Rp Tutorials

→ http://www.danshort.com/HTMLentities ←

Ever wanted to see ALL the crazy symbols that your browser can display? Well, this awesome dude named Dan Short created a site so you can search through the symbol sets for your own unqiue, special snowflake. Keep in mind, not all symbols are going to show up on everyone's browser and a lot of symbols are going to show up differently on different operating systems and browsers, but in general, this site is so freaking handy if you like to make stuff pretty.

I have something a little wonderful and a little strange for you all: yourworldoftext.com it's an editable... text page. I don't know how to describe it. But I kind of love it. It'd be very handy for notes and such between plotters and general insanity. I'm currently eyeing it up for a simple way of keeping track of family trees.

→ http://www.1freehosting.com/ ←

Free web hosting, but like, awesome free web hosting where you can create a real, dynamic site with databases and scripts. You even get to use control panel and phpAdmin. ♥__♥

This is SO hot you guys, you have no idea.

/says the freak who wants to put all character information in a database and display it programmatically

( LINK DUMP! )

I'm guilty of a couple of these and I'm sure you've seen a few of these goofs in the RP world:

15 Grammar Goofs That Make You Look Silly

( 102 Role Play/Fiction Resources )

Followr is a Tumblr app that allows you to perform mass updates on your following list. I proposed it to the peeps at Missing e and fyeahroleplayingrabbit, but the creators pitched hissy fits at the suggestion of making it so easy to follow and unfollow a list of people. Well, tough cookies, bitches. I'm releasing it anyway. It's really useful for role players, in particular and is such a time saver.

I'll eventually be adding some more functionality, but for right now, you can grab a list of who you follow, grab a list of who follows you, or update your following list via lists of follows and unfollows.

Enjoy! ♥
Followr

Hello, fellow graphic artists and typography enthusiasts! I have a pressie for you...

Google WebFonts Pack .ttf/.zip | 64.96 MB

Includes all 900+ fonts from 450+ families that are on Google's open source repository as of February 20, 2012.

Enjoy! ♥

Want to check if your layout/code/whatever you're putting on the web works in different, older, and newer, major and minor web browsers and don't want to have to install them all?

I have a link for you: CLICK ME, ENTER YOUR SITE, AND MAKE ANGRY FISTS AT ALL THE VERSIONS OF INTERNET EXPLORER!

Matt Corks is a neurotic badass and has categorized all the symbols and lists their Unicode designations, their hex designations, their HTML entity designations, the symbol itself, and its description.

Click Me!

If you jump to the bottom of the page, you can search for a character by using its code.

TMI: this makes my nethers tingle. NEGL.

If you see a box or a diamond with a question mark showing up for a symbol (and the description is not 'substitute character', 'replacement character', or 'unused') that means your computer doesn't support it. Boo. I'm still working on figuring out what needs to be downloaded and installed for your computer to show the different sets, but for now... OMGOSH THE GEEKERY IS GOLD.

( ETA: Adding symbols that aren't showing up... )

ETAx2: FREAKING A! THERE IS AN EVEN BIGGER LIST OF SYMBOLS INCLUDING EMOTICONS! SERIOUSLY? SERIOUSLY... Click Me!

Check out the PDFs to find the hex code and either use &x####; or go to this site to find the HTML decimal code.

All I can say is: symbols, so hot right now.

Do you want to make everything justified but HATE the fact that every single God-blessed time you use text-align:justfy; in your style, at lease one line ends up having ginormous spaces between the words because the text didn't fit perfectly? Well, allow me to introduce you to the soft hyphen (aka ­) and its magic~!

( The soft hyphen )

Next up, modular spacing. Do you like to play with the font-size, letter-spacing, and line-height? Well, this may or may not sound insane, but how you space your text does affect a person's interest in reading what you have to say.

( Modular spacing )

The last thing I'm going to do is indent the text, emphasize the first letter of the article, and change the font.

( The final step )

I was thinking there could be a typography tag for things like this? I know there have been other posts on the subject...

Slightly Off Topic: Do you participate in the slash fandom? Help a graduate student out by taking her survey here!

Under the cut you'll find: MZ Tweak (for speeding up your computer), Myers Briggs, Animal Totems, Theories on HP Houses, a map of penis sizes around the world, freeware for filmmakers, zimbio (lots of celeb pics), pregnancy pics, and a youtube video about color theory. Not the best link dump I've ever posted.

( RP Link Dump )

It's that wonderful time of year again when I clean out my bookmarks and spam the shit out of you all with things I've been meaning to post. There is some MAJORLY AWESOME SHIT behind this cut: a tutorial on making your gmail account tag e-mails with which IJ account it's from, a timeline creator, web reminders, shameless self-promotion, tiny song/ a song linker thing, help with usernames, ETC. Numerous other things saved in my bookmarks that didn't quite make the cut (and... honestly have nothing to do with RP although most were, frighteningly enough, found because I rp) include: Nannerpuss, over 100+ youtube videos I had saved (no exaggerating), countless Sherlock BBC slash fic (recs will be on my journal in the near future if you're into that), this gyrating ass gif (which is not entirely safe for work), numerous resources on skincare for men, an orange shaped like a cat, momtastic.com, a great gatsby game, listverse, some fic called 'Hermione and Ginny Versus the Space Wizards', a Sherlock BBC video set to jizzed in my pants, Arthur's Christmas and other children's books being read aloud, and some article about Mark Ronson binging on cake. Do you see what I go through for you guys? Also, you will note that this is in purple for all you crazy people who happen to like that color.

I have a ton more shit I need to post that's mostly photo editing and photoshop tutorials. But that'll all be posted much later.

* Short for 'Shit Bitches Should Know', as coined by tetris. WE WILL MAKE THIS CATCH ON.

( Oh, it's Christmas )

It's time once again for me to clean out my bookmarks and leave 20 randomass resources one or two people might find handy. Things like a customizable world clock linking all your players' timezones, tutorials about rp lingo and creating good layouts, and tips for getting into celeb RP. :D ENJOY.

( Random Shit In My Bookmarks )