Eyes Needed

[rolanni]

Having wasted spent odd bits 'n bobs of the last couple days working on a new!improved!grown-up! website, I've now gotten to the point where I'm cross-eyed, and it's on line.

If someone(s) with a couple minutes on their hands could go check it out, test the links, kick the tires and whatnot, I'd be appreciative.

Comments

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

Quick look: On the bibliography page, the (TM) symbol comes through as a question mark on my browser, IE 6.0. On the Contact page, I would omit the comma after the name of the woman at your literary agent. Clicking on the XHTML validation link at the bottom of the page gives a list of errors on at least a couple of the pages that may or may not be significant.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

On the bibliography page, the (TM) symbol comes through as a question mark on my browser,

mutter, mumble, dadrabbitted text editor, grump, grumble, snarl

[aitchellsee.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...it does the same thing for my version of Firefox, just fyi.

[sraun]

The 'arwen54' link goes to an ... interesting page. You might want to follow it and see? Something about 'this domain may be for sale'.

That's the only obvious snag that I see.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

The 'arwen54' link goes to an ... interesting page.

OK, that's weird. I'm pretty sure it didn't do that, um, earlier. On other hand, I am a sleep-deprived being at this point, so what do I know? I cut the link.

Thanks!

*poke* *poke* *zot*

[elbales]

Front page: irascible, one "r"

On all but the home and bibliography pages, the border at the bottom left corner is sitting on top of the menu text. A function of the border's expanding to fit the body text but not allowing for the presence of the menu?

I run Mac OS 10.4.8 and Safari 2.0.4 (419.3).

Re: *poke* *poke* *zot*

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

On all but the home and bibliography pages, the border at the bottom left corner is sitting on top of the menu text. A function of the border's expanding to fit the body text but not allowing for the presence of the menu?

Yep, it's an expandable border, but it doesn't Do That on either of my browsers, so I'm not sure how to fix it...

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I second the arwen link issue.

Other than that, very clean and easy to negotiate on Camino, and a reminder that I need to add a contact info page.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Clean and easy to navigate is my goal.

And the arwen thing is ...just weird...

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

That looks nice. Say, what do you use to build and maintain your site?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

That looks nice.

Thank you.

what do you use to build and maintain your site?

Well...for this one, I used Kate (which is a Linux text editor)-- because y'know, I Need The Practice -- working off a template from OWD (http://www.oswd.org/designs/browse/sortby/date/page/60/), which is a Very Useful Site, indeed.

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[fiopi.livejournal.com]

I'd suggest on any pages you have control (like your live journal, SRM Publisher) that you put in a link back to your own webpage. For your "favorite links" that you can't put a link on to get back to your site perhaps you could have them open in a separate window or tab, so the visitor doesn't "leave" your site completely.

I'm on MacOS running an old version of Firefox and had no problem with the boarders and stuff, all read just fine. I like your layout too, very clean and reads well.

[chappysmom2.livejournal.com]

Everything looked and seemed to act normally to me.... Looks nice!

[(Anonymous)]

Link for Barnburner (have I got that right) on the Sample Chapters didn't work for me. Other than that looks nice.

Tricia

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

On the bibliography page, the (TM) symbol comes through as a question mark on my browser, IE 6.0.

Ditto in Firefox. Site is soothing...almost austure.

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

[Using IE 6 on a Windows XP Home SP 2 I think, laptop... IE is what I use at work, until unless I get income from using other browsers... I've used oddballs in the past, which was mostly a mistake, I should have moved off the Amiga long before I did, it perhaps would have shortened significantly the duration of unemployment if I'd been using Windows at home...)

Hmm. I like the background color for being your background, I'm having no trouble on my laptop reading the text against it. The font/fonts are fine, I didn't notice them as in "If I notice the font it's because it's negatively drawing attention to itself for me."

I like that there is a consistent look and feel on the the material listed under "Main Menu:"

It was jarring, though to go to the Liad/Korval/etc. links and then get white background\

Regarding the heavy-lined enclosing whatever-it's-called, on the Main Menu pages, that pulls my eye off the text and onto it as heavy thick graphic. I tend to not like such borders things because my eye gets distracted off the text... computers I'm the only user of I don't use backdrop images, just plain default blue usually... not that much of it usually shows. I had more than 70 windows open on my machine at work on Tuesday before I closed some of them... clutter and such I can deal with when it's my own clutter. The new Tamora Pierce novel's design has me irritated, the pages inside the book have borders around them and the borders pull my eyes and attention off the book onto the border graphic.

The rectangular boxes around the Main Menu and Favorite Line areas are a bit jarring to me because rectangles are aesthetically out of harmony with the overall enclosing graphic--the border had rounded on the corner areas and then concavity and the embossed leaves pointing inside the enclosed area. The rectables are of a different width of line, different color, and those sharp right angle pointed corners--rounded off corners if possible I suspect would look better to me.

[jack_calls_dances]

Looks nice. I know I'm coming to this a little late, but you might want to set the links that are outside of your site (blog, favorite links...) to open in a new window/tab. That way people can easily switch back to your page, even after exploring one of the others.

Jack

New site

[(Anonymous)]

It looks fine to me (on a Mac, running OS X, browsing with Firefox). I love the content. You made me smile when I read the Home page (with the reference to romance).

Jan Burke