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So I need to go revamp my website


Since it's looking a little dated. 1993 dated, back when the best you could do with HTML was colors and text size. (Yeah, yeah, I remember building one of the original versions of Mosaic from source, and the NCSA http server. Hey, y'damn kids, get off of my lawn!) Given that tests the limits of my graphic arts prowess, it's not something I poke at much. That needs to change, though -- with Ben and William's first novel starting, plus Carpe Diem (finally!) starting up, and Busted getting shopped around as soon as it's finished I really need to get it spiffed up.

 

This is where I always grumble at my geek aesthetic. I just don't have the style genes to make things look good, which is damned annoying. I mean, I know you can make web pages look nice (see, for example, the myriad different faces of the CSS Zen Garden to see what someone can do with just images and css) unfortunately I can't make 'em look nice. Or if I can I just don't have the patience or inclination to do it.

 

I don't suppose anyone knows a web designer looking to reduce the amount of Ugly on the internet...

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Lucy Kemnitzer

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Simple is good. Here's what I would do: I would make the letters less bold and consider reversing the text and background. The fat white letters are kind of hard on the eyes. The designs at Zen Garden are distracting and self-important, and if I were you I wouldn't lust after them. There are a couple that are simple enough to be nice, but if they're that simple you can do it with tables. (I am not an HTML or CSS expert: I have an obsolete version of dreamweaver and I know maybe ten or at the most fifteen HTML tags and that's all I need, thank you)

 

Other than that. There's no link to "Busted:" did you take it down when you decided to revise it and submit it professionally?

TheZot

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Busted was never linked to from my authors page. It's only on the blog, and only in first draft form. (If shopping it around doesn't get me anywhere I'll start serializing the finished form on the site)

 

I should sit down and put together the CSS for the site -- while I'm not looking for anything near as flashy as the zen garden stuff, some sane navigation, proper side bars, some background art, and stylesheets that are pretty enough would be nice. Maybe next week...

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