Aug 132011

Thanks to everyone who Liked our Facebook page – you can now get to BookThing on Faceboook with the nice simple link – http://www.facebook.com/BookThing

All our reviews and other content get linked at Facebook and on Twitter, so feel free to follow us in one of those locations to keep up-to-date with the new reviews.

Jul 232011

I’m just sorting out a new theme and layout for the site so over the next hour it’ll probably look a little broken in places.  Should be sorted real soon now …

time passes

Right, should be sorted.  Let us know if anything doesn’t work as you expect by commenting here.

Jul 122009

I’ve fixed the layouts on the content pages so they work in newer browsers. Grete’s currently reading a bunch of new stuff so expect some more reviews soon!

So we’ve dropped the Drupal site (the old bookthing stuff), and migrated the content across to WordPress. I don’t have time to ‘learn’ more than one major CMS enough to keep it patched and well managed, and since I find WordPress so trivial to implement, administer and keep up-to-date, it won out. This theme is lovely and in combination with the AZIndex plugin, the site can present all the information we want in nice indexes.

I have a tendency to try and get things ‘just right’ before moving to a new web layout, but then spend so much time playing with tiny details that it never transpires (I already tried to move to WordPress once, but spent three weeks messing with the template).  So this time, we’re bringing the site up, putting the content up, and then we’ll mess with the fine detail later (like at the moment, on the reviews, they don’t have anywhere specific to list the author and other details, we’ll work on that).

If you’re one of the friends we have who reads and you feel like you might ever want to write a book review and whack it up here – just let one of us know and we’ll sort you out with an account.

Otherwise, hope you enjoy the site – who ever you are – and we’re trying hard to get more content in the next few months.