Okey dokey, I finished the website. Wow, too easy.

http://backcountryairguides.weebly.com

I search for that series by Dean Koontz. The first one was called Fear Nothing. Well, I thought it was a series. Not according to Novelist. Harrumph.

So I looked up Star Trek. Wow. It's even in Manga.

For a read-alike I looked up Tony Hillerman. I was expecting a list of authors to try and found a nice essay instead. That might really appeal to some readers.

In the Recommended Reads I chose science fiction. They have a terrible choice for a graphic on this section. They need to update that to something more reasonable. Ick. The categories that they had were interesting and did a good job of covering the possibilities. Now if it would just list the items in print and on CD.....

The Book Reporter has to be one of the best sites for tying current releases with reviews all up in one place. What a great help it must be for readers advisory! There's even a section on books that have been made into movies. Current movies, too!

I looked up Dean Koontz in the biography database. There were nine articles listed and found one that was updated just this month. The top of the article listed all of his pen names. I didn't know he wrote under Deanna Dwyer. They also had a picture of him - not one of his best.

Although I've not read any of this books in several years, he is still writing quite a bit. It doesn't look as if he's written more with the character of Chris Snow. The dialogue and interactions with the dog, Orson, were so well done in those books.

I search Consumer Reports for a review of paint brushes. They had one that was done in 1993 for a new disposable type of brush called "Newstroke". The review said they weren't all that great, so it comes as no surprise that I've never seen them in a hardware store. Must have been a flop.

The other part of this task asked me to search the Biography Resource Center. I found five articles about Chuck Yeager. The most recent was dated 2000 and the oldest was 1990. The browsing categories and the ability to search by occupation or place of death could be really handy for school kids.

Now we're getting out of order. I've been off on a few days of vacation and it's time to get caught up. I liked the Weebly site. How easy is it to make a web page with that? Of course, it's not a really fancy one, however, if your objective is to have a page to provide information about a service or product...it's great!

I have the beginnings of a modest webpage for Gary's business - Backcountry Airguides.

As soon as I get the password to make a contribution to the page I'll do that and finish up this task.

I used Google as the interface when I searched Creative Commons. The first thing I looked for was Native American music. I found several selections. The next thing I looked for were images. Quite a few turned up. There were some on flickr and some on more commercial type sites. I even found an old black and white film clip.

Pretty clever stuff.

I had heard that Nine Inch Nails was so fed up with the record company mentality that they decided to release their new album on the web. Considering some of the other problems the big record companies are having, if NIN has even a moderate success (with this method of getting their music out) it will be another kick in the pants for Sony and the like.