BrandonSanderson.com

[EUOL]

Yes, HoM.  Some day when we're both a bit more famous than we are now, we'll have to like have dueling blogs like Penny-Arcade and PvP.  We could pretend we hate each other, and generally siphon a bunch of traffic back and forth.

Kind of like Fell was planning to do...well, with himself.  He was going to have the "Dan Wells" persona for his serious fiction and another one "Cecil something" for his humorous fiction.

[EUOL]

Hey, Sprig.  What do you think about throwing up a news blurb or some other bit of text at the very top, like we have on the TWG main page?  I'd like something--maybe just two or three sentences--that explains what the site is and the like.  It would have to never expire, and always be above everything else--even the 'always on top' posts.

[Spriggan]

Ya I was going to set it up so you could have a post never get deleated, just never got around to it.  As for another allwayse on top, the idea was to only have one at a time, but I guess I could do another.

[EUOL]

By the way.  When I go to the contact page, I get a little bit of code appearing on the left side of the page.  Something about 'Warning.  Mysql blah, blah, blah.'   It doesn't interfere with things much, however.

In other news, we ARE playing tomorrow.  Gunda also heard that you do websites, so beware.  She may try to bribe you with cookies.

[Spriggan]

Ah, well if she can get Eral to look over some code for me (it's peral) she may not need cookies.

As for the jibberish, that's becsaue I changed the Database that holds the book complete %s, forgot that I never linked the contact page with the others so it's still useing the old code.

[House of Mustard]

EUOL, your current blog amuses me -- my editor changes all of my semicolons into dashes.  I think we need to trade.

[EUOL]

lol.

How does Covenant work copy edits, anyway?  Do you get galleys like I have sitting here, with the proofreading marks written all over them?

[House of Mustard]

Yep.  I must confess, though, that I haven't been going over them with a fine-toothed comb.  My knowledge of English is limited, and I've never met a comma I didn't like.  I trust my editor to make most of those changes.

The main source of contention is: colons, parentheses, and italics.  I use a lot of the first two, and hate the last, and we argue about it a lot.

[Spriggan]

www.brandonsanderson.com/mobile

now with mobile device support.

[Spriggan]

Now with RSS feeds!

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/page.php?id=12

If any of you use RSS readers can you test it out for me?  I'm useing sharpreader with no problems, but want to test it on others as well.

Thanks

[stacer]

Sprig, this may be fruitless to ask right now, because I'm not really at a place where I can really concentrate on it, but I've been thinking of getting a website together for my photography so I can make it more of a sideline. Any suggestions on places to start?

[Spriggan]

So you're wanting to make a business site to sell your photogrophy?  There's a few things to consider, like how much money and time you're willing to invest in this.  How much of the site do you want to make yourself and weither you're willing to pay someone to make the site if you don't.  If you want to have a shopping system on your site (like a shopping cart and payment systems) or if you're just going to use paypal.

Paying someone to make and manage a site for you can be very expensive, adverage design costs I think are around $50-$60 an hour, or a flat fee of like $500 for a site (some charge by page made, that's usealy $60-$70).  Shopping cart systems are even more expensive, at least $300 for the software then the hassle of setting it up.  Also don't forget to buy a URL ($8-$10 a year) and then getting hosting ($10-$100/month) based off of what the sites needs are.

[stacer]

Sounds like it may be more trouble than I'm willing to invest right now. It isn't so much for shopping as for showing my portfolio for people who want to hire me for weddings, portraits, that sort of thing. But I keep thinking I should start selling my work, too--the landscape stuff, etc.--so eventually that may be something I need to look into. When I do, though, I'll have to organize my negatives, etc. etc. too.

Thanks for the info.

[Spriggan]

Well just haveing a site that showcases your work and then haveing contact info is a lot less work, but there's still quite an investment of money and/or time.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

You might want to just get a free page then, toss some pictures on the server, and include a "contact me" link.