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Colour SchemesMay 14, 2004
A designer's 'style' is made up of a number of different factors, though colour plays a large role. Everyone has their own method of coming up with a good colour scheme, which will inevitably affect the results.
A 'technical' method of colour-selection involves choosing one or two dominant colours from the colour wheel, to be used with a small set of complementary colours. Basic colour theory concepts like split complementary and triadic colour schemes offer a wide range of variation, particularly when you start throwing in shades, tints, and saturation adjustments.
Pro: An easy way to start with good, workable colour. Con: being too technical can lead to dull and uninspired colour choice.
Matching involves starting with an image or an object (usually a photograph) and picking colours from within to generate a colour scheme. Boxes and Arrows ran a great article a while ago about selecting colours from nature.
Pro: Naturalistic, familiar-feeling colour schemes that appeal. Con: it's easy to select the wrong colours from a photo.
Probably my most frequently-used method. I begin with a blank canvas and fill it with whatever colours seem appropriate. Naturally my mind computes the corresponding compliementary and similar colours on the fly, but now and then I'll ignore solid colour theory just to see where it gets me. Hence this site's colour scheme, among others.
Pro: Fresh and surprising colour schemes. Con: dangerous without a solid knowledge of colour theory. Dangerous even with.
These are a few of my own methods, and what influences my design sensibility. Others will differ, of course. Tell me about your own methods, comments are open.
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I rely pretty heavily on "eyeballing" colors and perhaps a combination of the last two options you talk about. The color scheme for Asterisk started as selections from a photo. I think it came out alright.
I don't like going the technical route. One, because I'm not well versed in color theory and, Two I prefer the creative freedom of doing it based on intuition.
The method I'm most likely to use is intuition. Every now and then I'll use something like ColorMatch Remix ( http://color.twysted.net/ ) to find complimentary colors, but I prefer the flexibility that just playing around with a color wheel affords. Even when using something like the afore mentioned tool, I often tweak the resulting colors.
Another method that I use (that you really need to be careful with ;) is looking at other sites. Obviously, you need to be careful not to swipe their entire color scheme, but it's a good place to find a base.
I always try and use the "naturalistic" approach, or pulling the colors from a photograph or other graphic element to be used. I usually only do this after loading a safety palette.
My latest site however, http://thebrambles.biz has a color palette that is derived from the house itself…the red being the main color, the yellow the color of the doors, and the blue accent the color of the halls. The brown serves as a neutral to tie everything together (hopefully!).
I like WebWhirler's color wheel- it generates a random 3-color selection that is great for jumpstarting color inspiration! http://www.webwhirlers.com/colors/spinwheel.asp
Oh, wow, awesome. I do tend to go to the "naturalist" photographic route. It just works, you know? I always do that initially–but sometimes I tweak it by working with color wheels and what not afterwards if I'm not satisfied with what I initially got.
I came across a series of tutorials way back that ended up providing my color selection scheme. In it, there were "how to" sections on the various styles that were in at the time - Grungy, Techno, etc - and in the Clean section was a tip on making good monochromatic layouts. Start with one color, gray, blue, doesn't matter, make the entire layout in various shades of that color, then add one or maybe two highlight colors to differentiate important items. Although it came from a cheesball resources, that technique has proved useful to me on many a project.
I might not be the best source of advice, given my weak (in comparison to others in this thread, anyway) design skills, but I tend to use the photograph method. The way I try to get around the "wrong color" problem is to expand the selection area. In Photoshop 5.5– yes, I'm that far behind– I go up to the 5x5 sample size; in OS X, I use the DigitalColor Meter and run its aperture up to the max.
With the sample area as wide as possible, I target the area where I like a color, and get the average of the area. It avoids the problems that can come from posterization, although it potentially introduces others, especially if you have an unsteady hand.
Anyway, that's the method I used to pick the text colors for the mastheads on meyerweb, basing each one on some part of the background image and then lightening or darkening the shade if necessary.
I like the idea of taking colours from nature. But as you said, it can be dangerous also.
I wrote a small entry on the subject a little while ago:
I used the same technique to develop the WinterWubb design on my portfolio site : www.wubbleyew.com
However, the last suggestion, Intuition, is probably the one I use most often. I don't always have the time to go out and find colour schemes froma bush!
I think you can't go wrong with copying nature. It's kinda like having the hand of G-d selecting the color scheme for you :)
One sure way of capturing the colors in a photo for sampling is to generate a color table with photoshop.
Open up a nature pic you want to sample. Goto Image > Mode > Indexed Color. A dialog box appears and you can choose many options but the end result when you hit OK is that a previously grayed out option appears under the Mode menu. Goto Image > Mode > Color Table…
You now have captured all the colors in that image based upon what options you chose when indexing the colors. To prove to yourself that all the colors in the pic are there just click on the eyedropper in the color table and sample a part of the pic you indexed, you'll see which color it corresponds to in the color table if the preview mode is checked. You can save the color table as a .ACT anywhere and load it later in your swatches palette to use anytime you want.
I just thought I'd mention this as its a more thorough way to capture all the colors in an image than the method mentioned before about pixelating/posterizing it.
I do it pretty much by intuition.
First, I decide whether I want a warm/bright site, or a colder/darker site (depends on target audience and what's being presented, of course).
Then I choose colors that I feel fit into the category I've chosen. I make one color that will be used extensively, especially for backgrounds, one color for "brand identity" (especially in the logo), and one color associated with links.
From there, I work with shades and textures and that junk.
My color selection M.O. is a hybrid of techniques. But I always begin with a word or phrase like: "Regal" or "Ancient Heroics" – used in my Zen Garden Submission: http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/103/103.css&page=0 – or "Feminine Macabre." I try to force myself to accomplish this step because it sets the "rules" for which I will play by as I progress.
Then I try to conjure images that have given me the feeling that the word/phrases represent…or, if I have no visual memory (which is rather seldom) then I hunt for the images.
Then once I have the image(s) chosen I take the most vocal and expressive colors in each, form a palette and whittle down and tweak those colors until I reach a solution.
Lately, I've been picking color schemes from what inspires me, which can be the colors of someone's shirt, or as of late, from food. Yes, I've been picking colors from favorite foods such as, chocolate covered raspberries with caramel, or mangos and soy sauce (a Hawaiian favorite), sushi…
I figure that we visually know if food is appealing to us, and I've extrapolated that paradigm to picking colors.
Once the color scheme is picked out, I go to visibone's color lab (http://www.visibone.com/colorlab/) and play around until I get the right combination that matches technically.
Don't laugh..it works! :)
I tend to work with color "shades" often.
I will select one or two colors that fit well together. Then i select one to be the "dominant" color. This is usually the lighter or softer of the two colors. I use the bolder/brighter of the two as accents. Links, headers, and borders seem to show up nicely this way.
I then take my dominant color and will grab a shade darker and a shade lighter, so i end up with about 4 colors, but really its only two colors with "screens" of one.
For example on my own site, http://www.jeremyflint.com, I have gone with a sort of "retro red and blue" scheme. I use the blue and various shades of it for the majority of the color and I use the red for accesnts.
I'm not sure how I got started on this type of color theory, but it seems to work well, atleast for me.
One thing you can do with the photograph approach, which is always a great approach I think, is to posterize or pixelate the photo heavily. This can make finding the base shades a bit easier. No gaurantee, but it can help.
I usually pick one color, and then let ColorMatch (or for those of us who enjoy standards-based browsers .. ColorMatch Remix) do the work.
ColorMatch: http://www.colormatch.dk/
ColorMatch Remix: http://www.neddevinesboston.com/neddevines/
Thanks for this… I'm always interested in seeing other people's ideas about color theory. One of my big weakpoints in design is color selection–something I wish to change!
