Website improvements are coming. What do you think?
By now, many of you will have had a chance to go browse around my website (www.seananmcguire.com), and may have noticed that it's currently oriented fairly heavily towards my musical activities. All the current content is going to remain online -- you'll still be able to access the songbook, view details on my CDs, and more -- but we're in the middle of a major reworking of the entire site. Expect exciting developments...and that's where this post comes in.
What would you like to see on my website? Be aware that some things either can't or won't be done; I can't offer entire albums for download (I don't have the bandwidth and would really like to sell the physical CDs before the cat uses them to kill me in the night), I won't start doing daily photo docudramas about my cat, but still, there are options. Are you looking for wallpaper? Forums? A more detailed schedule page? Bios? Let me know! Since there's no commitment involved in having an opinion, this is your chance to pie-inna-sky me without fear of anything more than being looked at funny.
I would argue in favor of a forum, but be aware that, just like spam e-mail, there's a lot of botnet action in forums right now. The Westria forum was getting several bot signups a day before I implemented an arithmetic test to weed them out --now automated signups fail, but the semi-automated ones that actually involve a human at any point still need dealing with.
I'm going to get a 'With Friends Like These...' archive, especially since I'm currently working on a series called 'Seanan's Guide to Writing', which is disturbing as all hell.
We'll definitely screen for bots. You've had good forum experiences? We're strongly leaning in that direction...
Sure, I've got experience in both the technical and social sides of forum-wrangling--but if there's any real size to deal with, I'll have to appoint some help from among your fan base. ;)
chipper
May 20 2008, 01:02:43 UTC 9 years ago
More art?
I would argue in favor of a forum, but be aware that, just like spam e-mail, there's a lot of botnet action in forums right now. The Westria forum was getting several bot signups a day before I implemented an arithmetic test to weed them out --now automated signups fail, but the semi-automated ones that actually involve a human at any point still need dealing with.
-- Lorrie
May 20 2008, 14:00:33 UTC 9 years ago
I'm going to get a 'With Friends Like These...' archive, especially since I'm currently working on a series called 'Seanan's Guide to Writing', which is disturbing as all hell.
We'll definitely screen for bots. You've had good forum experiences? We're strongly leaning in that direction...
May 20 2008, 16:26:27 UTC 9 years ago
-- Lorrie