Don't Judge a Website by its author...

[The Judge]

Following in the illustrious footsteps of Boneman and Perpetual Man, I'm here to hype... er... flaunt... er... announce the arrival of a brand new website

*drum roll followed by trumpet voluntary*

http://www.damarisbrowne.com/

Family flowers only... er... scrap that, wrong announcement...

Mother and baby are doing well. I think.


Comments welcome. Except about the baby pictures. Keep those thoughts to yourself.


EDIT: Um... could someone check the link for me, please. When I try it I get backstage to where I edit it, so I'm not sure it's right... (Whoever thought it was a good idea letting me loose with technology...?)

[Ursa major]

The link works for me, and the website itself is stylish, with the kind of self-deprecatory humour I like.


Some of the fonts, particularly the one used on the blog, look quite small.

[pyan]

No, the link is fine, J, and all the internal links seem to work properly as well.

Looks good - nice plug for the Chrons, loved the biography (what an interesting family you come from on the distaff side!), and a teaser story that made me want to read more. Bookmarked it, so it'd better stay that good...

[The Judge]

Thanks, Ursa. I went over the fonts and enlarged them umpteen fold! I'll try and set the next blog bigger. (Though in view of the problems I had with this one, don't no one hold their breath...)

EDIT: Oops, pyan crept in there sneaky-like. Thanks!

[Boneman]

Looks great! The link worked fine for me, too. A real sense of stylishness to it. Great job.

[chopper]

No, that all works fine, f'sure. Unless you want it tarmaced...

Where can we read your eponymous books?

(site added to my links too...)

[The Judge]

Thanks, both!

I'll do without the tarmacing, I think. (I have no idea if that is some kind of technical term, you know, or whether you've just got a spare lorry-load from doing a drive down the street...)

The books aren't available anywhere while the search for a publisher goes on, so it's just a case of tempting people at this stage. I was thinking of putting up a short story based on the characters, but it ended up -- after severe pruning -- at over 1700 words, so I'm not sure that's feasible.

[Teresa Edgerton]

Alas, the link didn't work for me. When I clicked, all that came up was a solid grey screen. (From the comments above, I take it that was not intended.)

I've had a lot of trouble with Boneman's site, too. Except for the first page, I can't see anything at all, and the little extras with the bookcase, etc. about which I've heard enthusiastic comments didn't work for me.

You had the same website designer? Either she is doing something that doesn't work on certain browsers, or, if you are both using the same server ...

Will move over to my husband's desktop in a bit and see what happens with Firefox.

[Ursa major]

For your information, I use IE8.

[HoopyFrood]

Might it be something javascript based? I'm not greatly knowledgeable about this stuff, but looking at the page source of the website, seems to be a fair amount of javascript, which sometimes doesn't show up. Styles can have trouble transferring to different browsers. If I had Firefox, I could disable it and check... Ah, not having Flash on makes a difference...Oh, but there is a useful requirements page that comes along with it that tells you what you need to see it all! http://www.damarisbrowne.com/_app/26...uirements.html

[Perpetual Man]

The website looks great TJ, clear and easy to read. I really liked it.

There were a few problems with the way it was running on Google Chrome. But it did work slowly, until it crashed Chrome a few minutes in.

(Might just be my PC, it's been weird all night)

But I really liked the site!

[alchemist]

It's grey on my phone, but works fine on the PC (using Chrome).

Good site. Easy to navigate and informative. A nice tone. And since it seems to be my thing, good to see pics of the author, although a pity none are recent (unless that speckledy blouse is back in).

I also have to say you have a good authorly name, and the Judge series seems pretty darned good.

[The Judge]

Sorry you can't see it, Teresa. I think it must be something to do with the site if it's affecting your viewing of Boneman's, too. Fingers crossed it works on firefox for you (that's what I'm using).

Thanks for the comments, Perp and alchemist! Glad you like it. But if you want an up-to-date photo, I'll have to borrow a burka from someone first.

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by The Judge

I went over the fonts and enlarged them umpteen fold!

Because I have quite a high resolution screen, I tend to view web pages using magnification. (The one that suits most sites, and me, is 160%). I thought I'd increase this to make your text easier to read. It had no effect whatsoever on your site: whatever magnification I chose, everything there remained the same size.

[pyan]

For info, and possibly to add to the mystery, I'm on Opera...

Originally Posted by Ursa

everything there remained the same size

Same result, Ursa. It does something, though - when I reduced it, it left me with a small rectangle with the same size fonts but only a small part of the page.