[Anomander Rake]

Hiya all,

I have now added a Chapter Summaries section to the Website, which can be viewed: http://www.malazanem...r_summaries.php

All admins and Mods have the ability to add to that section.

Maybe the mods/admins who are working on this project would like to work out a process so those members in the malazan team who don't have mod access can get their chapter summaries put on the main site.

A possible solution can be that Malazan Team members post the chapter summaries they have done on this forum (which also creates a backup copy that way), and then a mod or admin adds it to the main site. I believe it would be a good idea to give credit to the member who wrote a particular chapter (e.g. writing before or after the chapter 'Contributed by ', or 'Written By ' or 'Thanks to for the chapter summary' etc), Allowing a member to opt-out if they prefer to stay anonymous.



Note: The layout, titles etc on the Chapter Summaries page can be changed (e.g. rather than having Chapter One, have Book One - Chapter One, or Darujhistan - Chapter One etc). Please feel free to change the naming convention or layout as you wish. HTML code can also be added if required (e.g. want to add a image or such).

[Folken]

K I posted Chapter One for Memories of Ice just to test it out. Turns out we'll have to use HTML if we want to make this thing look pretty. On that note Rake can we have a global Cascading Style Sheet? It'll decrease the amount of HTML code needed, because at this rate each page will need to have its own CSS for formatting and things

[Hume]

@ Folken

You may want to correct some grammar in that CS..
Especially in the last paragraph.

[Folken]

I'm working on such things Hume, you remember my tragedy with the hard drive lol:p

But other than that, you think it needs more info? Perhaps more detail on the actual conversation between Envy and Tool and perhaps the arrival of Moon's Spawn when Gruntle meets up with KB?

[Anomander Rake]

Looks good. Just a few comments, I think Jen'isand Rul's idea of having a standard layout is a good idea. Maybe you guys could agree on the layout and what font to use, and then post the info here?

The second is: the quotes at the beginning of the chapters, should they be included or should they be left out? The reason for this is, possible copyright issues by copying it straight out.

[Hume]

The whole format and Layout was my Idea and I never thought of copywright with the Intro comments :confused:

I hope its not a problem.
Though I did remember seeing those things on the old MalazanEmpire page.
And also over at Wotmania.com they have hundreds of straight quotes from books appearing as random quotes as well.. from dozens of different authors. http://wotmania.com/...ntasyquotes.asp if your curious


*is currently crash coursing html as well*

[Anomander Rake]

No Prob Hume. I guess we can continue to use it until someone sends me a complaint. hehe. I doubt Erikson or Bantam Press will go against it. So its all good

Thanks for the link to the wotmania example, as I guess it should be okay.

[Folken]

okay so do you want me to go ahead and create the CSS based on my format?

[Anomander Rake]

yep. looks good to me.

[Folken]

K Rake I've created a CSS. I need a way to send it to ya lol so we can use it:p

Edit:
Alrite I've uploaded files and since i can't upload HTML I changed the file type to .txt

Rename to:
chapter.txt --> chapter.html
index.txt --> index.html
style1.txt --> style1.css

chapter.html is an outline that can be used to write all of the chapter summaries. I've included comments to explain what each tag is used for.

index.html is an example of what it'll look like

style1.css is the style sheet. make sure its in the same folder as the html files

[Anomander Rake]

Thanks Jen'isand Rul.

I've added the styles after a bit of tweaking, as the page was using an overall malazan css style.

I've attached the html code that should be used for the template. (Just removed the html, body tags).

Basically the code in the txt file (chapter.txt) is what should be copied and pasted into the Chapter Summaries control panel page when adding a chapter, and then add the data in appropriate places.

I've added a sample_chapter.txt too. You can view that sample here: http://www.malazanempire.com/site/chapter_...ies.php?q_id=20

Jen'isand Rul, can you have a look at that and let me know if it looks correct.

Thanks

[Anomander Rake]

Thanks Hetan, missed that bit out.

[Anomander Rake]

yep, no prob.

[Imperial Historian]

Looks good to me, though I think the text of the pre-chapter verse shold be changed to stand out more... italics perhaps?

The ability to click through the chapter summaries would be a good feature as well.

[Folken]

Would be good to have a navigation systm. But from what I see in the way Rake has written the php (notice I make this assumption from the URL, so could be totally wrong) it'd mean some re posting of the chapter summaries or extra work for Rake.