For personal sites I usually just start off with basic white junk witth black content on top and then when I'm finished with form, I try to get the function thing happening. I get the color theme in there near the end through assuming something might look good with something else. I am usually right, and I should be because I'm a graphic designer, but sometimes I make ugly things without realizing it. I hope I don't assume things while raising children and create monsters.
my URL is a bad example, because although I did choose the font colors, there is a big apple logo with apple blue desktop stuff. It's my background, so I snipped it up and threw it in there for filler. That's why it says it's just a demo =) oh, and I know the spanish is terrible. hehe
Interesting topic to discuss, I never really thought about this.
"posterize or pixelate the photo heavily"
Not a bad idea. The only flaw is that you're limited to the dominant colours; sometimes the colours pulled out of a photo come from just a few pixels of accent that would probably blur into something else. Still, that could work as a nice starting point.
One thing I've done for grabbing colors from photographs is to do a pixel stretch on an area of the photo which has some dominant colors. Then I just magnify the pixel stretched portion in photoshop, grab the colors, and I'm good to go.
Is there a redesign in progress thats made you think about some color theory, Dave? Following Digital Web's footsteps, maybe?
I know nothing about color theory (as proven by my blog's design), but I've always felt that the colors of this sight was a bit flat for my taste. Almost "heavy", if thats possible. What do I know though, I'm a programmer-type.
Good post though, I'll look into this "color theory" thing.
Funny that you mention that you used no color scheme for this site. I see a predominantly harmonious scheme with some split complements. You are right when you say that intuition is important. It is important not to be scared with experimentation as that is your icing on the cake when designing anything. Still single most important factor of a designers work is "Does the work you make communicate the right thing for what it is made for". Design, like music can communicate in very special ways and reach feelings unheard of with speech or written words.
www.colorwhore.com is a great website for finding a cool coloy scheme.
I often find it tricky to design a colour scheme when I have to work around a client logo or company colours. I often groan when I see their favourite pillar-box red (looks cool on a truck, but aggressive on a monitor).
I have posted one of my favourite techniques for Creating colour palettes on http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/000021.html and I find it really works in a lot of tricky cases and helps to 'tone down' some aggressive colours too.
I started out using color theory, complementary colors etc. but now its only thru intution, emotions and nature. Like you showed how colors were derived from the photos of nature, I do something similar, picking colors off photos of animals, birds, dense forrests, flowers and so. Who else is the greatest artist of all but The Almighty.
Here's another fine color selector
You can even test there how people with different color-blind-type deseases would actually see those colors. It may be usefull if you want to print your page on a greyscale printer.
I took a look at Color Match Remix, and it was cool, but I couldn't figure out (okay, I didn't try very hard) what algorithm it was using to choose the colors. So I made my own color scheme generator that uses a number of standard color wheel based methods (monochrome, triadic, analogous, complementary and split complementary). You can find it at http://css.geckotribe.com/colorwheel/ .
I usually start in a white/grey canvas and just play around for half an hour, with some color theory in mind, but no problem when comes to change/rearrange concepts based on intuition.
I just never imagined the idea of taking references from a photo (well maybe i did it unconsciously based on my good photografic memory, but don't think it's the same :)). However I think it's a great idea and I will share it, but of course potentially dangerous, maybe not for the result itself but for you, for your creative inspiration that if you never apply with some color intuition may fade in that direction.
However i think I will use it sometimes and use a 5x5 color picker and pixelate image, but before pixelate, blur it (low radius, 10 or similiar) to avoid that pixelisation can enphatize dark or noisy pixels.
Although I am no where near a graphic designer or even a real web developer, whenever I need to come up with colors, I start with Fluxbox (a window manager for X) themes:
Many of the styles there have interesting color schemes that spark ideas.
Thanks for publishing this and to the commenters; thanks for all the useful links. For many of us newish web builders, once we are beginning to get on top of the css, we have mental energy to turn towards a more detailed understanding of color and indeed typography. All this kind of stuff really helps us. The real beauty of the blogging mentality is that even homesite builders can see and read how the experts are doing it. It is very hard to think of any other field of endeavour where that is true. Thanks.
When starting a new site I always ask the client for any existing design elements that they have and like. I try to use those as starting points to create new color schemes. If I'm starting from complete scratch, I like using a photo to sample colors from. I generally choose colors using my intuition, and sometimes use online or software based color schemers to aid me.
I had never noticed that the sample size of the eyedropper can be changed in photoshop. Thank you to Eric Meyer for pointing that out.
>I usually pick one color, and then let ColorMatch … do the work.
it's a great pity that ColorMatch doesn't work in my browser of choice (Mozilla1.6).
every time i want to use it, i have to fire up IE, then wait for the nausea to die away before i can play with it :P
Why not move out of the realm of nature and into the realm of art? Pick up some pictures of paintings and let the artists training and intuition work for you. You still have to pick the right colors from the works, but sometimes picking the wrong colors can lead to (I can't believe I'm going to quote Bob Ross) "happy accidents."
I blogged about color pickers a while ago, so I have some neat links over there. I also added some of the new ones here there.
Haunani mentioned Visibone - sometimes if I'm stuck I'll click on eight random colors, then start by removing the one the clashes the most. Keep removing the clashers and you end up with 3-4 colors that work together that you might not have thought about.
Generally, though, I end up back at the naturalistic approach.
I use the Intuition Method. I'll usually start with one color that I'd like to use, then build from there with 2 or 3 accent colors. My brain just figures them out on its own without any intervention from me. ;)
When I redesigned my company's site at http://www.amronintl.com I actually ended up with 6 different sites! I put together seperate mini-sites for each industry and came up with different color palettes for each. However, common elements between the sites (like the Account Info bar at the top right) stay the same color throughout the sites.
Colors just kind of flowed from throughts about the industry: diving is blue, medical is green (similar to OR scrubs), tactical is green/brown, military is desert tan. I even got to design seperate logos for each mini-site, again along the theme of that industry.
I kept the homepage grey since it's the landing point and the source for all of the other sites. The juicy Flash movie gives you a quick overview of each section with a big, colorful photo and a little motion to catch the eye. The photos also complement the colors in each section.
Haven't seen it mentioned so far, so here's another resource:
Adobe Magazine had an interesting (if scientific) article on color perception and choice from November 1996.
Triplecode has a Flash "Munsell Palette" app based on this article and work at MIT Media Lab that helps illustrate its mention in the article above. It's my personal favorite color tool.
Even after coming up with a carfully crafted palette, I sometimes find that I'm lacking certain shades when I actually start styling the site. I use the Color Blender (http://www.meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/ ) to find, for example, a shade that's between the blue I'm using for links and the gray I'm using for the header.
Color Selection Is a Tough Job, One can be inspired by anything and too many things can confuse too, Happens all the time with me , then i rely on softwares to do the intial judgement and use my mind to do a fine selection.
Here are some further resources on color palettes that I've found useful:
Let's bring aesthetics to our developer-minded friends!
Hmm… wow. Good post.
I love color, and flipping through Pantone swatch books is a favorite pastime of mine. All that said though, personal preference plays a big role… in a couple of ways.
There are certain colors that I am naturally drawn towards (yellow and orange for instance – I'm sure you're shocked). I tend to use these colors a lot in my personal work. However, given the nature of a project, I will intentionally choose colors I am not as personally fond of, simply to stretch my awareness of color.
I do look for color a lot in nature and in cultural heritage as well. I enjoy finding Asian, South American, and European art and architecture a great source for color inspiration.
Beyond that, and this is truth, I ask my wife.
I may be looking for a 4-color palette and have three of the 4 colors picked. I'll ask her to pick a 4th, and invariably she'll come up with the most amazing color that I would've never chosen on my own accord.
Know what colors you like, then learn to branch out… drastically at times.
Just came across a wonderful resource!!
Thought I'd share.
Hi Dave,
I really enjoyed the article. Although I know CSS pretty well, I'm a programmer - not a designer so, by my own admission I have no taste. I've taken your idea of natural colors to heart (site uses colors from banner image at top), combined it with Dan Cederholm's mountaintop-corners and made a pig's ear of the whole thing at http://www.xanadb.com. In it's defense, the markup is clean and minimal but it still looks like it's been designed by a programmer.
