Every now and again, I'm inspired to redesign BromBonesBooks.com to make it easier to navigate. This week, I simplified the main menu with blunt headings: BOOKS, RESEARCH, FUN, BLOG, and ABOUT. I took features previously found under "For Fun and Edification" and split them into RESEARCH and FUN. As a result, projects such as Whispers of Witchery and the Ghost Hunter Hall of Fame are now found under RESEARCH while Tales Told When the Windows Rattle and Old Phantoms with New Captions are linked under FUN. (Doing this revealed that I really ought to be having more fun!)
Please let me know if this is helpful or if there are other ways that I might make improvements.
The
Progress, a working narrowboat on the River Severn, taken from a 1909 issue of
The Motor Boat (and colorized at
Palette.fm)
Speaking of navigation, I'm a fan of YouTube channels about narrowboating. You see, Britain has an impressive canal system, one originally built to transport goods. The earliest boats were basically barges, which were towed by horses led along the shore. Unfortunately, those confounded steam trains appeared shortly afterward, providing more efficient distribution. The canals drifted into disrepair.
Fret not! Decades later, the canal system was "rediscovered" as a watery playground for pleasure boaters, and it ignited new interest in these charming boats -- now powered by solar and diesel rather than by oats and hay. Some people live on theirs fulltime, such as the boater who steers my current favorite YouTube show: The Narrowboat Pirate.
This is the long story behind another something new you'll find here at BBB.com. That pirate roaming the canals of Britain and the channels of YouTube benefits from small donations handled by a site called Buy Me a Coffee. She changed things, though, so that folks can Buy Her a Rum. It occurred to me that someone might think the RESEARCH and the FUN on my site was worth a few bucks, and so I signed up, too. You can now Buy Me a Ghost! Throughout my site, at the bottom of pages and posts, I'm discreetly tucking buttons like the one below. Click on any of them to find out how it works.
Please give it a glance. Who knows? Maybe one day I'll be able to afford a phantom narrowboat!
-- Tim
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