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I would HOPE they would have their own sections?!Quote:
Originally Posted by -K-M-
BTW Ben, I have absolutely NO idea what all of these new things you are doing and fixing mean, or how they work, or what they do...but I'm impressed with your dedication and the sheer volume of time and energy you are devoting to this project!
Bravo! :-D
Yep cuidos to DelBubs, Phil, Ben, etc. for all their hard work.
Put them into their own subcategories. Check the subcategory list now. You should see those four.Quote:
Originally Posted by -K-M-
Love,
rplass
Any time you want a new category added just post a message for it and one of us will make it for you. Rplass has been good enough to step into the role of doing some admin stuff on the gallery.
Thanks Rplass.
Dreamqueen please.
Yeah OK
I put up a subcategory, "Villains" which should be suitable for those images.
Love,
rplass
Added...what about Persuasion?
Persuasion addedQuote:
Originally Posted by -K-M-
When uploading Guest Appearance covers to the gallery, can we use the Additional Info section to list who/what appears in the issue, just to give it a more complete sense?
And possibly a "Collected as/in..." to include tpb's in the same image.
Yeah I think that's a good idea and was actually going to suggest that.
good idea
Well, not such a good idea. It's triplicative in effort because this information already exists in the Appearances forum, plus someone we know maintains a blog about it, and there's also talk about setting up a database. To manually enter it AGAIN on the gallery becomes overkill.
Rather than have multiple instances of the same information for guest appearances over and over, how about that database thingy go up? That way it could be entered once and only once, then you could display it however we wish. Using the Gallery as a database seems circuitous.
Until the database is installed, Phil can set up links between the appearance forum and covers in the gallery (many of these dead links exist linked to the old cover gallery) which would be a great start, unless a decision is made to kill the Appearances Forum and replace it with the database.
Basically what I'm saying is database.
Love,
rplass
Good point there rplass, I just have to figgure out how I'm gonna go about the databas. You're right though, it does mean a lot of work for redundancy.
It would be to faze out the appearance forum section untill the database can be up and running and linked to images.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
I'm not knocking your blog either as because of the day delay in shipping to this side of the world I occasionally check it out for any suprises and enjoy the descriptions and blog as a whole, but it's not integrated to the site and the site needs an appearances log if it's to be THE home for Alpha Flight fans.
The database was always the plan, but at the moment its a case of finding a worthy script. It's looking like coding of one from scratch, which is time and effort consuming and out of my league. And using the Gallery as a database works better than using the appearances forum as a database.Quote:
Rather than have multiple instances of the same information for guest appearances over and over, how about that database thingy go up? That way it could be entered once and only once, then you could display it however we wish. Using the Gallery as a database seems circuitous.
Yet that to me, is more work than each time a new appearance cover is added to the gallery adding a brief note. When the database is up, it'll link to these gallery images so it'd be done in the end anyway.Quote:
Until the database is installed, Phil can set up links between the appearance forum and covers in the gallery (many of these dead links exist linked to the old cover gallery) which would be a great start
That was always the plan for full interaction and ease of information.Quote:
unless a decision is made to kill the Appearances Forum and replace it with the database.
To which I agree, but it's not going to happen yet.Quote:
Basically what I'm saying is database.
But that's all just my thinking and reasoning.
Ok dunno if this ever happened before... I obtained an image which was, in my opinion, a better quality image than one already uploaded. For reference it is the cover to Chaos War #4 in the Guest Appearances gallery. I uploaded the new version and unceremoniously deleted the older version which I felt was fuzzy and dark. Not sure what the etiquette ought to be for deleting an image that another user (Phil) put up... but it seems that if you really think your image is better it should be OK to delete without a formal request from the original uploader.
Love,
rplass
I'd suggest asking first, even just as a courtesy. Explain why you want to change it.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
Note: you also used the word 'obtained' here; I know that all my images (except one) are scans I did.
Just to add to the controversy, I'm a little antsy about using other people's images. (Okay, I do it all the time on my comics review blog, but I can't upload my own pics directly there.)
(Also, I don't know what 'obtained' means here.)
- Le Messor
Wednesday: I don't want to be in the pageant.
Gary: Don't you want me to realize my vision?
Wednesday: Your work is puerile and under-dramatized. You lack any sense of structure, character, or the Aristotelian unities.
Gary: Young lady, I am getting just a tad tired of your attitude problem!
Yeah, "obtained" in this case means "I scanned my copy on my scanner myself"
Sigh. OK I'll ask first. Can't a guy just go deleting stuff anymore?? When did we get so polite around here? :)
Love,
rplass
Oh. That's all right, then!Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
'sa Canadian thing. You don't have a lot of politeness on the Enterprise, as I remember...Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
OTOH, that was just my opinion - I don't speak for everybody.
I tried to delete your entire post, but failed.Quote:
Originally Posted by rplass
DAMMIT!
lol.
That explains the auto-email.
Not a problem, I wouldn't have minded either way.
After posting ten preview images from volume 4 as inline attachments, I realize there isn't a gallery for preview images. I remember the previous incarnation of the site had a gallery for preview images. It would have been useful to post them in the gallery section instead of as inline attachments.
Do you think we should have a gallery for preview images like we did on the old alphaflight.net site? We already have a bunch of images for the first few issues of v4 and we are going to have a whole lot more.
Love,
rplass
Uh...you lost me at "do you think", Captain Kirk.
You've always got your personal gallery's to use.
I have no objections to a Preview Art section being added to the gallery
I've added a few more galleries at the bottom.
We can change the order if people want.
Ah, is that why it keeps telling me it's moving my covers?
- Le Messor
"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend."
Ahh, I didn't realise it'd do that.
Sorry, I was having a reshuffle and tweaking and schtuff.
Meh, not a problem. And it's only done it a couple of times, so I'm sure it hasn't been every time you've tweaked.Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil
Tweak away, m'man, tweak away.
- Le Messor
"The Buddha sat beneath the tree
So long that it was frightening.
And when he finally let it be,
He was struck by enlightening."
~ Mark T. Shirey