Sillybean

March 19, 2006

Authors discussing web design

Good discussion of what should go on an author’s site over at LiveJournal. Of course, yours truly had to weigh in, but other people had interesting things to say too.

My original comment exceeded LJ’s character limit. I’ll take that as the universe’s subtle hint that I should start posting here more often again, now that I’m not working 12-hour days.

Comments

  1. Obviously pink hearts that dance and sing background music should be on every author’s website.

    Posted by Tempest on March 20th, 2006 at 7:28 pm

  2. Gosh, you seem to be scarred by that experience and I CAN’T IMAGINE WHY….

    Posted by steph on March 21st, 2006 at 2:25 pm

  3. On HOW do you place tables side by side in Frontpage! GRRR

    Jenna

    Posted by Jenna on March 21st, 2006 at 4:27 pm

  4. Oh, dear. Don’t ask me that. I loathe FrontPage and I’m an advocate of using web standards in design, which means using CSS for layout instead of tables.

    Posted by steph on March 21st, 2006 at 5:43 pm

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