I noted earlier that the sale ends March 1st: All things currently down will go up, and some things at normal price will go down.
What I did not mention that I will be doing a complete site overhaul between now and then.
So, I am going to say that the sale will end on February 23rd, and will still be in effect if I am able to get everything in place by March 1st, when it will officially end.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause, but if I keep putting this off for one event or another, it will never get done.
Showing posts with label Coming Soon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coming Soon. Show all posts
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Quick News
The site will be undergoing some serious revisions shortly. I have put off a redesign for a while now, but I need to drop my google ads and replace them with something better.
I also need to upgrade, re-install, and rewrite some of my plugins and other things, update links for broken videos in my player, and most importantly - make this thing more roomy and easier to read.
In the next few weeks, this site may revert to the default templates, looking very very plain. It might even present itself incorrectly or broken for a few seconds or minutes here or there, as I will likely make an oops here or there. There are a lot of changes to be made. I am going to miss this design, but hopefully the upcoming one is more striking and easier to navigate and read. This might even force me to fill in some of those much-neglected sections.
The current sale - extended till New Years, then renewed up to Valentines day, will end on March 1st. I need to return a lot of things to their normal prices, putting new and different things on sale soon after.
I also need to upgrade, re-install, and rewrite some of my plugins and other things, update links for broken videos in my player, and most importantly - make this thing more roomy and easier to read.
In the next few weeks, this site may revert to the default templates, looking very very plain. It might even present itself incorrectly or broken for a few seconds or minutes here or there, as I will likely make an oops here or there. There are a lot of changes to be made. I am going to miss this design, but hopefully the upcoming one is more striking and easier to navigate and read. This might even force me to fill in some of those much-neglected sections.
The current sale - extended till New Years, then renewed up to Valentines day, will end on March 1st. I need to return a lot of things to their normal prices, putting new and different things on sale soon after.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Coming this year
Bethalynne Bajema and I have been invited to be guests of Honor at TempleCon - a steampunk and gaming convention in Rhode Island, and weeks later, we will have a gallery showing in NYC at Genuine Artikle.
Guests at Templecon so far include the Ocean State Circus Performers, Author CJ Henderson, and bellydancing troupes Aepril Schaile and Kaia Morningstar.
You can keep up to date on Templecon Events by visiting www.templecon.org/, and shows at Genuine Artikle by visiting genuineartikle.com.
Also look for us in Weird Tales Magazine (upcoming) issue, other magazines in the works and to be announced here.
Guests at Templecon so far include the Ocean State Circus Performers, Author CJ Henderson, and bellydancing troupes Aepril Schaile and Kaia Morningstar.
You can keep up to date on Templecon Events by visiting www.templecon.org/, and shows at Genuine Artikle by visiting genuineartikle.com.
Also look for us in Weird Tales Magazine (upcoming) issue, other magazines in the works and to be announced here.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Coming Changes, Features, and Additions
I recently did a new design for my girlfriend, Bethalynne Bajema at bethalynnebajema.com/scriptorium.
She is still adding items to the store, but, like this site, most anyone who does not get their internet through a can and a piece of string can easily subscribe to rss feeds for posts, comments, and new products added.
I highly recommend going there and clicking that link, while it is fresh in your mind.
On that note, I am thinking it is time for me to swap this site out with something new; It will encourage me to get those parts of the site done which I have neglected over the past year - bios, portfolios, resumes, publishing lists and the sort.
And though most every art or creative entertainment site on the internet, especially those of my genre(s), are typically pretty dark in color schemes - I am thinking I might switch over to a lighter color scheme.
I get a lot of good input on this incarnation of site, and see a lot of people say a lot of good things, to me and to others; I do however know it is not perfect... nothing ever is.
There will always be that guy who accesses the net on an atari 2600 modified to run some obscure OS, using a browser that is "better than all the rest" because it chokes on everything, shaking his fist because 8 billion people on the internet aren't writing code that is compatible... completely clueless as to which person in that equation is the fool.
I haven't done the terribly bad things; I don't use frames, iframes, and tables. I don't make huge annoying flash-dependent mystery meat navigation websites where in order to navigate to the contact page, you have to slide gigeresque artifacts about, in search of the chicken with the shortest mustache and the biggest hat - who of course has the key to activate the proper animated page transition.
The latter, not because I don't think it would be fun; I avoid this because I like modern things like rss feeds, and crazy things like people being able to find things without having to load a movie with an introduction, five intermissions, a featurette,and credits - just to make a simple purchase.
