All you sailors, all life-savers, all you cruisers, all you fishermen

[sovay]

All right, I am slowly catching up with the twentieth century:

I have a website.

My father laid down the bones of this site around the time of Ghost Signs in 2015, but then my life fell apart so speedily and so awfully that nothing ever came of it. In anticipation of Forget the Sleepless Shores, I restarted it this weekend. I have done basically nothing else for the last two days except enter a lot of HTML and futz with tiny fragments of Drupal and have a migraine. My parents, spatch, and selkie have been very patient.

All slides on the front page are the creation of my father; all photographs except for the deep space one were taken by someone in my family. All text and errors are mine. I may continue to tinker with the site for the next couple of days, but it should now be live.

At the moment I think it looks rather nice.

Comments

[muccamukk]

It does look very nice! I like your author picture.

[sovay]

It does look very nice! I like your author picture.

Thank you! spatch took it in April. It's my favorite picture of myself in a long time.

[nineweaving]

It looks fabulous. It speaks truth.

Nine

[sovay]

It looks fabulous. It speaks truth.

Thank you. You are part of that speaking.

[nineweaving]

You are part of that speaking.

I am honored to be so.

Nine

[gwynnega]

It looks beautiful!

[sovay]

It looks beautiful!

Thank you!

[thisbluespirit]

That looks great! Well done on getting it set up!

[sovay]

That looks great! Well done on getting it set up!

Thank you!

[shewhomust]

It looks very smart and elegant - inviting and easy to read.

Any suggestions I might make would be about making it more visible to search engines, but these would involve saying things about yourself, which I realise is an obstacle.

If it is possible to expand the 'read more' buttons so that each one says what you can read more about, your site becomes more usable for non-sighted visitors using a voice browser - but the trade off is that the buttons aren't as neat. There's always a trade off.

[sovay]

It looks very smart and elegant - inviting and easy to read.

Thank you!

Any suggestions I might make would be about making it more visible to search engines, but these would involve saying things about yourself, which I realise is an obstacle.

My name alone won't do it? There aren't many other people with it.

If it is possible to expand the 'read more' buttons so that each one says what you can read more about, your site becomes more usable for non-sighted visitors using a voice browser - but the trade off is that the buttons aren't as neat. There's always a trade off.

That's good to know, though.

[shewhomust]

There are several sites with your name on them - reviews, your many and various publishers, Wikipedia - and you want your own site to come high up the list. So you give it as much help as you can. (Being more established, getting links to it, these will help too - but content matters, too).

I'm old fashioned, and hand-code, so I can't easily read the code you've used, so I'll say no more than that.

[cyphomandra]

It looks lovely! (and I think you definitely make it into the 21st century! it's hardly at the depth of the geocities ones I remember reading fanfic on with a rather painful fondness)

[sovay]

It looks lovely!

Thank you!

(and I think you definitely make it into the 21st century! it's hardly at the depth of the geocities ones I remember reading fanfic on with a rather painful fondness)

Just because it's not full of stars and frames and flashing construction signs . . .

[cmcmck]

I'm slowly but surely catching up ever more with the 17th! :o)

[selkie]

Do you want spoilers for Rise of the Roundheads: Civil War?

[cmcmck]

As a historian of the period, I suspect nothing you could tell me would be that spoiler-y after forty odd years of living there! :o)

That said, I do want a decent biography of Brilliana Harley!

[selkie]

I wonder where on earth all the replies to all her letters must have gone. *sigh* What a story someone could make of that. I'm not well up on pre-Restoration history these days, or I'd have a try in fiction.

[selkie]

While the migraine isn't what this weekend wanted, the website will do nicely. It's very solid and, to the point, makes you look like you're a highly reputable, well-blurbed writer of marketable words, all of which has happened to be true for a decade, just under a big mossy rock.

I brought the winch.

[sovay]

It's very solid and, to the point, makes you look like you're a highly reputable, well-blurbed writer of marketable words, all of which has happened to be true for a decade, just under a big mossy rock.

Thank you. There is still a slight feeling of unreality about the entire project, but I think my writing itself had started to feel unreal to me, and that just can't stand.

I brought the winch.

Launch!

[selkie]

BOOK BIRTHDAY BOOK BIRTHDAY TOMORROW IS YOUR BOOK BIRTHDAY *prances around with a lit torch and a Phrygian cap on*

[sovay]

*prances around with a lit torch and a Phrygian cap on*

That is much classier than a party blower.

[a_reasonable_man]

The website is lovely! I see there's a log-in at the bottom. How do I create an account?

[sovay]

The website is lovely!

Thank you!

I see there's a log-in at the bottom. How do I create an account?

That is one of the things I will be tinkering with! It's not supposed to be there. I'm sorry.

[drwex]

I do UX and design for a living. If you want that kind of feedback let me know.

Either way, mazal tov.

[sovay]

Either way, mazal tov.

Thank you!

I will let you know about your offer.

[genarti]

Website! And a lovely and professional-looking one it is, too.

[sovay]

Website! And a lovely and professional-looking one it is, too.

Thank you!

[yhlee]

Yessssss links to buy books (I lost a bunch of yours in the flood, regrettably) so I know what I'm going to be purchasing the next time I'm allowed to buy books. :)

Lovely site!

[sovay]

Yessssss links to buy books (I lost a bunch of yours in the flood, regrettably) so I know what I'm going to be purchasing the next time I'm allowed to buy books.

Oh, my God, self-promotion works!

(I hope you never have to deal with floods again.)

Lovely site!

Thank you!

[yhlee]

Self-promotion totally works! As we say in Korea as a goodbye to shopkeepers, 많이 파세요 (manhi paseyo--may you sell many things).

[sovay]

As we say in Korea as a goodbye to shopkeepers, 많이 파세요 (manhi paseyo--may you sell many things).

Thank you! I should very much like to!

[tree_and_leaf]

It looks great!

[sovay]

It looks great!

Thank you!