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Brad
Feature Creep

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Time permitting, I'm considering giving Stripcreator a once-over rewrite/redesign kind of thing. There's a large list of small, back-end things that I'd like to tidy up, fix or add to hopefully make my life as webmaster a little easier.

If you have any bug reports or suggestions, now would be an excellent time to make them. You can email me or post them in this thread or in the Bugs & Suggestions forum if you'd like.

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11-19-02 5:13am (new)
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dcomposed
C3H5N3O9

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You can't title a strip , it changes to "Untitled". Not that it really matters.

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11-19-02 6:23am (new)
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evil_d
Riding through your town with his head on fire

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I'd still like to see if implementing this change fixes make.php for Opera, Mozilla or Netscape users.

And I wish the search page did exact matching when searching favorites, because right now the search results for my name include people who don't have me on their favorites, but do have Big Evil Dan or Evil_Diet_Coke.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

11-19-02 7:23am (new)
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xACOM
Stripcreator Newbie

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Some suggestions:

*) Ability to edit comics already posted.
*) Ability to include b, i, or font color="xxx" tags
*) Ability to insert a comic in the chain in something other than the order they were posted.

11-19-02 8:31am (new)
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Scyess
Official Traveling Menstrual

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Some suggestions:

*) Ability to edit comics already posted.
*) Ability to include b, i, or font color="xxx" tags
*) Ability to insert a comic in the chain in something other than the order they were posted.


I'd donate more for any or all of these features. (Hint hint) Well... except the tags in the comics. That'd be cool, but maybe not worth $$. 8)

I was also thinking it would be neat to have a second narration bar at the BOTTOM of the comic, in addition to the one at the top. That way you could narrate before and after characters' actions.

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"Old" is the old new.

11-19-02 9:35am (new)
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boinky33
I'm with stupid ^

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That would be neat-o.

11-19-02 9:46am (new)
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Brad
Feature Creep

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*) Ability to edit comics already posted.
*) Ability to include b, i, or font color="xxx" tags
*) Ability to insert a comic in the chain in something other than the order they were posted.

Good suggestions, and ones I've been thinking about for a while.

#1: Editing is doable. Various people (including myself) have expressed concerns about comics being editable.

#2: I don't see any harm in this one, but there's a small problem. The comic dialog text is already bold and can't get any bolder. I can un-bold the text, but I showed a version like that to some regulars on IRC a few weeks ago and they all went crazy and tried to bite me.

#3: This is one I've been thinking about for a while and still haven't come up with a simple, effective way to implement it. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate hearing them.

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11-19-02 10:58am (new)
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Brad
Feature Creep

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I believe I tried this, but there was another error deeper into the script that also broke.

Then I did some further investigation into it and Netscape 6 just doesn't support the DHTML trickery I'm using in the make engine, so I gave up. I'm not sure about the other browsers.

Yeah, there's a weird issue with this that will take some sorting out. It has to do with the goofy way I store the favorite lists.

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11-19-02 11:05am (new)
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evil_d
Riding through your town with his head on fire

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I believe I tried this, but there was another error deeper into the script that also broke.

Then I did some further investigation into it and Netscape 6 just doesn't support the DHTML trickery I'm using in the make engine, so I gave up. I'm not sure about the other browsers.


Curses. Well, thanks for trying.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

11-19-02 11:26am (new)
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Kaddar
Captain Insano

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Aside from my obvious suggestion of uploading my art :D? hmmn..

I already showed you my idea for footnote tables with 50x50 images on the left side
http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic.jpg
http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic3.jpg

The text bubbles are not the same thickness as the tables they point too. Maybe this should be adjusted

http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic4.jpg

Here is my idea for repositioning comics in a simple way:

Select a comic in a pull down list
Select another comic in a pull down list
Comic 1 goes in position below comic selected

An alternative way to do this is to have a comic checklist:

Click all comics you want to move in a checklist.

select a comic in a pull down menu to put them after

Multiple comics are moved

It isn't exactly catagories, but it's very simple and easy to use.

I have another idea, I'll post it later

11-19-02 12:19pm (new)
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Kaddar
Captain Insano

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Okay, here is my other suggestion:

Search images: Search to see comics with specific backgounds, characters, etc... This could also be fun because you could use it's image output to find the number of comics using, jesus, for example.

Serch percentages: Automatically divide total comics by number of results found to output what percent of comics have said stat. For example, 2292 comics have dog about 0.02222% of the comics have dog in it.

11-19-02 2:01pm (new)
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Brad
Feature Creep

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I already showed you my idea for footnote tables with 50x50 images on the left side
http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic.jpg
http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic3.jpg
What do other people think of this idea? I'm kind of unclear on what you'd actually use this for. Also, it seems like it would complicate

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The text bubbles are not the same thickness as the tables they point too. Maybe this should be adjusted

http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic4.jpg


This has been an issue I've been wanting to fix for a long time. I figured out a way to make the borders on the text balloons one pixel, but I showed it to some people and they didn't like it and tried to kill me. Since the very beginning I've wanted to put rounded corners in. I think I might know how to do this now, but I'm not sure if it's worth it.

These are cool ideas, I'll have to think about them a bit.