Just goes to show…
p.s. Not sure I like the new proton scheme, but then again - who am I to judge ?
One of my favorite websites easyRGB ( http://easyrgb.com/ ) helps one pick colors for web, walls, etc … it also has a neat math section and more.
Not too long ago, I stumbled across this SVG color tool. Very interesting color combos can be derived. You will need an SVG plugin to try the tool, Color Swatch Generator ( http://www.grorg.org/2002/06/color.svgz ), by Dean Jackson (SVG, w3c.org) and based on Kevin Lindsey's colour picker ( GUI, http://www.kevlindev.com/gui/ ) .
Working in art so many years – color choices are part intuition and part formal training – it is often hard to separate the two. And sometimes, picking something just outside the predictable range produces some excellent results.
On a flip side, I also apply color theory when I am planting my gardens. Purples against Greens, Oranges against blues or purples, etc. So, though color can come from nature, color theory can be applied to natural areas or settings to produce some lively effects.
Look at art for examples, too. Sometimes, I will ask a particular client what types of art they find compelling, to get a feel for the way their tastes run. Check master works like van Gogh (whose work with opposites produced many lively and memorable pieces), Gauguin (some exciting combinations). Pissaro, Renoir, Manet, Monet for subtle impressionistic tones, and too many others to list, each fitting into some sort of *color climate*.
I once read a tip about color choice for others that had to do with looking at what they buy, wear, or how they decorate their surroundings. Find those special client colors and work up a few variations built on theories or schemes.
Here is a terrific link: http://www.defencemechanism.com/color/


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Coach Kevin McHale — not Dwight Howard, James Harden or Jeremy Lin — will have the final say on how the Houston Rockets play now that Howard is in the mix. If McHale decides that the Dwight-in-the-middle approach that helped the Orlando Magic to The Finals in 2009 is the way to go, it will be. But if he has other plans, that's his call, too.
Howard's coach in Los Angeles last season, Mike D'Antoni, made it clear that he would not change his style fit his superstar personnel. We all know how that turned out for the Lakers.
There will be style changes for the Rockets this season and McHale is already laying the groundwork in advance of the start of training camp. He went into detail with Jonathan Feigen of the Houston Chronicle:
Q. A lot of last season's success was based on the team's clearly understanding how it needed to play. Can there be carryover, or do you have to change how this team needs to play?
A. I think we're going to play basically the same style. We have to get better defensively, and with Dwight we have to have more of an emphasis on trying to get the ball in the post. Through Dwight running and Dwight doing different things, I think we can do that without really having to change our identity. We still want to get the ball up and down the floor. We still want to be aggressive and run and attack offensively. I think we have two of the top rim protectors in Dwight and Omer [Asik], so we have to use those guys. I'd like to use them together. It gives us a chance to have a defensive presence and run off our defense a little more. Our style will change a little bit because our personnel changes, but it won't change dramatically. At least I hope it doesn't.
Q. You put so much emphasis on spacing the floor last season with range shooting. Are you confident you can play Dwight and Omer together?
A. I'm definitely going to give it a shot. Your job is to try to put your best players on the floor. Omer is one of our best players. We have to figure out how we're going to get him on the floor. That's going to be a big thing where we're able to get them on the floor together. We'll rebound very well. They have to space each other. There's going to be some challenges. I'm really looking forward to see. I want it to work. We'll see if it does work.
Even better than McHale's brutal honesty about how things will have to change for the Rockets is his no-nonsense approach for Asik (or anyone else) who isn't ready to adapt to whatever style changes are coming:
Q. Have you had a chance to see how Omer feels about the addition of Dwight?
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Q. Are you concerned about how he reacts to all this? There were indications he was not happy about having another center coming in.
A. I didn't know Omer was the general manager. That surprises me. He's a player. His job is to come in and play. I haven't had an opportunity to talk with him about all that, but Daryl (Morey's) job is to try to improve the team. Omer's job is not to wonder how that affects him. His job is to figure out how they can play together and be effective.
If things don't go as planned this season in Houston, it won't be for the lack of clarity on the front end. McHale's making it easy for everyone on the roster to stay in their lanes this season and let things evolve naturally.
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I'm in the process of documenting the many ways in which an application is terrible. One of those ways is that it's vulnerable to SQL injection. It's not completely open, but you can manipulate a few fields together to make a SQL statement that can drop objects, update fields, etc. Selecting additional data may be possible, but it's not likely (and not really a concern at the moment).
The application doubles single quotes (mystr.Replace("'", "''");). It also replaces "+" with a space, and '*', and '%' with an empty string, and it inserts single quotes around commas. I've managed to get around the "*" replacement by using a Unicode character (I don't remember which one offhand) that's not actually "*" but which MSSQL still treats as one. This allows me to do multi-line comments (/* ... */), which lets me break up my statement into several fields, commenting out the additional SQL the application adds. This is important because each of the several fields I'm injecting data into is limited to approximately 40 characters (the length of each specific field varies). I haven't been able to find a similar character to replace + or , though.
What I'm trying to do is append a script tag to a field in every row of the database, and to do that, I need the + operator, which is replaced by a space.
E.g. when I try to inject
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I've looked through all of the vaguely +-like characters I can find, and MSSQL doesn't treat any of them like an actual +. Because of the length limit on each segment, I can't just exec(cast(0x012345... as varchar(8000))) with a really long string.
The application is .NET 1.1, and the SQL server is SQL 2000 with the latest SP.


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Right now I'm selling about 180 ebooks a day on Kindle.
That's pretty crazy. So crazy, that some people on the interwebs are wondering if I'm making it up.
Well, I'm not. Here's a video for proof. Check the time and date and crunch the numbers.
Click Here.
Some (most?) people want to believe this is an anomaly. That I'm some aberration. And there's very good reason they want to believe this. Because if I'm not a fluke, then print publishing might be in very big trouble, and authors who have print publishers might be in very big trouble.
It's much easier to think there's a specific reason behind sales. One I've seen a lot is:
"Konrath is selling well because he has a name and a fan base."
Okay, let's analyze that.
First of all, I've worked my butt off for seven years trying to promote my brand and establish a fan base. I'd love to believe that my hard work has paid off, and that people are flocking to my books in droves.
Unfortunately, there are some serious flaws with this statement.
1. My publisher is selling almost as many ebooks as print books. According to the last statistic I read, less than 10% of all book sales are ebooks. So if people truly are finding my books because they know my name, shouldn't they be buying the print versions?
Let's look at my first book, Whiskey Sour. It's in its fifth printing. Last royalty statement, I sold 1547 paperback copies. I also sold 1401 ebooks of Whiskey Sour.
Hmm. That's strange. Shouldn't my ebook sales be only 10% of my print sales? That's how it is with other authors.
Why have I sold so many ebooks of Whiskey Sour?
Oh, wait. I know. Because I've sold 37,000 other ebooks for $1.99, and some of the people that bought those became fans and bought the more-expensive ebooks that my publisher is selling.
This isn't a case of JA Konrath fans buying my cheap ebooks. It's a case of readers buying my cheap ebooks, then becoming JA Konrath fans.
2. I give these ebooks away for free. You can go to my website, JAKonrath.com, and download for free most of the ebooks I'm selling on Kindle.
Wouldn't my fans know that? Why would they buy them when they're already free?
3. Cheap sells better. How can I be sure? When Grand Central released AFRAID as an ebook, they priced it at $1.99 for the first month. Keep in mind that Afraid was written by my pen name, Jack Kilborn, who had no built in fan base.
In one month, Afraid sold 10,253 ebooks. Then, in May, they raised the price. Since then, it has only sold 3720 copies. If this were a name-recognition thing, the ebook would have continued to sell well. After all, the bestseller lists are filled with high priced ebooks by name authors.
4. I'm not the only one. Right now, I have nine books on the Kindle Police Procedural Top 100 Bestseller list. This fluctuates--sometimes I have as many as thirteen in the top 100.
So who else is on this list?
