Category Archives: Website Issues

Projects

Posted on Wednesday 12 June 2019 by Mark R. Kelly

Today I spent a couple hours setting up a ‘Projects’ page that is linked in the menu at the top of the site. And I’ll be setting up bibliographic pages for SF and NF to organize links to my posts … Continue reading →

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Sfadb progress toward ultimate Top 100 Lists

Posted on Friday 3 November 2017 by Mark R. Kelly

Over the past two weeks I’ve made much progress on the next stage of my sfadb.com site — the compiling of all awards references and citations references into overall scores and rankings. One product of this effort will be Top … Continue reading →

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Syllabuses and Sfadb.com rankings

Posted on Monday 25 January 2016 by Mark R. Kelly

This op-ed item in Sunday’s New York Times, What a Million Syllabuses Can Teach Us, caught my eye initially because part of my long-range plans for sfadb.com involves continuing to add ‘citation’ and ‘anthology’ references to complement the awards data, … Continue reading →

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Infrastructure: New Pages

Posted on Sunday 1 November 2015 by Mark R. Kelly

Have initialized pages under ‘Provisional Conclusions’ for Links and Comments and Science Fictional Illustrations and Examples. Mostly outlines for now, to be filled in over coming weeks and months.

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Sfadb progress

Posted on Thursday 22 October 2015 by Mark R. Kelly

On an entirely different note from the past couple posts — I am back into production on SFADB.com to add additional Citations and Anthology reprints, as has been planned for years. Most of the citation records from various sources were … Continue reading →

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New Blog Title and Header Pic

Posted on Monday 2 February 2015 by Mark R. Kelly

Now relocated in Oakland, I am changing the name of this blog, and posting a new header photo — the best I’ve been able to do this past week on my iPhone. Over time I’ll do better. The thing about … Continue reading →

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Resuming SFADB Development

Posted on Wednesday 19 November 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

I’ve had concepts for what I want to implement on my science fiction awards site, what was first the Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards (http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/) and which has been superseded by the Science Fiction Awards Database (http://www.sfadb.com/), since at … Continue reading →

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SFADB bug fixed, with a hyphen

Posted on Thursday 30 October 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

About a month ago I was updating sfadb.com and browsing around the site and happened to click on Richard Cowper’s page, http://www.sfadb.com/Richard_Cowper, and got a ‘file not found’ error message. Huh? Also for the following page in the alphabetical sequence … Continue reading →

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Latest Bug

Posted on Sunday 17 August 2014 by Mark R. Kelly

Figured out another pesky bug on sfadb.com yesterday. There was some weird problem with the formatting on the various award ‘overview’ pages; the main paragraph in slightly larger font was somehow left-justified, with the smaller-font detail paragraphs appearing along the … Continue reading →

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