Lady Despenser's Scribery - Introduction
Monday, 26 October 2009
WEBSITE LAUNCH!!!!
Yes, finally, at long last, it’s here!
Today we (Alianore/Kathryn and I (Lady D/Jules) are pleased as punch and immensely proud to announce the official launch of the Everything Edward II website. It has everything from both of our blogs together in one place, plus a few little extras, so be sure to put it in your bookmarks!.
Obviously it has room for lots of growth and new features. There are plenty of areas that still need articles written, and plenty of locations which need photographs taken. If you have any suggestions or comments – or if you notice any typos, missing links or anything else that needs rectifying, please let us know. Thanks for all the support you’ve given us on the blogs so far and please continue to support us on this new venture. We would love it if this could eventually be one of the biggest – and best – historically themed sites on the web!
And for those who are interested…
Stats:
Numer of pages: 304
Number of photo galleries: 25
Containing: 414 images
Estimated number of woman hours: 451, or 56 full working days (it shouldn’t have taken this long but as this was the first website I’ve ever made, this also includes the learning process!)
Number of extra cups of coffee consumed: 100
Number of extra grey hairs to be covered: 500
Number of times head held in hands in dispair: lost count!
Number of times nearly forgotten to feed dog: 11
Level of satisfaction and feeling of achievement upon completion: 100%
And for those who are really interested:
Techie Details
Platform: Mac OS X 10.5.8
Software Used: Rapidweaver 4 using RWT Moxie2 theme
Rapidweaver Plugins Used: Blocks, Loghound Sitemap, Rapidsearch (not up yet)
Other Software: Photoshop, Illustrator
Future plans:
Addition of North Wales posts and galleries
Update to Mostly Medieval Bookshop (more books to be added - but if you could buy your books through us it would help fund the hosting costs etc)
Additions to existing photo galleries, e.g. Gloucester Cathedral, Tewkesbury Abbey etc
There is one issue I know about - the size of the italicised text - but any others, please tell. There may also be issues with older versions of IE - this happens with a lot of websites. The best thing to do in this case is, I'm afraid, to upgrade to a newer version (free).
I shall be updating the site once a week, but you can still catch up with any blog updates on there instantly.
Right, after all that, I now need a little break before starting my novel Despenser ;-). More news on that soon!
Oh, and just in case you forget.... CLICK HERE! ;-)
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11 comments:
YAY, we're online! Here's to Edward and to us!!! Exciting times...;)
You two are simply awesome. :)
And I don't just say that because Alienore told her readers to come here and tell you. ;)
Congratulations!
It looks very nice! I'm looking forward to checking it out.
Great site. Congrats on getting that bad boy up. :)
Congrats! I'm adding it as a link on my blog. :)
You forgot to add the: "Finally getting the website up and running - PRICELESS" bit to the end there. Hehehe. :)
I clicked over to the new site from Alianore's blog and had a quick look around. Everything I tried rendered nicely in IE 8. It looks really smart and well designed - great job!
Well Done to both of you!
Phew! Creating a web site looks far too complicated for me.
I have now linked it to my blog and I shall enjoy watching it grow.
Great work Lady D (and Ms Alianore!)
Can't wait to add it to my bookmarks.
Lady D, are you a Mac user - if so do you have iWork? It has a really really great web design part....
Congratulations on the wonderful website!
I just wanted to say thankyou to you all for your lovely comments and support! I have just had a couple of days off and so to come back to these has been just fantastic!
Carla - Thanks for letting me know how it looks in IE8.
Kate - yes, I am a Mac user, but I still prefer to use Rapidweaver (a cheaper Mac version of Dreamweaver) than iWork's thing - but I have heard some good stuff aboout it :-)
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