Coding, Stargate - random stuff, the usual

[castalie]

Sentinel Thursday is practically up to date. I'm pretty impressed with ourselves. I mean, okay we took forever to work on the thing, but in a couple of days it's going to be done *g*

I'm actually starting to hate codes and tables atm lol I'm up to 46 stories formatted since this morning and around 18 just newly coded, and I don't know many tables- I tend to forget rows when I start to tire, it's annoying *glare* Sis, we'll soon be the proud archivists or a real site with real updates *bounces*

Terri already put everything I sent this morning up on the archive *g* We make a good team when we decide to do our jobs lol

Anyway, am taking a break right now so ush *g*

I watched Orpheus and Lifeboat again this morning- and I think I like the French version of Lifeboat as much as the English one. William Coryn (who dubs Daniel obviously) did a great job, IMHO. He made Martice as selfish and annoying and haughty as he was supposed to be. I wanted to smack him every time he opened his mouth, but since the damn guy was in Daniel's body, I suppose I would have settled with Jack putting him over his knees *eg* I cried again at the end of the episode of course, I can't help it, it's just too sad *quivering lower lip*

OH BTW, babycakesin? A friend of ours gave us the DVD of Interstella5555" so I'm *finally* going to watch it- woohoo!

Comments

[ninkasa.livejournal.com]

Lifeboat is probably one of the best episodes ever done. It's like they suddenly realised MS could act and decided to let him showcase it.

And boy, can he act! :)

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I'm so with you on that one. It's one of my favourites *g*

[babycakesin.livejournal.com]

Interstella 5555!!!! oh my god this is soooo good!

[castalie.livejournal.com]

I know!

[wistful-fever.livejournal.com]

I think ya'll are doing a great job with it. Considering how many stories you get every week, of course it's going to take a little while.

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for saying so, you're a doll *g* But you always have the patience of a Saint 'cause we literally took forever to finally update the archive. But I'm glad we finally did it *g*

[fluterbev.livejournal.com]

I just wanted to say well done. It's no mean feat, getting all that done. And I, and I'm sure the other Sen Thurs bods, really appreciate it :-)

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Thank you! *g* We're going to revamp the site as well- only the best for our members! lol

SenThurs Website

[fluterbev.livejournal.com]

Hi Castalie, I just noticed that my contact e-mail address on the Sentinel Thursday website, is a LiveJournal e-mail address, which I don't actually have (I have a free LJ account and no e-mail through Live Journal).

Would it be possible to change it to my actual e-mail address? If anyone tries to send me feedback from that site, they will not reach me. My actual address is: fluterbev@yahoo.co.uk

Thanks!

Re: SenThurs Website

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Of course! Thanks for letting me know. When we first created the archive we asked for the addies of our writers, but since then lots of newbies arrived and since I didn't have their addies at the time, I just took the ones on their info pages and I didn't even think of the free acount thing *shakes head* Sorry *g*

I'll change the addy as soon as I can, don't worry.

I'll also ask at the community for the others addies then, since I'm afraid you aren't the only one *g*

Re: SenThurs Website

[fluterbev.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's great :-)

Now that the coding is finished...

[starwatcher]

I'm sorry, I'm so behind in responses.

...didn't I send you the "Replace" method of coding that I sent to Terri? I know I can code my own stories (just to test) in only a few minutes. If you copy the story into Word, then replace ^p^p (end of line, blank line), with <*/P*>^p^p<*P*> (without the *, of course), that should put <*P*> at the beginning of each paragraph, and <*/P*> at the end. Then you just need to scan down, make sure it's all there, maybe hand-code one or two spots.

Umm... pasting from LJ, the end-of-paragraph may actually be end-of-line, which would be ^l^l instead. So put that in place of ^p^p.

Does this make sense? If not, e-mail me, and explain where the coding-slowdown is. Maybe I can figure out a way to make it easier. I'm very good at using Word.

When finished, copy and paste in whatever program you use to insert it into the archive, add closing and ending codes, and you're finished! It should work, truly it should.

Re: Now that the coding is finished...

[castalie.livejournal.com]

Well, actually so far, when I code from Word and turn it into html, I get everything I want automatically, and it goes pretty quickly- I usually already have the the formatting I want, ie it'll be how I want it to be once it's been put on the site from the word go.

Thanks anyway, I'll take every bit of new information, as you can imagine *g*

Well...

[starwatcher]

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Well, actually so far, when I code from Word and turn it into html, I get everything I want automatically, and it goes pretty quickly.

That's good to know. I thought you were putting in all the <*P*> and <*/P*> by hand, one at a time.

But if you mean that you put the story in Word, and use the "save as HTML" option -- that produces a MESSY code that takes up a lot of memory. If having enough memory is a problem, you might want to try my way.

Or, contact the mistresses at Cascade Library. They have a program that automatically codes stories, and it's a very "clean" code, not all the extra garbage that Word produces. I'm sure they'd be able to tell you where to get the same program.

Also, you mentioned black text on white background for the new archive. We had a discussion on Senad a while back, and people with vision problems say that a very, VERY pale gray or beige -- so light that it's hard to tell unless you hold a white paper up to it -- helps cut down on glare and makes reading easier. You might consider that.

Re: Well...

[castalie.livejournal.com]

So far we don't have any problem with memory- even less now that we're 'changing' sites. But yes, I'll *definitely* keep that in mind, thanks a lot *g*

The problem when you do something for an audience is that there is absolutely no way you can please everyone. What is going to work for someone will be loathed by another, or what will be efficient for someone will be messy for another. That's why we're trying to do our best knowing it won't please anyone.

This said... I get your point. We'll consider it.