All the ususal suspects are there, selling at full price. Jonathan Kellerman, Robert Crais, JD Robb, Michael Connelly, James Patterson, Charlaine Harris, Robert B. Parker, Jeffery Deaver, Lisa Gardner, Stuart Woods, James Lee Burke, Nelson Demille, Kay Hooper, Anne Perry, John Sandford.
These are all NYT bestsellers. Why am I up there with them? Why am I ten percent of the entire bestseller list?
Price. My books are cheaper.
And guess what? There are a few others on the same bestseller list. Charles Shea is selling well at 99 cents. Casey Moreton has three books on the list, all at $1.99. Eric Cristopherson is hanging tight at $1.99. Michael Harvey is $1.59. John Luciew is $2.99. J Gregory Smith is 99 cents.
So a bunch of newbies are competing with a bunch of bestselling authors. And none of those newbies has the so-called fan base and name that I have.
What conclusions do I draw from this?
I'd wouldn't say "J.A. Konrath is selling a lot because he has fans and an established print backlist."
I'd say "Readers like inexpensive ebooks."
Apparently, readers don't mind paying more for books they want. They'll pay ten bucks for a bestseller. They'll also pay seven bucks for me, if I hook them with a two buck ebook first.
This really makes me wonder, though, how well I'd be selling if all of my ebooks were a few dollars each.
Writers are notoriously tight-lipped about how much they earn, and how many books they sell. But I humbly ask my peers who read this blog: how many ebooks did you sell on your last royalty statement? How many compared to your print books?
You don't have to have a name to sell well on Kindle. All you have to have is a good book at a low price.
Remember that value isn't the cover price of a book. A book's true value is how much money it makes.
I'm making $125 a day. In July, it will be over $300 a day. By the end of the year, I'll have $100,000 in my pocket.
That's not a fluke. That's simply paying attention to what customers want, and giving it to them.
Write a good book. Make a good cover. Use a good description. Then sell it for cheap and make the money in volume.
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Explore Nice
Nice is the quintessential Riviera town. Join the locals on the famous Promenade Des Anglais, the waterside boardwalk with its stunning views. From the shore, the azure sea glistens as mega-yachts cut through its surface. Sun-tanned Europeans sip coffee at pastel-hued cafes or stretch out on plastic lounge chairs on the beach below.


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Sunday, May 14, 2006
On The Street……..Tompkins Square Park, New York
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I think deep down, whether we choose to admit it or not, would like to be that young, hip and urban couple who could afford to wear (insert designer name here) but choose not to. I think they look perfect for a Sunday morning.
Looks like the street-artist you posted earlier. But it seems to be a nice summerlook.
love her outfit – simple but right-on. and also in particular, the yellow shoes. yay for color!
They look cute together. I like couples who match. The colors they have on go well together.
love that her t-shirt is loose and partially tucked in. also that its gray.
loose gray t-shirts are lifesavers.
of course, the yellow shoes are fabulous too. ahh summer.
Can you comment on what made these people worthy of a post? I don't quite see it.
Her yellow shoes are a nice, unexpected touch.
I like their look– sort of easy & effortless, but still very put-together.
They've got that Juliette Lewis-Brad Pitt in "Kalifornia" vibe
she's so cute! comfy casual chic. i'm saving this pic for warmer-weather inspiration (i'm in the middle of a tasmania/australia winter right now!)
happy she doesn't sport any visible tattoo's. she's very well put together. the way he leans into her, shows he realizes his luck – good for him. a post is justified; variation is key.
Positive_negative, that's exactly what I thought. They're adorable, but I wish her heels were flat sandals/flip flops in that colour.
I'm sorry…but any other city and these two would not get a second look.
i really like how laid back her outfit is and the newspaper is a great accessory for that vibe. i realize though that i completely didn't look at the guy at all and when i did i was disapointed.
her look is fresh and sooo cute!
anonymous 5:07, I don't get it, either.
this was more about her outfit.
I loved the shoes that dressed up the cargo shorts, that the tee was not a tiny girls cut but bigger (maybe her boyfriends) and the giant hat.
wow, can we say young hip new york has never looked better? i mean, this girl truly understands the importance of yellow. is she in fashion? not to mention that there is something overwhelmingly sexy about the two of them…
I looked at his sneakers first. Puma DISC, cool.
I love how they look together.
That's a style, you see here in Berlin too.


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Many West Australians are bracing for flash flooding and property damage as Tropical Cyclone Joyce intensifies off the states coast.
A red alert has been issued for Broome to Bidyadanga in the Kimberley region, with the cyclone predicted to reach a Category 3 as it makes landfall today.
"There is a threat to lives and homes. You are in danger and need to act immediately," Emergency WA warned people in the red alert area.
Affected residents have been told to shelter in the most secure parts of their homes until authorities give an "all clear".
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Author Notes: "Mama" refers to my Grandma Caruso, my Dad's mother. My dad and the rest of his siblings used to refer to her as "Mama", never mom or mother. My French-American mother learned to make Italian food from "Mama", her Italian mother-in-law. We ate a lot of pasta on Sundays, and my mom always made meatballs with Sunday gravy. She would start her gravy early, and while most of my friends were waking up to the smell of coffee brewing or bacon frying, we'd wake up to garlic and meatballs frying. Yes, we fry our meatballs.
I've heard that some people plop their meatballs right into the gravy raw and let them do all of their cooking there. We brown our meatballs first in a sauté pan so they get nice and crispy and tasty. The browning is where all that great flavor comes from! My mom says this also really seals in the juices. I feel if you drop them into the gravy raw, they are missing all of that extra flavor they could be getting by browning them first. The key ingredients to Mama's meatballs are: garlic, fresh Italian parsley (and lots of it), Pecorino Romano cheese, and good rustic bread. My mouth is watering already! —littleclove
Makes: 12 meatballs
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
pound ground chuck
pound ground pork
large slices of fresh Tuscan country bread, crusts removed, cut into tiny squares
cup fresh Italian flat-leaf parsley, chopped
large garlic cloves, minced
cup Pecorino Romano cheese, grated
tablespoon olive oil
tablespoon kosher salt or sea salt (don't use table salt)
freshly ground pepper, a couple of good grinds
- Put the ground chuck and ground pork in a medium-sized bowl and add the salt. Gently combine the meat using your hands. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the oil. Mix to combine, using your hands, until evenly mixed. Do not knead. The mixture should be slightly wet and workable, not too sticky. Using your hands, gently form meat into golf ball-sized balls. Don't worry if they are not perfectly round, but try to make them all uniform for even cooking. Don't roll them over and over. Be gentle.
- Add the olive oil to a sauté pan and heat on medium heat. Add all the meatballs to the pan (approximately 12) and leave them sit until they are brown on one side. Shake the pan to loosen the meatballs and then turn each one with tongs to brown the other side. Keep turning with tongs until they are completely and evenly browned. Don't give up too quickly, you want that crispy browned exterior. When everything looks pretty brown, cut into one of them to test for doneness. Transfer the meatballs to a paper towel to drain.
- Hopefully you've already made a big pot of delicious Sunday gravy. Now is the time to throw your meatballs into your gravy to cook for awhile and then serve with pasta. But, make sure to save a few on the side (no gravy), just fried with a little salt. Delicious!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Meatballs
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These are real legos. Nathan Sawaya works with the popular toy to create large-scale figurative sculpture. Legos' shatter-prone tendencies and the plastic material involved lend a fractured, modern quality to these. The cold geometry involved in each sculpture sets up a nice opportunity for reflection, and Sawaya's emotional posing of the figures spurs even further questioning.
But the sculptures work just as well when taken at face value: legos were, and are a lot of fun to play with.
Lately, Sawaya's been placing 15-inch "Hugmen" in various public spaces (see above), adding a little love to the daily grind. Click past the jump for more lego sculpture.
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Record Number of Companies at Clarkson University Career Fair
Clarkson University will host a record number of companies at its fall 2013 career fair, this Thursday, September 19.
