Steve’s Update 10/7/2013

Hey gang, here’s what’s up!

As you saw, Seventh Sanctum is now migrated over.  Well, it’s on a local server I can test.  I’m going to hammer on it a bit and then consider posting it to a beta domain.

The big issue is, as noted, making sure it looks OK on mobile, which is a bit of a pain.  It scales OK to a phone, but not in a way that I’m completely happy with.  I may have to just lump it and accept it won’t be perfect but good enough if you need to generate random stuff on your phone.  I’ve considered making an app, but won’t revisit that until 2014.

The new book’s first editorial comments are back and that’s going to help.  However there’s some questions on the best formatting so I’m definitely looking at a later January/early February launch unless there’s little content editing.  I’m still waiting to hear from other editors on the content – if the content is pretty solid it may not be as much work.

I just finished Kraken Con, which was universally awesome – and I’ll be posting about it at Muse Hack.  It’s a small, focused, friendly one-day con that packs a lot into that day but doesn’t overdo it.  I’m wondering if these more focused, smaller, more-than-once-a-year cons are a potential future path.

Otherwise, doing some side projects as well.  You may see more in time, depending.  I’m also taking a class so I need to make time for that – it is very cool however.

Sorry I fell off of some of my postings, this week got busy.

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

 

 

Seventh Sanctum Update 10/5/2013

To put it simply – the site is now migrated to the new Bootstrap-wrapped design.  As far as I can tell it’s done, completed, and ready for testing.  Well more testing, migrating over the generators required I validate each, and now my head is filled with random.

Next up I’m going to take a little bit of a break because . . . well yeah, this has been my spare time for about a week and a half, and I haven’t had much of that.  Then there’s going to be some testing, and finally, migration.  Just remember after the migration I’m really going to need feedback!

If there’s one concern I have it’s that right now the site’s appearance on phones is kinda “meh.”  It works, but the branding is off and the control panel scales too big.  Admittedly I don’t think that’s a huge deal, but still I’d like to make it better.

Now let’s take a look at the site!

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Steve’s Update 9/29/2013

So what’s up with me?

Seventh Sanctum

Well Steven Sanctum is now in the Rewrite Of The Generators Phase, which is overall easier than I thought, but it does take time because I need to validate that they work – which gets a bit nuts when you have a lot of options.  I’m thinking of putting up a test site before launching, let me know what you think.

As for the community, I’m getting a few ideas, but am not sure what’s best.  I’m actually debating a newsletter or mailing list instead of an MB.

The Next Book

Is in the hands of the beta readers!  I will hopefully get enough feedback to get it to editors in November.

This will also see some changes at my press site, Focused Fandom.  I think you’ll like it . . .

MuseHack

Loaded with interviews, so interviews are going to be a mainstay for the site.  I have some new plans coming up . . .

I’m continuing my Geek As Citizen series, I hope you check it out!

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, nerd and geek culture at http://www.nerdcaliber.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.