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

[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.