another day
I didn't do much today. Slept in late. Read a pile of comic books. Finished reading Philip Jose Farmer's A Feast Unknown. Read some more comic books. Reviews of the Farmer book and the graphic novel Solomon Kane: The Castle of the Devil are already up on my "visual bookshelf" on Facebook and will be cross-posted here tomorrow.
Kind of funny sequence of events tonight:
First, Luke mentioned having to do some website design for a class, and I suggested perhaps he could take a crack at designing www.anthonycardno.com. Luke feels he owes me something for the times I've been supportive, so I thought that'd be a nice way for him to repay me without him having to do anything extra (because I really don't think he has to repay me at all, personally). Of course, it would be a while before he really got around to doing it.
So I was telling the story to Hunter, and he offered to do a basic HTML web-design to at least get SOMETHING in place instead of the mass of ads currently at that web-address. But of course, it would have to wait until he finished up his summer job (in a week or so) and then he'd work on it until his girlfriend returned to school in a few weeks.
Both of these offers, while they'd be slow in the offing, were for work-for-free, and you can't beat that price. And considering Davey's schedule and the likelihood that he's not been able to put any time into the website since we initially discussed it, which has to be close to a year ago, I really couldn't complain about how long it might take them.
So I posted a notice on Darrell's facebook page saying that I had someone willing to work on the website design and I needed to talk to him about what coordination there needed to be since he is hosting the site.
Up pops our old high school friend Elsalee "Jay" Flynn (Dalupan was her maiden name), with an offer of trading web-design (one of the services her new company In Like Flynn provides) for the ability to use my site as part of her portfolio to get larger paying projects. And she immediately started asking me basic design questions AND asking for content to work with.
So obviously, I'd be a fool to pass up professional work on the site. Jay has already, as far as I know, grabbed all the graphics and info about The Firflake from Amazon. I've forwarded her the comical (sort of) bio I'd written for the page, as well as three short stories to be put up as well ("Invisible Me" was published in Willard & Maple magazine back in the spring of 2005; the other two are among my better unpublished works). She also wants descriptions of Ambergrin Hall and Christmas Ghosts to include on a "coming soon" type of page.
Exciting, yes!
Kind of funny sequence of events tonight:
First, Luke mentioned having to do some website design for a class, and I suggested perhaps he could take a crack at designing www.anthonycardno.com. Luke feels he owes me something for the times I've been supportive, so I thought that'd be a nice way for him to repay me without him having to do anything extra (because I really don't think he has to repay me at all, personally). Of course, it would be a while before he really got around to doing it.
So I was telling the story to Hunter, and he offered to do a basic HTML web-design to at least get SOMETHING in place instead of the mass of ads currently at that web-address. But of course, it would have to wait until he finished up his summer job (in a week or so) and then he'd work on it until his girlfriend returned to school in a few weeks.
Both of these offers, while they'd be slow in the offing, were for work-for-free, and you can't beat that price. And considering Davey's schedule and the likelihood that he's not been able to put any time into the website since we initially discussed it, which has to be close to a year ago, I really couldn't complain about how long it might take them.
So I posted a notice on Darrell's facebook page saying that I had someone willing to work on the website design and I needed to talk to him about what coordination there needed to be since he is hosting the site.
Up pops our old high school friend Elsalee "Jay" Flynn (Dalupan was her maiden name), with an offer of trading web-design (one of the services her new company In Like Flynn provides) for the ability to use my site as part of her portfolio to get larger paying projects. And she immediately started asking me basic design questions AND asking for content to work with.
So obviously, I'd be a fool to pass up professional work on the site. Jay has already, as far as I know, grabbed all the graphics and info about The Firflake from Amazon. I've forwarded her the comical (sort of) bio I'd written for the page, as well as three short stories to be put up as well ("Invisible Me" was published in Willard & Maple magazine back in the spring of 2005; the other two are among my better unpublished works). She also wants descriptions of Ambergrin Hall and Christmas Ghosts to include on a "coming soon" type of page.
Exciting, yes!