So many companies are making the trek to northern New York State that the University will use its main student dining room to host some of the company booths, while students will take lunch and dinner that day in a large tent outside the Student Center building.
With only about 3,100 undergraduates and 600 graduate students, the 154 organizations registered to attend is a significant number for a University of Clarkson's size.
Specifically, employer participation increased 12.4 percent since last fall, and 20 percent from fall 2011.
Of students graduating in Clarkson's Class of 2012 and using the campus career center, 96 percent reported being placed in their field of study or career aspiration in the first year after graduation. While it remains to be seen exactly how the Class of 2013 fares on the employment market, initial hiring reports are positive and slightly ahead of last year.
Last fall, ABC News asked PayScale to name the schools with new graduates who earn more than Harvard's and Clarkson was among just 12 schools on the list. AffordableCollegesOnline.org (ACO) lists Clarkson in the nation's top-30 private universities that offer a return on investment of at least $1 million. ACO also recently ranked Clarkson in New York state's top-10 for colleges and universities that provide the highest return on investment (ROI).
U.S. News also lists Clarkson as #1 in the nation for graduates with the most internship experience and in the nation's top-12 for its online graduate business programs.
The Career Fair is open to Clarkson University students only and is not a public event.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo caption: Clarkson University will host a record number of companies at its fall career fair. Above, Clarkson University's fall 2012 Career Fair.
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Curriculum Enrichment for the Future (CE4tF) was delighted to be invited to judge the ISF Annual Inventions Fair, held at the St. Anne's Library in London. Pupils from years 4, 5 and 6 spent a term researching a Muslim scholar of their choice and recreated their ideas as models, displays, games, plays and quizzes.
Ayshah Ismail, CEO of Curriculum Enrichment for the Future (CE4tF), had the difficult task of being the judge and choosing three pieces of work - the pupils who contributed to the chosen piece of work received a copy of the 1001 Inventions & Awesome Facts Kids book. All of the work displayed and presented was of an excellent quality, which made the decision all that much harder. After much deliberation with the head teacher, Mrs Fowziyah Reddy, it was eventually narrowed down to a model of the famous Elephant Clock – a model which would rival the real clock in terms of authenticity!
A second prize was awarded to an ingenious game focussing on Ibn Battuta's travels. Ayshah played against one of the school's teachers and the game entailed each player choosing of Ibn Battuta's modes of transportation (horse, donkey or camel), throwing the dice to move forward and answering a trivia question about Ibn Battuta in order to move forward with each throw of the dice. The first person to reach Morocco won – and we're pleased to say CE4tF answered all their questions correctly and won!
The third prize was awarded to a group of younger pupils who put together a very impressive display of constellations, using fairy lights to highlight each star.
CE4tF would like to offer the ISF staff and pupils our congratulations on their energy, creativity and dedication in bringing to life some amazing feats of medicine, engineering, travel and discovery from the Muslim Civilisation, an era that is very often overlooked.


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After his wrestling team went 0-5 in the Havelock duals to drop below .500 earlier this month, Northside coach Jeff Cobb figured it was time to focus on preparing his guys for the individual 2-A regionals.
After his wrestling team went 0-5 in the Havelock duals to drop below .500 earlier this month, Northside coach Jeff Cobb figured it was time to focus on preparing his guys for the individual 2-A regionals.
With no dual matches left for the Monarchs to improve their record, Cobb didn�t expect a 14-15 record would be good enough to make the 2-A dual team championships, especially when three East Central Conference teams were already shoo-ins.
�We just didn�t think there�d be a chance,� Cobb said before practice Monday. �But, hey, here we are.�
Here the Monarchs are indeed.
Northside was among six of the area�s 10 wrestling teams to make the NCHSAA 3-A, 2-A, 1-A dual team playoffs announced Monday � and the Monarchs certainly were the biggest surprise of the lot.
�That�s what I thought (after the Havelock duals), there�s no way we make it,� Northside senior 182-pounder Louis Grayson said. �But we did. It�s good.�
The other area teams to make the playoffs were Jacksonville in 3-A, Croatan and Swansboro in 2-A and Southwest and Dixon in 1-A. All six teams are on the road for tonight�s action, which will feature the first two rounds (see accompanying graphic below for the complete team pairings).
In the 1-A class, the East Regional final will be Thursday, while in the 3-A and 2-A, another two-match night will be on tap for the right to go to the state finals, which for all classifications will be Saturday.
While Cobb and the Monarchs were surprised they made the playoffs, Croatan coach David Perry was not � at least not after he went home after the Cougars won their 14th straight ECC tournament title Saturday and looked at the playoff possibilities.
�I looked at it and I thought they were definitely in,� Perry said. �I didn�t see any way they couldn�t get in.�
And while his Cougars will be making their 14th playoff trip in the school�s 15-year existence � Croatan won the state title in 2010 and 2011 while finishing second last year � Perry was pleased for the ECC that half its eight teams made the playoffs.
�The conference has gotten a heck of a lot better from the days when we used to just go out and the scores were 70-6 and 63-12,� he said. �Four or five or six years we didn�t have a close match ever (in the conference). Now the matches are closer, and the individual matches are closer. It�s lot different than it used to be. I think the conference has gotten a lot better.�
Cobb agreed, although he said there were two ways of looking at Northside making the postseason.
�It either says one or two things, either our conference is good or wrestling as a whole in 2-A isn�t that good. I�d like to think it�s the first. But we�ve worked hard and we�ve done well as far as making it,� he said. �We�re going to pull some miracles to make a run (in the playoffs).�
At Corinth Holders High in Wendell, Northside will take on the Durham School of the Arts (18-4), with the winner facing the survivor between Swansboro (21-11) and Corinth Holders (33-4) in the second round.
While happy to be in the playoffs, Cobb was also realistic. He knows the Monarchs face a tough road ahead, especially having to forfeit three weight classes (108, 126 and 132, the latter two because of injuries).
�There�s some mixed emotions. We know we don�t have a state championship team, but we enjoy being in the playoffs,� he said. �We�ve got an average team. We�ve taken it on the chin in some dual meets.
�But � there�s 90-some-odd high schools in North Carolina that are 2-A, so you�ve got to figure you�re in the top part of it. I�d like to have a stronger team going in. Like I said, we�re kind of depleted in some areas.�
Senior Matt Lafferty, who wrestles at 145, shared both Cobb�s surprise as well as some of his mixed feelings heading into the playoffs.
�I was kind of not expecting that,� Lafferty said as he laced up his shoes before practice in the high school�s cafeteria. �But I guess I�m excited that we�re able to go into the playoffs with a wildcard because sometimes those wildcards can do pretty good things.�
Whatever happens, both Lafferty and Grayson agreed match action instead of a just a week of practice should help them better prepare for the individual regionals, which begin next week across the state.
�It helps because you get match time, and that really helps,� Lafferty said. �You definitely grow as a wrestler when you�re actually out there wrestling.�
NCHSAA playoff first-round pairings Tuesday night for area schools, with second-round matches immediately following opening round:
at C.B. Aycock HS, Pikeville
Jacksonville (14-6) vs. Currituck (18-5)
Rocky Mount (33-6) vs. C.B. Aycock (28-5)
Winners meet in second round
at First Flight HS, Kill Devil Hills
Croatan (28-4) vs. Roanoke Rapids (18-16)
First Flight (16-5) vs. Franklinton (15-12)
Winners meet in second round
at Corinth Holders HS, Wendell
Swansboro (21-11) vs. Corinth Holders (33-4)
Northside (14-15) vs. Durham School of the Arts (18-4)
Winners meet in second round
at Rosewood HS, Goldsboro
Southwest (12-19) vs. East Carteret (20-14)
Rosewood (27-11) vs. Chatham Central (16-10)
Winners meet in second round
at NCSSM, Durham
Dixon (21-5) vs. North Rowan (24-2)
NCSSM (12-6) vs. Ayden-Grifton (27-8)
Winners meet in second round


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March 11, 2009
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Jeff Menzel pounded a career-high 32 kills as No. 13 UC Santa Barbara overcame non-conference opponent George Mason 3-2 Wednesday. The two teams traded a pair of sets as scores went 30-26, 30-26, 26-30, 22-30, and 15-13 at Robertson Gymnasium.
