It’s not going to be too hard, actually—once I learn to tie pages together. We now have the print color straightened out. If the size is still too small, it’s CSS and you should be able to scale it up, but if not, tell me and I’ll fix it from my end. I’m working on what to do about the spare sidebars, but hopefully this will get fixed. The only one that needs to track us is the shopping cart and maybe a link to the blog and the website. It IS a learning curve. I read the instructions, but when I get there, what I’m looking to axe doesn’t manifest. I kind of think it’s on Lynn’s side of the wall.
I have another page made, but can’t get it to display yet because I don’t know how to link it into the other one, and for all we know Lynn’s got the swine flu—she came back from DragonCon to a dead car battery (of the person who’d ridden with her) and a general yuckkiness that has blossomed into a fever and real unhappiness.
I have downloaded the manual. We are going to figure how to put this together.
I don’t envy you that, CJ. I played around with Joomla! for a bit and found it difficult. Oh, it can generate some amazing sites filled to the brim with dynamic content, but not easily. I suppose that there may be some templates and tutorials out there for it, but it’s still too new for there to be very many. So, erm, good luck.
Honestly, if Lynn can just link my pages, give me a shopping cart, and a place to upload my files, I’m good to go. Jane is close behind me. Janet Morris has been working on something for Lynn’s section; and Lynn, once she gets organized, will be updating her blog, her site, AND creating content for CC.
Ooo! Sounds exciting! You folks have been very busy, indeed, and I look forward to reading the few books of yours I haven’t read, yet.
And a shout-through to Lynn to get better. I come home from vacations having picked up some bug-or-other better than half the time. If the trips themselves weren’t enjoyable, I’d give it all up as a bad cause. Sometimes they went poorly, and then you truly feel cheated.
Yep, and she didn’t even fly. An air trip is usually going to get you with anything going, but she drove to Atlanta—and still got it. Sigh. I hope it’s just the regular flu.
The colors are now better, and the size has been scaled up, which is a step in the right direction.
But the problem now is that *everything* has been scaled up in size, and it has a fixed width which is too wide for most monitors. Ideally the width of the page should adjust to the size of the monitor.
Essentially Joomla is overkill for your needs. I know that you have started this way and its hard to change boats in mid stream, but on the other hand you need to approach this project in a way that’s going to work well for you, so that you don’t end up fighting with Joomla for years.
Wyvern, what browser? It’s displaying ok for me with IE8 and a wide screen.
Any other browsers having trouble?
Displays fine for me in IE7, IE8, Firefox, and Safari, both regular and widescreen.
Firefox 3.5.3
My monitor is 1440 x 900, but it displays as approx 20% too wide for my screen. I just checked that javascript is enabled for the page, but that doesn’t make any difference.
I’ve uploaded a screenshot to
http://drop.io/closedcircle
I looked at the page with 1024×768, Windows XP, no JavaScript, SeaMonkey and Opera. SeaMonkey has a horizontal scrollbar, but far shorter than GreenWyvern’s. Opera has no horizontal scrollbar, but only as long as I keep the window at max horizontal size, making it smaller, immediately results in a scrollbar.
GreenWyvern, what OS are you using?
Vista Home premium 32-bit
Take care of yourselves, and if you’d pass through well wishes for Lynn, I’d be grateful. I just came through a stomach flu myself and it’s amazing how miserable you can feel, especially when work is still hanging over your head.
Hope Lynn is feeling better. The only reason I look forward to first frost is that it kills the ragweed and goldenrod. You display just fine on safari.
Back again…check out the proposed Google settlement. From what I gather all out of print books could/would be downloaded by Google for no fee paid. Heard this on Morning Edition on NPR. Does not sound good to me. I think there’s a link @ NPR.org click on Morning Edition.
These idiots don’t understand the diff between op and public domain.
Vista, IE7, and a 17″ monitor. Comes through great.
Ok – Problem solved! 🙂
Firefox *remembers* the zoom level for specific websites, and I had previously zoomed in on the page a week or two ago, when the font was small (using Ctrl+). So when I went back to the site again, Firefox automatically set it to the same zoom level it had before. I’ve now reset the zoom for the site and it displays correctly.
Many apologies for the false alarm.
THanks for the re-prise! 🙂
I have a suggestion for CC, if you think it’d be something that could be done.
The small maps in the frontispiece of the Fortress books lack the detail and sometimes have to sacrifice exact locations due to space constraints. So, perhaps a larger map might be made available as a separate project.
When I got my hardbound copies of “The Lord of the Rings”, there was a really nice fold-out map of Middle-earth inside the first two volumes. “The Return of the King” had a closer map of Mordor, Gondor, and the Brown Lands, plus gave more detail in South Gondor, including marking the names of the rivers and mountains.
I hope that you can do something similar for us, even if it’s outside the series, perhaps something we could purchase directly from you, or if you need to have it go to a publisher, then from there. It would also give you a chance to update the maps in accordance with how the storylines have gone, fitting the maps to the stories, not the other way around.
Think of it! First Guelessar, then the Western Alliance to Malguri and east, and then a star map of Compact Space, and after that, Cyteen. See, I’m just full of ideas, aren’t I? My mother would say I’m full of something else, but we don’t talk about that….LOL.
That’s a great idea. I’ll see what can happen. I don’t know that I will have it immediately, but in the long run, yes, that could happen.
Hope Lynn is feeling better. There was an interesting article about swine flu in the Scientific American today. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=single-vaccine-dose-even&sc=CAT_BIO_20090914
I saw that. I’d hope it would hasten and broaden the availability of the vaccine.