(I’ve got insomnia, so I’m websurfing.)
Blogs. Not too promising so far. I notice once again that I find politics as boring on the web as I do in books. I suppose if your books are political message heavy it’s a good idea to warn potential readers before they get annoyed.
I remark for the umpteenth time that I hate splash pages. Waste my time. Why *do* people insist on having them?
I notice that one author’s publications are so divided and sub-divided and hidden behind non-obvious text links that I tend to not pay much attention to them by the time I’ve found them. So how should one handle the problem of having written a great many books? Have to think about that.
Stuff to put at the end of the [title of book] link:
“progress report” — hmm… I think it would be more fun to read in real time, but on the other hand, why not?
“how I came to write *this* book” –I rather like these.
maps — always nice, pretty *and* informative
sample chapters– I approve of these even though I never read them. Why then do I approve? Maybe I’d get more mileage out of short punchy quotes?
publishing history — boring, but potentially useful
Cover art. — this isn’t nearly as fun done as a list of links as it would be if the actual graphics were imbedded into another page, IMHO. I supose people are tying to be kind to those on dialup. But if you set the images to one side of a text heavy page, then you get the best of both worlds, do you not?
Have found my first site to add to my collection of webbed worlds
http://www.ethshar.com/ — no comments to make on it directly yet. As the first find, I lack any sort of grounds for comparison. 🙂