UCSB (6-12) had not faced George Mason (8-6) since 1996. The Gauchos are now 6-0 all-time against the Patriots, who hail from the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, the same conference in which Penn State, the reigning national champion, resides.
It was just the second win for the Gauchos in six matches that have gone to five sets this season.
"The most important thing is that we were able to get out of it with a win," said UCSB head coach Rick McLaughlin. "I think being in [this position] enough is what is kind of helping us."
Menzel had two aces, seven digs, and four blocks to go along with his 32 kills. Jake Rosener and Trey Valbuena had 13 and 11 kills, respectively and Valbuena collected a double-double with 10 digs. Andy McGuire had a team-high 11 digs as the Gauchos held a 55-45 advantage in that department.
UCSB was without the services of middle blocker Scott Slaughter, who was sidelined due to an ankle injury. Slaughter had started all 17 matches prior to tonight. His replacement, Matt Thobe, posted a career-high seven kills and hit .500 with just one error in 12 attempts. He also contributed with three aces, four digs, and four blocks.
"Matt did a great job," said McLaughlin. "He served great. He attacked great. I think that we gained a little bit with his serve in there. But, we definitely missed Scott, no doubt about it."
The Patriots were led by Kyle Gramit with 26 kills and Lance Rogers with 10. Rogers had 10 blocks and Ryan Kwiatkowski had eight as George Mason out-blocked UCSB 17.5 to 8.0. Eric Lucas led all players with 15 digs.
UCSB hosts 11th-ranked MPSF foe UCLA on Friday, Mar. 13 (7 p.m.). This will be a Santa Barbara News-Press Kids to College match and all youths eighth grade and under will be admitted free! Tickets are available one hour prior to the start of the match at Robertson Gymnasium.
**UCSB - a nationally recognized university in both academic and athletic excellence - is located on the central coast of California in a picturesque campus and community setting on the Pacific Ocean. Each year over 450 NCAA Division I Gaucho student-athletes compete for national championships, succeed in the classroom, and give back to the community.**
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Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department Kids' Day Is Saturday, Sept. 8
The Burien/Normandy Park Fire Department's annual Kids' Day will be Saturday Sept. 8, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the fire station on 8th Ave SW and SW 151st Street.
"Come join us for a FREE day of fun at the local fire station in Burien," reads an announcement.
In addition to a day full of fun for kids of all ages, low-cost bicycle helmets will be available for anyone over the age of 1 for just $7. These will be custom-fit by Highline Medical Center staff, and the wearer must be present.
Here are some of the other fun activities:
- Learn about safety!
- Climb aboard a fire engine!
- Play games!
- Watch Demonstrations!
- Win prizes!
- Hunt for candy!
- Police ID cards for children!
- Make crafts!
- Bring your camera!
The Burien Fire Station #28 is located at 15100 8th Ave SW .
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Donkey kills Texas mayor on ranch
HOLLYWOOD PARK, Texas - A South Texas mayor has been found dead after apparently being attacked by a 500-pound donkey on his ranch.
The AtascosaCounty Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that the death of Hollywood Park Mayor William "Bill" Bohlke (BOHL'-kee) appears to be an accident. Bohlke was 65.
Chief Deputy David Soward says Bohlke apparently was attacked Monday morning by a male, aggressive donkey he kept on the ranch. His body was found Monday night during a search by deputies and relatives. A formal cause of death is pending.
Soward says it's up to the family to decide what to do with the donkey.
Mayor Pro Tem Steve Phillips will serve as acting mayor of Hollywood Park, a town of about 3,000 just north of San Antonio.


text: York Road Initiative wins AmeriCorps VISTA grant to support DeWees Recreation Center February 27, 2013 | By Nick Alexopulos Loyola University Maryland's York Road Initiative has been awarded a Maryland-D.C. Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA grant to fund a yearlong position that will focus on the sustainability of the DeWees Recreation Center in the University's neighboring Govans community. DeWees has the capacity to serve 2,000 children annually, but was slated for closure due to budgetary constraints in 2011 before Loyola and a coalition of local residents, parents, and school officials came together to work collaboratively with the Baltimore City Bureau of Recreation to strengthen operations at DeWees and ensure it remained open by increasing community ownership. The incoming VISTA member will continue that progress and work to organize, recruit, and train community residents, businesses, and other volunteers to develop the DeWees Community Recreation Council, which will support the center financially and develop programming. The VISTA member will be hired in April and begin work in June with York Road Initiative director Erin O'Keefe, '03. The VISTA member will also work alongside Baltimore's recreation bureau and the Friends of DeWees citizen group. "It's critically important to have a dedicated resource focused on building the foundation for the long-term sustainability of DeWees," said O'Keefe. "Closure of the center would create an opportunity vacuum for affordable afterschool programming and access to safe, healthy activities in the neighborhood, especially for families and children in the lowest income brackets. The efforts and coordination of our new VISTA member will both keep the doors open and enrich the overall experience DeWees offers children, echoing Loyola's continued commitment to playing a constructive role in its surrounding communities." Forming a council is a key recommendation of a mayor's office task force that evaluated rec centers. In addition to forming the Community Recreation Council, the VISTA member will organize the broad community to develop stronger academic connections between students' learning at school and after school programming at DeWees; engage volunteers and other partners in recreation center programming; conduct an up-to-date needs assessment at DeWees and best practice research for recreation councils; and assist the community by gathering and disseminating information. Loyola partnered with the Mid-Govans Community Association and Baltimore's recreation bureau to apply for the grant, worth more than $18,000 from the federal AmeriCorps VISTA program. Matching and additional funds from Loyola and the state of Maryland for insurance and training bring the position's total value to $40,000. About Loyola's York Road Initiative: The York Road Initiative aims to improve the quality of life for all persons living, working, and learning in the York Road corridor as a principal community engagement initiative of Loyola University Maryland's current strategic plan. Partnering with neighbors and others, the initiative focuses on the educational development, health, and well-being of community residents, as well as upon the economic capability of area neighborhoods, including their residential and retail establishments.


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We only offer a minimum of two days as the price we charge (around £70 per night) doesn't make sense for a one day stay once the changeover costs are taken into consideration. I would be happy to do a higher priced 'premium' of say £100 per night for a single night's occupancy during the winter months, but cannot work out how to do this on the calendar. Any help appreciated! Thanks.
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to my knowledge there is no way to do that because they do not have a "maximum stay" limit which is available at Expedia. With Expedia you could do a new room type and set the maximum stay to 1 night and it would work I think. So the only way is to submit this idea to booking.com and wait to see if they do something about it. Maybe the best way would be to talk to your booking.com account manager. I think it is a good idea and it should be promoted, it would help a lot of hotels. Problem is that I am not sure that booking.com would want to promote this as it might be against there own interest. In any case if you get something it will be good for all of us.
Hmmm... thanks for all the comments.
I am still not sure if an £80 offer for a single night is worth the extra hassle as we do a lot to get the hut looking the part. It has a wood burner to clean out (and more wood to supply as well) and a kitchenette with a hob, and the shower and toilet have to be spotless as well. I have timed the quickest I can do this down to one hour but there is ironing of sheets and duvet and refilling of consumables such as fresh coffee, tea, milk and biscuits on top of all that. So more time for the prep and costs too.
It's a lot for one day. That's why we changed to two day minimums.
I'd be very interested to know of other people's results when offering a single night occupancy and what premium they can justify!
Sharonpowney offered a good option. But you can also login with your app or desktop and in Calendar just change min stay to 1 night for those gaps and set higher price. I suppose you have like few gaps during a month so it will take you 10-15min per month to login to extranet and change min night stay and price in calendar.
