Because a book isn't a real book until it has a promotional website, I give you:
the official(ish) site for promoting How to Teach Physics to Your Dog, which will be published this December (and can be pre-ordered on Amazon).
The site does, in fact, contain content you won't find on the blog, including "interviews" with me an Emmy, so go check it out.
A note on the design: the site is cobbled together by me, using my cargo-cult CSS skills. It was more or less ready yesterday, until I discovered that it looked awful on Internet Exploder, because Microsoft chooses to interpret HTML formatting in a completely different way than any other browser. The only way I know to get the appearance consistent between Firefox and IE is to define absolute point sizes and pixel dimensions for everything, which sort of defeats the purpose of using CSS.
If you have CSS-fu that goes beyond the cargo cult level, and can make it look right on IE without resorting to absolute size definitions, send me an email (orzelc at steelypips, which is not a com but an org). I'd be willing to pay a moderate amount to not have to bang on this myself.
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The first thing you need to do is get your web page out of quirks mode, which will cause every browser to render it differently.
The easiest way to do this a strict DOCTYPE:
That should get you a long way towards getting more identical browser rendering.
Who still writes HTML/CSS by hand these days? I would have recommended putting together a quicky blog on Blogspot or Wordpress.com and pointing the blog to the domain you registered.
The comments ate my tag:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
I know nothing about creating websites, but it looked fine from my perspective. The only thing I saw "wrong" was that the doggie on the cover of the book appears to be somebody other than the Queen of Niskayuna. What a slight to the queen!
Bugger all these comments about webpages.
The real question is:
Will I be able to get a copy in Australia?
The interviews are both really good. I think Emmy got the better photographs though.
Emmy does, indeed, get better pictures. I don't actually have that many pictures of myself-- the four that are in the rotation are about the only ones fit for public display.