Updates to www.GLGwrites.com

  1. 15-Feb-02: Finally got my DSL back after fighting with MSN about it for 3 months (2 if you don't count their losing my first order), so I added the Hour of Pain picture to my big home-page.
  2. 20-Dec-01: Added announcement about my story "Ledger Entries" being accepted by the anthology Hour of Pain.
  3. 19-Dec-01: Increasing my connection with www.yaga.com by implanting icons connecting some of my pages with their locations within the yaga realm.
  4. 17-Dec-01: Changed my flying-top message to point to Who Else! Books, now selling Seeds of Disaster at their store at 32 N. Broadway in Denver. Added request for advice about Pikes Peak Writer's Conference to high-resolution page as well as lower-resolution pop-up.
  5. 06-Dec-01: Yep, I joined the pop-up-window crowd, only instead of ads for other places and products, I'm popping up three other windows for different parts of my web-site, but only for those using screen resolutions of 800x640 or less. I designed these sub-entry pages for users preferring the larger resolutions, plus a different, simpler index page, as follows:
    Index
    Homilies
    Science Fiction
    Mainstream Fiction (going straight to the short stories as I don't have my novels up yet)
  6. 15-Oct-01: Webring and Yahoo! went their separate ways, so I had to update all the different versions of my index page to paint the new links. Maybe they'll unsuspend me now, which they did because I left the link off my redirecting-on-resolution index page. Mea culpa!
  7. 27-Sep-01:
    added the use of target="_blank" in my off-site hyperlinks; this parameter induces your browser to create another window, rather than re-use the one where my web-site is showing, so that you never lose your way back to me. Thanks to Judith Tramayne-Barth from "A Good Read Art & Book Club" at http://www.agoodread.com!
    added alternative home-pages for those people using "smaller screens," i.e., lower resolutions: for 800x600 & for 640x480
  8. 24-Sep-01: I made some finishing touches to the sample chapters of Seeds of Disaster while getting them ready to send to Jaime Levine, Associate Editor, at Warner Books, Inc. After listening to my pitch at WorldCon, Jaime was kind enough to invite me to send these chapters plus a synopsis to her, my first bypass of the slushpile! She said it might take her a while to get around to it, so I wonder how long I can keep my fingers crossed.
  9. 10-Sep-01: Expanded my visible repertoire into the mainstream with the addition of my first Hank Schliemann story, "Red Line in My Mind," which prompted me to get the new section of my web-site going. I also re-organized how I use Microsoft's FrontPage web-management software, but let's not talk about that on-line.
  10. 06-Sep-01: Added my first drop-by comment from an Academy classmate Joel Gordes, first of many more, I hope.
  11. 25-Aug-01: Added Ralph Roberts quote & ad for The Millennium Philcon® Version of the Outrider Edition.
  12. 18-Aug-01: took off Table-of-Contents because it takes too long to build & to load & who reads those things anyway
  13. 16-Aug-01: After nearly a month of working on 1) new writing, 2) selling what I've already written, and 3) marketing my writing via other venues (if you don't count my day-job at www.eAutoTrac.com and having a life), I've added a major new interface to Seeds of Disaster: a set of indexes into the pages of the eBook version of SoD itself and since I was indexing the cast anyway, I added the frontmatter piece about them as well. Want to see what kind of tek SoD offers? Check out that index. Curious about Phoebe's speech patterns; check out that index (look under "Behavior," then "Speech"). All these and much, much more hypertext access to the novel.
  14. 19-Jul-01: Working on HTML tags, <title> and meta-tags, to improve how search engines treat my web-site.
  15. 13-Jul-01: Applied to join the Ultimate Sites Webring, but they ended up rejecting me & wouldn't say why.
  16. 05-Jul-01:
    updated homily about privacy on the Internet to include references to Visionics Corporation and their surveillance of Tampa, Florida, & Judge J. Manuel Bańales
    joined the Aspiring Authors
  17. 21-Jun-01:
    added a Table of Contents (as generated by FrontPage & therefore, very inclusive)
    added a list of people's names that I've "dropped" around my web-site, so you can rummage through pages that way
  18. 07-Jun-01: added a new homily about privacy on the Internet; reshaped my front porch a bit too
  19. 07-May-01: trying to get all my interactions to work right using FrontPage™ extensions; most do, one doesn't, a typically cyber-glitch
  20. 05-May-01:
    started my Homilies for a Web-Crawler and made the latest one available directly from my home-page
    started featuring my short stories, as the Story du jour on my home-page
    start list of people who want to buy the hard-copy version of Seeds of Disaster
  21. 18-Mar-01: added my acknowledgments to People and Books&Songs for their help with Seeds of Disaster
  22. 03-Mar-01:
    found this site in www.Lycos.com -- hooray!
    my statistics say www.Google.com has been sending people my way -- hooray!
    decided not to use http://www.isubmit.org because they want money
    submitted this site to http://telocity.nbci.com
    submitted this site to www.canada.com, which, according to www.ineedhits.com, is a backdoor to www.inktomi.com, which is important because:

    "Webmasters, VeriSign Inc. and Inktomi Corp. have just recently joined forces to announce that they will provide a listing service that will allow website owners to display their pages on Inktomi's popular search index ... [which is used] on leading sites such as AOL, iWon and MSN."

     

  23. 11-Feb-01: finalized the usage of Magyar by one of Dain's alter egos
  24. 06-Feb-01: added Mackay Wood's custom blurbs about her books, plus links to her publisher's web-site.
  25. 27-Jan-01: split out Mackay Wood's page so that she could make quick reference to her own web-site as www.glgwrites.com/mackaywood
  26. 26-Jan-01: upgraded SoD sample chapters to include semantic support, that is, they provide quick definitions for the following types of words:
    non-English words that I have injected into the English substrate of Yeibichai's lingua franca, such as, zhuhndí
    familiar words that I project a change in meaning, subtle or otherwise, such as hacker
    words that I have invented, such as techgibber
    See the explanation for using semantic support on the Sample Chapter base page. All this technology is made possible by my manuscript-specific markup language implemented via my own tool printMSS (for questions, send a message to my other business' address: WareForeAnalysis@juno.com).
  27. 20-Jan-01: added my glossary for Seeds of Disaster; in the near future, I will connect the sample chapters to this glossary.
  28. 15-Jan-01: received my first acceptance by a search engine — in Australia! AAA Matilda United States But because I'm a "commercial" web-site (is there something wrong with wanting to make money?), they want money from me to keep my site in their listing beyond 45 days. Oh, well, come the 1st of March, it'll be G'day, mate!
  29. 09-Jan-01: more about my critique group, Mackay Woods' upcoming novel, and Curt Craddock's own URL; also changed hyperlink colors for something darker which is easier for you folks to see (I hope)
  30. 05-Jan-01: added connection to www.paypal.com as means to pay for Seeds of Disaster
  31. 04-Jan-01:
    1. started work on the "Critique Group" subsection of the Links section
    2. submitted this site to search engines, including www.altavista.com, and many more via SubmitFree: Submit to 25+ Search Engines for free !!!!
  32. 03-Jan-01: Added Seeds of Disaster sample chapters
  33. 02-Jan-01: At precisely, 16:28MST, published the initial version of this site
  34. 30-Dec-00: Committed the funds to A+.net to host my site
  35. 20-Dec-00: Finally started development
  36. 14-Jun-00: "Rented" domain name