So for the last two wee hours I've been working on to the website (the facelifted wedsite that looks oh-so-cool . . . I think), cranking out these little pop-up pages per individual texts. I think I'll run a survey - ask readers how they'd like to see the work - either on ISSUU or on the site. Doing both forever hereafter will be my death. I still have some work to do with Flash - and working in Flash is NOT like riding a bike. If you don't mess with it every day, you have to reteach yourself the basics every time you open the thing back up.
In the midst of all this, my new laptop is AWESOME. I am even kinda' liking Vista (shhhh!). The only sucky thing is that my trial version of Office ran out . . . but I have an old version on CD. I've been putting off installing it and using the generic rich text editor instead. It's all working out.
So . . . now, I'm getting the heeby-jeebies. This is going live soon. Live to the world. Other countries. China. Canada. Worse - New York. Eek. And to tell ya' the truth, I have no idea what they'll do with it once it's up. I think NewPages reviews these things. I don't know about other places. Geez, I don't even have that an e-mail list done yet. So, once it's live - then the work goes into announcing the hell out of the thing, keeping my fingers crossed. We'll see what happens and then I'll get to show my face at AWP. I think I'll be ready.
I had an idea in my sleepy stupor . . . I think I'll post a "preview" jpg image of the "facelifted" CRT site for you lucky few (and I do mean few) who, on occasion, decide to peek in on me. What you see below is stuff that my co-editor hasn't even seen (mostly because our schedules never mesh). Of course, this isn't the whole page - there's more - and this is only the main page. And you'll have to imagine it without the Promo Issue in there on the player. The actual Issue #01 page has a slightly different layout. The little ferris wheel has a flickering neon sign over it and the cars light up as links. The little gears turn. :)
