Jill and I recently started a small off-shoot site to our Dolls for Friends imprint called Doodle on the Carpet. The purpose of DOTC is to provide us a space where we can share some of the basic and rough doodles/sketches from our books. Some of these roughs have been slated for various projects we are working on, while others are just lazy day drawings that we’ve amassed over the last year plus.

Technologically, we decided to go with an old friend to power the site-Tumblr. It’s an extremely light-weight basic blogging system, but what I like about Tumblr is the fact that I could put a new, basic weblog up in just a couple of hours, I have complete control over the look/feel via css (because it’s standards-compliant), it’s hosted (which has its pluses and minuses) and there is minimal self-advertising (and that you can remove from the page if you want to).

So with very little additional time spent, Jill and I now have a quick, light-weight system that we can use to house rough scans of our drawings. All-in-all it’s a fairly DIY (and nearly free) solution. The only real expense we had on this was the dozen dollars we spent to register the url, but with a simple A-record change, you don’t even need to have much in the way of hosting costs. Done and done.

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