But I would say if you are doing alright and you are happy with your occupancy % when don't do these 1 night stays. Just rise your regular price by few £ and at the end of the month you will earn a little more but will have these 1 night gaps free when you will be able to clean everything without stress :)
Lots of good tips! Thanks. We also find one night stays less rewarding. Mostly because we don't get to know our guests and they don't get to enjoy the facilities and area. They also often arrive late and leave early (which can disturb other guests). Longer stay guests become more like friends! We will try some of the ideas provided.
Some great tips here!
My situation is a little different ( I think). I have a 4 bedroomed house which sleeps 12. I have a full summer (min 7 nights) but outside of this period bookings are sporadic. We do have some 1,2,3 nights outside of the peak season and would like to make this more appealing. For instance, I let the whole house for 12 people, but I can also shut off bedrooms that are not being used, thus saving linen, towel usage. I live in the countryside in France and get guests from French cities wanting a long weekend, or 1 night etc .It's just getting the system correct to allow for all possible options. I'm taking all the comments on board, thanks :)
To last minute booker, we can garantie you a confortable room, but not always the room you order on last minute booking. We always upgrate our visitor a the best room we have.. We reduce the price for you if it is different.Thank you for your understanding, and welcome.
Thank you
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Creating a new rate can be done very easily.
1. Go to "Calendar & Pricing" tab. Here in the upper-right corner click on a Settings wheel. Select "Switch to list view"
2. Go to "Rates and Availability" tab. This is a tab, that You have now instead of "Calendar & Pricing". Go to "Rate plans".
3. Click on "Add new rate plan"
4. Fill all the fields here, save the changes
5. Go to "Rates and Availability" - "Calendar"
Click on the Rate names ("Standard Rate" and Your newly-created rate name "..." ) to see the restrictions, prices and set them up.
Minimum stay through for the Standsrd rate shoud be as "2".
Minimum stay for Your new rate should look as empty boxes.
6. Go to "Rates and Availability" - "Open/Close rooms". Use this tool to close the new rate for the dates You do not want to offer it. Please, check the changes in the Calendar.
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I agree with Houda's suggestion of adding a one time cleaning fee. You can always cancel it for longer stays, and it doesn't inflate your advertised nightly rate. Maybe make it a little less than what you were thinking of charging since you can be spreading out that income onto the multiple night guests also. I found the cleaning fee option under Policies / Additional fees and charges
I feel your pain George, I have had one nighters all week, I am wore out cleaning this week, physically and mentally.
Have a look at your Analytics it will give you an idea of your reservations. I find the one nighter actually give the lower review and actually give you more work. I love the guests that stay a few days
A single night supplement under policies or push a promotion to stay 2 nights.
50% of my business are one nighters which is hard going when you are a solo business
I feel your pain George, I have had one nighters all week, I am wore out cleaning this week, physically and mentally.
Have a look at your Analytics it will give you an idea of your reservations. I find the one nighter actually give the lower review and actually give you more work. I love the guests that stay a few days
A single night supplement under policies or push a promotion to stay 2 nights.
50% of my business are one nighters which is hard going when you are a solo business
Two days minimum all the way - apart from the profit loss, most of the problem people are one nighters when you read the forums and facebook groups for hosts. Obviously 1 night stays may be central to the business depending on your location (near an airport for example) so as nearly everything else discussed here, its horses for courses, not one size fits all.
For 8 years we provide individual room private room thus min 1 nite stay is acceptable.
When we newly open an entire house for min 1 nite stay, the pro and cons:
con- its tiring as you need to clean up entire place inclusive of kitchen and garden
pro- guest normally don't have the time to explore entire place thus property not too messy and less intensive cleaning. Just a vacuum, mop and wipe is sufficient.
It depends what kind of property you have. But I agree with Guesthousejohor.
I have 2 rooms apartment, I allow 1 night stay and if I get family of 4 persons staying for one night I get very good nightly price and I am happy cleaning after them. If only 2 persons stay so I get less money and it's not so nice to have 1 night stays :)
Hi, we have been really interested to read your comments. We have also been trying to change our one night bookings.
We also joined Genius but no longer wish to be part of that price reduction program. We can't see how to get out of it. Guests are continuing to book with Genius and get a reduction that we don't want to offer.
Please help!
It may vary depending on country/location but try going to the Property tab, to Policies, and then scroll down until you see Genius Freebies and click the 'edit' box. I don't see an option to give discounted rates there but the options seem to vary user to user. But maybe the discounted rate reservations have nothing to do with Genius but something to do with your pricing settings?? Good luck; it's a steep learning curve and I'm still pedaling hard...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Coming to Grips with Countries Reasons for Going Nuclear
While there is much discussion and debate on the Internet over the 'meaning' of the expansion of the worlds nuclear fleet, something has slipped in this discussion over the reason why countries are deciding to go nuclear.
Let's review; dozens of countries have decided to expand their nuclear fleet or, where there is not nuclear fleet, decided to set up the needed nuclear regulatory and safety regime into order to develop such a fleet. This goes against the almost exclusively anti-nuclear decisions of OCED countries such as Germany, Spain, Italy, Japan, Austria, Belgium, Switzerland who have decided to either never build nuclear or, have announced plans to eventually phase it out.
Among those countries taking the opposite direction, either developing new nuclear or expanding existing infrastructure: include: France, Finland, Britain, Vietnam, China, India, Russia, Czech Republic, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Nigeria, Namibia, South Africa, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland, Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, South Korea, Taiwan.
I'm sure they are more and obviously, some are more serious than others in going for nuclear energy.
But what are the reasons? Recent announcements by both Poland and the Czech republic show a rather narrow, self-defeating reason, why such as these are going nuclear but scaling back what they previously announced?
One might think "Fukushima" is the reason. They would be wrong. As Fukushima's 3 reactor meltdown was the result of a tsunami combined with an earthquake few of the new reactors will face the scenario the Japanese have influencing their massive reversal of relying on non-carbon nuclear energy for their generation. No, the reasons are far more short-sighted.
In both the Polish and the Czech announcements, and implicit in many of the countries going nuclear in the list above, the reasons given are because they want to fill their "growing" generation needs with non-carbon green nuclear. Sounds virtuous, does it not? But it is not. With the exception of two countries listed above: S. Korea and China…all the countries in the pro-nuclear list are building out nuclear strictly for new generation requirements, not to increase the overall percentage of nuclear as part of their generation portfolio at the expense of fossil generation. That is with those 2 exceptions, no country is developing nuclear to replace fossil fuel, only to mitigate the absolute growth of it within their national borders.
The Czechs were quite explicit: as they don't see an expansion of the market for more generation, they've decided to scale back their original proposed nuclear expansion from 5 reactors to 2 reactors. There was simply zero thought to including nuclear as a way of phasing out fossil fuel. In terms of many of these countries nuclear plans they see nuclear energy as a tool used to increase fossil fuel exports of raw petroleum products.
Russia is a case in point for this. Russia, as a modern industrial economy, has several reasons to increase atomic energy. This includes developing their science-driven economic expansion and development of the Russian Far Ear in co-operation with China; to compete in the international export market for turn-key completed nuclear reactors but also, so they can export their vast quantities of natural gas to Western Europe and China. In other words, while they are building a vast number of new nuclear plants in Russia to provide for expected increases in electrical load, they also want to lower the percentage of natural gas used in the generation of electricity in order sell more in the pipeline network west and south of their country. Russia is also expanding, to limited degrees, their coal generation as well. Since coal is not a major export product for the Russian Federation, no thought, at all, is given to phasing out this dangerous fossil fuel with nuclear energy.
The United States is also a case in point. Recently, the semi-publicly owned Tennessee Valley Authority announced that they will not be requesting the building of new nuclear plants outside the ones already being completed or approved. The TVA touts its' "green" perspectives by throwing rate-payer money at wind and solar.
According the TVA web site http://www.tva.com/power/fsslfax.htm the TVA has "…has 59 operating units at 11 coal-fired-plant sites in the Tennessee Valley." This represents a whopping 46 percent of TVA's power generation.
