Okay, after reading seventy plus posts (with all replies) I thought i'd post here, versus the blog-social network thread. Two questions, quick and dirty, here we go.
1. In the grand plethora of Wordpress themes for authorial websites, how good is a theme with a side navigation bar?
Example: http://www.wphub.com/themes/contrast-by-themeforest/
I think it's kind of cool and modern, but, as people like Medievalist have said, the best layout is black text on white, with no obscure layouts. I get that. Can you still use a theme like this? Or is the ultra-modern feel going to come off like neon green text on black? In other words, is it bad/abrasive?
2. In addition to my published words, I wanted to start a novel that will be released, say, a chapter a week on my website for free. It would be like a webcomic, and be used to get an audience. I'd have a seperate page for it, as well as an archive where previous chapters can be viewed or downloaded as RTF files. I know the idea's good. My question is how to best deal with the older chapter pages. Too many will build up and might consume extra site space, right? Is there a way I could set up an archive page instead that had DL links to each of the old chapters as RTF docs? (using RTF ensures it will work in other office products besides Microsoft) I understand this would start involving FTP and such, and I'm familar with that concept.
Let me know if I was vague on anything. Thanks for the info.
1. In the grand plethora of Wordpress themes for authorial websites, how good is a theme with a side navigation bar?
Example: http://www.wphub.com/themes/contrast-by-themeforest/
I think it's kind of cool and modern, but, as people like Medievalist have said, the best layout is black text on white, with no obscure layouts. I get that. Can you still use a theme like this? Or is the ultra-modern feel going to come off like neon green text on black? In other words, is it bad/abrasive?
2. In addition to my published words, I wanted to start a novel that will be released, say, a chapter a week on my website for free. It would be like a webcomic, and be used to get an audience. I'd have a seperate page for it, as well as an archive where previous chapters can be viewed or downloaded as RTF files. I know the idea's good. My question is how to best deal with the older chapter pages. Too many will build up and might consume extra site space, right? Is there a way I could set up an archive page instead that had DL links to each of the old chapters as RTF docs? (using RTF ensures it will work in other office products besides Microsoft) I understand this would start involving FTP and such, and I'm familar with that concept.
Let me know if I was vague on anything. Thanks for the info.
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You can probably figure out whether you need to be worried by glancing at the size of one of your files and multiplying by the approximate number of chapters, and that would give you a quick back-of-the-envelope. I really doubt this would be an issue, though.