The size however, is a problem. I kept it at 800 wide for as long as I could, for those people who were ten years behind the rest of the internet and still using such low resolutions. The problem is, it restricts me from showing images inline at larger sizes. I need to use thickbox for that... Those 5% of the internet who are unaware that the internet now uses a lot of java, especially with the advent of AJAX, are simply directed to the image itself. I'll probably continue to use thickbox, but will need to use it for a lot less things.
I also feel the lighter color schemes will better showcase my upcoming artwork.
These changes are things I have been considering for a while, which have been blocked by my accursed popularity over the past year or so. The changes are not for the sake of "Mr. Lonely Mcwhimperpants", an anonymous someone who I imagine has nothing better to do than to repeatedly write me to voice his dislike for my site, though he apparently has no idea what he does not like. He only knows that the mere thought of my site not being designed specifically for him, makes him curl up in a fetal position and wet his official Justin Timberlaketm panties whenever he compulsively visits it... time and time again.
I will actually have to find some way to switch to a lighter scheme, while still using colors that traumatize his fragile mind as easily as those colors I currently use; It would be wrong of me to take away his futile attempts at getting the internet to conform to whatever he likes to pretend is a browser, because everyone needs *some* reason to live - even those who probably shouldn't.
Stay tuned, don't close that browser! The new artwork for Vernian Process will be released in Late January. The new children's book should have a preview up by February.
There will be a lot of art in between as well, some new assemblages, and of course I will continue to point you towards weird, insane, dumb, and interesting things whenever I am goofing off.
She is still adding items to the store, but, like this site, most anyone who does not get their internet through a can and a piece of string can easily subscribe to rss feeds for posts, comments, and new products added.
I highly recommend going there and clicking that link, while it is fresh in your mind.
On that note, I am thinking it is time for me to swap this site out with something new; It will encourage me to get those parts of the site done which I have neglected over the past year - bios, portfolios, resumes, publishing lists and the sort.
And though most every art or creative entertainment site on the internet, especially those of my genre(s), are typically pretty dark in color schemes - I am thinking I might switch over to a lighter color scheme.
I get a lot of good input on this incarnation of site, and see a lot of people say a lot of good things, to me and to others; I do however know it is not perfect... nothing ever is.
There will always be that guy who accesses the net on an atari 2600 modified to run some obscure OS, using a browser that is "better than all the rest" because it chokes on everything, shaking his fist because 8 billion people on the internet aren't writing code that is compatible... completely clueless as to which person in that equation is the fool.
I haven't done the terribly bad things; I don't use frames, iframes, and tables. I don't make huge annoying flash-dependent mystery meat navigation websites where in order to navigate to the contact page, you have to slide gigeresque artifacts about, in search of the chicken with the shortest mustache and the biggest hat - who of course has the key to activate the proper animated page transition.
The latter, not because I don't think it would be fun; I avoid this because I like modern things like rss feeds, and crazy things like people being able to find things without having to load a movie with an introduction, five intermissions, a featurette,and credits - just to make a simple purchase.
The size however, is a problem. I kept it at 800 wide for as long as I could, for those people who were ten years behind the rest of the internet and still using such low resolutions. The problem is, it restricts me from showing images inline at larger sizes. I need to use thickbox for that... Those 5% of the internet who are unaware that the internet now uses a lot of java, especially with the advent of AJAX, are simply directed to the image itself. I'll probably continue to use thickbox, but will need to use it for a lot less things.
I also feel the lighter color schemes will better showcase my upcoming artwork.
These changes are things I have been considering for a while, which have been blocked by my accursed popularity over the past year or so. The changes are not for the sake of "Mr. Lonely Mcwhimperpants", an anonymous someone who I imagine has nothing better to do than to repeatedly write me to voice his dislike for my site, though he apparently has no idea what he does not like. He only knows that the mere thought of my site not being designed specifically for him, makes him curl up in a fetal position and wet his official Justin Timberlaketm panties whenever he compulsively visits it... time and time again.
I will actually have to find some way to switch to a lighter scheme, while still using colors that traumatize his fragile mind as easily as those colors I currently use; It would be wrong of me to take away his futile attempts at getting the internet to conform to whatever he likes to pretend is a browser, because everyone needs *some* reason to live - even those who probably shouldn't.
Stay tuned, don't close that browser! The new artwork for Vernian Process will be released in Late January. The new children's book should have a preview up by February.
There will be a lot of art in between as well, some new assemblages, and of course I will continue to point you towards weird, insane, dumb, and interesting things whenever I am goofing off.
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