Most forums and other online communities allow you to upload an image to your profile, and for most role-players these images give visual representation of their characters. The problem is, there is usually fairly tight size requirements on these avatars or portraits, both in file size and physical size.
If your image is too big physically […]
Do you need a way to host a chat so you can get together with others? Maybe you have a group of role-players that want to play out some scenes in a live rp session. Or maybe you want to talk about how to approach issues in an on-going storyline, or just BS and brainstorm.
Sure, […]
Copyright issues are of concern to writer’s in general because of the desire to protect one’s work. Role-players have the same concerns, but also sometimes need to be aware of the other side of the coin when it comes to things like ‘fair-use’.
The World Intellectual Property Organization has put out a publication that it hopes […]
…why can’t I get my avatar to load properly?
Why are we talking about pictures here? Well, sometimes a good story can use a good illustration. Or for an online rp site a good character portrait or avatar can really drive home your character description.
But not everyone can afford Photoshop, and the stuff that comes with […]
We’ve already covered how important it is to at least spellcheck and proofread your writing. If you post to message boards using Firefox, you have a built in spellchecker you can work with. If you don’t (and why don’t you?), check out SpellJax, an AJAX powered spellchecker.
Just copy and paste your text in to the […]
There are plenty of places out there to get a free website, most can be a bit cumbersome to use and riddle your page with ads. New kid on the block, jottit, is a unique mixture of a wiki and Twitter. Everything you do is done in a single, simple text box.
