Langy

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Langy
in Campaign Landing Page preview June 2013

That 'two distinct parts' bit makes sense, Micah, and overall it's a good idea - but I think taking some of the better aspects of the Dashboard design and applying them to the public-facing side of the campaign would be a good idea. For example, the…
Langy
in Campaign Landing Page preview June 2013 edited June 2013

I'd like to clarify - I didn't mean to imply that the page itself is ugly. It isn't! But I find the 'unused' space to the left/right/top/bottom of the content area to be unattractive. To be clear, this is the area above the campaign title bar, below…
Langy
in Campaign Landing Page preview June 2013 edited June 2013

I'm afraid this post is going to be rather negative; parts of the landing page are quite nice, and I like all of your Notes on Theming, but I don't like the basic idea behind this campaign landing page design. I don't really like how this has a c…
Langy
in Campaign Landing Page thoughts June 2013

Second the idea of a Featured Campaign/CotM banner; creating the CotM banner for "Edgerunners":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/edgerunners was one of the first things I did once we were officially announced as the winners, and I doubt many p…
Langy
in Navigation Menu June 2013 edited June 2013

Oh, absolutely, Micah! There should definitely be no rigid list of predefined categories; that not only makes it more flexible, it lifts the burden of defining categories from you and puts it on the campaign authors;) And yeah, analogous to tags …
Langy
in Navigation Menu June 2013 edited June 2013

I know what you mean about an actual example being useful, Micah - I honestly hadn't seen one quite like what I was envisioning until I stumbled upon Wowhead while looking for cool breadcrumb implementations (which was after my initial post in this …
Langy
in Player Secrets / User-specific content June 2013

That's a *really* good point, Micah. I completely didn't recognize the issues of multiple people *editing* a document with hidden content, but yeah - that's a big issue. The immediate idea that I have for 'fixing' that is to, when editing a page, in…
Langy
in Campaign Landing Page thoughts June 2013

The 'Where We Game' map should really be optional; some games, for example, are gamed online (via Skype, a virtual tabletop, the forums, whatever); as such, a map appearing on the page saying 'this is where we game' is not only not helpful, it can c…
Langy
in Player Secrets / User-specific content May 2013 edited May 2013

Micah: How about removing the 'edit player secrets' and 'edit GM only' sections entirely and instead using tags (maybe pre-defined CSS classes with the player names, like "secret-micah" or "secret-langy", etc) to be able to place secrets within the…
Langy
in Reforger badge on OP? May 2013 edited May 2013

Totally agree, Ninja - it'd be super sweet if I could directly edit the layout of Edgerunners:/ Ah well. I'm hoping the reforging process will expand Co-GM functionality at least a bit, like marking co-GMs in some fashion on the campaign page, or al…
Langy
in Easier to use character sheets May 2013

Sure, that's what I thought you were discussing first - that code I posted will remove that. It makes it so the field is saved if you just click off the field, rather than have any need for clicking an 'OK' box. However, what I was referring to i…
Langy
in Navigation Menu May 2013

The kind of breadcrumb menu I'd like is something like what's available at "Wowhead":http://www.wowhead.com/factions - it's an entire navigation menu which appears on each page and can allow you to navigate to any other page on the site using a sing…
Langy
in Easier to use character sheets May 2013

Er, what? Why do you have to save every time you edit each individual field? That's not how it's supposed to work. You should be able to edit *all* the fields on the entire sheet, then hit save, and have your character saved properly. It sounds l…
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in Easier to use character sheets May 2013 edited May 2013

I'm not sure what you mean - locking all fields would make it so you can't edit the sheet at all, not allow you to edit the whole thing. If you just mean 'I don't want the 'OK' button when editing fields', that's something the DST author can chan…
Langy
in REFERENCE: LIst of Goals for the Reforging May 2013

The Items and Characters pages; as-is, they're pretty bad. No way to organize the characters/items, no short descriptions, everything stuck on the same page, tag-overload can screw with formatting and make everything hard to read, etc. Also, the …
Langy
in Adventure and Campaign Publishing May 2013

Basically, a 'Talk' page for each Wiki page, must like regular Wiki software.
Langy
in Navigation Menu May 2013

That could be good, Hop, but it's not so useful for navigating *to* the page. This is why I prefer the method I mentioned, which not only generates a breadcrumb trail but also creates an entire navigation menu.
Langy
in Collapsable Sections/Showing Hidden Divs May 2013

Yeah, but the lack of clickability can be a problem - namely due to mobile devices lacking 'hover' features.
Langy
in Good Designers Borrow May 2013

Sounds good, Micah - though I should note you probably need a link to the public 'Home' section on the navbar, then (and I'd probably leave the Dashboard as accessible to the public, even if not fully-functional for them). Anyways, here's my next…
Langy
in Wiki templates May 2013

One thing I'd recommend would be to have one template that is automatically placed on every single page of the entire site; this template, unlike others, should probably include at least one level of recursion, so you can reference other templates w…
Langy
in Fundamental HTML Changes - The Foundation Grid and responsive design May 2013

Like Garaan, as one of the people who has done a lot of custom CSS/etc for his site, I have to say - I *do not might at all* that the reforging process might require me to redo a bunch of it and, in fact, fully expected it to from the outset. There …
Langy
in Navigation Menu May 2013

I'd recommend going a different route, Micah. Rather than including it in templates, I'd include it in the revamp of the Tag system and have the navigation menu be automatically generated. Note that what I'm talking about would be a different naviga…
Langy
in Good Designers Borrow May 2013

I'm likewise going to cheat and use the mockup campaign dashboard: !http://blog.obsidianportal.com/img/portal-dashboard.jpg! h2. Pros * It's clean with minimal pre-defined borders, allowing a large amount of screen real-estate to be utilize…
Langy
in How to request a feature May 2013

That feature's already incoming, Syraen - it was one of the stretch goals for the OP Reforged Kickstarter. And yes, Google Maps' API supports that functionality, but it was disabled due to being too resource demanding.
Langy
in Custom CSS Beta Discussion May 2013

Ah! You're using it with the :before pseudo-element. Yeah, that works (and I've done it before). I had issues with using it to replace text before, though - I think I used something like "display:none" rather than just making the font size 0. It doe…
Langy
in Custom CSS Beta Discussion May 2013 edited May 2013

Huh. For some reason, I didn't think that the 'content' tag worked, but I guess it does. You should be able to do the same to rename the navbar links, too.
Langy
in Changing link on Tab Nav Bar May 2013

Via HTML replacement; they delete the navbar via CSS and then use HTML to place it again on every single page, but with new links and names.
Langy
in Using the Calendar/Adventure log April 2013

In The Town, we set adventure log times to be the date in-game rather than the date the session was played. In our current game, Edgerunners, we do the opposite. I honestly don't think there's anything wrong with either method.
Langy
in Kickstarter Ascendant Subscriber April 2013

I can't imagine why it would overlap. I'm pretty certain that it'll just add the extra time on to your existing subscription.
Langy
in Kickstarter Ascendant Subscriber April 2013

A Kickstarter survey will be sent out in a few days with a 'when do you want your Ascendancy to start?' question on it. Answer that with 'Now!' and you should get your Ascendancy once it's processed.

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Langy

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