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Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
544
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 02:26 pm: |   |
I've got a website now besides authorsden. I had no idea what to say on it and whether to do it in third person or first person...decided against first person. I haven't gotten the links done, but it's a start I guess.
You can see it at www.gloriadmarlow.com
Any advice is welcome. |
Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1012
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 03:00 pm: | |
My first and only comment thus far Gloria, is to change the color of your font. Maybe bold it or something. I can barely read it against the black background.
But you've got a great start. I really like the template you've chosen. Works well with the genre you write in.
Hope this helps to start you off.
Jenn |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
813
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 03:24 pm: | |
Good going gal friend. Looks good to me. Just make sure that your guestbook pages and email you page works. And PUT A LINK to you publisher for the Butterfly Game. And a link to you for Flowers for Megan, if you still have any to sell.
Claudia |
Perry Comer
Unity Member
Post Number:
1136
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 04:21 pm: | |
looks great to me -- check guestbook link
http://www.pacwriter.netfirms.com/ |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2560
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 05:40 pm: | |
Love it. Very dramatic. I will say also that since I am 3/4 blind I had trouble reading the smaller print against the black, but I love the color.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaa. I want my own website too. How did you make yours, Gloria? |
William R. Park, Sr.
Awareness Member
Post Number:
13
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 06:16 pm: | |
Great start Gloria. I like the background, and template, but would suggest changing the welcome flowers to red...as well as the e-mail graphic...and perhaps petals on your navigator elements to the right (maybe green). I'd experement with adding touches of color. It would tend to softed the appearance slightly. Once you play with it a bit, you'll know immediately that you have the right visual balance.
Don't know why, but the pages didn't open when I clicked on the navigator elements on the right.
Bill Park |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
545
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2004 - 08:54 pm: | |
I enlarged the writing, bolded it and made it a different color, a little less brilliant pink. I don't think I can change the colors of the flowers or petals since it is a template I got from a site that has free graphics. I think that is part of the agreement when you use them...and the little link back thing that links you back to the graphic page.
I haven't linked any pages together yet. Still trying to figure out how to do those. For some reason my computer at home won't let me upload any graphics so I have to do it at work.
Laurel, I had a free geocities site, but for around $7 or $8 a month I was able to get one with just my name as the domain name. I went to a graphics site and found some graphics I liked and did it with those instead of the ones geocities offers. I have others I intend to use on the other pages, I just have to figure out what to put on them. |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1334
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 06:12 am: | |
Gloria,
I'm looking at the site now... All I see is a white background with pink text and image placeholders with no images...?
I also looked at your source code... there are a lot of blank table rows in there... does Geocities give you a template to work from? Just curious. That alone shouldn't be a problem, I was just surprised by the amount of code for what I see on the page. If you want to see what I'm talking about, right click on the page and choose the "view source" option from the menu.
I'm not trying to make it confusing... I just thought I'd point that out 
CEW |
Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
1671
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 07:48 am: | |
Gloria, I got the same results as C.E. just text and placeholders where the graphics are supposed to be.
blessings, Kitty |
LaurieAnne
Unity Member
Post Number:
1181
Registered: 12-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 09:45 am: | |
I got the black background, et al, and I LOVE the template.
If there is anything I can help you with on the links and such, let me know. I'll be GLAD to help out.
LA
LaurieAnne
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Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
818
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 10:58 am: | |
Your site on my puter showed up just fine. It is 9:56 a.m. PST, which is about noonish your time, so you have probably had a chance to work on and smooth things out..... Looks good.
Claudia |
Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1015
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 11:01 am: | |
Yeah, looking good Gloria! |
William R. Park, Sr.
Awareness Member
Post Number:
14
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 01:16 pm: | |
Gloria...looking good! But check out the second paragraph, 4th line, after the word, children. It reads: &nbp; Needs to be deleted. Color gave it that feminine touch.
Bill Park |
Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
1672
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 04:17 pm: | |
Gloria,
I tried it again, and it showed up fine this time. It is quite pretty. I like it.
blessings, Kitty |
Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1097
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 04:28 pm: | |
It looks like Gloria is using the pagebuilder wizard Geocities has...I know when I started one up that way, it tended to add a lot of empty tables and such in there...took me a while to clear it all out...
