Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: thoughtful
  • Music: Aqua, "Cartoon Heroes."

Website improvements are in process!

So my website improvements and updates are rocking right along—you can now visit the site for everything from news about the Toby books to the Velveteen stories, an assortment of FAQs, and stuff about my cats. The songbook and album information is all still there; so is the art card gallery, and the first of my Thoughts On Writing essays (along with the thoughts themselves). It is, in short, expanding at a truly epic rate...and that's where you come in.

What's missing? What needs more detail? What are you waiting to see? We currently have plans in the works for...

...forums. Chris is working on getting these functional. Once we have the code in place, we'll probably be in "closed beta" for a few weeks as the forum moderators sort out what they want to do with the space, and then we'll go open. I'll solicit suggestions for specific forums when we get closer, but once the forums open, I'm essentially going to be hands-off.

...a mailing list. People keep asking me to sign them up, and I have to look politely baffled. So again, Chris is crunching the code for it, and then we'll be opening one up. I'll probably have to do a quarterly newsletter to justify having a mailing list. Woe. Because getting me to chatter about what I'm doing is so hard.

So what else do we need? Speak, and be joyfully heard!
Tags: chris, requesting things, website updates
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beable

April 16 2009, 16:37:00 UTC 8 years ago


I couldn't find the information that talked about the Stars Fall Home backstories about all the songs ?

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 16:41:48 UTC 8 years ago

The "Behind the Music" pages have not been transferred over, and may or may not be transferred in the future. They'd require a lot of cleanup, and there's a lot less focus on the filk aspect of things.

beable

April 16 2009, 20:12:08 UTC 8 years ago


Oh well. I should have read them all in a more timely fashion while I had the chance!

seshat

April 16 2009, 17:05:22 UTC 8 years ago

Phouka archives?

>.>

seanan_mcguire

April 16 2009, 17:08:19 UTC 8 years ago

...dear gods, the amount of editing I'd have to do...

seshat

April 16 2009, 17:48:13 UTC 8 years ago

Maybe just the highlights... >.>

Ok - this is seriously broken!

beable

April 16 2009, 21:10:04 UTC 8 years ago


In the horror movie section you have subsections covering what do in case of zombies (answer: get an army of velociraptors).

It's (ob80's child) a moral imperative (/ob80's child) that the next subsection should not be about surviving a vampire movie, it should be about surviving a velociraptor movie. HAven't you seen Jurassic Park?

Re: Ok - this is seriously broken!

seanan_mcguire

April 17 2009, 13:38:15 UTC 8 years ago

That is an excellent point, and one that I will address posthaste!

aiglet

April 17 2009, 05:35:40 UTC 8 years ago

Sadly, best current practice is to mail *at least* once a month or your mailing list goes stale and you get in trouble for spamming.

Let me know when it's set up and we can talk about how to do it so no one goes crazy or gets blocked at every ISP known to man.

seanan_mcguire

April 17 2009, 13:38:41 UTC 8 years ago

Really? Huh. Okay, yeah, we'll definitely need to discuss ways to make that work, once the code is all ready to go. Thanks!