Up at 2 am and not calling me: seems she found out it was the Condor deadline for getting an ad in the program book, and she sat up half the night putting a new format together, since what we could afford was a half page, and our regular flier isn’t formatted for that size.
This morning she thought she’d lost the file. And was so darned tired she couldn’t find it readily.
I’m laying the law down: she is not to do one more favor for one more person until she gets a chance to get her own files up. She’s done covers left and right; she’s done the lettering and cleanup on the covers I did; and when we get somebody complaining about this little glitch or that one on the site or in a file, she takes it personally to try to get it perfect. I started out doing the file formatting for all the books, but I was having a hard go finishing the Bren book, so she took over doing that temporarily, and then got all the messages from people with a problem with this format and that format, and started trying to fix all of those. Besides the fact she’s the one who’s done all the site artwork, and the research on the sales software, and Paypal, and so on, and then somebody (not on this site) writes that he doesn’t like the colors she used.
I’ve told her give me the formatting job back, for gosh sake, and show me the new things she’s learned since I last did it. She’s got several more formats debugged. We’re not perfect yet, but we’ll keep after it. She did get one nice note from a reader who said we’ve done the cleanest e-books she’s yet downloaded, but all three of us in Closed Circle are perfectionists in our own odd way, and right now she’s working herself into the ground trying to make it all work flawlessly: but 2 am designwork is over the top. And the night before that it was 2 am trying to make the site perfect.
So we get home from the rink this afternoon and get a call from a dear friend who’s having computer trouble. Could Jane fix it?
Thank you, Jane. Don’t know what I’d do without you. But get your own book finished. Please.
I’d certainly consider the entry page rather image heavy, especially since the only links it contains are small, easily overlooked and not very discernible as links. The first time I saw that thing I couldn’t even find the links at all, since I had my browser window at only have the screen size, so the links weren’t in view immediately and I got frustrated, because the expected method for entry pages – clicking on the large picture/logo in the middle of the screen – didn’t work at all.
As for other pictures, I think quite a few of them are blocked for me, but the complainee might have been rather put off by the hyper animated horse pictures at the shopping cart (totally doesn’t fit the style of the site) and on the Midnight Rider’s page (rather unfitting, too, doesn’t look very professional).
As for text-background colors, I find the background too dark for the black text and the plain red rather headache inducing.
It’s also rather weird that the left-hand menu goes Cherryh – eBook Store – Fancher – Abbey. Looks like the last two are unimportant attachments and don’t have books in the store.
I’d also like to complain, that I only come here to complain. I suck at elife.
We didn’t intend to have a splash page. But we were advised if we didn’t, to frustrate the ‘bots, we’d have endless problems. Do a favorites link to the Store page and you’ll not have to fuss with the splash page at all.
But the bots don’t see the splash page, the bots don’t see the large linkless picture, they don’t hear the chimeing of the bells (which fortunately the majority of my browsers doesn’t play either) and it might frustrate more visitors than just me.
It’s not as if actually you have any instructions for how the bots should behave (follow, no-follow, cache, no-cache, index, etc), neither one the splash page nor the ones following.
Favoriteing the Store page will only work as long as you don’t change the address scheme. Experience tells me, that such changes happen every couple of years. Domains tend to change less often.
uii, just found out why the text and the background are giving me such trouble. My browser doesn’t render the background image, so I get the much darker background color.
Weird. Stay with us on that. You’re talking about the splash page?
The background image? No, it’s no the splash page, it’s the rest of the site. With SeaMonkey 1.1.X and 2.X it doesn’t render the background image. WithOpera 10.X it renders the background image and looks fine, with InternetExplorer 7 and Opera 9.X it renders the background image, but much too dark, it’s even worse than the SeaMonkeys.
If you want, I can make screenshots, it’s not the only difference between the different browsers.
There are those who like to complain because they live unhappy, constricted lives….let them go find their gardens and eat worms….there are better, happier things to be doing. BTW…I like all the funky stuff (would love to have a little Rider pin)…it’s part of what makes CC *human*!
Okay, some more fiddling shows the missing the background images to be my fault. Apparently someone on another page annoy me enough to take measures which had the background pictures here as collaterals. The brightness issues those changes as follows: SM1, IE7 and Opera9 – background image too dark, text difficult to read; SM2 and Opera10 – background image just right, text easily readable.
Sorry, for the rhubarb.
Errant earring photo:
http://www.sweetromanceonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=E754
I wore that pair to go with my lucky kitty shoes:
http://www.heelandsoleshoes.com/browser/68/product/ECMB3BD024D1047604518-71/items.html
Yes indeedy, my cat head shoes (note tail!) are red & black, matching the earrings.
Sadly, those lucky kitty shoes turned out to be *not so lucky* on Monday, when 1) my office building had a fire and 2) the earring was sucked down the black hole!
@OSG…..love 🙂 Love 😀 LOVE 😆 the kitty shoes!! 😉