I’ve been keeping some sort of web presence since I was first published, back in 1993. Being a computer geek outside my work as a novelist, I’ve gotten into the habit of rolling my own site. So I’ve lived through the era of hand-coded html and animated gifs. I’ve struggled with Javascript menus, and had a site where I created navigation buttons in Paint Shop Pro. I’ve migrated from Blogger to my own WordPress site. And, as I’ve been bringing the blog portion of this back to life I’ve been busy changing the design again. I expect things to be changing here for a while. I can’t really use an off-the-shelf theme since I’ve done a lot of back-end coding to maintain all the book-related content. I expect things to settle down in a couple of weeks.
Word to the geeks out there: CSS3 rocks! The animated book menus, which were once Javascript and a bunch of moving <DIV>s, are now all handled with some lines in the stylesheet. I was so excited that I told my wife— and got the glazed eye-rolling expression that translates to, “why do you think I care?”
Still, it rocks!
