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New section : fan characters!

Written by steet :



 

Maybe you've already noticed it (why do I have to always start with that? lol), but there's a new section on the site : fan characters. (in the left menu)
You can now "officially" create a page for each of your own characters. The goal is to allow to link your characters with your fan creations (eg : if one of your characters appear in several of your fanfics, or even fanfics from other authors, these fanfics will be listed in the character page)
In a way, it allows to create a "character search engine". (even though there's no search form yet, but the main site search engine can already find characters based on their names)
Try using the character creation page, it has been made to be simple. I have used new methods for making it, especially the upload form : just try it and you'll understand!
To avoid conflicts, you can't create characters with the same name as another character, so be sure to be the first to create your character!


Of course, for now, there's something missing : you can't link your fan creations to your characters. But this will come. Just be patient.

I have also did some other changes to the site : now many pages are separated into "sections", that you can click on to hide or show. For example, if you're tired (like me) to see very long artist presentations, you can just hide this part and it will be hidden for all artists (This choice is saved even if you leave the page!) I have also put this into place to make pages clearer and with the same design.

Finally, I have added the possibility to switch to another text editor : FCK editor(the current one was named Spaw editor) This is especially for the fanfics, because it seems that Spaw editor doesn't like text copy/pasted from Word very much (FCK editor has a special option for pasting content from Word)
Just click on the link above the text editor to switch to it.




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Comments

August 17, 2008
Webmaster France Male
AS leader
Sandstrom => Check the profiles from members who have created
characters, they are already listed there
And I'll make a
search engine.

August 17, 2008
Usa Female
none
I like the section, it's neat. But wouldn't it be much more organized
to have a section for each member to post profiles on each dog? Kind
of like the Fan Fiction/Fan art sections?
Where you search for a
member and it has the character's they posted, like you click on their
name and it takes you to a page fit with a picture if needed and other
Bio information that the character owner posts?

So then
members wouldn't have to scroll through everything to look for
specific characters out of the high numbers of pages that will come
later on?
And perhaps try to find certain characters and not be
able to find the one their looking for because of a million others?
When they could find the exact one they want by looking for the member
and checking to see if they posted a character?

Just a
thought!

Guest
Guest
August 16, 2008
This is a great update! =D Its a great way of organizing original
characters.

August 16, 2008
Usa
Nice update - I do like this new page. It's easier for people to keep
track of others' characters. Will there eventually be a way to comment
on the characters? I noticed that mine had faves, and I wondered if
they were set up the same way as the galleries.

August 18, 2008
Usa Female
WQ > Balto > WoC
Hmm, this is a good idea and I understand how necessary this may be
for those in the "this is my character . . . blah blah blah"
arguments, but seriously, I'm not sure if I can do something like this
for my own characters. (I have too many different stories and
different AUs based on the Balto world . . . seriously, I do.)

However, it is a nice thing for those hell-bent on
protecting their own characters. Nice idea, but I doubt I'll use
it.

- Juuchan17

August 18, 2008
The characters are already commented on in the shoutboxes, forums,
fanart, fanfiction, articles, and literarly the whole site; both movie
characters and the characters of members. So really no need, would
simply generate lots of useless and doubled comments.

August 16, 2008
Webmaster France Male
AS leader
Silverkia => Good question...Well...I believe that since they ARE
official characters (they have an official name) we can make official
characters pages for them. Not for the other pups of course, because
we don't know anything about them, not even the name.
Although,
if a fanfic writer feels that his "Saba" character is special, he can
make a special character page for it (but he will have to name it
another way, because two characters pages can't have the same name) Like "Saba from Rotramel" for example.

August 16, 2008
Usa
Say wut?
Great idea with the fan chars, Steet!

August 16, 2008
Usa Female
Where's da lemon?
Question: since alot of people have their own versions of the 'Dingo
and Saba pups' does that mean, since most are called Dingo and Saba,
only One of each would be allowed in that section?

August 16, 2008
Usa Female
Path of the Demon
Nice updates. ^^ The characters page is neat.

August 18, 2008
Usa
Noodle Keepers, AnS image mod
brilliant Steet! i've always been annoyed by long artist presentations
(and most times it's been my own XD)!
I also look forward to
trying out the new fan character section :D

August 18, 2008
Usa Female
Water Tribe
OO that is so AWESOME!!! Way kool!!

August 18, 2008
Webmaster France Male
AS leader
Maybe, but you will still be able to list the official Balto
characters you use.

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