… as a much-needed complete redecoration. If you care to click through from the RSS feed, you’ll see I’ve been prettifying VCTB.
The more sharp-eyed (and web savvy) among you will doubtless note the similarities between this new look and the recent new Futurismic theme; I must confess, I took it as a starting point and rehashed it to suit.
It’s taken me around five hours of trial and error, but has taught me a great deal in the process. I’m quite pleased with the results, too - though I wouldn’t say this is the final version quite yet, there’s still some tweaking to be done. I am, however, pretty damn chuffed with the header and menu, if I do say so myself. That took about three of the hours.
Your feedback on matters of aesthetics and usability would be greatly appreciated!
I’ve been blowing the cobwebs out of the blogroll, too - if I’ve removed your site by accident, or if the link for you is wrong, or if you can think of a site that should really be there for the sake of my credibility, please speak up.
Cheers!
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Posted by Paul Raven @ 04-08-2007 in Uncategorized •
Well, how about that - VCTB rides again. Looking at my sitemeter stats, it appears the server started working again at around about midday today … which is odd, because mine host is still moshing away in Germany. This is why I’m just a blogger, and not a fully fledged webgeek, I guess.
But hey - the site’s back again! You have no idea how much I was pining in its absence.
Actually, having said that, if you’re a regular reader you probably do know. I’ve considered professional help, but I’m worried that regular therapy would just cut into my blogging time.
So, back to business. Thanks to everyone who emailed with good wishes and light-hearted mockery, BTW.
Velcro City Tourist Board is the personal blog of one Paul Graham Raven, wherein are contained his ramblings about science fiction, music, and the stuff that happens to him.
Paul is a dishevelled British library assistant by day, employed by the Royal Naval Museum. By night - after an abject lack of success at wearing tights and fighting crime - he has turned to various writing jobs. As he’s from teh intarwebs, it’s time for a bullet-point list:
- Paul Raven is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of science fiction webzine Futurismic - which, in addition to an original near-future science fiction story every month, publishes non-fiction essays and blogs on topics science fictional.
- Paul Raven is Reviews Editor of Interzone, the UK’s longest-running original science fiction magazine.
- Paul Raven also reviews science fiction books for the following venues:
- Paul Raven has been a regular music reviewer for the following venues (and still contributes to them occasionally as time permits):
Paul Raven is also available for freelance writing work, including key-word focused website copywriting and press release development. Paul specialises in subculture themes and language - check his portfolio website for further details.
The vast majority of the above is voluntary work, by the way, so if you’re a generous soul why not tip him via PayPal using the sidebar button, or buy him something from his Amazon wishlist?
Paul also writes poetry (but remains unpublished so far), and has recently started writing short fiction (only to be astonished and appalled at the learning curve).
He welcomes feedback on VCTB from regular readers, and would be glad to feature guest posts from interested (or indeed interesting) people. If you want to get in touch, please do so via the form on the VCTB Contact page.
[Paul Raven is fully aware of the unfortunate Gary Glitter connection that his name possesses (although his mother swears she never knew), but he consoles himself with the fact that it was also the name of the (late and much missed) bass player from Killing Joke/Prong/Ministry.]
