Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: ecstatic
  • Music: Jill Tracy, 'Evil Night Together.'

New website design is launching! Behold the pretty!

So after months of hard work, discussion, and objections to my questionable belief that orange and green are always automatically complementary colors, my new website has launched! All credit to taraoshea for gorgeous graphic design, and to porpentine for skillful implementation. Take a look:

http://seananmcguire.com/index.php

You will note that most of the links don't work, and that the text in the 'Appearances' box is still completely out of date. We're working on that, and I'll be posting here as things go live. (We should get the disclaimer and appearances updates done today, and then Chris is going to work on swapping over the Songbook and setting up the first of the FAQ pages.) All shame for missing text should be directed towards me, as I've been terribly lax in actually turning it in before the site was ready to go live. I need to actually be able to see how it's going to look on the page. This is the danger of having a visual mind.

But isn't it pretty? I'm just as pleased as punch, and I'm only going to get happier as more sections of the site go live. Chris is even fixing it so I can update more parts of it myself, which means it'll get fussed with daily, just like everything else I can put on a to-do list.

Squee.

Life is good.
Tags: chris, good things, tara, website updates
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jimhines

December 2 2008, 16:02:33 UTC 8 years ago

Very pretty! I like the design and the layout a lot.

If I had to nitpick, there's a lot of text there, and it's a little overwhelming to my poor little brain. Overall though, it's a beautiful web site.

seanan_mcguire

December 2 2008, 16:06:02 UTC 8 years ago

Yeah, it is pretty text-heavy. But I don't have book covers or anything to hit people with as yet, and things are (going to be) pretty linear in terms of cruising to where you want to be, assuming you can work drop-down menus.

I figure the text levels will rise and fall according to what's going on.

Also, glee. Tara does wonderful work.

djonn

December 2 2008, 17:18:32 UTC 8 years ago

About those drop-down menus...

At least in my browser (IE7), once you have moused over something that has a drop-down menu, the drop-down menu will not go away again unless/until one forces a page refresh. And there are now enough drop-downs on that page that they tend to get in each other's way if one mouses over more than one of them.

Otherwise, it is indeed nifty and well-designed, and I look forward to more parts of it going live. (Forums?? Oooh....)

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aedifica

December 2 2008, 16:24:46 UTC 8 years ago

That's very pretty! I really like the bar across the top.

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 15:15:46 UTC 8 years ago

All Tara's doing. How she rocks me.

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seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 15:17:52 UTC 8 years ago

Thank you!

mariadkins

December 2 2008, 16:37:35 UTC 8 years ago

Looks terrific. Well laid out, clean, easily read, great organization. :)

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 15:18:12 UTC 8 years ago

I like it a lot.

charleeg

December 2 2008, 16:44:42 UTC 8 years ago

Gorgeous! The design is clean and the text/background is easy on the eyes. The top graphic is soooo pretty, especially with the ivy tendril. Lovely touch.

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 15:18:29 UTC 8 years ago

I'm just delighted. Tara and Chris do amazing work.

snowishness

December 2 2008, 16:47:37 UTC 8 years ago

It's gorgeous.

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 18:45:49 UTC 8 years ago

Glee.

dawn_metcalf

December 2 2008, 16:50:33 UTC 8 years ago

Very nice & *just* my cup o' tea - I'd agree to trimming text but I have faith it'll be as clean 'n' natural as the rest.

Beautiful, dahlink!

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 18:46:21 UTC 8 years ago

I'd rather get it up there and edit down than try to bulk things up later, y'know? It shall all be cleaned up!

I am overjoyed.

vaspider

December 2 2008, 17:46:37 UTC 8 years ago

Prettah!

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 18:46:29 UTC 8 years ago

Glee.

notalwaysweak

December 2 2008, 19:49:16 UTC 8 years ago

I think it's very pretty.

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 18:46:41 UTC 8 years ago

*does a little dance*

sylvidoptera

December 3 2008, 00:20:51 UTC 8 years ago

Ooooh, it is VERY much the pretty! Glee! :)

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 18:47:12 UTC 8 years ago

I am so thrilled.

talithakalago

December 3 2008, 02:29:59 UTC 8 years ago

Looks amazing!

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 18:47:20 UTC 8 years ago

Next up...THE WORLD!

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amanda_nye

December 3 2008, 03:59:41 UTC 8 years ago

Preeeeeeeetttttyyyyyyyyyy

seanan_mcguire

December 5 2008, 18:48:13 UTC 8 years ago

I'm so thrilled.