Post a comment. Howzat for going after lurkers?
Seriously, I don’t have the remotest idea what’s going on, except that I’ve been messing a lot with my themes over the last few days and don’t know what sorts of hickups that might have left in the ether. Other visitors have said that posting a comment fixed goofy layout.
This should have, like my former choices, a single sidebar on the right and the main body of text on the left.
About 25th on my todo list of 25 things (that’s the way Abbey organizes stuff…I think I need to emulate) is redesigning my blog based on the same theme I used for CC, only optimizing for ‘NetWalkers, but that requires making and balancing backgrounds and stuff, and I just don’t have time for that right now.
Anyway…onto what I’ve been doing. I’ve got the ms part of RoL cleaned up and ready to go. I’m going to do some sketches to include during Nationals. I also have gone through the files for HT and HB and cleaned up lots of scanning artifacts. I’ve got a splitting headache and my eyes are crossing, but I think they’re pretty good now. I’ll be sending out the new links to those who have purchased as soon as I compile and convert HB.
Sorry to whine, but…If I missed things (and I’m sure I did.) unless they’re egregious…uh…don’t tell me, OK? At least for a month or so? I’m so tired of futzy detail stuff, I could scream.
Ja ne!
When push cometh to shove, what really matters is that your newest post is at the top of the heap and comments work. The rest is window dressing.
Window dressing is nice and fun to play with (when one has time to play) and, yes, it helps people who’ve never been to a blog before, but somehow I doubt that the folks reading your, mine, or CJ’s blog haven’t done this many times before.
It’s far more important that you NOT burn out!!!!!
I like it. It’s very clean. I agree with Lynn–this is perfectly fine. Take a deep breath and….let..it…go… Make a mental note to change it over with a new look in the heat of summer when you need a cool indoor break from all that gardening. Well, in your case–earth moving, rock repositioning, water gardening, fish tending….
I’m using Safari on Apple………now everything is below on the left…..some pics overlapping text……BUT as Lynn said…as long as the important stuff is at the top of the heap it doesn’t matter.
Sounds like life is not only catching up with you but about to overrun you……nothing is worth ruining your health over……take a little break and breathe deep….
Oh, joy…and I came up and it’s all nutzoid. No theme at all just a bunch of garbage code. I give up! I’m going to join a convent. Obviously, the problem is beyond the theme….
So…I uploaded all the theme files again and we’re back. Are we having fun yet?
The ‘garbage code’ is what I saw when I posted at 3:47……….everything looks good now.
(sounds of a theramin sp? playing) 
It looks good to me. YOu must have fixed it. But please, as Kato says, take a break. do something wonderful for yourself – foot rub/pedicure? massage therapy? take a break! reward yourself for all you’lve accomplished. We are all still going to be here when you get back :) And I think we are a pretty patient bunch. I myself am not fussed about details. the only reason I’d ever mention any issues would be in case you wanted to fix them, not because they ever bother me in the slightest.
Oh, the problems on the site I need to know about, but those I’m tracking pretty carefully. It’s any itty bitty problems in the book files I just reposted that, at the moment, I frankly don’t care about. The stuff I was working on wasn’t itty-bitty, and I was glad to know about it, but I’ve got them pretty darn clean now and really don’t want to go through the whole conversion process on the same files if I don’t have to. The books are put together in several pieces…the cover, the title page and reverse…the body, the afterword…they’re all separate pieces. Then you plug those pieces into one of the ebook generators and see what comes out. PDF’s need to be specifically formatted. Then, you have to scan each version to look for problems. As I’d look for problems, I’ve find yet another OCR mistake and have to go in and fix it in WP, then start the conversion process all over again. It’s just been really really tedious.
Good gravy, Jane. Surely this is because you guys are working with older files and converting–or are you saying this is business as usual for ebook production? No, I can’t believe that would be the case. Ebooks are supposedly the future…easier right?
Or… it could be that you guys are jumping so far ahead of the pack (a very small self publishing group) that you are blazing a trail. Time to make an ebook about making ebooks–well, in a few months I mean to say.
Oh, and a lovely congratulations for all that hard work surrounding the Foreigner novel. Much appreciation for Jane indeed!
Definitely, it’s the problem of converting from older files. The Groundties series and the Ring books (except for Destiny) were written in Volkswriter, which WP will still import…after a fashion. Word is absolutely awful about packing totally extraneous and difficult to extricate “formatting” code. Basically, it begins a file thinking to handle all possible permutations of words on paper and never gets rid of what you need. WP begins thinking you want a simple file and lets you add what you need.
And a lot of the files Carolyn got in from the scanning were Word files. Many of the problems I’ve been routing out a hidden in the code…until you start doing all the conversions to different file formats. Sometimes you can do globals to rotorouter them out, but eventually it comes down to examining the code line by line.
And we’re learning things as we go along. We want to give folks the best product we can, so when we find out how to do something better/cleaner, we need to go into the base files, make the changes, then reconstruct the problem.
also, from what I’m hearing, most of the major companies are worrying about this stuff.
Jane, everything looks beautiful to me. Perfect and beautiful. It appears I missed all the excitement.
I hope you are headed to bed. That’s where I’m going — after defrocking our tree, an all-day project. Please don’t even THINK about defrocking yours until April!
TTYL!
One of the advantages of an artificial tree…we can afford to wait! :D It says something I’m just getting around to replying to these comments now. Sheesh…..
According to recent lore from NPR, trees go up on Christmas Eve and stay up until Candlemas Day on February 2. We put ours up for the Winter Solstice as that is when we begin celebrating. Next year we are also going to include Santa Lucia Day with candles and all……we believe in equal opportunity celebration.
I’m with you all the way!
We start pulling out the decorations on Thanksgiving (we go straight from Halloween to Christmas…figure every day s/b Thanksgiving day, yes?) and usually replace them with spring/MardiGras, tho I think we’re going to be late on that this year, because of Nationals.
Jane, the site looks great!
We took down the tree last weekend – it took a REALLY long time as I only have the one working arm right now, the right one being in the sling.
And I’ve started reading my paperback Rings books – but slowly, because I have to turn the pages with the fingers of the left hand holding the book. Talk about dexterity challenging!
Shoot. Gotta get those up! Punching a “page down” button w/b much easier, yes? Keep us posted on that shoulder. Is surgery scheduled yet?
Hi Jane,
Just passing by to say how much I enjoyed the NetWalkers trilogy. Great characters in a fascinating situation. I’m looking forward to reading your other works when you get the chance to put htme on CC.
‘fox
Oh, dear…I started a reply to this, decided I was turning it into the post, then the post got wiped before I could post it. I navigated away from the page without thinking, then got caught up in the problem I was fixing….Welcome to my life right now!
Thank you so much (does little snoopy dance) I’m working on the others.