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Parts of these sites are quite out of date, because I have been a busy little bee.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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mrs_norris_mous

August 8 2011, 21:22:37 UTC 5 years ago

Minor things so far.

So looking at the w3c link checker ( http://validator.w3.org/checklink?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.seananmcguire.com%2F&hide_type=all&recursive=on&depth=5&check=Check ) I note that a number of pages linked off the news archive have broken links. If you were an obsessive type you could put them via the wayback when machine...

For Mira Grant I can't see any information about your short stories, given that some of them are freely available having information about them would be good.

The contact page (http://seananmcguire.com/contact.php) has the menu along the top while the rest have a menu along the side.

I will have another look later.

seanan_mcguire

August 8 2011, 21:26:44 UTC 5 years ago

I am obsessive, but not that obsessive.

My sanity forbids linking Mira Grant shorts to the website. There is only one bibliography page; Mira's site drives people back to it at several points; until I have someone to maintain these pages for me, there will be nothing but novels on MiraGrant.com.

This is a code function, and cannot be changed.

mrs_norris_mous

August 8 2011, 21:32:43 UTC 5 years ago

How about some links to the audiobooks of your work ?

seanan_mcguire

August 8 2011, 23:26:48 UTC 5 years ago

I don't directly link to any edition of my books; starting down that dark road leads to hysterics.

mrs_norris_mous

August 8 2011, 21:37:03 UTC 5 years ago

"http://seananmcguire.com/tobyfaq.php"

Q: When will Late Eclipses be available?

A: Late Eclipses is scheduled for North American release on March 1st, 2011.

Replace with "When will One Salt Sea be available?"

Under stuff to buy you could add a link to the artist who does your covers as I now have Toby as a mermaid looking down at me form the wall.

seanan_mcguire

August 8 2011, 23:29:29 UTC 5 years ago

Good catch, and fixed.

I haven't linked to Chris yet, because he hasn't expressed that I can.