Website Updates and New Layout?

[icarus]

In preparation for remixredux I've updated my website.

The Harry Potter story pages have been updated.
The Harry Potter fic pairings page now has a Gen list, and has been updated from July 2005. *coughs*

PG-13 has 9 new stories, R has two new stories, and NC-17 also has two new stories.

The growing Stargate page has been updated.
I've added five new Stargate Atlantis stories, and two new Stargate SG-1 stories. Since Stargate Atlantis is up to seven stories and Stargate SG-1 now has 17, check out the handy "jump to" links.

I've renamed "Nasty Little Elves" to Nowhere But Up, because the original title was a slapped on mess and scribbulus_ink had a point with the title being the first hook. I was being lazy with the original title.

New Layout?
I'm experimenting with a new layout that seems to work for (and look the same) on various resolutions. The banner is by femmequixotic, with art by lizardspots.

Only one page is complete because, well, I don't know what I'm doing. A lot of the links don't work yet. But the layout of all the pages will be simple: black text on white background, with the information in the center table. A basic 12 pt font. The stories will still appear as separate links so you (and I) can link to them individually.

Users of Firefox and Safari and other browsers, let me know if it looks like utter shit?

Everyone else... do you like the bright and sunny look? I write a lot more humor than Darkfic so it seems to fit, but if it hurts your eyes, tell me. I'd like to go to eFiction, but I don't know how to set it up. So, basic HTML it is.

Comments

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, what lizardspots suggested won't effect the stories. Those aren't changing, except they now have a white background.

Hmm... Firefox is a problem. It doesn't recognize my margins at all, so slaps everything to the left. I tried changing the margin but it has no effect. This is a real problem because the majority of my readers are using Firefox.

Okay, I'm on it, hampered only by the fact that I have no clue what I'm doing. :)

Icarus

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not really a huge problem, more of an aesthetic one. With the resolution that I use for my monitor, many websites show up as just something tiny in the middle of the screen (like one long column) or sometimes to the left. This journal style shows up like that, but it's not too narrow either. I have about 3 1/2 - 4" on either side of the actual LJ "box," though.

I have no point except maybe: "If it's not one thing, it's another." *g*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Well, I know the stats for my site. The majority of readers have switched to Firefox, and I worry that they'll find the unreadability off-putting to say the least.

Darn, darn, darn.

Icarus

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's interesting. You can actually tell what browser someone is using? That's neat.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yep. That's one of the benefits to paying for a site.

I think I fixed that problem. Let me know, here's a story: Colony Atlantis (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/colonyatlantis.html).

Did it work?

Icarus

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

I think so. It's a bit better, though still close to the edge of the page--just not the *exact* edge, so it does help. :-)

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Ah, but that's how it looks to everyone! (Grin) And I was up really late last night fixing all of the stories and I'm not doing it again for a long, long time.

There are times when I think shit, I've written a lot of stories. But I was also able to fix Primer to the Dark Arts (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/primer01.html) and discover I needed a back-up copy of Sonic Boom (http://www.icarus.slashcity.net/stories/sonicboom.html), which was a good thing.

Icarus *falls flat on face*