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wildcat wrote:I thought the solid black bars down the side were a bit distracting (I'm using Firefox), and wondered if you could make that a lighter color.  I'd also like the story text to take up a bit more of the screen, so those bars won't be as obvious.

I like the Prev/Next chapter links, and I think you did a good job with the cleanup.
The bars down the side aren't black... at least in my comp, they are gray... (and I'm using Firefox too) but I'll see if I can make it lighter. While I'm at it, could up upload or send me a screenshot in your browser? That'll help a lot =)

As for the text width, I'm reluctant to change that because as I said before, I don't like reading from larger widths... maybe a bit in the future, I'll provide a style switcher...

And I've noticed that in Firefox, the text seems a bit smaller (that should be: in IE, the text seems a bit larger, it's supposedly a known bug) and since I've tailored these pages to suit IE (though it works in both browsers) you'll be better off with a Ctrl + to increase the text size.
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I've uploaded a newer version of the scripts... the links are auto-generated, and you can switch to any chapter from any page. The link is the same... http://vysnu.com/temp/sennadar-reformat/ Sources are available at http://vysnu.com/temp/sennadar-reformat/src.zip

It's just about ready for a release since the basic features are all in... converting the other stories is going to be a pain though... some of the HTML that Word outputs I can barely recognize ;-) Volunteers will be really welcome for this part of the process :-), also do play with the stylesheet to make it look less drab :-D
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Wow, that's great. I love the new chapter-jump feature. I'll try to get a screenshot uploaded soon, since it does still look like black bars to me. I'm running Firefox .8 something, with a few adblocking features installed that I don't think should block that stylesheet.
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qhitch wrote: It's just about ready for a release since the basic features are all in... converting the other stories is going to be a pain though... some of the HTML that Word outputs I can barely recognize ;-) Volunteers will be really welcome for this part of the process :-), also do play with the stylesheet to make it look less drab :-D
Well, let me see what I can do for you over the weekend. A colleague of mine has a nice tidy scriptlet that oughta be abel to clean everything up for us, all I have to do is paste in the source, hit a button, wait a second or two and out comes nice and tidy xhtml markup :)

P.S. lang is no longer a valid attribute in xHtml 1.1
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windgazer wrote: Well, let me see what I can do for you over the weekend. A colleague of mine has a nice tidy scriptlet that oughta be abel to clean everything up for us, all I have to do is paste in the source, hit a button, wait a second or two and out comes nice and tidy xhtml markup :)

P.S. lang is no longer a valid attribute in xHtml 1.1
I have a hunch it won't be so easy, but it would be nice to have a url to the scriplet =)

You are right about the lang attribute... that should be easy to change.
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straechav wrote:1 - The stories, perhaps some "news" page. Summary of books, ect...

2 - Simplistic, although website without graphics is naked. Especially story website.

3 - Art gallery I would seem rather useless (then again, all I am interested is the story. Not fanart). A map of the world would be interesting, although passingly.

4 - well, this will launch me in to one of my (dreaded) longer blatherings...

Theoretically, I'd be the man you seek.

I am primarily illustrator, but I do dabble in graphic design and other artful things. I've done loads of web site graphics and dozens of desings. Some of them for companies and for money, although I have not allowed myself to be bribed to work on any web-site lately for bigger price than a pint of beer in bar (i.e, I've done websites for my friends). I can also handle PHP and JAVA in addition of HTML.

However much I would like to volunteer, I am not sure if I dare. Because this would require some effort on my part, and that has been little lacking lately.

I'll think on it, perhaps I will find some source of inspiration and volunteer myself - if you have any need for me.



P.S.
I suppose I should subtantiate my claims somehow. Here's some examples of my art. I don't have anything more recent online, almost everything online is older than year. This is the latest stuff I could find that I had online (I am not on my working computer right now, so I can't upload more recent stuff, and besides. I've been lazy.)

http://labrats.straechav.com/0804a-2004.jpg

http://labrats.straechav.com/0804b-2004.jpg

Those two are screenshots of my painting in progress, so they're pretty big pictures and not final in any way.

http://suvi.straechav.com -- An early example of web layout I did for my friend in two days (she paid me with alcohol, and then proceeded to rape me. I hate her.). For some reason, she hasn't put the finished version online, so I have to show you the partial template. You get the idea, though. It wasn't meant to be so dark, but I have bad habit of being tad depressing.

And some even older illustrations (practically prehistoric):

http://www.straechav.com/gallery/illust ... _manic.jpg

http://www.straechav.com/gallery/illust ... dennis.jpg

You should do a Fan pictur on Tarin using magik and fighting.

I can almost see it surrounded by magic fire killing monks and nunns in the cathacoms and claws dripping with blood.

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some of the story is still down such as book 5 weavespinner and the first book of the second sieries. on a side note i really hope to see these books published someday
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dragonlord wrote:some of the story is still down such as book 5 weavespinner and the first book of the second sieries. on a side note i really hope to see these books published someday
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