Yeah, I know. Posts about the progress of things “behind the scenes” are usually boring. And yet, there’s this compulsion to let people know what all is going on.
I’m slowly revamping all the pages of the website: the navigation bar is being replaced, for one thing. It may look like the site is built with a frame for pages, but the reality is that the header is actually embedded in every page that is not a PDF file. This makes for a lot of work when the changes are not a simple change of a jpeg file (which was the case of the logo itself). Also, some of the urls are being changed slightly, so that has to be checked. It takes time.
However, things I can point out, in addition to the wonderful new Reviews blog which is now up and running, are the introduction pages to the various sample scripts, linked from the Works page. And added to that page is also the title of the paper I presented at Mythcon last summer (“All or Nothing: The Tendency for Dualism in Apocalyptic Fantasies”). A revised verion of my Biography can be found from that link (Now! With Pictures!). I may add a gallery of pictures from my growing up, down the road, as I get old photographs scanned. But that’s a very low priority project.
One of the other things I am working on is redoing the poetry that is currently posted online — finding new/better backgrounds, redoing the lettering. These are actually prepared as images, so the text of the poetry is actually incorporated into the final image. I’m still learning some of the finer points of working in Photoshop. And in conjunction with that, I’m hoping in the next week to be able to post the new color scans of the Christmas card designs. I’ll also be (yes, at long last) setting up that long promised Zazzle store — and some of the Christmas designs will be made available for products, like T-shirts, mugs and such (though not Zazzle cards – as the designs were made for a particular type of card stock, I’ll continue to market those myself). Look for further announcements.
Upcoming things: CAPS this evening, the Long Beach Comic Con at the end of this month, LosCon in late November. Hey, I may even remember to take pictures!
