Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-12736261-20140708222412/@comment-24480187-20140922045415

Purplecrystal159 wrote: AP what no you aren't useless, you're the bleeping manager. That counts for something. If you can code well enough to make it effective and good looking, then we can try the induvidual website, though I would prefer WordPress, which I think lets people use some coding (It might be easier...I don't know). If we do try the bonus website, then I was thinking that we could add in things like character bios, chatboxes (for WordPress), an update blog, maybe a little journal of one or more of the characters or something if we aren't too busy, and more things like that. Maybe, maybe not.

(wait why are we posting this on the writer's forum? Eh. *shrug*) well the thing is, for coding things to make them look good, that's going to require a lot of code if you want me to draw things by hand of code.

drawing using code ( I use Python for my language) makes things come out cleaner, but it's way more tedious. I use Tkinter for my graphics, and it draws upon command of my IDLE Python3 IDE shell or my root terminal ( Konsole), and when you program or code everything has got to be rightly spaced, rightly placed, rightly spelled. One error could mess up everything, trust me, I know. There's also a lot of running modules, going back, and editing. Computers, in reality, aren't smart. They're just really good at following orders.

Also, another thing if we're gonna put this on an original website- encryption.

Encrypting a website is very important for its security, if and when we send information to each other. If you don't know what encryption is, it's scrambling its information and content in a way that only certain people can read it. The way it works, you see, is if an interceptor does come to try and recieve information-like an unsaved comic sheet- they'd be denied the message. It doesn't prevent such from happening, the message and info are still present, but the interceptor would see something else. Kind of like if the code or something was P4R4Ph3RN4L14. Due to the encryption code, the interceptor would see something different- maybe BUCK3TS for all that I care. It's like a code key. But encrypting takes time if you want it to be a good encryption, such as inputting every value possible as variables and such. There are two types of encryption, if you look it up, they're called symmetric and public-key encryption. Symmetric encryption means its encryption and decryption keys are identical. Public-key encryption is when the encryption key is sent out for anyone to use, but the decryption key is kept a secret. There are lots of encryption we could use, but making our own is an option if you wish to go that far for security measures.

Also, another thing. When code is written, it has to be edited. A lot. Especially for things with a wide variety of things that could possibly happen.

Take these lines of code (from a ball game I'm learning how to make):

from tkinter import *

import random

import time

tk = Tk

tk.title("Game")

tk.resizeable(0, 0)

tk.wm_attributes("-topmost", 1)

canvas = Canvas(tk, width=500, height=400, bd=0, highlightthickness=0)

canvas.pack

tk.update

In my program so far, I've had to edit that at least four times with a whole new whammo block of code added to it. Just for the canvas and static drawings alone. See, if you do a comic thing, you can't just draw an arrow button and write " ohh, if the people press this automatically turn the page!!" . You've got to program it. Add the class of the named item into the code, give the if and else commands.

I could go on, but I would just like to say that if we were to make our own website for this, we won't get this posted for a long long time. Considering my own skills, I'm not that good at doing this, but I know enough to say that it's a big thing to code an entire website with a large range of possibilities as this.

yeah why are we talking about this on the writers' forum