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jgarrity · 10-04-2008, 06:57 PM

Thanks to cbell for her thoughtful comments. I appreciate it.

I strongly encourage anyone who wants to design a cover for Mars Girl to have at it and send it to me. I'll post them on my web site for people to view and vote on. Is it possible to post them here too? pdurrant already sent me a cover and I'll post that soon.

The only thing I like about the cover I made is the transparent space ship, but then I'm easily amused. As has been noted elsewhere, my cover doesn't have a lot to do with the book anyway. I think it would be best to have a cover design that reduces well. That seems to happen fairly often on the web and doesn't always have a happy result. I made the cover using the free graphics program from openoffice.org. It was a struggle. What the hell is a vector anyway?

Other than showcasing my limited abilities as a web designer and limited patience for design in general, what's wrong with the marsgirl.us site? I use Firefox and it seems to work. The template idea might be the way to go if I've gone too far astray. I downloaded a free web design program (Nvu) to make it. Maybe that was a mistake.

mores, I'll look into the problem you mentioned with the mobi file on my site. If you have any hints about where I went wrong, that might help. I'm pretty trainable.

I really appreciate all the input. Mobilread has been very helpful to me in a lot of ways. There's a long way to go before anyone even begins to hurt my feelings, so feel free to critique whatever you'd like and make whatever suggestions you feel are appropriate about Mars Girl, the site or the cover. Thanks!

10-04-2008, 06:57 PM	#30
jgarrity Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 214 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Adobe Reader	Thanks to cbell for her thoughtful comments. I appreciate it. I strongly encourage anyone who wants to design a cover for Mars Girl to have at it and send it to me. I'll post them on my web site for people to view and vote on. Is it possible to post them here too? pdurrant already sent me a cover and I'll post that soon. The only thing I like about the cover I made is the transparent space ship, but then I'm easily amused. As has been noted elsewhere, my cover doesn't have a lot to do with the book anyway. I think it would be best to have a cover design that reduces well. That seems to happen fairly often on the web and doesn't always have a happy result. I made the cover using the free graphics program from openoffice.org. It was a struggle. What the hell is a vector anyway? Other than showcasing my limited abilities as a web designer and limited patience for design in general, what's wrong with the marsgirl.us site? I use Firefox and it seems to work. The template idea might be the way to go if I've gone too far astray. I downloaded a free web design program (Nvu) to make it. Maybe that was a mistake. mores, I'll look into the problem you mentioned with the mobi file on my site. If you have any hints about where I went wrong, that might help. I'm pretty trainable. I really appreciate all the input. Mobilread has been very helpful to me in a lot of ways. There's a long way to go before anyone even begins to hurt my feelings, so feel free to critique whatever you'd like and make whatever suggestions you feel are appropriate about Mars Girl, the site or the cover. Thanks!