Meet the new blog, answers

Quick replies:

  • The sidebar has been narrowed, you should be able to see it in most screen resolutions.
  • Bold and Italics can be done using HTML– <b>bold</b> and <i>italic</i>, respectively.
  • Yes, you can use a fake email, I suppose. But when we put in the “View all comments by this person” part, it will be checking by the same email address. So be warned– multiple emails will make it harder for people to look up your comments.
    We also reserve the right to put in a more secure system which would require a real email address, should we start getting idiots back.
  • The link to my blog has been fixed. My fault, not Peter’s.

Any other comments?

Meet the new blog, same as the old blog

So now that you’ve all had a chance to see it, we hope that overall you like the spring cleaning changes and upgrades around here. Personally, I like the pop-up window format…although, if you don’t, then you need only click on the “time of posting” link rather than the “list of replies” link and you’ll get full screen.

First and foremost, Glenn says a large acknowledgement is owed to Patrick Nielsen Hayden over at Electrolite for assistance in setting up certain aspects of the blog. You could do a lot worse that spend time visiting his blog, or his wife Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s blog, Making Light. And I’m not just saying that because they’re editors at Tor, for whom I’m working on a new novel.

Other changes you’ll notice are along the sidebar, including:

Yes, the link to the PayPal button was already there, but Glenn just blew his weekend converting the site over. And that’s not even counting the time spent recently having to unsnarl the place after trolls hit. This site gets pretty time intensive, not to mention the expenses this place incurs ranging from set-up to ongoing fees. If you’re at all interested in helping to keep it going and support it, take some time to donate via Paypal.

And Glenn will be paying attention to all comments regarding aesthetics, but first priority over the next days will be concentrating on improving functionality.

For those of you that have asked about our listing email addresses: you can hide your email address from the general public by putting in your URL. If you don’t have a URL of your own, then pick some worthy website to promote. We recommend the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, http://www.cbldf.org.

Thanks for the continued support, and be sure to hit the tip jar on the way out…or in, for that matter.

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