EREC (Erotic Romance Epublisher Comparison site)

[veinglory]

http://www.veinglory.com/P4.html

Does anyone know what the xhtml is to color the background of a cell in a table?

Any ideas what needs to be the next thing for the site to do?

Anyone have a book to promo, the blog has slowed down a bit.

Okay, I finally have ftp: again and can get going! Yay!

[Stacia Kane]

Hmmm...the next thing for the site to do...seriously, I'd do anonymous reviews of the various companies, like Piers Anthony. Try and get interviews with the publishers, too, what they're looking for, what their focus is, stuff like that.

I'll try to pop over and do some promo or a post soon.

[veinglory]

I am edging towards a full review/recommendation page. Not quite yet. I need to form my ruling cabal first (see blog). Any interest here?

[veinglory]

Hey people, a blog just waiting for your promo! (please, it;s a bit quiet)

http://www.veinglory.com/pblog.html

[Stacia Kane]

I just did a post on sex scenes and the Mercury retrograde, Emily. Sorry I haven't posted more, but hopefully we'll get a few comments!

[veinglory]

Hey, people get busy. I'm just surpised people aren't posting about their new releases :)

[JulesJones]

Some of us haven't got new releases... I seem to be in a feast or famine cycle. Two releases within a couple of months at the start of the year, then nothing since, and then I'll have two releases within a couple of months at the start of 2007

[Stacia Kane]

My release next month isn't an erotic, so I haven't mentioned it. But during the month I'll plug my Jan. erotic stuff.

[veinglory]

Okay guys, less blogging and more writing then [sound of whip cracking]

[sunandshadow]

The link to 'read more' about the Matchmaker Matchmaker article doesn't seem to work - when I clicked it the page's url changed but the page content stayed the same. You probably want to change the publisher comparison to have standard category abbreviations for what types of fiction each publishes, and some information about pay rates would be nice. Keep up the good work! :)

[JanDarby]

I just got (limited) internet access back, and my next release doesn't have a date yet (probably in Feb. or so). But I'm doing a newsletter article that should have a reference to the site's URL, so I'm doing my part to get visitors!

JD

[veinglory]

Oops in that link. I had some problems with my webfiles a few days ago and am still sorting it out. Is there a list of standard abbreviations somewhere?

Re pay rates. I ask for royalty rates, advances and typical sales--not sure how else to address it?

[sunandshadow]

Story tags:
http://english.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=207751

[James Buchanan]

Okay, I'll find something...

[sunandshadow]

Re pay rates. I ask for royalty rates, advances and typical sales--not sure how else to address it?
Oops this question was addressed to me wasn't it? Anyway that sounds like good info, but where is that info, I don't see any dollar signs in the comparison chart...?

[veinglory]

Ah, I haven;t really pulled it together. The problem is that most publisher refuse to even hint at sales. But I can pull together 3-4 other places and get a pretty good real $ estimate for a lot of them, well, quite a few anyway. I need to make a day to work on the site in a solid block and improve things.

[veinglory]

Oh, yes, re the comparsion chart... it's not in great shape. I haven;t got all the surveyed publishers on it and the format is very bad. Did you (or anyone) see that it goes over 3 pages via a 'next' button at the bottom?

I would love to make it more of a flexible database that can be search by different features or sorted by them. But this is way beyond what I know how to code. I would love suggestions as to anyine who might be able to help for a benner ad or very cheap price?

[Laurawrites]

http://www.veinglory.com/P4.html

Does anyone know what the xhtml is to color the background of a cell in a table?

Any ideas what needs to be the next thing for the site to do?

Anyone have a book to promo, the blog has slowed down a bit.

Okay, I finally have ftp: again and can get going! Yay!
Hi!

XHTML is moody and difficult, so it's much more temperamental than HTML or even CSS. You have to get your spaces precisely placed.

To color a cell background using XHTML, you will need something like this:

<style type="text/css">
table {border:ridge 5px}
table td {border:inset 1px}
table tr#ROW1 {background-color:red; color:white}
table tr#ROW2 {background-color:white}
table tr#ROW3 {background-color:blue; color:white}
table td#CELL9 {border:inset 4px; background-color:navy}
</style>

To "call" the styles on your page, you would then use:

<table>
<tr id="ROW1">
<td>Cell 1, part 1</td>
<td>Cell 1, part 2</td>
<td>Cell 1, part 3</td>
</tr>
<tr id="ROW2">
<td>Cell 2, part 1</td>
<td>Cell 2, part 2</td>
<td>Cell 2, part 3</td>
</tr>
<tr id="ROW3">
<td>Cell 3, part 1</td>
<td>Cell 3, part 2</td>
<td>Cell 3, part 3</td>
</tr>
</table>

Instead of the Cell you place your content.

Hope this helps!