Hey Folks,

I'm starting a new fiction website, also looking for non-fiction, photography, art, and poetry. We pay for submissions and contributors retain all rights to the work. If you're interested, check out the guidelines.

Cheers!

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Edit: No longer accepting submissions, but feel free to let me know at the attached link if you would like to go on a mailing list to be notified when submissions re-open.

Man are you using Sandvox for this? If you are I remember that feeling well. I got injured at work and my wife chained me to a desk for three weeks and made me do her a commercial website right down to custom made payment buttons. That's despite me protesting I know nothing about them. Didn't wash. Couldn't wait to get back to work.

Did you know each colour has a code? FFFFF is white. try entering different codes into the box , it's amazing when you need a break.


Good luck with it.

Andy.

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Oh just remembered, you gonna need this:

p { text-indent: 2em; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; }

Sums it up nicely, Andy.

And how come films and music got overlooked?

Chris

Chris , I'm being harsh here, I meant what I wrote kindly , but if this project is going to succeed then the originator has to take into account' the medium is the message' which is the principle you have to gasp when you are doing this stuff. I had to do a crash course in HTML using Sandvox because its parameters only allow you to do so much without it.

You also need Photoshop if you're going to do something original and fresh with the graphics.

The problem with the availablility of relatively cheap web packages is it makes a level playing field and are some excellent blogs that fuse graphics , feeds and language made by guys on a shoestring budget in their bedrooms. They are passionate about what they are doing and driven. I stayed up well past my usual bedtime absorbing lines of code, and getting up the next day red eyed ,grabbing coffee and trying to apply it.


It's the presentation of the site that reflects the content. That's how it should be as well.

I showed my wife how to upload stuff onto her new site, how to blog and make feeds and she never used it,and it's just sitting out there unchanged in eighteen months. She's 'not into computers' and I said if I'm going back to building work don't think I'm coming in at night and uploading stuff for you and writing a blog for you and chasing paypal for button codes. Still it's good to be given the choice.

Andy.

Andy

I got the wrong end of the stick here, thinking that your points were actually an ironic comment about the site itself rather than its execution and presentation.

I was just being rather cynical (it's a fault, I know!) about something which seemed to be a 'we specialise in anything' proposition, whereas you were being genuinely helpful.

All the same, I wouldn't be confident about suggesting any writer spend any time on something where even the basic act hasn't been got together properly. One of the big problems is that once your work has been 'published', even in this way, it can be a problem if interest from an established publisher arises later.

jtselliot - apologies if I've been unfair on initial reaction here.

Chris

Chris if you model the systems created by instigating that system based on ironic-aggressive comment in Game Theory you end up generating a whole bunch of negative arguments, generally learn nowt and generate loads of negative feedback loops. That's why I like it here at WW, its all positives and cooperation . I'm a fan of Price and why in real life I've got a car worth 1p scrap value . Depends what outcome you want. I like my car and the ratio of liking it to the scrap value is considerably higher than market value : liking a new Porsche.

Andy

No hard feelings, guys. To be honest, I'm not the one doing website design, so a lot of that went right over my head.

Do it yourself - it's a worthwhile learning curve because you'll integrate multiple aspects of art and literature. It's not hard , just a repetition of tasks and skills accumulation. You'll need to synthesize art and literature to the point it becomes a unified field and then all you have to do is express it. Which is the essence of your website.

I'll tell you this now, you'll need to modify the parameters of the design program to get what you want using HTML, seems daunting but it's easy.

If you do it yourself and learn , you'll not have to pay for everything to be updated and know what to do when something doesn't fit or gets chucked out of the parameters.

Easier than learning to drive or swim or ride a bike.




Andy