There was a brief discussion the other day about creating a "Monster Manual" folder and sheet style system for ALL the FASERIP character writeups.
I am going ahead and creating a webpage for this purpose.
Using scripting the html of the page will simply list "all" the formatted files (PDF in this case) in the directory to which the files are uploaded. This list automatically updates as more are uploaded and is automatically alphabetical.
It won't take long for alpha and beta testing to end and then I will make it go live. I will also add a dedicated email account to which people can email their own PDFs for inclusion.
Because this is like the old physical ring binder folders where individual sheets can be added in the "right place" alphabetically the formatting must be:
STRICTLY one character, team or race per "sheet" ie per PDF file
STRICT nomenclature. This means "Captain America, current" "Captain America, golden age" "Captain America, Ultimates" and so on. It doesn't matter exactly what suffixes are used as long as there are no stupid, weird or arbitrary naming conventions used. Captain America is what the hero is called, not Cap, SteveRogers or anything else. Otherwise the listing function is completely useless because it also automatically acts as a means to simply search the html page for a hero, villain, race, item etc. by name.
Anyway, I am still scripting but it won't take long.
I suggest all admin, editing and adjudication be done on this website rather than having multiple permissions on the web hosting. It's trivial to replace files by upload.
If some of the heavy hitters of writeups with 1,000 or more potential sheets need it, I can confer on them FTP privileges for the listing directory. But I really want the PDF file names etc. to be transparent and logical. Skrulls should be listed as Skrulls, Eternals as Eternals, and so on.
The only other question is for example listing by name or listing by race. So for example Eternal, Gilgamesh: is that preferable to Gilgamesh, and it's just noted in his PDF that he is an Eternal then you search for "Eternal" and find the "Eternals" sheet in the list?
The main purpose is to create one, single level, simple searchable webpage with every possible sheet listed on it. No nested levels, no weird formatting, no multiple clickthroughs. The umpteen Batman sheets can be listed as Batman, Earth-1 Batman, vampiric, Batman, Brave and Bold version and so on.
Any thoughts or suggestions most welcome.