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Thursday, 12 June 2008 16:29

Me in a bow tie

Hello, I’m Christopher Shevlin and this is my personal website. If you’re a client (or might become one), you’d be better off going to my professional website – www.shevlin.org.uk – which has details of my published books, corporate writing, editing, speechwriting and training.

This personal website is where I put up my more creative stuff, including novels, comedy, drawings and poems (you can also click on the blue buttons above).

The most popular (or least ignored) things on the site come under the heading of flim-flam. They’re light, easy and won’t spoil your appetite (except for the forthcoming ‘Horrible Tale of the Whitechapel Toilet’).

If you scroll down to the bottom of the page you can see what’s new and what’s popular. For some reason, the two lists almost never contain any of the same items. This introduction always appears near or at the top of the popular column, but that’s only because people click on the title of it (or click the read more button down to the right), thinking that there might be a bit more to read*.

Most of the other articles on this page just contain a short ‘teaser’. To read the whole thing, click on the title or the ‘read more’ button. (Click on the ugly icon at the top right of each article to produce an A4 PDF file, ready to print out.)

The other thing that’s always (unduly) popular is the guestbook. This entirely consists of nice comments posted by people in my old website. That site was really difficult for me to maintain and had a guestbook that looked ridiculous and hardly ever worked. Now that my website runs on cutting-edge technology, hardly anyone bothers to use the comment facility that is generously included at the end of every article. Please do – my favourite thing in the world is when someone leaves a comment. (You need to supply an email address to leave a comment, but that’s just to stop spam. It doesn’t have to be a real address.) To sign the guestbook, just add a comment at the bottom of it.

Please also rate things, even if only to tell me how much you hate them (like the poem Two Goats in the Park, rated 1). It’s very easy: just click the blobs above the article’s title.

That’s it for now,

Chris

* There wasn’t before but – because everyone does it – now there is.