It seemed to come up fine for me...and the only thing (other than looking forward to seeing the linked pages) I noticed was the that Bill mentioned... |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
550
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, January 29, 2004 - 07:34 pm: | |
Thanks everyone, I took out the  (I think)...don't know where that came from.
It took me all day today just to figure out how to link my guestbook. I linked my publisher and e-mail and I'm working on the Flowers for Megan link.
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Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1098
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 05:25 am: | |
I've had that happen to me as well from time to time...
and if I search back in my memory bank, I may be able to remember why...
will let you know if it comes back to me...
(I think it comes from copying and pasting certain type formats into others)
(Message edited by tmhunter on January 30, 2004) |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1335
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 06:26 am: | |
Very nice looking site
Yeah, as Todd said, the extra code I'm seeing looks like this...
<td><img></td>
td img src= http://www.geocities.com/clipart/pbi/c.gif height=1 width=1 /td
(The forum doesn't allow code, so I pasted it once as it reads and once without the brackets and stuff)
There is table right off the bat with a whole bunch of those... the image is blank... so it seems you probably don't need all that code
CEW |
Matt Dinniman
Wandering Member
Post Number:
131
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 09:14 am: | |
It's lookin' good, Gloria. When you get the chance I'd suggest putting your book covers on the front page. Maybe make an animated gif that cycles through the covers. |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
552
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 01:59 pm: | |
Okay, I have no idea how to fix the code. I know what it is, basically, but I'm afraid to mess with it.
Matt, I don't yet have a book cover for The Butterfly Game or Shades of Silence..so those have to wait.
I did do the link for Flowers for Megan and that page is done.
Gloria
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D.R.
Awareness Member
Post Number:
22
Registered: 05-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 30, 2004 - 09:24 pm: | |
How can I put my banner on this site?
http://www.drbennett.2ya.com |
Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1100
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, January 31, 2004 - 07:19 am: | |
Gloria,
Go to your site, right-click (somewhere on the site), and "view source"...then in the menu bar, click File, Save as (and save it to your hard drive somewhere (personally, I would add .html to the end of the filename)).
Close your other windows, and open the file you just saved (it should be a duplicate of your site (minus any pictures you linked to, if you're currently off-line)).
Then go into Wordpad (or Notepad, if it allows you to), and edit out some of those blank tables (I recommend cutting versus deleting, in case you take something out that you need to put back (you can paste the last line you cut). Save the file, and refresh the window where you have the file opened...it should give you a preview of your changes...
If something gets messed up, then you can start over, and the original site will still be intact. When you finish editing, just use the 'file upload' option at geocities to upload the new edited file... |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
640
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 06:58 am: | |
My turn...
It came to life sometime overnight and now it's there...
The old site is gone and this will be it's replacement. It's a newborn baby at the moment but it will grow. This is the beginning, not a polished product.
www.theunrealmccoy.com
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Nancy Marie
Unity Member
Post Number:
1683
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 07:12 am: | |
Hi Dennis,
I like it ALOT!! Normally I don't like yellow web sites because they are sometimes hard to read. But your color scheme works real well.
Blessings, Kitty |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
621
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 04:25 pm: | |
Very nice site, Dennis!!!
Gloria |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1368
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 04:52 pm: | |
Nice Dennis!
CEW |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2678
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 05:58 pm: | |
It's very easy to read. I like it. It's sort of an extension of McCoy.
That is, straight to the point. |
Dennis Collins
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
655
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 10:44 am: | |
I'd like someone with a warp speed connection (Mine's one step up from a string tied between two tin cans) to log onto my site to see if the music loads okay. When I try it, the music comes in little chunks.
www.theunrealmccoy.com
CE... Does my banner link to the new site? |
Claudia Turner VanLydegraf
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
926
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 11:49 am: | |
Dennis,
I would log on and tell you, but my puter sound is not working.  Sorry..... I have to get this stupid thing in to the shop and get if fixed, but it is so much hassle to unhook and carry it out and then bring it back home and rehook it all up,...... so I just don't have sound. Otherwise, I sure would.
Claudia |
Jan Fields
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
585
Registered: 09-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 12:07 pm: | |
Dennis,
I have DSL and the music plays fine for me -- very smooth (but don't forget to include a way for visitors to turn off the music. I know that's a biggie in webpage design ettiquette). Cool music.
Nice looking site.
Jan |
Tony (Unregistered Guest)
Work-in-progress guest
Posted From: 24.31.215.202
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 12:09 pm: | |
Dennis,
I checked out your site and all the links. The music comes on and plays just fine.
