New Dropdowns?

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sun May 15, 2005 9:52 pm

Risky wrote:I'm running two (and that's plenty mind you) but I think the poster meant they weren't sure how to add an existing dropdown to their page.

that too is in the tutorials! hrrms maybe I should make one devoted to just adding the script to ones page *jots that down for when I get settled after the summer*

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Sun May 15, 2005 9:58 pm

-_-;;;

I always thought that "place the following code on your main page" was fairly self-explanatory.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:08 pm

You'd think.

Ryuko · Post by **Ryuko** » Sun May 15, 2005 10:35 pm

It took me a while, but that's because I had to tell dreamweaver that it was code and not text.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 4:48 pm

Some people still seem interested in a Real Life drop down so I

AsterAzul · Post by **AsterAzul** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 7:35 pm

I dunno, I think the authors should decide, and then some grand high poobah could make discriminations if it was necessary. I consider my comic about real life because of the way it's written, very little exaggeration, mostly true stories, but on the other hand there is a strong supernatural element with shared dreams that shows up later. But, I don't know, I have creepy prophetic dreams in real life, so I don't really consider that so unrealistic.

Yeah, someone just do the coding. We can maybe design a multiple dropdown system, or perhaps write the code so that the dropdown itself is seperated into different catagories of real-life comics.

(No, I'm not saying I'm some sort of seer or something. It's more like my subconscious brain sorts all of the things that are going wrong in my life, inverts them so that in the dream world all my fondest desires are realities, and then I wake up. It's like my sub brain is saying, "****in' beat that, biotch!" I just had one now... that's what I get for taking five hour naps.)

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 9:57 pm

AsterAzul wrote:I dunno, I think the authors should decide

Ah. Rule of the masses. Bah.

Grand High Poobah

a multiple dropdown system

Wuh...?

the dropdown itself is seperated into different catagories of real-life comics.

The problem with this is that it means every comic need to be listed at one time, which leads to a horrible load time. Note that some of the larger dropdowns (Keenime, KeenElven) list under 20 webcomics at a time to prevent this. Having a dropdown with a randomizing script (as opposed to an ordered one) is also a good thing because then the comics starting with A, B, Y and Z don't get all of the hits. Or, if you list them chronologically instead of alphabetically, the ones lucky enough to have signed up first.

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:04 pm

Keenime sorts the comics noticed to be hiatus all year so they are less likely to be randomly chosen to be in the dropdown (though they will still pop up 0-3 at a time). Similar coding, or different coding, could make a dropdown show 2-3 comics from each subgenre in a real life dropdown. It might be making things a bit complicated, though.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:09 pm

Risky wrote:Keenime sorts the comics noticed to be hiatus all year so they are less likely to be randomly chosen to be in the dropdown (though they will still pop up 0-3 at a time). Similar coding, or different coding, could make a dropdown show 2-3 comics from each subgenre in a real life dropdown. It might be making things a bit complicated, though.

...

Would this require effort?

Risky · Post by **Risky** » Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:16 pm

Yeah... may not be worthwhile. Like, what do you do if one of the genres ends up with only one comic in it? Have it show up every time? Or what?

It's all a bit complicated, better to just be less discriminating.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Sun Oct 02, 2005 3:01 pm

I was looking at the dropdowns oriented towards females - FemmeSpace (for female authors) and Keen Heroines (for strong female characters) - and I realized that there is one group that seems missing here (besides men

). The femme fatales.

Are there enough "deadly women" in webcomics to justify having a dropdown devoted to them?

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 10:31 am

Pillywiggin wrote:(besides men )

Tangentially, would people be interested in having dropdowns focused on certain types of male characters? Gentlemen, womanizers (chauvinistic pigs and ladykillers both), manly men (whatever those are), etc, etc...

I would need some help coming up with ideas for some of these (qualifications and banners), 'cause this is really not my area of expertise.

Of course, neither are furries or dead people but they're really easy to identify.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 12:19 pm

I'm actually curious of how many people would actually be interested in coming up with a dropdown for comics that exist in the combined forumite universe. ya know comics that have crossovers, and guess stars with comics and assume they exist in the same universe as other comics that exist.

its been suggested some of us are in the same universe.. course I don't know if it would be needed, aside from forum goers would anyone really be interested in the combined universe thing?

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 2:38 pm

phactorri wrote:I'm actually curious of how many people would actually be interested in coming up with a dropdown for comics that exist in the combined forumite universe. ya know comics that have crossovers, and guess stars with comics and assume they exist in the same universe as other comics that exist.

its been suggested some of us are in the same universe.. course I don't know if it would be needed, aside from forum goers would anyone really be interested in the combined universe thing?

Charting that out would be... interesting.

I think that there'd have to be a clash in there somewhere.

Nightgaunt · Post by **Nightgaunt** » Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:24 pm

phactorri wrote:its been suggested some of us are in the same universe.. course I don't know if it would be needed, aside from forum goers would anyone really be interested in the combined universe thing?

That would be interesting to do, it would be kind of like your standard Marvel or DC universe. You'd have to have a thread dedicated solely to ensuring coordination so no one goes and radically alters the univers without everyone else knowing, and that just seems like a lot of work. Personally I like to play god with my universe, so I wouldn't be able to do anything like that for any length of time (or work at Marvel or DC apparently).

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 7:17 pm

It's been a year (to the day) since the mod of Keendom Dungeons last posted here. I e-mailed him asking about it but he never got back to me. Does anyone know if this is officially dead?

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 9:40 am

i don't know, course I took it off the dropdown list a while ago. Course with keenblade appearing to be gone as well, its starting to look dire for the fanasy dropdowns again.

Pillywiggin · Post by **Pillywiggin** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 1:02 pm

I didn't actually like the way that they were set up in the first place. The problem with both of those dropdowns was that they were geared towards high fantasy and seemed to ignore comics focused on modern fantasy / mythology / fables / etc. KeenAi had a similar problem because they emphasized shojo as opposed to the broader genre of romance.

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 10:04 am

I didn't think keenblade was. It was supportive of other fantasy types. Course my memory is a little faded currently.

Wishmaster · Post by **Wishmaster** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:14 pm

Pillywiggin wrote:I was looking at the dropdowns oriented towards females - FemmeSpace (for female authors) and Keen Heroines (for strong female characters) - and I realized that there is one group that seems missing here (besides men ). The femme fatales.

Are there enough "deadly women" in webcomics to justify having a dropdown devoted to them?

I'm guessing there would have to be a good chunk that could be considered as femme fatales. I recently revived and moved the long dormant Girl from B.O.L.T. to comicgenesis, so I'm definitely interested if this one gets off the ground. That or she could just as easily fit in the Superkeen dropdown (is it still called that or something else - - Supergenesis?).