Thread:ChrysieeBoo Lovely/@comment-22439-20121206025506/@comment-3452092-20121209044750

Since you haven't yet read most of the comics, perhaps where you might want to start is with the real people pages. I have pages for the creative team that could use a lot of work and pages for some of the actors who played the characters that appear both on the show and in the comics. It is my intention to make pages for each actor who's character appears in at least one issue of the Charmed comics, but right now I only have a few of them, mostly the major ones.

Here's an example of the basic layout for the actors: Alyssa Milano. Here's a few highlights of what I specifically am looking for there. I want the picture in the infobox to be something post Charmed, preferable within the last year, but if pictures are hard to come by, that is flexible. If you can't find something post Charmed then get a screenshot from the show over something pre Charmed. Lots of images are welcome for the gallery. At present the gallery is on the main page, but I am open to the idea of making a gallery on another page if there are too many pictures to load the page very well. I want a quote's section as seen on Alyssa's page with the comics seperate from anything she said about Charmed and everything else grouped together. I haven't played much with these, but I would like to see collapsible tables used to make things like quotes and listings of acting jobs take up less space.

As you probably noticed when you looked at the page, the infobox is darker than many of the other ones on the site and it's not collapsible. A new infobox needs to be created that matches lighter purple color of the site and is collapsible. I want the information listed in the infobox, but if you want to make a new template and try to see what you can come up with feel free to do that, just remember those three guidelines.

If there are other pieces of info you think would be useful, go ahead and add them both to the template and to the page. I'll see what they look like when you are done.

The creative team pages are a little different since they have more of a direct connection to the comics than the actors do. My prefered pictures for those are ones from Comic Cons or with a comic or piece of artwork. I've done a little experimenting there and I want to collapse lists of comics they worked on as is seen on Ralph Tedesco's page. Paul Ruditis page is a little more complete as is David Seidman's. Take a look at those and you should get a good idea what I am looking for. You can experiment, but make sure to keep the information that is there and for those that are missing some of that info, try and add it.

The template I have made for Creative Team is very extensive, allowing for it to be used by any of the Creative Team and still seem specific to them such as having a list for how many issues they wrote when there are only two people who wrote any of the issues (other than The Sourcebook). If you want to play with the template, copy it into a new template, or make your own, but make sure you include all the information listed there, because I want it to be very versitile. And make sure it's light purple and collapsible.

If you have any questions or if you want to make a major change to something, contact me and we'll discuss it. I'm open to suggestions. I won't take all of them, but I will certainly take some of them.

Oh, if you know anything about the badges, I'm interested in making those more site specific.

Finally, you asked about previews. All I have is pretty much what is posted on the pages for each issue. Usually two to four pages near the beginning of the issue. Some have more because of a page being missing in Cupid's Harrow, different previews from different sites for Crossed, Triple-Crossed, and lots of pencils from the artists, especially Tess Fowler, who has a special gallery just for her own appearances in the Charmed comics. I know where to find issues 0 and 1 for free, but it sounds like you've already read those. Some of the issues have complete summaries, but I'm still working on that. If, after you have read the comics, you want to work on summaries for an issue that doesn't have a completed issue yet, the format I am using is one paragraph and one image for each scene. Images can only be one panel, preferable a small one. The images alternate sides to make it more balanced. The most complete issue page is Oh, Henry and the most complete character page is Paige, because those pages are my guinea pigs. For character pages, I limit how many images are allowed on this site, because I want to tease with the images, not spoil. The story lines may be layed out here, but the images are not and without those images you miss a lot.

The idea of this site is to give people a place to go to find information focused on the comics, so that they can be informed enough to decide if they are interested in them and even if they aren't to still give them a good basis in what happened in them. The only full pages allowed on this site are ones given as official previews. Otherwise all pages must be cropped and only one panel (or two in specific cases where the action is connected between the two and necessary to make sense) per uploaded image. In most cases only one image per character/power/object/location per issue, but under certain conditions I'll allow as many as four (though this is mostly for characters only in one issue).

Sorry, I apparently don't do well with finally. Hopefully this should give you a lot to consider and a lot of potential projects to work on. I look forward to seeing what you can do within the ideas I mentioned.