Originally Posted By: Grimm
shouldn't be too difficult to break future installments down into smaller sections. easy enough to link back to past columns for reference, right?


yassir! linking back is easy. linking forward is (as of this post) not.

 Originally Posted By: thedoctor
Also, does Word Press have any kind of poll function? I think we can take something like the Bobo Awards and do it over there with user voting casting the winning votes.


it does now! ( )

i just added the feature, which will appear as one of the buttons when adding a new post (by, like, where you make text bold and italics)

 Originally Posted By: thedoctor
Been dicking around in Photoshop for the first time in a while. Thinking of using something like this so that I'd have space to add the actual article title into each supplement.


i likes the design! visually, anyway. practically, however, there's a few issues, which sound dicky and annoying, but i think its actually helpful to explain (in addition to being dicky and annoying)

1) the image is too large for a post's "featured" image. this could certainly be a supplemental image somewhere in the article, as they can be any size, but the main / top image should be 600px wide by 300px tall. sounds restrictive, but because so much of the site is automated, it has to follow that template. the benefits of the automation are that once you make the image the first time, the site automatically resizes it into thumbnails and clickable buttons everywhere else. meaning, the better you fit into the machine, the better the machine takes care of you (awww...)

2) i love the design of the image, but if this is an ongoing topic, not enough of the banner is changing each time. think of it this way, on the comics main archive page (http://www.mightygeek.com/comics/) there are 10 or so main articles, each with their own unique image. one day, there will be a development hell main archive page. with this banner, all of the little thumbnail images would look the same; fire, devil face, theater sign, and a little tiny movie title. as an alternative, i think you could use a large still from the respective movie, with a super imposed devil face in the corner to identify your "brand"

3) i'd actually avoid using text on most site graphics. because of the afore mentioned skynet-like "machine" of a system in mightygeek, images are often reused as tiny thumbs, which can make text too small to read. additionally, sometimes the site automatically lays the post's title on top of the image, like that black bar on the homepage's splash image, or the mouse-over effect on the ten most popular post thumbnails.

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