Scripty goodness: Fanfiction Header Builder
Introducing the Fanfiction Header Builder!
The Fanfiction Header Builder is a tool made to help you create nicely-formatted headers for your stories with ease.
Just select the elements of the header you want to include, enter your own material, and then copy & paste the code into your "compose entry" text box (in plain text mode, of course).
Features include:
You will need to have Javascript enabled in your browser in order for this tool to work.
It's optimised for Firefox, but has also been successfully tested in Safari and Chrome. It's incompatible with IE6 (I'd welcome feedback on how it works in IE7 & 8, though).
Further author notes -
This tool has been built with jQuery. I am a HTML/CSS coder who's presently learning javascript (the jQuery library in particular). This is the first relatively complex project I've built, so no doubt the script is a bit of an unnecessary mess.
Any feedback on technical aspects is very welcome. This is being initially published on Dreamwidth only to start with a smaller group of users!
Feedback on basic functionality is also welcome, so long as you keep in mind that it cannot be everything to everyone, and trying to build something that is will result in it being unwieldy and over-complicated.
Feel free to link to this post or the Header Builder itself if you'd like to share it around.
Thanks!
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comments. All comments will be archived on Dreamwidth.
The Fanfiction Header Builder is a tool made to help you create nicely-formatted headers for your stories with ease.
Just select the elements of the header you want to include, enter your own material, and then copy & paste the code into your "compose entry" text box (in plain text mode, of course).
Features include:
- Links to previous/next/master posts, if you're posting a chapter of a WIP - just enter the URL and it'll write the rest of the code for you
- Same goes if you'd rather link to your story elsewhere, rather than LJ cut it - just enter the URL and the text you want hyperlinked
- The option to include the "highlight to reveal" code on a couple of components, if you want to warn safely but hide spoilers
- A whole range of components you can take or leave as you see fit - and all the text fields are unrestricted, so you can put whatever material you like wherever you like.
You will need to have Javascript enabled in your browser in order for this tool to work.
It's optimised for Firefox, but has also been successfully tested in Safari and Chrome. It's incompatible with IE6 (I'd welcome feedback on how it works in IE7 & 8, though).
Further author notes -
This tool has been built with jQuery. I am a HTML/CSS coder who's presently learning javascript (the jQuery library in particular). This is the first relatively complex project I've built, so no doubt the script is a bit of an unnecessary mess.
Any feedback on technical aspects is very welcome. This is being initially published on Dreamwidth only to start with a smaller group of users!
Feedback on basic functionality is also welcome, so long as you keep in mind that it cannot be everything to everyone, and trying to build something that is will result in it being unwieldy and over-complicated.
Feel free to link to this post or the Header Builder itself if you'd like to share it around.
Thanks!
This entry crossposted from hope.dreamwidth.org, where there are
comments. All comments will be archived on Dreamwidth.