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Wine, Avebury, babies, mattresess
I'm on a sugar rush from too much cake and jelly. It's been one of those weekends that are more hectic than the week was. This afternoon we escaped from a one year old's birthday party by means of going to buy a new mattress (pocket sprung, no less), but half the party came with us to help carry it home. We only live a few hundred yards from the bed shop, you see. Gemma came on Saturday, and went this morning (partly to avoid the baby party I think), but we managed to fit in a trip to Avebury, stopping off in Marlborough to raid the charity shops of all their expensive gear, then on to excessive amounts of wine and a trip to Pizza Express. Avebury is one of the largest henges in the UK, larger than Stonehenge, surrounded by ancient earthworks. Most of the sarcen stones, over the millenia, were either buried in situ (an idea which I fnd indescribably creepy), or burnt and broken down for masonry. G had never been to Avebury before, so it was fun seeing her reaction to it. A mini ice age has descended on the country in the past couple of days, so we shivered round the outer circle in a freezing gale, stopped to watch a group of pensioners practise their dousing, then dived into the National Truss tearoom, which was awash with Italian families wondering why the hell it was so cold and parties of cherry-cheeked English women of a certain age.
I've been reading all the polls and discussion about feedback and how to get more, and absorbing the comments people have made. As a result I also found time this weekend to rootle out a free feedback form script that I've now installed on my site, in the interests of making leaving comments easier. Previously I only had a vague 'mail' link at the bottom of the page, which didn't mention feedback. Now the link says 'go to feedback form', in the hopes that this will act as a stimulus. Perhaps it should be something more direct, like 'leave feedback'. But I wanted to get across the idea that the link wasn't a 'mailto' link, but a link to a form. The feedback doesn't show up on my site, but gets sent to me in email form. The only snag is I can't have one on every page, due to various restrictions with the program, so you have to click away from the story to the feedback form page. I don't know if this is better or worse, because if I'm leaving feedback I like to have the story in front of me to reference or to remind me of the things I particularly liked. I should also put in my comments at the top of the story pages that I want feedback, and of the constructive kind, if they feel like it. It's understandable that most people don't like sending con crit to someone who doesn't specifically ask for it, especially if they are a stranger.
[ETA: Would someone be kind enough to click here and send me a test message, just so I can see if the form's working properly? It seems to be, but it would be good to check from a computer that isn't this one]
Wine, Avebury, babies, mattresess
I'm on a sugar rush from too much cake and jelly. It's been one of those weekends that are more hectic than the week was. This afternoon we escaped from a one year old's birthday party by means of going to buy a new mattress (pocket sprung, no less), but half the party came with us to help carry it home. We only live a few hundred yards from the bed shop, you see. Gemma came on Saturday, and went this morning (partly to avoid the baby party I think), but we managed to fit in a trip to Avebury, stopping off in Marlborough to raid the charity shops of all their expensive gear, then on to excessive amounts of wine and a trip to Pizza Express. Avebury is one of the largest henges in the UK, larger than Stonehenge, surrounded by ancient earthworks. Most of the sarcen stones, over the millenia, were either buried in situ (an idea which I fnd indescribably creepy), or burnt and broken down for masonry. G had never been to Avebury before, so it was fun seeing her reaction to it. A mini ice age has descended on the country in the past couple of days, so we shivered round the outer circle in a freezing gale, stopped to watch a group of pensioners practise their dousing, then dived into the National Truss tearoom, which was awash with Italian families wondering why the hell it was so cold and parties of cherry-cheeked English women of a certain age.
I've been reading all the polls and discussion about feedback and how to get more, and absorbing the comments people have made. As a result I also found time this weekend to rootle out a free feedback form script that I've now installed on my site, in the interests of making leaving comments easier. Previously I only had a vague 'mail' link at the bottom of the page, which didn't mention feedback. Now the link says 'go to feedback form', in the hopes that this will act as a stimulus. Perhaps it should be something more direct, like 'leave feedback'. But I wanted to get across the idea that the link wasn't a 'mailto' link, but a link to a form. The feedback doesn't show up on my site, but gets sent to me in email form. The only snag is I can't have one on every page, due to various restrictions with the program, so you have to click away from the story to the feedback form page. I don't know if this is better or worse, because if I'm leaving feedback I like to have the story in front of me to reference or to remind me of the things I particularly liked. I should also put in my comments at the top of the story pages that I want feedback, and of the constructive kind, if they feel like it. It's understandable that most people don't like sending con crit to someone who doesn't specifically ask for it, especially if they are a stranger.
[ETA: Would someone be kind enough to click here and send me a test message, just so I can see if the form's working properly? It seems to be, but it would be good to check from a computer that isn't this one]
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Date: 2004-02-22 06:02 pm (UTC)I hadn't thought before about the utility of having the story and the form both in front of you. Maybe have the form open in a new window? Hmm. That, actually, sounds like a really good idea to me, and maybe I'll do that, even though normally I prefer the spawning of new windows to be left up to the user.
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Date: 2004-02-22 11:04 pm (UTC)Re:
Date: 2004-02-23 03:58 pm (UTC)Hee! It's a very, very old Goon Show joke that I couldn't resist. Now you'll never be able to think of it as the National Trust ever again!