Another ToDo-List

Posted on June 28, 2010 in On Traces of Chaos

So, the trarr.net itself is slowly nearing completation – and as always in all my projects phases of frentic action between huge spans of lazyness. As long as I plan for my lazyness phases (for example with a buffer), everything will be all right. :)

What’s left to do on the page itself:

  1. Archives:  Chapter Selection – layout
  2. Archives:  Chapter Selection backend (it needs to be automatically generated)
  3. About page: Copy & Art nixed – the box should be enough
  4. Cast page: Copy for chal & Des
  5. Cast page: Copy & Art for the first few characters. (for example Mirrough, Geraud, Rell & her mother Rhii – the rest will be added whenever necessary)
  6. Cast page: Art for Chal & Des
  7. Cast page: Layout
  8. Contact page: backend (it needs to be biligual! *shudder*)
  9. Contact page: Layout
  10. Fix the black-box-problem 1: make the about box itself link to the first page.
  11. Home page:  Final layout (Mainly working page/news section – I’m happy with the introduction box, but the “latest page” on needs more oomph.)
  12. Fix the black-box-problem 2: make the comic pages themselves links
  13. RSS feeds (one for German, one for English)

All this has to be done before I can comfortably start updating the comic itself.

Oof.
But it’s far less than I initially expected, especially since a few of those items can be knocked of rather quickly. It did help alot that I nixed the forum and the world encyclopedia as “coming soon”™. I might add both later, but not after the comic’s going stable. But until then there’s always the danger of distraction. There are other details, like fixing the backend of the comic display – it works, but the code’s kinda clunky.

Especially a forum is dangerous – I’ve been recently shown how dangerous a certain kind of people are – those take it upon themselves to tell artists how much they suck. And forums, unfortionally, seem to be a breeding ground for them. It’s not something I want to deal whith while I struggle with the update boss itself. It would just trigger my perfectionistic streak – which always is a bad idea.

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