Jayne: Here's a little concept I been workin' on. Why don't we shoot her first? Wash: It is her turn.

'Serenity'


Buffistas Building a Better Board ++

Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.


§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 6:31:19 am PDT #3671 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Score!

I think the best thing for b.info would be for it to look as much like default b.org skin as possible. I know you can do all the HTML, etc, but unless someone is willing to code that, I'm not up for more than maybe changing fonts and colours.

Something simple, streamlined, columns, few graphics would be good. As far as basic Tumblr good behaving, it's not like I'm expecting you to pick something that plays the Buffy theme at max volume, but clear page navigation is too often ignored--a template that shows tags and post times is also important.

I'd like to be able to clearly display the B logo, at least, and other Buffy pictures on future consideration, maybe.

Key thing is, though--I want it in the end to be clearly of a family with our design or Buffy-related at least, so flexibility to achieve that, or starting from a good place, as well as simple navigation, clear separation of posts so that readers can see the most recent what and the when right away, and then navigate backwards for history and context.

eta: I'm enjoying posting the pictures, but the text is obviously more important, so if a theme emphasises text strongly in picture posts, that's great.

I have no intention to link back here, though.


Amy - Sep 24, 2013 6:35:58 am PDT #3672 of 4673
Because books.

Um. I'll get started looking!


§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 6:38:14 am PDT #3673 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm a pretend usability expert, so you were || close to getting a requirements summary with use cases. Close shave!


Amy - Sep 24, 2013 6:47:59 am PDT #3674 of 4673
Because books.

I'm just having trouble finding a free one I like that will let us add the logo. And by us, I mean you.


§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 6:51:24 am PDT #3675 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Are paid ones a one time charge? I guess if they're cheap I could float it, just pay to reduce irritation.


Amy - Sep 24, 2013 7:04:39 am PDT #3676 of 4673
Because books.

I think so, but I have no idea.

There will be a free one. I'm still looking!


Amy - Sep 24, 2013 8:25:20 am PDT #3677 of 4673
Because books.

Do either of these float your boat?

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I think my problem is trying to find something that reminds me of here, because nothing really does.


§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 8:47:47 am PDT #3678 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Single A looks great, but I hope it's the content of the page that makes it so horribly slow to load. The first one looks just *fine* for starters, though, especially if I can work out how to change the colour scheme (I have so avoided doing this for tumblr, remembering the infinite void of effort on LJ). So I'll use the first. Columns with bars for titles is half the identification right there!

Thanks for the searching and sifting!


§ ita § - Sep 25, 2013 12:16:43 pm PDT #3679 of 4673
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm currently bitching at DH for the three crashes so far and their lack of timely support. I got the usual "Well the site looks to be up, I'm closing the ticket" about 12 hours after I open it and service is mysteriously restored after an hour or two's outage.

iStrata had its issues, and I couldn't admin the server, but at least it was up more! DH won't even admit we were down.

Jesse, I cc-ed you just in case it turns into a level of account discussion.


Jesse - Sep 25, 2013 1:17:51 pm PDT #3680 of 4673
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Grrr.