Comments on: Beta Web Site

By: Kerry Allen

Kerry Allen — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 16:58:07 +0000

Wendy, the placement of items on the page is a huge problem with the program I’m using at the moment. On that first page, for instance, the book description goes all the way to the bottom of the box while in the program. On the same computer, it shrinks about two lines in the actual browser. On another computer, I end up with two inches of dead space. I did a hard return at the end of every line, under the misguided impression the problem was paragraph related (which is why there’s all that dead space to the right), but no. The browser completely shrinks the font for some unfathomable reason. I just cannot make it stick where it belongs. (It’s particularly obvious on the excerpt page, where you have to scroll down a third of the way to get to the backlinks. Those are RIGHT UNDERNEATH the last line of text in the program.)
I will definitely add your suggestions to my Stuff to Fix list.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:40:53 +0000

I like the site! Although I do have a suggestion - you know on your Books page, where it says AVAILABLE AT.. the font doesn’t really go with the one on your header and the book info. Also maybe if you put it right under the blurb it’s closer and we don’t have scroll down for it, yeah? And that ” June 2010, Vanity Press
1793 pages, $6.99
ISBN 1234567890″ could go under the book.

I love playing with HTML although I hate CSS script ’cause I never really learn about it and it looks way too hard.

By: Kerry Allen

Kerry Allen — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:07:28 +0000

Okay, I’m now getting lessons on building a site with Photoshop (and its assorted attached programs) and writing my own html (hold me—or shoot me, I don’t really care at this point!).

My opinion so far: There’s a lot to be said for my old drag-and-drop WSIWYG program, even if the results are sometimes frustrating. At least I can see what it’s SUPPOSED to look like, as opposed to and endlessly long string of letters that I’m assured “runs” like a pretty picture… unless you put a ” in the wrong place, in which case it “runs” a pretty error message.

But knowledge is power. Maybe, when I stop whimpering, I’ll find I have a talent for html (roflmao) and springboard into a new day job…