The Heroes of
Olympus.
In the Beginning...
In 2005, a bored 17 year-old girl decided
to start a fan website for the Percy Jackson and the Olympians
series. So she e-mailed author Rick Riordan to ask his permission, which
he kindly gave, and she got to work building the website. Unfortunately it
didn't look as good as she'd hoped, so she deleted it and pushed the idea
to the back of her mind. After the second book in the series was released
she decided to try again, plus she
needed something to keep her occupied seeing as her exams had finished and
she was waiting to go to university. So, on the 12th July 2006, Blue
Trident was uploaded for the first time onto the Internet for all to see. And it's still going strong
today.
Timeline
12th July 2006 - Blue Trident goes online for the first time!
30th?
August 2006 - Blue Trident: The Forum created.
May/June 2008 - Demigods and
Monsters competition held.
28th November 2008 - Forum changes provider and becomes "v2.0".
March 2009 - The Sword of
Hades / Groovy Greeks competition held.
26th November 2009 - Christine nearly retires as webmistress due to
personal problems but doesn't go through with it. Staff positions advertised.
12th January 2010 - New staff team begin working on the site.
30th June 2010 - Some staff leave
the team, but two stay on.
31st December 2010 - Version 2.0 of the layout
goes live! Finally!
25th April 2011 - Christine considers
changing site's main URL / web address. Lets the public vote which URL
they want Blue Trident to have. Public decides to keep the address the
way it is.
Did you know?
Blue Trident is one of the
longest-running
Percy Jackson and the Olympians fansites.
Christine and Blue Trident
were once featured as Rick
Riordan's
Demigod of the Week for the week beginning Monday 24th July 2006.
The website's original
tagline was "The No.1 Fan Site for Percy Jackson and the Olympians". It
was changed to "Seeing through the Mist since 2006" to accommodate coverage of The Heroes of
Olympus series (and because the original sounded a little too
big-headed).
