Yeah, the background isn't meant to repeat. I just rarely maximize my web browser, and frankly monitors were smaller when I started it, lawl.
wolverine said:
I'm not reading the content, but the coding could use some work. On my screen the background is repeating funny... also FRAMES ARE EVIL! PLEASE LET ME HELP YOU BANISH THEM! *gives holy water*
Seriously though, if you have coding questions at all or would like some help with some things please ask... website design, especially of fansites is a hobby of mine (I just can't do graphics to save my life).
What's wrong with frames? It keeps people from bookmarking individual pages and then forgetting it's part of a whole website. Makes linking a pain, but fuck that. I'd rather be evil and force people to go in through the front door than worry about their convenience.
What would you have suggested? I did consider finding the proper code to do collapsable nav menu sections, but cba.
CelesChere said:
I think the layout could use some Lucrecia in it, please! Otherwise, looking lovely so far.
What do you mean? Visually? The layout IS a giant image of Lucrecia. xD In the crystal. It's blurry, but you should be able to make out her hands and the lower part of her face. It's from this screen shot:
http://www.midgar-rock.org/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=12492
There will also be a few images accompanying articles that I haven't written yet.
Lawliet said:
It's a pretty site so far but a media section would definitely be nice to add a little something to it. Erm what else . . . maybe a guestbook for feedback would be good as well. Just to see what your siste visitors might think about the content as a whole.
I do intend to include a fan art section, though I'll probably have to resort to finding pieces that I like and asking the artists if I can host them on the site since I've asked people to volunteer Lucrecia fan art and recieved nothing. (Mind you, I asked my watchers on DA and most people who watch me on DA watch me for my VinLu fan art and are fans of Lucrecia themselves.)
I'm not sure about fanfiction. There are some good ones out there, though they're
very few and far between, but most fanfiction involving Lucrecia totally mangles her. Even the ones that mean well. Hell, mine probably does too. And maybe that's the nature of fanfiction, but when authors mangle, say, Vincent, at least there's a healthy amount of "pure" Vincent to be found in the canon and it's easy to find it, so a poorly written fanfic!Vincent is less likely to skew a reader's perception of the actual character because they already "know" the "real" Vincent and can separate canon!Vincent from fanfic!Vincent more easily. With a character that requires so much digging to really unearth in her pure, unadulterated (by fanfiction) form, it's easier for the mind to accept that the fan depiction "is" Lucrecia rather than just some fan's version of Lucrecia because there's less "pure" Lucrecia for us to see. Also, Lucrecia more or less
was a fanfiction character before she was a canon character, in a sense, so many people already have made judgments about her based on someone's fanfiction. I'd just hate to go through all the trouble to compile as much canon information about the character as possible and then throw in fanfiction.
A guestbook is an option, but I already have one on Crimson Shroud itself (my Vincent fansite, of which this "sub-site" is technically a part). I guess the necessity for one will depend on how much I intend to link this as its own, independent fansite.
Smaddy said:
I had a comment on one of your entries on the website. Should I just post it here or...?
Sure, unless you'd prefer it to be private, in which case you can PM me. But if we disagree on something I'm hardly a final authority so discussing it where others can offer insight might be a good thing.
And lol I just realized I left notes to myself in the Luci & Hojo page instead of providing what I was reminding myself to provide. Fail.
And thank you all for the feedback.
