The Grand Opening

[katiefoolery]

In other news, I've finished uploading stuff to my website, so it's probably time to declare it officially open. Please insert the fanfare of your choice, accompanied by a long and/or inspiring speech on the subject of antelopes/bottled water/other (please circle).

Any feedback would be much appreciated. What do you think about the design or the colours? Is the font easy enough to read?

And if anyone finds any of those dreaded typos that I'm sure I've missed, please let me know. I'm rather keen to fix that sort of thing.

While we're here, what else do you think I should include? I'm working on adding a links page at the moment, so I'm open to suggestions for anything you think might improve the site.

Above all: enjoy!

Comments

[emmaketurah.livejournal.com]

Nice website :D

I'll have to have a read of some of your stories later!

Em

P.S. I just had my first story published (albeit in an online Virtual Series)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Well done and thank-you! 'Tis a day for good things to happen.

[emmaketurah.livejournal.com]

That it is.

[violetcreme.livejournal.com]

What a beautiful site ! Wow. I adore it.

Not had time to read it yet (it is midnight here and I believe I went to sleep five minutes ago) but will do so in the morrow.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly. I'm glad it looks OK. :)

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

Hey! Haven't had time to read Actual Content yet, but have comments any way :p

1) Congratulations! Well done on finishedness of website :)

2) Layout is pretty.

3) Why aren't you telling us your full name? I know putting your name online feels weird, but you are working on getting it recognised here, after all. You're not going to be publishing as Katie G... (I assume?)

[the-kaytinator.livejournal.com]

I think she SHOULD publish as Katie G.

It's a cool name. Definitely distinctive and all!

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

Well, that would work :)

Also: Oh my god! It's the dreaded typo!

And when I'm lost in a world made made purely from words, I think fondly of that day when I decided to be a writer.

Katie, get on it quick! People can see!

OK, I've calmed down :p

I like your intros and your bio muchly.

[blindmouse.livejournal.com]

OK, at this stage this is just me being annoying, isn't it?

Anyway, another typo: Some of the characters in the story came from a different region from the others and I wanted to convey a sense of their having an, without changing words...

Ought to be another word in there - "accent" maybe?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you so much for finding these! I knew there'd be some in there that I couldn't see, simply because I've been spending so much time with this material.

Ironically, the last typo you found was caused when I was fixing another typo.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you! It was good to finally have almost everything uploaded at long last.

As Kayt said in her comment, I am actually considering publishing under the name "Katie G". I think it's a little different and it's been growing on me for some time.

[poisonheadache.livejournal.com]

I love it :D It looks clean and simple (by that I mean that it's not cluttered) and the font is really easy to read. It's also nice that you write about yourself in an informal way, which is a lot better than some of the really dry and dull biographies I've come across. I'm looking forward to spending some time reading your stories.

The only thing I think I'd like to see is some links to authors that you like. It's something that I always want to know about authors, but it might just be a me thing.

If you'll excuse me, I've got a speech about antelopes to make.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly - it's a great idea to include links to the sites of my favourite authors. I shall be doing that soon.

Hope the speech was enjoyable. :)

[naelany.livejournal.com]

nice! When I'm not as bitten with the knitting bug, I shall take time to read through it all. For now though, I've got a scarf just screaming my name *sigh*. You have your muse, I have mine ^_~

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

In that case, you must attend to the scarf!

[naelany.livejournal.com]

One must adhere to the muse, right?

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. Otherwise they get cranky.

[naelany.livejournal.com]

cranky, insuffereably... same difference ^_~

[decryption.livejournal.com]

Absoloutley fantastic website. It even displays properly in OmniWeb and Safari, kudos all round :)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

That is good news. I was wondering how I could check it in Safari, so I'm glad to hear that it works.

[snarkymonkey.livejournal.com]

Ah, Katie! I love it! *bookmarks* It's very easy to navigate and I love how you have the story pages set up. It's all very pleasing to the eye and just marvelous.

*goes back to trundle around more*

So jealous! ♥♥♥

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly, good Karen. I hope you enjoy your trundling.

[sarsalot.livejournal.com]

All looks very nice from where I'm sitting. Haven't read through it (yet!) so I can't say if there's any Dreaded Typos, but it's nice and professional looking.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly, good Sars. I'm glad it comes across as professional-looking: that's exactly the look I was aiming for. :)

scrolling down

[bunhusband.livejournal.com]

In the bio bit, i cant scroll down to read whats at the bottom

Re: scrolling down

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

It's because you have a weird computer. Tell you what, I'll take the day off work tomorrow to come in and look at it. ;)

[silverwerecat.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like it! Simple and elegant. :)

One of these days I'll try and make myself a site as well, although I barely know the basics of web design...

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly.

You definitely should have a look at Google Pages (http://buneater.livejournal.com/84883.html) if you're after a website. According to them, if you can use a program like Word, then you can make a pretty website. You don't even have to know any code at all.

[silverwerecat.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

BTW, do you still have those gmail invites?

If yes, can I have one? *purring kitten's eyes*

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Of course you may! I just sent one to the email address on your profile page.

[silverwerecat.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I got it!

[wickedkiwi.livejournal.com]

Very nice! I love it. The colors look beautiful.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly.

[scrapidee.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

Congrats on the new website. I'm heading over to visit now.

The name is so cool.

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you. I'm quite happy with the name. It took me ages to think of something and it came to me when I was doing something else entirely.

Fabulous Site!

[charliemc.livejournal.com]

Well done and congratulations!

(hugs)

Re: Fabulous Site!

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you, muchly! I'm glad you like it.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Katie,

Very modern design with cool colors, and the navigation is simple to follow. It's great!

Kelly Parra
writerwords.blogspot.com

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad the navigation works. I was a bit worried that it might not.

[purpletigress.livejournal.com]

I love the layout - it's very funky, yet professional.

Couldn't resist casting my editor's eye over it for the niggly things. On the bio page, second paragraph under the subheading 'What Happens Next' we have the sentence: From science fiction, I moved onto ghost stories, for some unknown reason. This should be on to, as onto means on top of or upon. :-)

According to the current Oz government style guide it's also preferred to hyphenate e-mail, so while it's not exactly wrong it may be something you'd like to think about.

Looks like my dinner is done - I might take more of a read when I have the time to do so :-)

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Thank-you muchly for pointing that out! It's a bad habit of mine, writing it as one word rather than two. It shall be fixed.