I’ve been working on this website for months, either conceptualizing, researching, or implementing the design. I’m pretty much done with it, and in a few days I’ll be moving it over to b83.a58.myftpupload.com. I’ll definitely be uncorking some champagne of beers then.
Some of the goals for the new site are, of course, to be readable and to encourage the sale of books. I also want, of course, to integrate the latest and greatest of the social media offerings. And, of course, I want the site to look so good that when NYTimes reporters follow leads to the site, they will say, “That is a legit biz.” I also want the new PGP site to be a place that people can visit even if they don’t want to read a book or find out more about the authors. To that end, I am going to make it a goal to write frequent posts at this blog. When I do that, I will probably shut down my blogger site and the Tumblr.
I should probably come up with a name for the blog. Perhaps I’ll use “The Pickle,” which was the name of a blog I kept in the early 2000s.
In the future I plan to add a page for pictures. I go to a lot of readings and the excellent Mark Cugini just borrowed me his camera, which is super nice, so I want to start adding them in an “Around Town” feature.
I’m just thinking out loud here. I welcome comments on the design and on the problems with the design.
The picture, above, is one of the tee markers at the disc golf course where Michael Kimball and I played our first match of disc golf together. He beat me handily because I can’t throw that thing straight even a little. But still it was good time off from this website building thing.
