Coerablog is under construction
(This is basically a cross-post with the Coerablog
If you stop by the Coerablog, you'll see that it has undergone a dramatic re-visualization.
There were two reasons for this:
1) I wanted to make it prettier. I always thought the old design was a bit of an eyesore, but it was unique, which was enough for me at the moment.
2) I wanted to make it more user-friendly and comprehensible. I've begun to understand more thoroughly that a number of people have gone to the Coerablog with the intention of browsing through the site, only to be fought back by confusing and inadequate organization and explanation.
Beside color/font changes, etc., there are two main improvements:
1) The top-nav will hopefully be a little more stimulating for the average browser. It's currently broken in IE, but it works beautifully in Firefox, and I hope to bring Microsoft into line shortly.
2) On the right-nav, there are now links near the top that explain the site, how it is laid out, and how all of the different stories relate to eachother. Note that at the moment none of these links go anywhere useful, but I hope to change that once I get the top-nav working.
I'm very interested in comments or suggestions about how to further improve the site!
posted by Wray Davis @ 10:37 PM
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8 Comments:
Whoa!!! At the moment, I've just peeked. But it looks really amazing! I truly love the graphics, and in the moment I peeked at it, I could see clearly how it was organized, and where I can find things when I have some time to poke through it more. Wow....Cool, cool.
I also took a peek this morning both on Firefox and Explorer. Worked on both for me and I LOVE the graphics. Clicked on the first link on the right and it worked, second link took me back to your ohida blog. I know I know it is under construction, but oh my goodness Bry you have been really busy!!!!
Thanks for the feedback! I think the part that's not working in IE right now may be kind of subtle - the graphic at the top is full of links in Firefox, but it's just a big graphic in IE. But I have an idea to change that today.
Oh, now I think it's even cooler! I literally gasped with excitement when I realized the graphics where infact links.
I gotta learn how to do that stuff.
I'd like to see/read Summerfield, Earth.
In your "About Coera" page, you talk about your glass-front workshop...there's a line: "like an artist's wind"--did you mean "window"? or what does wind mean in that context?
Bryan, I must just sound like a mindless fan all the time, or a biased family member...but I like to think of myself as a savvy reader and as a bit of a creator myself:
I spent the last several hours reading bits and pieces of your Coera blog:
First, I'd like to say that it is most notably more organized and follow-able. Truly makes for a more pleasant and encouraging read/exploration.
Second, I'll say: I truly love your "story." I am fascinated by the world you are sowing together from so many familiar and new spaces and stories. I know it has taken you years of the past and will take you more years to come (probably why it is so polished even still in its current state of construction)...but I really really want to get my hands on at least the first book to read. Please? Can't you just write one book first and publish it? (and then I'll promise to be patient long enough that you can write a second and a third under the constant begging and a nagging that I will not be able to constrain) :)
Remarkable and fascinating.
Your avid reader,
Anne
Thanks some more, Anne!
I'm glad you like that interface - I was pretty pleased with myself about it, but it's much better if other people find it useful, too. ;)
So Summerfield, Earth, sound like a good one? I don't have that story very developed so far, but maybe someday the ideas will come together and I'll have to just knock it out.
Artists' Wind: (wind rhymes with mind) I was trying to think of what to call those little places you find in touristy parts of town where a bunch of artists - painters, sculptors, people who make things out of bottlecaps, whatever - have a bunch of little tiny shops all packed together, and they work out of their shops, so you can buy things right from the artist and watch them work on what's coming up next.
I couldn't think of what that's called, so I just made up something instead of looking it up. ;)
Thanks again for sticking with the blog! I don't know that I'll have a full book ready any time soon, but the one I'm working on right now is A Diamond in Snow, which is the first part of the Neocarnation trilogy. It's not near done, and it's only in first draft stage anyway, so it's very ugly/doesn't necessarily make sense/has continuity errors, but it's coming along, albeit slowly.
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