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[Self Resolved]Adventure Log Sticky
Hi there - I was just wondering how people have managed to get an Adventure Log to be "Stickied" and remain on top, regardless of how many new adventure logs have been posted. For Reference: http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/melekar/adventure-log
Not only is the campaign brilliant and inspiring, I can't figure out how the life of me it's gotten that top adventure post, unless -oh, I see... he's craftily edited the log posting to 5 years from now... Now that's class.
Not only is the campaign brilliant and inspiring, I can't figure out how the life of me it's gotten that top adventure post, unless -oh, I see... he's craftily edited the log posting to 5 years from now... Now that's class.
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That function to edit your post dates has been immensely useful, especially since one of my players just dumped like 10 journal entries on me. Makes it really easy to put them in the right order.
45 Sessions? Damn! I hope we make it that long in my game :)
Two people playing Wyrmshadow are devoted to the wiki, though neither feels confident enough to actually produce any major content, like adventure logs and the like. As an artist, I have a backlog of about thirty characters to draw. As the only one writing and placing stuff on my wikis, I have over 15 NPCs to add to my Wyrmshadow: War is Hell section, a new section devoted to the Weapons of Legend (of which there are eleven, and they all need both art and a brief accompanying write-up), and I have about 40 adventure logs to catch up on, just to break even on where we actually are in progress. Considering that there have been over 250, that doesn't seem too bad, but every week, I run two sessions, one of Wyrmshadow and one of Star Wars. If I write only two adventure logs a week by myself, I am just treading water and making no headway on the insurmountable menagerie of stuff I have to get up on the sites. Just to catch up to where I am now in the story for Wyrmshadow, if I managed to write one adventure log every two days like clockwork, devoting no time to drawing or anything else, it would take me until Thanksgiving to get up to speed.
It doesn't help that when I write, I write big. I don't like to oversimplify something I think is profound. If a player says or does something I find extraordinary, I feel it is only appropriate to treat their words or deeds with respect, and thus my adventure logs are often over 20-30 typed pages in length each. Thus, if I ever do catch up, just on the 40 sessions I have yet to complete and get posted, I will have written between 800-1200 pages of text. That's Steven King numbers, and I am no Steven King. (God, I wish).
Plus, I am very unhappy with my home page for Wyrmshadow. I am trying to figure out a way to draw attention to the newest things to be added to the site without taking away from the content that is already there. Actually, I am open to suggestions on the matter.
I was honestly really down on the whole thing until I got some moral support from Arsheesh and JimTriche, and of course, a helpful dose of inspiration from Garaan.
I might not be the expert that JimTriche, Arsheesh and Garaan are, but I'll take a crack at trying to help you with your home page, if you'd like.
With respect to your attempt to draw attention to the newest things to be added, there are a few ways to do it. - One, an idea taken from a forum, you can physically change the graphics (Say, have Link_Graphic_1a for old, and Link_Graphic_2b for things that contain new content), and change the HTML link every time something gets updated - but that's ridiculous, although it would look neat going from a black dragon to a red dragon for new content. Another, much simpler option would be to include a Change-log that you can hi-light the best of the best changes (without relying on the "X person updated Y wiki page of the recent updates). It also lets you hi-light the facts in any way you so choose, once you figure out how you want to do that.
Duskreign, I am constantly amazed with how much work you are able to put into both of your sites. As one who is currently DM'ing two sites, I know all to well the amount of work that goes into crafting adventures quite apart from the upkeep of a campaign site. My hat is off to you. Likewise I am impressed that you do allot of your own artwork. I wish I could make more time to pursue this myself. I've been meaning to do a group portrait of my Age of Legends party for quite some time now. Thus far I've only gotten as far as creating a single rough sketch of "Mara":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/age-of-legends/characters/68505. However perhaps in a few months (once the grad-school application process is completed) I can purchase a Tablet and begin to do a bit more artwork.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
First off, if you don't have the font for images, "Here's the Exocet font":http://diablo.svatopluk.com/download/exocet.stm
Some other stuff that may be useful "here":http://mimir.net/files/
"BLAH":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-gibson-institute/wikis/planescapetest
Here's the code I used:
!(media-item-align-center){width:681px}http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad347/intothebreach_album/Planescape_head_test.png!
Stuff here.....
"Header without Text":http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad347/intothebreach_album/Planescape_head.png
"Generic PScape background":http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/ad347/intothebreach_album/ps-bg.jpg
I want to have a rotating character spotlight, nation spotlight, artifact spotlight, and player of the month segment in there. I also am kicking around other ideas, for fun or nostalgia. One is "Remember that time..." where I reminisce about something funny or crazy that happened during a gaming session, either in- or out-of-context. Another is a personal wish list for things I would like for the game, followed by a funny rebuttal from one of my NPCs about how I should quit whining, because he or she needs (blank).
Then, in the center, I will have the intro video, a brief explanation of how to navigate the site, and FINALLY an Acknowledgments and Dedications section.
I also make a one-panel comic using shopped photos of the minis for our characters. I think I will have that appear at the bottom of the left column.
Not that I'll ever have time to do any of that, nor that I have any idea how to implement it.
On a separate note: Holy crap, that Planescape layout is sweet.
Dusk - That's a good idea with the homepage. I've been tinkering with a two column layout, but it turns out, 50% wide doesn't exactly mean 50%, and 50% on one and 50% on the other means they stack, which is not desirable most times. I love the idea of a wish list, especially the NPC banter. Any idea how you might do the rotating character spotlight? Is there any way to make it actually random with the tools we have at the moment?
Dusk - My kingdom for a C++ compiler or a random number generator to be compatible with this site. The site has a Dice roller, but I can't figure out how to activate it (I was looking through the source, and there's a Javascript dice roller in there.) All we need from there is a random number generator and an if statement and I could get what you want going. If d8 = 1, so and so, etc etc. But I don't know if the site allows for that :(
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/planescape-campaign/wikis/home-page
Also, I've got the beginning of my mapping project underway! http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/planescape-campaign/wikis/sigil
If I may?
"Something like this":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-gibson-institute/wikis/planescape2ndtest
I was actually in the middle of trying to use the third Div tag for something devious, but I can't figure out how to get a second image to overlay on the top of the background (Like it does for the banner graphic). I was trying to overlay a transparent box graphic, with enough transparency to show the background, but enough color to make the text readable, like the back of the old PS boxed set - I couldn't figure out the code to overlay an expanding series of transparent graphics (The same size as the original background tile). I think the capability is there, but I had to leave the computer I was working on, and I won't have time to attempt again until tomorrow.
If you're interested, here's the Code I used for the indexing: