Comments on: Highlighting your works—Michelle Jefferies review http://jordanmccollum.com/2009/12/highlighting-worksmichelle-jefferies-review/ mysteries to fall in love with, romance to keep you in suspense Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:09:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: michelle http://jordanmccollum.com/2009/12/highlighting-worksmichelle-jefferies-review/#comment-1501 michelle Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:38:29 +0000 http://jordanmccollum.com/?p=1681#comment-1501 Jordan ans Kathleen, Thank you for the excellent website review. I have learned alot from it and the others. This is my first real shot at a website and when I saw that I could get a free one I jumped at the opportunity seeing the potential for practice and exposure. I don't have a great picture unfortunately, another one of those things that has to wait for extra dollars like buying a domain site. But I am working on it. I will fix the typos, change the books page, move the award and define my genre. As for the initial I googled my name when I first started to write and found many Michelle Jefferies (which is odd because the spelling of my last name is rare). I added the C. because it made me diferent from the other Michelle's out there. Facebook was even more inundated with Michelle Jefferies than the google search. Again THANK YOU for the oportunity and the great critique. I apreciate it. Michelle Jordan ans Kathleen,
Thank you for the excellent website review. I have learned alot from it and the others. This is my first real shot at a website and when I saw that I could get a free one I jumped at the opportunity seeing the potential for practice and exposure. I don’t have a great picture unfortunately, another one of those things that has to wait for extra dollars like buying a domain site. But I am working on it.

I will fix the typos, change the books page, move the award and define my genre.

As for the initial I googled my name when I first started to write and found many Michelle Jefferies (which is odd because the spelling of my last name is rare). I added the C. because it made me diferent from the other Michelle’s out there. Facebook was even more inundated with Michelle Jefferies than the google search.

Again THANK YOU for the oportunity and the great critique. I apreciate it.
Michelle

]]> By: sportifs http://jordanmccollum.com/2009/12/highlighting-worksmichelle-jefferies-review/#comment-1438 sportifs Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:14:16 +0000 http://jordanmccollum.com/?p=1681#comment-1438 excellent discussion going on here. Very enlightening. excellent discussion going on here. Very enlightening.

]]> By: Jordan http://jordanmccollum.com/2009/12/highlighting-worksmichelle-jefferies-review/#comment-1423 Jordan Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:39:33 +0000 http://jordanmccollum.com/?p=1681#comment-1423 LOL, I totally understand avoidance! On the other hand, as I told Michelle, I don't think you have to have all of your works and WIPs on your site. I have at least five other things I could put up there (three ideas in various stages of development, two finished works), but right now I'm choosing not to. I was actually worried when I made the page that I wouldn't have enough things to put on it! Good luck! LOL, I totally understand avoidance!

On the other hand, as I told Michelle, I don’t think you have to have all of your works and WIPs on your site. I have at least five other things I could put up there (three ideas in various stages of development, two finished works), but right now I’m choosing not to. I was actually worried when I made the page that I wouldn’t have enough things to put on it!

Good luck!

]]> By: Becke Davis (Becke Martin) http://jordanmccollum.com/2009/12/highlighting-worksmichelle-jefferies-review/#comment-1418 Becke Davis (Becke Martin) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:01:56 +0000 http://jordanmccollum.com/?p=1681#comment-1418 Clearly, you are more artistic and technically skilled than I am, but I still may give it a shot. I like the way you promote the titles that are still in work. Geesh, you've given me a lot of work to do - got to make sure I have tag lines and blurbs for all the stories I'm working on, and try to make mock-covers, too! It's funny, I am a visual person so I like to have some kind of graphic as a "cover" image when I'm working on a story. I hadn't really thought that much about what the real covers would look like if I ever sell a book. My critique partner recently made her first sale and she just got her cover proof from the art department. It's so gorgeous, I'm now totally jealous. I have covers on the brain. Maybe I should just get back to writing -- avoidance much? Clearly, you are more artistic and technically skilled than I am, but I still may give it a shot. I like the way you promote the titles that are still in work. Geesh, you’ve given me a lot of work to do – got to make sure I have tag lines and blurbs for all the stories I’m working on, and try to make mock-covers, too!

It’s funny, I am a visual person so I like to have some kind of graphic as a “cover” image when I’m working on a story. I hadn’t really thought that much about what the real covers would look like if I ever sell a book. My critique partner recently made her first sale and she just got her cover proof from the art department. It’s so gorgeous, I’m now totally jealous. I have covers on the brain. Maybe I should just get back to writing — avoidance much?

]]> By: Jordan http://jordanmccollum.com/2009/12/highlighting-worksmichelle-jefferies-review/#comment-1417 Jordan Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:42:27 +0000 http://jordanmccollum.com/?p=1681#comment-1417 Thanks, Becke! I've never really thought they were that great, but I haven't dared to ask anyone. I used photos I found on sxc.hu and Flickr and made composites for the covers for most of them with the default image program on my computer. The two big things I did to try to make them look "professional" were drop shadows behind the titles and the whole covers. The exact method for doing that can vary; a lot of programs have a way to do it automatically, but I prefer to do it by hand (copying the text and changing the color to gray, then moving it behind the original title and offsetting it a little, for the title; creating a gray rectangle the same size as the cover, offsetting it by 5 px, softening the edges and moving it behind the cover). Thanks, Becke! I’ve never really thought they were that great, but I haven’t dared to ask anyone. I used photos I found on sxc.hu and Flickr and made composites for the covers for most of them with the default image program on my computer.

The two big things I did to try to make them look “professional” were drop shadows behind the titles and the whole covers. The exact method for doing that can vary; a lot of programs have a way to do it automatically, but I prefer to do it by hand (copying the text and changing the color to gray, then moving it behind the original title and offsetting it a little, for the title; creating a gray rectangle the same size as the cover, offsetting it by 5 px, softening the edges and moving it behind the cover).

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