Website updates in the works.

[seanan_mcguire]

Because "done" is a misnomer around here, the ever-fabulous team of taraoshea (graphic design) and porpentine (back-end code) are hard at work preparing a redesign for SeananMcGuire.com, aka, "my website." We're not getting rid of the current content-we're not insane-but we are trying to make it a little easier to access and navigate, by doing things like shifting

Comments

[keristor]

Since they are your FAQs doesn't the term 're-vamping' have a rather ... specific ... meaning? *g*

[seanan_mcguire]

But...I like the vampires!

[keristor]

Well, yes. But they probably get tired after a while and have to do it in shifts. Which look pretty but are impractical when they get blood on them, so they have to be re-vamped...

[seanan_mcguire]

Sweetie, did you miss the "please do not ask Toby questions yet, I really won't be going back to this entry to retrieve them" part of the post?

[scifantasy]

One that springs to mind:

"Can I interview you?" (Subdivisions for "...for my podcast/article" versus "...for my school project." And yes, the answer can--indeed, probably should--start with "only after you've read my FAQ and are prepared to ask me different questions.")

[seanan_mcguire]

Oh, good one. Thank you!

[beable]

I kinda miss some of your old pages talking about your music, I never got a chance to read all the "behind the music" things for Stars, for example.

But I can also understand if you are trying to keep your pages focused solely on your writing.

[seanan_mcguire]

Yeah, this is very much a professional author page. While I still love filk, and am currently recording a fourth album, the odds of my putting up a huge labyrinth of interlinking pages about specific songs are very slim. I'm trying to rebuild some of that data in the Music FAQ, which is basically where that content lives now.

[ladymondegreen]

You might want to put up a care and feeding section on your FAQ for those who serve as hosts/take you to dinner/feed you after events, etc.

This would be especially helpful if it had regional food options, such as chain preferences, local favorites and notes about what you really want to avoid.

You could also archive your 'putting things in my mouth so you don't have to' data there.

[seanan_mcguire]

The size and scope of the people randomly hitting my page has expanded so far beyond the scope of the people I want to have bringing me food that I really wouldn't be comfortable with that.

[ladymondegreen]

That's a good point, though it does save you getting taken to the wrong restaurant (i.e. Quiznos).

[seanan_mcguire]

Yes, but...if you're taking me to a restaurant, won't you have had the opportunity to ask me?