Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Talis Kimberley, "The Finding of the Feather."

Pimp my website, win an ARC!

So here's the deal. I have two websites, and I maintain them both myself, manually. That means nothing changes unless I go in and change it. The sites are here:

http://www.seananmcguire.com/
http://miragrant.com/

Parts of these sites are quite out of date, because I have been a busy little bee. We are thus going to play a little game.

Step 1: Go to my website. Either one.
Step 2: Poke around until you see something that could use improvement. A typo, a missing link, an unclear question on the FAQ, even a missing question on the FAQ. (Pages that aren't linked at all, like the Field Guide, or don't exist, don't count. Those are future improvements, not current issues.
Step 3: Post here, suggesting a correction/update.
Step 4: Step away from the website.

I will be making updates and corrections, partially based on this post, for the next week. On Friday, I will use our friend, random number generator, to choose a winner of an ARC of One Salt Sea (US-only, unless you can help with postage). No matter what, everybody benefits, since the end result should be an easier-to-use website.

Game on!
Tags: giving stuff away, one salt sea, requesting things, shameless plea, toby daye, website updates
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Prodding...

the_liz666

August 9 2011, 07:57:32 UTC 5 years ago

I always like to leave comments on drawings, but I also like my comments to be useful. That said, I'll add to this tomorrow when I'm less exhausted if anything further in the site pops up.
I've always loved your site. (seananmcguire.com) Minor suggestion, When I open it on my widescreen monitor, all the content crowds to the left. Maybe something to move the page to a center view without altering the text content?

Otherwise I've found it easy to navigate and fun to read. I haven't found any broken links (which are a personal bane to my existence). :) Plus you don't use any hard to read/hideous color combos. Thank you.

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seanan_mcguire

August 9 2011, 17:16:06 UTC 5 years ago

Awesome.

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the_liz666

August 10 2011, 03:42:25 UTC 5 years ago

So I poked around and the only other thing I could find was that the Reviews on "One Salt Sea" are the exact same reviews as "Late Eclipses". I'm assuming One Salt Sea hasn't been heavily reviewed... So unless you're obsessively anal (and here I poke the bear) you could leave it that way until you get reviews. Or go in and leave it blank until you harvest some tasty blurbs. ;)

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the_liz666

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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the_liz666

5 years ago

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shiyiya

August 9 2011, 08:05:37 UTC 5 years ago

On the Bibliography page, Discount Armageddon and One Salt Sea say 'originally published on ', but Blackout says 'coming on '. Lack of consistency in treatment of books that aren't out yet?

shiyiya

August 9 2011, 08:06:59 UTC 5 years ago

...oh right, I can't put text in angle brackets and expect it to show up. There was a [date] in both of those sets of single quotation marks that got eaten. The gist is still clear.

seanan_mcguire

August 9 2011, 17:05:05 UTC 5 years ago

Lack of consistency in books where review copies are starting to show up. Once one reviewer has the book, it goes to "originally published on."

evaleastaristev

August 9 2011, 15:57:43 UTC 5 years ago

Not going to actually read through the other comments, but I found an issue with http://miragrant.com/newsflesh.php

The contents links I assume are to take you to that part of the page. Right now, they do nothing but change the link in my URL bar. They don't change what I'm looking at at all.

Now I'm going to pay attention to my kitty, who apparently isn't loved because my hands are on the keyboard and not her.

seanan_mcguire

August 9 2011, 16:57:29 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, good catch! The a name links were wrong. I fixed them, and it works now.

evaleastaristev

5 years ago

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Just a thought

maverick_weirdo

August 9 2011, 20:58:50 UTC 5 years ago

On the "October Daye Books Page" you include images of the covers for Winterfluch and Nebelbann but nowhere on the page do you mention that those are German language translations of Rosemary and Rue and A Local Habitation

maverick_weirdo

August 9 2011, 21:10:24 UTC 5 years ago

As a separate comment; I think this is one of your cleverest contest ideas yet.

Re: Just a thought

seanan_mcguire

September 13 2011, 16:21:22 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

idancewithlife

August 10 2011, 04:45:06 UTC 5 years ago

Not from one of the websites (and so may not qualify), but I noticed that your welcome post today says this:

I also write as Mira Grant (www.miragrant.com). The first of Mira's books, Feed, is available now in the US and UK, and was selected as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2010. The sequel, Deadline, will be out on May 31st. Feed has been nominated for a Hugo. I'm still a bit in shock.

(Deleted and re-posted to fix the HTML tags.)

seanan_mcguire

August 10 2011, 14:16:48 UTC 5 years ago

That absolutely does not qualify.

Alphabet Index on Top for Songbook

crainefish

August 10 2011, 15:43:57 UTC 5 years ago

How about an A through Z index at the top of the Songbook page for greater ease of use? Right now the songs are arranged alphabetically, but the reader doesn't know what page letter T would be on, for example.

After seeing you refer to Wicked Girls a number of times (and figuring it wouldn't be my thing), I read the lyrics the other day, after you posted a link. Wow, was I ever wrong... Thanks!!! Is the Jane you refer to from Tarzan and Jane, or someone else?

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sheistheweather

August 10 2011, 16:09:47 UTC 5 years ago

She is Jane Banks from Mary Poppins.

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crainefish

August 10 2011, 17:22:56 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks foxipher!

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sheistheweather

5 years ago

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Re: Alphabet Index on Top for Songbook

seanan_mcguire

August 10 2011, 17:26:01 UTC 5 years ago

Unfortunately, the code doesn't support adding that. You can, however, use the "search" function if you're looking for a specific song.

I'm very glad you liked "Wicked Girls." :) Because Jane hasn't got a verse, she can be any Jane you like; I know at least one person who envisions Jane from The Silver Metal Lover. But canonically, for me, she's Jane Banks from Mary Poppins.

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sheistheweather

August 10 2011, 17:30:59 UTC 5 years ago

Because Jane hasn't got a verse, she can be any Jane you like

That hadn't occurred to me. It makes a lot of sense, including that "Jane" is often used as a generic name (Jane Doe, for example), and so could be any girl.

I like it.

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seanan_mcguire

August 11 2011, 14:49:20 UTC 5 years ago

That's a function of the CSS code I use, unfortunately, and since "is my website printable?" is less important than "is it legible and can it be navigated?", I'm not going to rip all the code up to fix it.

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platypuslord

August 11 2011, 03:48:20 UTC 5 years ago

I understand this probably doesn't count for an ARC, but I noticed your LJ profile at http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/profile claims that A Local Habitation just came out. ^_^;

seanan_mcguire

August 11 2011, 19:39:24 UTC 5 years ago

My LJ and LJ profile are not up for editing.

Thank you, though.

lit_luminary

August 11 2011, 05:34:20 UTC 5 years ago

In your Songbook, the song "You Shall"--the line "Layered and ripe with meaning, not too simple, not to long" is missing an 'o' in the second 'too.'

seanan_mcguire

September 11 2011, 03:16:07 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!
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