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[pensnest]

Oh. My. God.

I did it. I think. I'm pretty sure.

The new, beautiful, glorious Pen's Nest website is... is there! If you'd like to be very kind to me—and who is there among you who would not?—go to the home page and have a poke around, and tell me if anything doesn't work. (Those of you who have Dragon stories up there should probably check to make sure they look right and that the feedback links work as they should, okay?)

OMG.

My Home Page

I'm afraid that anyone who has linked to one of my 2005 stories (or, I think, one of the Chronicles) will have a useless link, but I *hope* the broken link will redirect to the Popslash index, so it is not completely useless. The 2006 and 2007 *should* be okay as I duplicated the file structure and file names.

Dreamweaver reduced me to tears at first, but once I grasped what I was doing, such a joy by comparison to my Freeway Express program. Phew!

And, for no particularly good reason, I meme:

What do you Believe?
Do you believe in?
A God?:	no
The Devil?:	no
Yourself?:	yes, usually
YourFriends?:	yes
Santa Claus?:	no
Ghosts?:	no
Aliens?:	yes, but I don't expect ever to meet any
Vampires?:	no
Heaven/Hell?:	no
Psychics?:	no
Love at first sight?:	yes, but it's not usually a good idea
Do you believe that?
If you step on a crack you will break your mothers back?:	no
Do you believe that something other than a weather balloon crashed in NM?:	no
Do you believe that the world will end in 2012?:	no
Do you believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?:	no, not the kind we were threatened with
Do you believe that George Bush is capable of running the USA?:	no
Do you believe that karma will bite you in the ass if you mess up?:	no
Do you believe that Trimspa killed Anna Nicole Smith?:	don't know, don't care
Do you believe that gay marrige should be legal?:	yes
Do you believe that we evolved from monkeys/apes(or whatever)?:	yes, from a common ancestor anyway
Do you beleive that all goths are Satanic?:	no
Do you believe that OJ killed his wife?:	yes
Do you believe that the government can watch you through the TV?:	no
Do you believe that you will live to see the end of the world?:	no
Do you believe that I am lame for creating this?:	no, not particularly
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Comments

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

I think you need to change this on your front page. "I took A-Level English by correspondence course in the summer of 2008. Here are the essays." Unless you travelled forwards in time to take it, and then travelled back to our own timestream. *g*

[pensnest]

Hah! Thanks, I'll add it to my list of amendments. Tho' I dare say you're probably the only person who'll ever look at that page.

[trumpeterofdoom.livejournal.com]

Well, it was the first link on the page and it caught my eye.

Who, moi? ;)

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

Dreamweaver takes some getting used to, but once you do, it's easy enough to zip right along. The site looks great and the link for feedback for my Dragon story is fine. :D

[pensnest]

It was the faffing around trying to figure out the basics which drove me batty - but I got the Visual Quickstart Guide from Peachpit, which somehow works for me far better than the 'for Dummies' guide, and managed to figure out a page. After that, 'twas fine.

Thanks for checking.

[raynedanser.livejournal.com]

*nods* I hear ya. When I first got Frontpage oodles of years ago, I was the same way. Then when I got Dreamweaver, I was much the same way and I floundered about on my own with it. OODLES of fun times. Not. ;-)

[beckyo.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!!! And the link to my dragon story is fine, as is the fb link. I had fun with that one. :)

[pensnest]

Excellent. Thanks for checking.

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

After a quick skim, I say huzzah!

[pensnest]

I'm in the mood for a huzzah or two too!

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

looking good, my lady.

[pensnest]

Thank you :-)

[zillahseye.livejournal.com]

I like your site! It is very pretty.

[pensnest]

Thank you! I had fun playing with the headers.

[turloughishere.livejournal.com]

It's looking GREAT!! Interesting and stylish but not too busy, and clear and readable. (Not that I expected anything less from you :-) And thank you for telling us about the changed URLs! I've made the appropriate changes to my recpages.

[pensnest]

Thank you! I've just gone through my fanfic100 table re-linking the first year's stories and the Chronicles, which are nicely in their own folders. I don't know if it's an illusion, but the website pages seem to load more quickly than they did.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

It looks great! I love the dragon header you've used, it looks so stylish.

[pensnest]

Thanks! I had Much Fun with Photoshop, making all the headers. I love that dragon's expression...

[rikes]

OMG, I love the popslash header!

And yay, I just randomly clicked on a story to see if the layout was different there, and it was the yummy Triple Threat that I had just been thinking about a couple of days ago, but couldn't remember the name or author. Yay!

[milosflaca.livejournal.com]

yes, the header is awesome!

[pensnest]

Thanks! It was arriving at that picture that made me decide to do all the headers in black and white, because I was so pleased with the way it turned out.

[milosflaca.livejournal.com]

yay! your website looks so great!
I'm bothered a bit by the text that bleeds to the sides. But then again, I'm a table lover :P
I'll start reading all your stories :D
and oh btw, can you tell me the name of a story you posted a while ago that was a gender bender, kevin centered (I think it was kevin who turned into a girl...)? I wanted to read it again :)

[pensnest]

Thanks! I usually keep my web pages quite narrow when I'm reading stories, so I don't really notice the extra-wide stuff.

Happy Birthday Kirkpatrick is the one you're after.

[stellamira]

Your site looks great! I imagine it must've been a lot of work (I know why I abandoned my homepage and started using only livejournal as a storage place for my stories...).

[pensnest]

It was the getting started that nearly did me in, but after a lot of frustrated incomprehension I gradually got the idea. And it's a pretty simple layout...

I find it handier to keep the stories on the website, a *lot* quicker to find them! Quite a lot first appeared somewhere other than my LJ - DWNOGA, or fic_requests etc.

[sidra]

I think it looks really nice. Nice to see the chronicles got their own page. Does that mean there will be more? *grin*

BTW, the title for the chronicals page is "Pop template" - I think you must have forgotten to change it :)

[pensnest]

Thanks! There *will* be more chronicles, because there are certainly two more stories to be written... And thanks for the note about the page title.

[solariana.livejournal.com]

Quite elegant and classy. I love the B&W headers, they came out beautifully. Thanks for sharing! ;)

[pensnest]

Thanks! I'm very pleased with the b&w headers too.