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11-19-02 3:38pm (new)
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Brad
Feature Creep

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Okay, here is my other suggestion:

Search images: Search to see comics with specific backgounds, characters, etc... This could also be fun because you could use it's image output to find the number of comics using, jesus, for example.

Serch percentages: Automatically divide total comics by number of results found to output what percent of comics have said stat. For example, 2292 comics have dog about 0.02222% of the comics have dog in it.


The first one would be a little rough because of the way I'm storing the comic information. I didn't really anticipate anyone would ever want to search the database or I would have laid it out a bit differently. It can probably still be done, I'll just have to think about it some more.

The percentage thing should be easy enough.

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www.bradsucks.net

11-19-02 3:41pm (new)
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Drexle
Your Cure for Lameness

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How about the ability to edit our posts?

Oh... and can you have stripcreator make asiangirl1 give me a blowjob whenever I donate $5?

11-19-02 4:44pm (new)
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KajunFirefly
chooby digital (in stereo)

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Editing posts would not only stop us from slagging each other's spelllign mistakees, but people would just take the piss out of it so that you end up looking like a moron in a fight, it's better that you can read what people meant the first time they said something, before they backtracked out of the argument.

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Dad was flammable

11-19-02 4:56pm (new)
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Bazilla
Comic Overlord

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In the comic competitions thread, would it be possible for the Comic Cup threads to be bumped up when replied to, while the normal Comic Competitions stay in order?

Because sometimes Comic Cups are very long, but unlike the present Tag Team Cup, well envolved in and then people have to scroll down to get to the thread, and no-one can be bothered, and people stop voting etc.

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I am not 16 going on not 17, I know that I'm naive.

11-19-02 10:54pm (new)
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not_Scyess
not laughing with you

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I like almost all these ideas (except for editing posts -- that would turn the message boards into an unintelligible jumble of random statments. Imagine if you started reading a thread 5 days after it was created, when everyone had already edited the hell out of all their posts? The meanings would be totally opaque.

BUT aside from that, I like almost all the ideas here. But there are some ideas which are definitely better than others, and they can really be summed up by xACOM:

quote:

*) Ability to edit comics already posted.
*) Ability to include b, i, or font color="xxx" tags
*) Ability to insert a comic in the chain in something other than the order they were posted.

I think these are really the coolest things that can be done to the site. (I also like the comic-bottom narration bar idea.)

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peddling the funny around since 09/24/2002

11-20-02 12:03am (new)
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evil_d
Riding through your town with his head on fire

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quote:
quote:
I already showed you my idea for footnote tables with 50x50 images on the left side
http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic.jpg
http://kaddar.netfirms.com/examplecomic3.jpg
What do other people think of this idea?
I guess I don't object to it on principle, but I don't think it would let you do a whole lot that you can't already do with the narration boxes.

I'll add my vote for not allowing post editing. I also think comic editing is a bad idea for the same reasons and some more besides.

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The what mentioned above is total fiction. Please don't take it seriously!

11-20-02 7:46am (new)
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MaKK_BeNN
VOTE JEB BUSH 2008

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I have noticed that if I accidently get bumped off the page while I am trying to save a comic (clicking something wrong in druken stupor or the occasional web time-out) the comic information is lost if you back-page. I don't know if this has been brought up before and then dismissed as impossible to fix.

In addition the the characters not working it seems like I've encountered one or two others that don't show up, but you can't find out until the comic is saved.

I would also like a giant, rotating, constantly updated 3-d topographical translation of comic creation by volume over time, that was present on any page and could be dragged around and / or docked to the web page. Needs to be sound-interactive.

It would also be cool if you could customize your stripper's account front page a little bit, maybe with a selectible bio picture (instead of individually uploadable to cut down on taking up space) or custom background colors or um a neat-o background of cute puppies and midi music playing and blinking text and and and

Sorry I need to stop now I am getting too excited

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Vote Jeb Bush 2008

11-20-02 8:04am (new)
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Devin
Comic Overlord

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I don't suppose you'll consider that titles thing I suggested a while back?

And is there any chance you can add a search feature for the message board?

11-20-02 9:34am (new)
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lara7
Jimmy Carter says YES!

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In the comic competitions thread, would it be possible for the Comic Cup threads to be bumped up when replied to, while the normal Comic Competitions stay in order?

or a diff. forum for "special" competitions would also solve that problem.

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When they invent BookFace, I'm -there-.

11-21-02 1:14am (new)
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Brad
Feature Creep

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It's no problem to add a new forum. Let me know what you want it called and what stuff you want moved into it and I'll do it.

I have a new version of the comic viewer online. I posted details about it here:

http://www.stripcreator.com/forums/showthread.php?postnum=73419&forum=10

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www.bradsucks.net

11-21-02 9:56am (new)
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boinky33
I'm with stupid ^

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No.

NO!

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11-21-02 10:14am (new)
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Devin
Comic Overlord

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Actually, I have to admit, the original word balloon style DOES seem more professional looking.

But since you have the new style online, you should keep it and make an option to choose between the two styles.

11-21-02 11:53am (new)
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Bazilla
Comic Overlord

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Although I quite like the look of un-bolded text, it doesn't look right with TOBOR, perhaps you could get it so only TOBOR talks in bold?

:o)

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I am not 16 going on not 17, I know that I'm naive.

11-21-02 10:57pm (new)
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