See what our Authors have to say!

Pearl River Publishing has put up a new section, the 1st chapters of books.  We’re hoping readers, and book dealers will take the time to sit down and read the 1st chapter of our books, and then decide to buy them

Other than that, as your web master, my job is pretty quiet now, I’m waiting for the next storm.  Or at least the next feature idea.

So I ran across this new technology, called cellblock. It’s very slick, and allows you to create a place on your web page where you can upload photos, and you do it via sending it to a personally set up email address. Here’s an example:

The contracts and policies and administrivia finally got done, so the web site is officially live!

Of course at the same time, there’s been an update to wordpress.  I’m going to have to see if it’s safe to upgrade.  I’ll try it somewhere else first.

Now the test truly comes.  We’re going after two different markets:

1. Professional authors with quality manuscripts, that we believe are worthy of being published.
2. People who want to publish their own books, for small distribution.

It’s not clear whether we can be competitive in either of these markets, but it should be an interesting ride.

That’s about it for web development at least for a time.  There may be some minor changes I make to the web site over time (in particular, I’m not happy with the file uploads area), but that can occur later.

It’s been several days since I’ve posted anything here, as we’re waiting for some final management level decisions with respect to PRP before things moved forward. However, someone was having problems with changing fonts in Google docs, and I thought I’d post an article here”

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Or is that 9 1/2 bells?  It’s 9:30 pm east coast time.

So pricing pages are done, everything with respect to services we provide is now up.  We stil don’t have the author contracts available online, but rumors abound they should be coming soon.

Now the question is, will local authors use this service?  I think it’s a great idea.  I haven’t run the “numbers” yet, but those “in the know” believe this will work.

I need to think about a site map, but it can wait, the site is relatively small (maybe 30 pages total), and almost everything is navigable from the home page either through the right or top navigation menu.

We probably need to eventually get zen-cart up and running, however that’s for a later project.

I’ve been noticing a lot of web sites are using either Wordpress(tm) or Joomla(tm) for their web sites.  I do have to admit, it’s been a lot easier than using traditional methods.  I’ve also figure out how to grab the header from Wordpress and use it in non Wordpress pages.  It was a bit of a challenge (and required some frames manipulation to get full use of the page), but it seems to work.

So, it looks like we’re ready for the Holiday season….. On with the sales!