Thanks to jennreese, I have a new website. It's at sarah-prineas.comIf you've got a minute, would you mind looking it over and telling me what you think
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Assorted noteselysdirJanuary 22 2007, 06:07:45 UTC
Cool site!
I think some of the people commenting don't realize that this is currently hosted at googlepages.com, and is thus limited to what Google Page Creator can do....
I have only a couple of little nitpicky suggestions:
1. On the main page, at first glance, it looks to me like the lines on the left are a list of separate items rather than continuous text. Once I actually read those lines, the problem goes away; I'm just talking about my first impression. And it may be just me anyway. It's possible that tightening up the leading/line spacing might fix this for me, but I'm not sure. Another option *might* be (if GPC will let you do this) to shift the vertical separator (between main text on left and links on right) either further left or further right, but I'm not sure that would actually address the issue.
2. Given that the main page text is no longer bold, you might consider changing the "about" and "blog" page text to non-bold as well.
3. It seems a little odd to me that you mention the OWW in your first sentence on your About page; that makes it sound a little like you see it as the most important thing about you. If the idea is just that the OWW got you started on writing, you could probably condense that first sentence a little; otherwise, you might consider putting the OWW stuff elsewhere, like on a "resources" page or in an FAQ.
4. Short stories page:
A. "project" has a boldfaced "pr".
B. Lambton Worm line starts with an extra space.
C. In general, I recommend putting quotation marks outside of links, so that the quotation marks don't end up underlined and in color. But that's a personal-style thing. (In the early days of SH, we included quotation marks in links, but we started to not like how that looked, so we changed.) ...Oh, I see you did "Crow's Changeling" and "Hekaba's Demon" the way I'm recommending.
D. The asterisks get a little lost. Maybe put them after the periods, and with a space before them? Or maybe not.
E. Extra space at start of "Crow's Changeling".
5. Blog page: I would put the link on the word "SallyTuppence", and remove the "Click here to go to my blog" line entirely. (In general, using the phrase "click here" is considered a bad idea.)
Re: Assorted notessallytuppenceJanuary 22 2007, 16:25:26 UTC
Thanks, Jed!!!!
I'll make all of these changes. As you note, the page creator limits my options, so I won't be able to do anything with the vertical separator or any of the layout stuff.
However, I will go and fix all the typos. Gah! I hate typos!!
I think some of the people commenting don't realize that this is currently hosted at googlepages.com, and is thus limited to what Google Page Creator can do....
I have only a couple of little nitpicky suggestions:
1. On the main page, at first glance, it looks to me like the lines on the left are a list of separate items rather than continuous text. Once I actually read those lines, the problem goes away; I'm just talking about my first impression. And it may be just me anyway. It's possible that tightening up the leading/line spacing might fix this for me, but I'm not sure. Another option *might* be (if GPC will let you do this) to shift the vertical separator (between main text on left and links on right) either further left or further right, but I'm not sure that would actually address the issue.
2. Given that the main page text is no longer bold, you might consider changing the "about" and "blog" page text to non-bold as well.
3. It seems a little odd to me that you mention the OWW in your first sentence on your About page; that makes it sound a little like you see it as the most important thing about you. If the idea is just that the OWW got you started on writing, you could probably condense that first sentence a little; otherwise, you might consider putting the OWW stuff elsewhere, like on a "resources" page or in an FAQ.
4. Short stories page:
A. "project" has a boldfaced "pr".
B. Lambton Worm line starts with an extra space.
C. In general, I recommend putting quotation marks outside of links, so that the quotation marks don't end up underlined and in color. But that's a personal-style thing. (In the early days of SH, we included quotation marks in links, but we started to not like how that looked, so we changed.) ...Oh, I see you did "Crow's Changeling" and "Hekaba's Demon" the way I'm recommending.
D. The asterisks get a little lost. Maybe put them after the periods, and with a space before them? Or maybe not.
E. Extra space at start of "Crow's Changeling".
5. Blog page: I would put the link on the word "SallyTuppence", and remove the "Click here to go to my blog" line entirely. (In general, using the phrase "click here" is considered a bad idea.)
Must dash. Again, cool site!
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I'll make all of these changes. As you note, the page creator limits my options, so I won't be able to do anything with the vertical separator or any of the layout stuff.
However, I will go and fix all the typos. Gah! I hate typos!!
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