kyle wrote:Glad you found your way in, madison!
Thanks, Kyle. I'll poke around in here a bit today during work breaks. Looks like a fun and interesting forum.
kyle wrote:Glad you found your way in, madison!
Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:(Now I have to keep telling myself: Stop thinking about the Kinks song, she's heard that one a zillion times... Stop thinking about the Kinks song, she's heard that one a zillion times... Stop thinking about the Kinks song...
kyle wrote:Must be a generational thing. I went immediately to Barry Manilow.
foxanthony wrote:If you go to my site at http://tigerlore.com you'll see it's not an unattractive site...
s_c_baker wrote:Welcome, Tony! I tend to agree with Martin--that background makes me go![]()
I hear you on the "attractive website" thing, though. I've visited some professional author's sites and been amazed at how awful they are. (The fact that part of my job is web design probably does it.)
foxanthony wrote:Ugh. I can't believe I'm defending my webdesign skills. Three weeks ago I only had a vague idea of what CSS was and my photoshop (Gimp + Inkscape, actually) skills were limited to cropping photos.
But, that's not my defense. People going to my site will be going there to get a free fantasy novel and it is very clear how to do that. The subdomain doesn't have an image for a background and so the text is quite readable.
My attention is on marketing and writing, and my budget is next to nothing. When I can afford professional webdesign you can bet I'm going to get it. And marketing too, if I think the ROI will be worth it. Hell, I'd hire a better writer if I thought I could get away with it. I enjoy writing, but honestly I'd rather be composing and recording jazz-fusion.
And the book isn't done yet, so neither is the website. But, I'm doing it. What are you doing? I ask because I'm always looking for ideas I can steal, er, I mean use.
basement-grunge retro-'70's movie aesthetic.
foxanthony wrote:Ugh. I can't believe I'm defending my webdesign skills. Three weeks ago I only had a vague idea of what CSS was and my photoshop (Gimp + Inkscape, actually) skills were limited to cropping photos.
But, that's not my defense. People going to my site will be going there to get a free fantasy novel and it is very clear how to do that. The subdomain doesn't have an image for a background and so the text is quite readable.
My attention is on marketing and writing, and my budget is next to nothing. When I can afford professional webdesign you can bet I'm going to get it. And marketing too, if I think the ROI will be worth it. Hell, I'd hire a better writer if I thought I could get away with it. I enjoy writing, but honestly I'd rather be composing and recording jazz-fusion.
And the book isn't done yet, so neither is the website. But, I'm doing it. What are you doing? I ask because I'm always looking for ideas I can steal, er, I mean use.
foxanthony wrote:Ugh. I can't believe I'm defending my webdesign skills.
Strycher wrote:For the record, I didn't have a hard time reading the text on your site.
kyle wrote:Strycher wrote:For the record, I didn't have a hard time reading the text on your site.
And this is the first and most important lesson of web design: How it looks on your monitor is not a predictor of how it looks on someone else's. If you don't have an intimate knowledge of render engines, color gamuts, monitor gamma, standard platform resolutions, and browser support, all you can do is either stick to the 1991-era "web safe colors" or have everyone you know look at the site and report back on readability issues.
Strycher wrote:This is going to make me sound tech-illiterate but, just buy a template. If you don't like the free ones shell out the $15-30 for a pro-made one. It's so much easier. Consider how much time it would take to do it yourself, translate that into currency based on your hourly pay-rate and more than likely it costs less to pay someone else to do it.
Plus you can spend all the time you save writing. Which is what really matters.
Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:Strycher wrote:This is going to make me sound tech-illiterate but, just buy a template. If you don't like the free ones shell out the $15-30 for a pro-made one.
That's not tech-illiterate, it's smart advice.
E.CaimanSands wrote:So I wanted something up there to brag about how annoyingly smart I am.
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