Originally posted Monday October 20, 2003.

Enjoy the recently updated Web Design on a Shoestring web site where you will find a place to report bugs, links to book excerpts, banners and reviews.

The latest volume of Digital Documents Quarterly contains a critique of The Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program, The NDIIPP Plan: What’s Missing?

As I reported earlier LC is now accepting applications from institutions interested in becoming NDIIPP project partners. The applications deadline is just around the corner: November 12.

Andy King has posted a section of Chapter 2, “The Pound Wise Project Plan,” at Web Reference.

The promise of this book is to show you how to build a wonderful site on a shoestring budget. Although these pages share important techniques for working through each phase and aspect of a shoestring site, the overall success of your project depends on the planning work that you do at the outset. After all, the success of any project is the result of good organization and a straightforward concept. This is especially true for shoestring sites. When you have little money, you can’t afford to take on the bloat that accompanies ill-defined goals and poorly organized work plans.

More excerpts are waiting for you on the Shoestring site.

Web Design on a Shoestring has hit the stores! Accordingly, the Shoestring book site is up, and will be growing over the next few weeks.

Today on the Virtual Book Tour:

Jaws was the first PG-rated film that I ever saw. In retrospect, I can see that at age five I was not ready for it.

My mom kept a series of shark attack drawings that I produced over the months following the viewing. Endless crayon renditions of the single fin floating on the water, the remains of mauled swimmers piled up on the beach, and boats splintering apart in the teeth of great whites all read like I was trying to process a horror that could never be integrated by my little second-grade mind.

So, because Dennis Hensley’s Screening Party opens with a screening of this man-verses-nature flick, I am a tad predisposed to connect with the book.

The Screening Party is a sort of diary that Hensley keeps over the course of a year of hosting film-viewing parties with his friends. The book is pleasantly chatty, surprisingly character-driven, and very LA; a perfect light read for people who love movies.

Earlier this week, the VBT’s Dave interviewed Hensley and his friends.

With my own book just days from hitting the shelf, my peeps at the Virtual Book Tour and I are kicking off a week of Dennis Hensley’s Screening Party. Today’s stop is Inkblots Magazine.