Tesla Posted November 25, 2015 Posted November 25, 2015 Your picture on the about page is quite.........big. IMO a bit too big (no offence!) might just be me though being weird. 1
kennysarmy Posted November 25, 2015 Posted November 25, 2015 I get : Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. 1
sonofsanta Posted November 25, 2015 Author Posted November 25, 2015 More importantly - theories of ancient, aeon spanning battles aside - do we know what happened with that plant pot? The mystery continues. As far as I'm aware, the police incident is still open.
sonofsanta Posted November 25, 2015 Author Posted November 25, 2015 Your picture on the about page is quite.........big. IMO a bit too big (no offence!) might just be me though being weird. Eh, probably. I have a habit of incrementally bumping elements up in size and ending up with them being far too big (I'd done the same with the text sizes as well). I might rein it in a bit later. I get : Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Just trying to load the main page? Working for me from here. It's all on Vidahost so I'd hope it'd be running alright!
korifugi Posted November 25, 2015 Posted November 25, 2015 Just trying to load the main page? Working for me from here. It's all on Vidahost so I'd hope it'd be running alright! Just tried it here and it works fine - (IE11), also had a bit of a read and found we agree on both Discworld and Tea. 1
sonofsanta Posted November 25, 2015 Author Posted November 25, 2015 Just tried it here and it works fine - (IE11), also had a bit of a read and found we agree on both Discworld and Tea. Excellent! The tea thing tends to result in heated* arguments. Tea really is Serious Business on this green and pleasant land. *pun not intended
browolf Posted November 25, 2015 Posted November 25, 2015 The readability on that font isn't great, I find.
sonofsanta Posted December 16, 2015 Author Posted December 16, 2015 The readability on that font isn't great, I find. I have spent a very great deal of time denying this point. Somewhere around 2 years. Because that font is beautiful! It's characterful! It's a Goudy font to match the header! The ampersand is gorgeous! But you're right. For all its looks, it's not actually that readable as a body font. /sigh So I've reset all the body text in Lora, which is more interesting than Book Antiqua (the fallback font in my CSS), but a bit more straightforward. It also has a bold weight available, which I'm using for hyperlinks instead of italicising now; makes 'em stand out a bit more. So hopefully it's better now. Thank you for the intervention. Clearly I needed it.
simpsonj Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 And so you venture out, scurrying through the shadows of corridors and hoping, praying above all else that you can avoid the watchful eyes of the End Users, lest their bellows of “WHILE YOU'RE HERE” haunt your every step. The moment I read that sentence I added your site onto my favorites and will check regularly for updates Found it eminently readable too 1
sonofsanta Posted December 16, 2015 Author Posted December 16, 2015 The moment I read that sentence I added your site onto my favorites and will check regularly for updates Found it eminently readable too I better start updating more regularly, then! Thanks
pete Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 ^ A serif font? On a website? Are you mad? You missed a geeky opportunity to use choose-your-own-adventure books* as an example in your "second-person is a bit self-manipulation-y" *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_%28gamebooks%29 1
sonofsanta Posted December 16, 2015 Author Posted December 16, 2015 ^ A serif font? On a website? Are you mad? You missed a geeky opportunity to use choose-your-own-adventure books* as an example in your "second-person is a bit self-manipulation-y" *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Wolf_%28gamebooks%29 Yeah, I know... but given that it's mostly for stories (and mostly for fantasy, I expect), I deliberately wanted to evoke books with a serif font. I'm choosing form over function, and I know I am, I'm only hoping I can get away with it (not that my earlier font-choice helped there). And of course! Thoroughly remiss of me. This is what happens when I write blog posts late at night and off-the-cuff instead of properly thinking them through. My only memories of a late uncle's wedding day are (a) it was Star Wars day (b) I spent the whole time going through a Lone Wolf book. I should totally rewrite to use CYOA as the second-person example.
sonofsanta Posted December 16, 2015 Author Posted December 16, 2015 Typo alert. Took me three reads to spot it, but got it now. Cheers
browolf Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 (edited) I have spent a very great deal of time denying this point. Somewhere around 2 years. Because that font is beautiful! It's characterful! It's a Goudy font to match the header! The ampersand is gorgeous! But you're right. For all its looks, it's not actually that readable as a body font. /sigh So I've reset all the body text in Lora, which is more interesting than Book Antiqua (the fallback font in my CSS), but a bit more straightforward. It also has a bold weight available, which I'm using for hyperlinks instead of italicising now; makes 'em stand out a bit more. So hopefully it's better now. Thank you for the intervention. Clearly I needed it. Much better! You could further your appeal by reading your stories on audio you tube videos. Edited December 16, 2015 by browolf 1
sonofsanta Posted December 16, 2015 Author Posted December 16, 2015 Much better! You could further your appeal by reading your stories on audio you tube videos. Doing my own audio-recordings is something I've thought about, but is way down my long list of writing jobs at the moment. Currently going back over everything I've got from the last two or three years, revising as best I can now manage, and sending it all out for submission again, but once it's settled down a bit I may well give it a go. I think we have some decent condensor mics in school I could borrow for the job. The ideal solution is to just sell my stories into Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, or any of the other pro markets that produce a podcast edition. Or sell the reprint to Podcastle/Escape Pod/Drabblecast/Starship Sofa. There's a surprisingly healthy amount of audio short fiction available. I just need 'em to buy my stories!
browolf Posted December 16, 2015 Posted December 16, 2015 Doing my own audio-recordings is something I've thought about, but is way down my long list of writing jobs at the moment. Currently going back over everything I've got from the last two or three years, revising as best I can now manage, and sending it all out for submission again, but once it's settled down a bit I may well give it a go. I think we have some decent condensor mics in school I could borrow for the job. The ideal solution is to just sell my stories into Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, or any of the other pro markets that produce a podcast edition. Or sell the reprint to Podcastle/Escape Pod/Drabblecast/Starship Sofa. There's a surprisingly healthy amount of audio short fiction available. I just need 'em to buy my stories! That's a lot of other options. I was thinking in a style similar to https://www.youtube.com/user/urmaker69
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