Details Do Matter

We make minor change to the website every few weeks, usually based on the season/holiday.  After Christmas, we took down all the pictures of reindeer and presents.  We also flipped the color scheme from bright red and green to the general range of blues that match our store.  The way that the website creator is set up, when the color scheme changes, everything based on that scheme changes too.  One would expect that would mean that every little detail would end up still being workable.  Not true.  It was only this week that it was noticed that some details had become unreadable.  Specifically, the viewer counter and business card features had become problematic.  The previous color scheme ended up being transposed into basically all black with the latest update.  Since those apps are at the bottom of the pages, they had escaped notice until now.  This features have been corrected; others are still being looked over.  In another week or so, the color scheme will change again, this time reflecting Valentine's Day.  So instead of blues, you will be seeing pinks.  Also, there will be heavy accents of red and white.  Hopefully, one of the presets schemes will have that exact combination.  Otherwise, who knows what this site will look like.  See you next time.

The Time of the Dragon

Many, many years ago, when we first started doing the special "Books of the Month" discount, a painting was brought in to showcase the January theme.  The theme that year, as it has been every January since, was "Fantasy, Science-Fiction, and Horror."  The painting, which should hopefully be reproduced somewhere on this page if the Blogger/WIx interactions are working, is of a knight looking over a dragon he presumably slayed.  However, menacing eyes are looking out from the cave behind him.  (Confession, I was the one who painted the picture.   It was an early attempt in a college painting class I took.  Not sure why I chose the subject.  The anatomy shows some promise, even if details are missing.  The knight is mostly a blob.  The trees aren't lifelike.  The cave could use some detailing.  The eyes are the best feature.  I got better as the class went along, although the subject matter remained mostly real-to-life.)  The painting was only supposed to stay that one month.  However, we have now made it an almost year-round feature.  It is place somewhat prominently over the main children's bookcase.  The only time we take it down is for the Christmas season.  Dragons and Santa don't really go that well together, especially dead dragons.  Disclaimer:  Booknotes is decidedly pro-dragon nowadays.  Any portrayal of dragons in anything less than a neutral or somewhat positive light is out of times.  This picture is included only as an historical artifact of previous times.  If the picture doesn't pop here, it will also be on the website's home page for the rest of the month.  See you back in two weeks.