If you are an author and have not reviewed you 'Author Page Header' recently, you might want to consider doing so. I suggest that you don't include information that is not currently accessible to the members of SOL. Having misleading or incorrect information could result in loosing readers. I ran across the issue recently which led to a significant amount of frustration due to the author including misleading information in his header.
due to the author including misleading information in his header
What kind of information was wrong? Just helps to know what to look for.
Yeah, the new displays all new page headers, not the ones we chose on Bookapy, so I figured things were screwy. And since most SOL readers only log in occasionally, to access certain chapter updates, it makes sense they wouldn't know where the original stories went. But for those of us with both 'adult' (18+) stories, non-sexual stories and a few 'marked' stories, it'll likely be a while before casual readers fully catch up.
What do you mean by "author page header"? I don't think you're talking about the one on ZBookStore (the store formerly known as Bookapy - a tribute to the late Prince).
Is it what's on top of the page listing your stories when someone clicks on "Authors" and then your pen name? Isn't that header generated by SOL?
I was specifically referring to the 'banner image', however the original post suggested to modify the 'author page' description so readers will know that your others stories are still available. Though how you'd do that, without specifying the new website before the new servers are in place, seems especially … problematic.
So, any readers reading your description of what kinds of stories you read, and then don't any of them, react badly to the perceived deception. (i.e. it's more of a public relationships acknowledgement).
The following is to clarify the location to which I was referring:
At the top of the home page select 'Authors/Editors'
Next select 'Customize Home Page'
This is where you provide information to those considering reading your stories. Many authors apparently don't take advantage of this feature. So if you do, you should check it occasionally to make sure it remains accurate. My comments were prompted by finding one that had significant errors.
'Customize Home Page'
Aha, never knew that existed. I now have a customized Home Page. :-)
When I look at your page in ZBookstore, the banner reads "I paint images with word" on my iPad in landscape mode. In portrait it reads "I paint imagoes with w"
The banner is not scaling to the window size. Everything else is.
When I look at your page in ZBookstore, the banner reads "I paint images with word" on my iPad in landscape mode. In portrait it reads "I paint imagoes with w"
I didn't know that. I only access SOL and ZBookStore on a laptop with a larger external monitor which is in landscape. So what's wrong with a little intrigue? LOL
Sounds like a Lazeez problem. I don't know how to fix it.
Sounds like a Lazeez problem. I don't know how to fix it.
The banner cannot be resizable, it was never designed to be like that.
It definitely wasn't designed to have a phrase there.
It definitely wasn't designed to have a phrase there.
Aha, so it's an image. Now I need to figure out what I did back then.
Thanks.
The banner cannot be resizable, it was never designed to be like that.
The instructions for the banner are:
Ideal cover size is 400px height, and 3000px width. Image will be resized down to fit and optimized for bandwith.
So it says: "Image will be resized down to fit." What does that mean? What size should I make it to avoid the truncation when people look at it in portrait mode?
"Resized to fit", doesn't mean 'hack and sliced', instead it means, if it's an entirely different dimension (the height and width ratios being different than the one specified) it'll merely be scaled to fit. However, if the dimensional rations are off, then yes, expect something to get chopped off.
Which is why, when publishing, it's always best leaving enough 'white space' (visual area devoid of essential elements like words or publication information) as you can never count on a cover element not being trimmed, especially since, when it's physically printed in bulk, the pages (both the external cover and the interior pages) are typically printing in 14-page increments, so the interior pagination doesn't fit how it's read.
So, as a one-time visual artist/graphic-designer, I always keep those unanticipated details in mind, even now, a full 30-years on! Some things you forget quickly and easily, other stay with you, till the bitter end. ;)
Did you think my publication experience was entirely fly-by-night? As usual, I researched the hell out of it, way back when it once, and now, still matters.
Your Bookapy author details says you write science fiction according to 'scientific principals'. You might want to fix that, unless you really did mean Einstein, Newton, Bohr, Dirac etc.
AJ
"Image will be resized down to fit." What does that mean? What size should I make it to avoid the truncation when people look at it in portrait mode?
Resized down in case you submit something huge, but will be done once on upload.
The only thing to do is to not put text there. Screen size varies very widely.
If you must have text, then make sure it doesn't go beyond the first 640px from the left edge.
In portrait it reads "I paint imagoes with w"
Can you do me a favor and try that again. I modified it but can't test it in portrait.
Thanks.
I hate to say it, yet that should always be your starting point. Unfortunately, you can't even access it, until you've already posted the story (first-chapter, at least). So it's no wonder why you'd never notice it.
You can add notes, yet the full access is on the story page, not the initial posting options. But being 'round the block' several dozen times over the years, it's become somewhat second nature now, knowing where to look.