more promotion

I added both WALLOW and displaced to bestbooklinks.com. I need to add a reciprocal link on my Press/Reviews page in the WALLOW web site.

I also posted a message on myshelf.com for readers/reviewers to contact me. I am really desperate for someone to review my book. Review and help me promote I should say.

BIO page and PRESS/REVIEWS page updated

See, now these pages were getting a little text heavy. So I went and added thumbnails (not true thumbnails, but just images scaled down, I know it's not the best way, but it's the way for now) to both the BIO page and the PRESS/REVIEWS page. It sure punches them up a little bit.

I have put countless hours into this site already. Today alone, I would have to say it has been about 6 hours. My goodness. I sure hope I sell some books soon.

New BOOK LAUNCH pages added

Here they are. I used a simple JavaScript utility to create the pages, and then I just customized the page myself. Unfortunately, the thumbnails are not true thumbnails, and only images scalled down, so they don't look great. But at least there is something up there now.

Updates to the WALLOW site design

I realized on Saturday, while trolling in the waters of other authors out there, that my web site didn't seem very professional. The thing that most professional web sites have is a footer bar with contact information. So I added it. To all the pages.

On Sunday, I uploaded a ton of pictures: first, a couple of portraits to be used on the author bio page, and then a bunch of pictures from the launch party to be used on the launch party pages when I actually get them designed.

I also took the time to upload my latest Books Read update. I will redesign the page and make it something I update on a regular basis. The next logical step would be to have a "What I'm reading right now" page, but that sounds like future development to me.

Yet more updates

Most of them to the new index page. You'll see that 1) I changed the picture; I went with the one that most makes you feel like you are in a place where you can buy a book, and 2) I made the quotes random. I added to the Shit To Do list that I need to add more quotes too, and 3) I fixed the link to the TAF functionality. The thing still doesn't acknowledge that you have sent a TAF, but I will fix that soon enough.

I think that's about it for today.

More updates to the WALLOW site

Yesterday, I beat my head against the "Tell a Friend" wall. I figured out that while PHP will not run on the Volny server, where the WALLOW site resides, it will run on the RCN server, where my home site resides. So I put it there instead. You can see what I came up with here, but be careful: it actually works. At least most of the time (it's a long story I'll spare you for now.)

Today, I created the "Shit To Do" list for WALLOW. It just got to the point where what I had to do next wasn't exactly clear. I will update this list as I go.

As you can see from the list, I have already knocked a few action items off. I created the Errata page, although it needs to be populated. I also created the footer buttons that will allow a user to jump to any place in the site from any other. If you look at the Errata page, you can see I already incorporated them there.

Updating the WALLOW site

You wouldn't have thunk it would take this long, but it has. I have just now uploaded the Press and Reviews page, the Excerpts page (there is only one excerpt so far) and the Bio page. The design is not yet perfect, but at least the content is there.