Submissions

• config files
  1. storyconfig - contains essential information about you and your story, including customizable fields called variables. These variables should be unique names (not something common like cat or dog, but maybe DOGNAME or DogName or something unlikely to appear accidentally in the story) because anywhere the variable appears it will be replaced with info from the user. Under_scores are ok, but no other spaces, punctuation or anything else. A-Z, please.
  2. storyline - contains a list of the files that make up your book, in order. I've done it this way so you can rework your book by rearranging the contents of this one file. The alternative was to require some predictable filename convention like 1.txt, 2.txt, which would make reworking time-consuming for authors.
• page files - one per page of your book. The first line contains the src for the page's image. This can be a relative url like "mypic.gif" or an absolute url like "http://www.somedomain.com/mypic.gif". Two-color graphics in .gif formats work best, IMO, but you are welcome to experiment. Note that due to the orientation of 8.5x11 paper taller graphics will work out better than wider ones. Try to keep your width below 400 pixels or so.

  The remaining lines of the file hold the text for that page. The specifics for my example book follow; you can have as many or as few pages as you like (and name them whatever you like), as long as they're defined in storyline, shown above. I've called mine first, second, third for this example.

  1. first.txt
  2. second.txt
  3. third.txt
  4. fourth.txt
  5. fifth.txt
  6. sixth.txt

• Copyright
  You, the author, retain copyright on your words and images. You allow web users to print out copies for their own coloring frolic. So please submit only your own work (ie, don't post work that belongs to someone else).

Let me know when you're ready and I'll tell you where to FTP the files up.