Additionally the TVA generation portfolio includes 89 gas turbines which accounts for approx another 20% of it's generation.
The existing 5 nuclear plants represent a huge 30% of it's generation.
TVA has announced the retiring of 18 of it's oldest, smallest, and dirtiest coal plants. But it has also decided to postpone decisions on new nuclear reactors because of an expected flattening of generation demand.
In other words, despite TVA's real or stated efforts to mitigate the awful effects of coal which make up close to half it's generation portfolio only an increase in electrical load would motivate the TVA to consider filling it with nuclear. The idea of actually using nuclear to replace coal is not considered. And this is the paradigm that many utilities and, whole countries have adopted.
Pro-nuclear advocates have to directly confront this with plans, as specific as possible, to substitute to coal with nuclear, either on a parity of MW-per-MW or slightly more to account for general increases in load. We need to reject the notion that nuclear is only good for a generalized increase in load demand and demand it be used to replace coal, and natural gas.
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Shay Kun's paintings push viewers to challenge their philosophical and aesthetic limitations. While the paintings use appropriated images from the internet, glossy magazines and daily life, they question where fantasy begins and reality ends. Our dreams and thoughts are capable of taking us on journeys beyond reality, but when do we actually cross that threshold? Could we have actually experienced scenes as we remember them?
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"Finding Your Roots" is a 10-part series on PBS about the genealogy and genetics of famous Americans. Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the host of this show which will explore family trees of 22 celebrities.
In an interesting twist, Gates will seek to discover the name of his own great-great grandfather, the man who sired 5 children by the slave Jane Gates. Jane did not reveal the father's name to any of her children, only telling them they had the same father.
Gates will use DNA to look for a match in the descendants of a pool of 178 possibilities of men who might be his ancestor. Gates has already had his DNA tested and to his surprise found he has Irish roots going back to Nial of Nine Hostages. His theory is that his great-great grandfather is a descendant of Nial. By collecting and analysing DNA samples from male descendants of the 178 possibilities, Gates hopes to find a match.
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The Sports Xchange
By Don Brennan, The Sports Xchange
Bruins 2, Senators 1
OTTAWA -- The Boston Bruins found the cure for their blues at a favorite watering hole.
Dennis Seidenberg's shot from the point with 64 seconds remaining in regulation found the net as the Bruins snapped out of their first losing streak of the season with a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Thursday night.
It was the Bruins' 11 consecutive win at Scotiabank Place and Seidenberg's first goal of the season.
The loss snapped a three-game Senators winning streak. The Bruins were coming off two regulation losses for the first time this season,
Kaspars Daugavins scored his first of the season for the Senators.
Daniel Paille had his sixth for the Bruins.
Anton Kudobin made 27 saves in the Boston net and Ottawa's Robin Lehner blocked 27 shots.
On the deciding goal, Patrice Bergeron won a faceoff in the Senators zone and the puck went back to Zdeno Chara, who teed up Seidenberg's blast.
After a scoreless first period that saw the best chances occur around the Boston net close to the buzzer, the Senators hit the board 4:55 into the second. Daugavins beat Kudobin on the glove side with a shot that at first appeared to be deflected off the blade of Mika Zibanejad or Chara's high stick. If it nicked either, it was the one belonging to the Bruins captain. After a review the goal, it was declared good.
The Senators were 1:22 from taking the lead into the third when Paille's wrist shot from the right wing circle slipped through Lehner's catching mitt. It was the 17th shot of the game for the Bruins.
NOTES: Senators defenseman Sergei Gonchar entered the night with an eight-game points- scoring streak that tied a franchise record and was the longest in the NHL this season ... The Bruins arrived in Ottawa as the NHL's top team in the faceoff circles with a 57.3 percent success rate. Patrice Bergeron was the league leader, winning 61.9 percent of his draws ... The Senators were without stalwart defenseman Marc Methot, who suffered a knee injury Tuesday in Long Island. "He's probable for Saturday," said coach Paul MacLean, whose team will be at home against the Tampa Bay Lightning ... Ottawa fans gave right winger Daniel Alfredsson a standing ovation in the first period as recognition for him reaching the 1,100-point plateau Tuesday in Long Island. ... Boston defenseman Adam McQuaid missed the game with an arm injury suffered Tuesday in Winnipeg. Drawing into the lineup was Aaron Johnson, who had previously been scratched for all but five of Boston's games this season. ... The Bruins complete their four-game road trip Saturday in Toronto.


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My Written Journey Back To My Roots and Heritage : From England to Australia
Freda Waters
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First of all, I want to encourage you about those nagging doubts. DON'T give in to them!! Keep writing. Even if you feel no one will read what your write or even care about it, keep writing. The reality is that you are writing for YOU...and for future generations. So just continue to put passion and love into whatever you want to write about...and whether you have 1 reader or 50, your passion will spill forth and you'll draw your readers in.
I loved hearing about your dear Nannie. You kinow what, my paternal grandmother has the exact birth and death years as yours. Mine was born in January of 1915 and died in December of 1996. However, since she died of Alzheimer's, the reality is that I lost her in 1988, when her mind began to leave her and she had no idea of who I was or even who she was.
You are blessed to have all those wonderful written letters. What a joy to still look upon her beloved handwriting!!
I experienced that recently. My paternal grandfather passed away in 1986, just 2 years before Alzheimers kicked in on my grandmother. Well, in my genealogical research, I contacted the funeral home that took care of him. Just last week, I received a bunch of info (I'm fairly new to ancestry research). One of the things that was in the info they sent me was a copy of the cemetery invoice...signed by my grandmother, since she was paying the bill. To look upon that beloved signature that I remembered so well was such a cherished treat. so I know you must love having all those wonderful letters.
Sorry for the rambling comment. Definitely, keep writing and sharing!!
Good for you starting a blog and getting this wonderful family history written for others to enjoy. I have very little info on my family as I didn't ask questions when I should have and now it is too late.
Keep writing.
This was very touching...Keep writing. I agree with Tanya and Patti! You have so much to give and so much to share.ReplyDelete
Keep up the good work!
Welcome to the GeneaBloggers family. Hope you find the association fruitful; I sure do. I have found it most stimulating, especially some of the Daily Themes.
May you keep sharing your ancestor stories!
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Beautiful story, Debra. Welcome to the genealogy blogging community.ReplyDelete
Welcome to the world of genealogy blogs! What a lovely tribute to your grandmother. And so nice you have her letters :-)
Such a lovely story about your grandmother. Keep writing the blogs. You have an engaging style of writing and will do great justice to the stories of your ancestors.ReplyDelete
Beautifully written poignant memories of your Nannie. Looking forward to your next post :-) JoReplyDelete
Such wonderful tributes to both your grandmothers. They are moving and beautifully written. It is amazing how much you know and remember about them and fantastic that you have been able to share their stories and lives. You must keep blogging - I can't wait to read more :)ReplyDelete
What a beautiful story. I couldn't stop thinking about my grandmother as I was reading your blog. I put my blog on hold temporarily while my son was visiting his grandparents this month. It should have been the perfect time to write with no interruptions but I was missing him too much. I look forward to more of your wonderful stories.ReplyDelete
I am like your granny in that I love to order bath stuff from avon. A bath with a good book is my quiet, unwinding time.
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Finally, after all this time, I have worked out how to post reply comments! It is impossible to thank each of you individually so I shall make my reply applicable to all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your kindness and words of encouragement. I am deeply touched. xxReplyDelete
I have really enjoyed reading this,my maternal grandmother was called Ruby Eileen Waters, She was the daughter of William Bourgoine Waters who died at the age of 27 in the 1st worldwar . I would dearly like to hear some more of your storys about the Waters family .
Amanda Barham.
Hello Amanda, I would love to share more information with you regarding your great-grandfather William. If you wish, please leave me your email adress. :-)Delete
I found this blog as I was searching for the opening times for Pecks Fish and Chips in Beccles. Really enjoyed it and as I live in the town I can relate to the places mentionedReplyDelete