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thanks Gobbo.

no prob(bo)

nice article! and I like the ongoing segment idea

for some reason (i have yet to figure a way around) writers can't make edits once the article is submitted. no typo fixes, no picture adding. so, i grabbed the best photo I could find of the dude and a video (there were more of those than photos!) and went with it. were they accurate...?

I did not know that. I'll see about taking care of that earlier in the future.

the pic is accurate. I didn't watch the vid, I just assumed it was. no one's said anything about it, so. . .but there should be several videos available if it's not.

Rob, I want you to raise my Mightygeek pay to 3 times of what Grimm is getting from you, if you want me to continue posting at the site.

I just sent another concept.

ok, posted it up!
http://www.mightygeek.com/comics/geeking-previews-november-2011-fatale-burning-hand/

made a few tweaks:

1) most notably, added a main image and several supplemental images
2) altered the title a bit to fit the most content as possible within the 70 character google limit

one suggestion i'd make (but not at all a "must") is to break up longer topics into several posts. might be able to squeeze out more content with multiple "mini reviews" rather than putting them all in one.

really, that's a preference choice, but i believe it's solid with the internets "MUST CLICK ON" type mentality. smaller articles (300-400 word range) are easier to manipulate with SEO (translate: you can get more eyes on your articles)

that said, im never going to be a content editor on the site - whatever you guys post is how it will stand! so if you prefer this style, have on it!

well, I don't know if it's as much a style preference at this stage as it is a still feeling out the technology type thing. I did consider breaking up the Journeyman post into smaller bits, but I really just wanted to finish that up and get it out there as we'd been working on it for a couple of months at that point.

The Previews thing just literally went from head to keyboard without much inbetween time, so I really paid no attention to how long the article was.

the edits made will be fine, I'm sure.

im thinking of perhaps offering a monthly comic contest amongst the mightygeeks (you shits). something like...

every month, mightygeek will randomly select one comic book review

the selected reviewer will have all of the books paid for that they reviewed in that month, and all books they plan to buy the following month.

the goal is to get as many reviews on the site as possible - if you put up ten reviews, your odds increase that one will win. and, the more you spend, the more you're likely to get back based on the odds.

could use a bit of work, buuuut... interested as posted?

can we cheat with downloaded scans?

I'm asking for mxy

not a bad idear.

If you get enough reviews to look like a legitimate comics news site, you might be able to get companies to ship you preview copies or at least PDFs. Not DC or Marvel though because they're cheap.

I thought rob already gets compli copies of DC titles?

shh!



yar.

the site actually already get a number of freebies, or at least freebie offers. not any of the really good stuff, but, like... a blu-ray of the new pirates of the carribean film and such. i'm in the midst of moving, so haven't been able to dedicate as much time to the site as i should, but it shows there's a promising future for once we all finally do get rolling. i'd just hand out all the goods to one of you.

Well, my comp problems on my home PC should be resolved soon. Looks like I just need a new vid card to fix it all up. Once that happens, I'll be able to Photoshop again. I plan on reviving Development Hell. Is there anyway to put updates on already posted articles? Or are we just going to have to use the comments section to post new info?

as far as "contributor" status goes (aka you guys) it looks like once you submit an article for review, you can't make edits any more of any kind. not the greatest of systems, but i can understand why it's set that way.

until i hack together a better solution, i think the best quick fix is to do updates via a new article post.

the key to blog-based sites like mightygeek is updates. content is great, but new content is godly. so, while adding an entirely new post to fix something older isn't exactly the strongest case of continuity, it's the best case of site enhancement.

similarly, back to grimm's longer articles, if one long article could equal 10 smaller articles - that's 10 new posts, with 10 new bits of content, in 10 new updates. logically, whether its 10 or 1, its all the same info, so it should have the same impact. however, int he web world, the ten is vastly greater than the 1.

its all them kids!

I can see the usefulness, then, to having a way to link the older articles to the newer and vice/versa. Especially in cases of making lists and the like.

its certainly possible for you to link from new to old. linking old to new would require editing the original, which is all part of the same mess.

i'll work on a way to fix that.

We can also use tags to group a set of articles together (that way, at least we can easily search for posts tagged as "thedoctor's Development Hell" when it's time to daisy chain them)

...or every post you make should have a link at the end to the tag, so that each post will have a link to an index page of sorts that contains all of that series' posts (and the index will be updated automatically everytime you add a new post)

Also you can put dates to separate "seasons", in case you don't want the index to get too big. e.g. "thedoctor's Development Hell 2011-2012"

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

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.

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.

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



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)



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.

am working on the recommended items in the article I just sent. not sure if all the images are going to show up correctly, but otherwise I think it's what you're wanting.

Seriously. What the fuck IS this shit?

9, 9, 9...

Seems like a poor man's Bleeding Cool...

Why is his cool bleeding?

it's because of all the gay sex

Mark Seifert couldn't handle Rob's mighty gay sex.

you could

no no... bleeding cool is a rich man's mightygeek

join us!

Why Mister Kamphausen, I believe you may be giving me the vapors!!!

Good point...



A pity you didn't have the General Zod avatar when I saw your post...

or did i...

Cave Babes am on the move http://www.mightygeek.com/girls/cave-babes-malin-akerman-chandra-north/ URG am mightygeeked it for you shits.

i changed up the post a bit, urg. hope you don't mind. mainly, i uploaded the boobie pics to the MG server, instead of running them off other sites. (quick and easy to do in the future, honest)

Let me know what you think of what I just submitted. I'll change anything you need me to. I was experimenting with the photo options. Also, that last bit is just about what we were discussing earlier. Take it out if you don't feel ready for that yet or have changed you mind.