Greg R. Fishbone - Official Author Website

2008-Apr-16: I put an "Add This" button in the header of every page to make it easier for anyone to add the page to their favorites, email the URL to a friend, or add it to a social site like Digg, MySpace, or Facebook. Not that I expect anyone to do these things but you never know.

2008-Apr-09: Now I have a section for news. It should have seemed obvious that I’d need one, but I just didn’t think of it.

2008-Apr-08: Today I added content in the form of two more articles I originally wrote for Children’s Writers and Illustrators Market. The three articles go together well as the core of a new "Writing Tips" section.

2008-Apr-07: I spent the day working behind the scenes on things you might not notice.  It should run a bit faster and work a bit better, and should be a bit easier for me to maintain over time.  There’s now an archive for updates like this one, so the really old news doesn’t stay on the front page.  And I’ve earned two badges for site design:

They don’t give those to just anyone. You have to earn them. 

2008-Apr-03: Today I added a page on Writing Humor, taken from an article I published in the 2002 Children’s Writers and Illustrators Market. It was a while ago, but humor hasn’t changed much since then.

2008-Apr-02: You may have noticed the Author’s Interview page. Like all parts of this site, it’s a work in progress in case you want to submit another question or two.

2008-Mar-26: Redesign of the Greg R. Fishbone Official Author Website begins in earnest, just in time for my April 13th workshop on web design at the New England SCBWI annual conference. I’m using WordPress blogging software as a base, modifying the templates and CSS to make it look and act more like a CMS than a blog.  It’ll all be covered in the workshop.

This version of my website was generated by a program called Site Studio, which came bundled with my server. It was basic and fairly limited with an interface that was maddening to work with but I wanted that "author desktop" look that was popular at the time and I didn’t want to do a lot of interface tweaking of my own. 

Seriously, ugh, right? I don’t know why I stuck with it so long.  Stubbornness perhaps?

This was my blog, back in the early days of blogging.  For my blogging platform I chose a CMS program called phpWebsite that had way too many features for my needs–but I liked it. I also coded a superhero name generator that got an insane number of hits for a while. If you were online at the time, anywhere in the world, there’s a 16% chance that you generated at least one superhero name on my site, at least on average.  I was constantly having to buy more bandwidth for the thing.