What is the small white rectangle beneath the "Buy The Book' link?
www.abandon-hope.com |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2693
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 12:12 pm: | |
VERY NIFTY MUSIC, Dennis. I LOVE IT. Came through loud and clear as soon as the page loaded. |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2694
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 12:15 pm: | |
Darn, I forgot to say that I went back to your website too, Gloria, and signed your guest book. Looks great. I am envious. |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
652
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 03:27 pm: | |
Yep, I heard the music...I like it. How do you get music on your website?
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Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1226
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 03:41 pm: | |
I'm on dialup, and once everything is loaded, the music works fine (the music starts and stops while stuff is loading)...
I believe the little white box is somehow connected to the player for the music (Flash Player)...at least that's the stuff that comes up if you right-click on it...wonder if there's a way to make it yellow so you don't see it against the background?
It looks like you and I are at about the same point with our 'appearances' page...or have you just not had time to get all of your upcoming stuff on there?
Everything looks good, and appears to work correctly...
I'll need to remember to add a link for you on my page... |
Nancy Mehl
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1530
Registered: 08-2001
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 03:56 pm: | |
Dennis,
Generally, I hate music on a Web site. I am usually playing my own music when I'm online.
But...your music loaded quickly for me and I absolutely loved it! I would turn mine down to hear yours.
Nancy |
Tony (Unregistered Guest)
Work-in-progress guest
Posted From: 24.31.215.202
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 04:12 pm: | |
Ah, I see. I went to take a look at http://www.gfx2swf.com just to see what they did. I had never heard from them... |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
656
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 04:58 pm: | |
Thanks, Laurel...That's a very nice message.
Of course, you do know that makes your review less truthful, right?  |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1380
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 06:46 pm: | |
Dennis the music works great.
Oh, and if you could do me the HUGE favor of sending me an e-mail to update your banner link, I'll do it tomorrow... I've had a few drinks tonight and have found that it's best not to mess with the technical stuff whilest under the influence, ya know.
Check the mead hall about the new drink I discovered hehehe.
CEW |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2699
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 06:51 pm: | |
Well Gloria, since my reviews aren't beneficial to anyone I guess that's OK then. But er um.....I don't know what you mean. My message on your message book makes my review less truthful?? |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
659
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, March 14, 2004 - 08:07 pm: | |
Laurel, I was teasing you because of some people's insistence that reviews from one writer to another have no merit, especially if they know each other...I value your reviews and your messages.
Gloria |
Laurel Johnson
Unity Member
Post Number:
2701
Registered: 01-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 05:10 am: | |
To be technical......we did not know each other when I did your review, did we?
Time has faded my memory banks. |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
665
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 06:13 am: | |
No, we did not know each other... Nor did I really know Nancy when she did hers.
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Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
620
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 11:10 pm: | |
Time was when it was good old boys and now it's good old girls (only kidding).
http://www.Iamamalechauvinistpig.com |
Josh
Awareness Member
Post Number:
5
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 03:28 pm: | |
Though I do not like this sort of thing. The flowers and all lol. Go figa eh? It is very well done, nice and professional, no broken links, and everything is where it should be, not clustered up. I enjoyed looking through it though and like the way the pages fade in and out. Good Job, I know I am playing catch up lol. What's "Shade of Silence"? |
Gloria Marlow
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
721
Registered: 04-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 08:34 pm: | |
Josh, thanks. You should have seen how amazed I was when I made the pages fade in and out! There were all kinds of effects, like they could fade into a circle pattern or be wiped away slowly, etc. Pretty cool.
Shades of Silence is my third book. I just finished it and sent it to the publisher. I will putting the synopsis up soon. As well as the teaser for The Butterfly Game.
I am going to visit your site right now.
By the way, welcome. You'll find very good people with very good advice here.
Gloria
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Josh
Awareness Member
Post Number:
9
Registered: 03-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 20, 2004 - 12:04 am: | |
I am trying the whole book thing I like writing, but don't like the situations of a book needing to be done this deadline or that deadline. I am not sure if I want to become a Professional Writer if you would, reason for me going to school for my Associates Degree in Information Technology, and um...4 yrs what's that Masters in Business. Doors will open, beside I never wore a suit before lol. Keep me updated, you got a good head on your shoulder. |
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