Environment not conductive to erotic writing has kept me away from the word processor today. Hoping to get to bed at a decent hour tonight and see what I can do about that tomorrow. Still have the drive to write, but can’t frikkin’ find the quiet time :p<\/p>\n
At least it isn’t lack of motivation, which is my usual bane.<\/p>\n
So, I did a little more behind the scenes work on the website. I’ve been primarily concentrating on the opt-in mailing lists for my work. So far, only have the display and the input processing complete. Have to do a lot of double checking before I start actually writing any information to the database. The input-checks on this page are very complex, due to the level of choice I’m going to offer in email alerts about my stories.<\/p>\n
The choices will be:<\/p>\n
So, you’ll be able to tailor your alerts pretty well to your tastes.\u00a0 Once I complete this, it will be part of a “contact” section of the main page.\u00a0 Below “What’s Happening” will be a little widget that displays the most recent updates to the website ( very similar to “Latest Releases” for my stories )\u00a0 Below “Latest Releases” will be the Contact Links, which will consist of the Newsletter Link, and a contact page link.<\/p>\n
The contact\u00a0page will start out by noting the forums, and the PM feature within.\u00a0 I’ll also have links to my Lit and SOL contact pages, in order for visitors to utilize the anonymity available there.\u00a0 I’ll also have a link to my PM box on Lit.<\/p>\n
Odds are that I’ll have a form mailer built into this page as well.<\/p>\n
I’ve always wanted to have an easily managed ( and highly customizeable on the user end ) mailing list, so that’s why this is getting priority over adding new content sections to the website.\u00a0 Finishing it and the Website Updates widget will complete the front page of the site, as I plan it to be for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n
There will be a sitemap available eventually, which I’ll link from both the floating menu and the “More” page.\u00a0 That will let you drill down, and perhaps find pages that you overlooked the links to elsewhere.<\/p>\n
Fiddling around with an automated utility to track the Lit contests as well.\u00a0 That’s all new programming ground for me, though.\u00a0 So, I’m really just in the planning stages of that beyond testing the first bit of functionality to make sure I had at least half a clue what I was doing *laugh* ( I can grab a contest page and parse the information I need from it, as things stand )<\/p>\n
When I eventually finish that, it will make tracking contests a button-pressing operation, greatly reducing the amount of time required ( and potential math errors ) to keep up with contest tracking.\u00a0 Automating it will also most likely lead to me tracking all Lit contests for a while, to finally build up a solid data set.<\/p>\n
I am so getting my money’s worth out of the software purchase that’s making all this possible.\u00a0 Hell, even if no more than a handful of people ever really look at the website, it tickles me to have everything moving toward how I’ve always wanted it.<\/p>\n
Me tickled = higher potential for forward progress on writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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