Opinions needed on short bio page
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Daemodand,
Posted on: 2008-08-01 05:48 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
What a great idea! This looks good, well organized, easy to read, no bells and whistles, just information. It packs a lot into a small space. Nicely done.
This seems like it will be an excellent resource.
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I think this is quite a good idea. Personally, the more information a person gives me on their character, the happier I am. But not everyone may work that way, so having this all up for people to pull up want they want is great. And its handy for you so you don't have to keep repeating yourself, and everything stays consistent. And you can keep fleshing them out and tweaking the stories.
So far, its looking pretty spiffy to me. I love reading character bios, everyone is so creative ^.^
I like it! like it a lot!
Only thing i can suggest is to put spaces between the paragraphs at the end. Dont ask me why... it just seems like it would look nicer 
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The only issue I have with it is layout.
If you could make it two columns that only take up 80% of the page's width (max), I think it'd be easier to read.
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I like the 3 over 1 model as it separates things nicely. Great idea.
Layout 1. It has a resume feel to it, which is sort of what you've described using it for.
I'm more used to reading 2-column stuff, so that's my preference. But they'll both work well.
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The first one is a wall of text I have zero interest in reading. The second one is better, but could benefit from some additional graphics to add interest.
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Cool deal, thanx for the responses gang, I designed it as 3 columns then one row to separate each section and give its own space. I might vary layouts depending on length of each section per each char but that's what layout made each sense, so the two column layout may come in handy sometime.
Wassy, ya say ya the more info a person can give you the more you like it. That's cool. If you haven't already, can you do me favor and go to my Heriverse and click on Heri's Heroes and then Hericane, and read that entire page for me and tell me what you think? Any other artist who takes commissions is welcome to do the same. Once you've gotten that, is the mini bio page that I've come up with in this thread, which is linked to Heri's info window on that page, a fairly accurate synopsis of what Heri says herself? Also from an artist's perspective, is her main page too much for someone to read to go through to find out what Heri is about? I already know one artist's opinion one this, and I think they're correct, but I wanna put this out there and see for sure. Note, these pages aren't going to change for commission reasons. I made the pages so each character expresses themselves in their own way. Which is one reason why it may not be informational, at least directly. Its there pages for them to let out their feelings opinions, whatever on what they've been through. It does give the read a sense of what they're about though. Just in a very non direct way, Hence the reason for the mini bio page.
Daemodand, see above heh. Each of my chars pages are a mix of screenshots and accompanying text. The above layout will link directly from the in game info that's on each character's page. It's supposed to just a wall of quick, quick short text to sum up the main page in case a person, mainly commissioned artists, to read in case they don't have time, or don't want to read the page.
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Going off a good suggestion by LJ, I'm setting up a short/summary bio page for my chars on my Heriverse page, to link from the info window for each char and I've come up with the following so far (edit: making a few teaks based on suggestions so adding multiple layouts):
layout 1
layout 2
I've designed it for quick easy access to a short and concise guide for anyone who want to get a quick summary and don't want to find out the same info via reading what essentially each Heri reveals about themselves via their stories and stuff on their screen shots. I've intended it to be a mini handbook entry as well as an artist's reference, for those who don't want or don't have time to read the pages itself. There's no costume info in there I know, I'm placing that info on each of the various costume reference shot pages.
I think it should have all info needed, but I wanted to get other people's opinions. So, comments, suggestions, critiques, etc. welcome.
I have to tweak it a bit, for sure, I need to find out what name Portal Corp would use for our dimension, "this dimension" I know doesn't quite sound official lol.
edit: Thanks again for your suggestions, it's also sparking some other adds and lil bits I hadn't thought of.
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