Ink Burns

After a good deal of back-end work which I hope was invisible to my visitors, there is now an Advanced Search page! All stories have been given genre tags that can be used to search for, for example, all Fluff stories or for Romance stories in Prince of Tennis. You can find the link to the search page in the header.

I have finally done something I’ve wanted to add to the archive for a while. It is now possible to view an entire arc as a single document and save that all-in-one document as html or pdf for later reading! (The print-ready minimal styling will apply to the pdf since you’ll need to go through your browser’s Print function to save as pdf.)

At the top of each fandom or arc index page is now a link to view that set of stories all-in-one. You can, of course, view an entire fandom worth of fic in this way, though I don’t recommend that for the high-density fandoms like PoT or KHR or FMA! And if you want to use the all-in-one format just for reading online, there are also comment links at the bottom of each story.

For a few months the Quick Comment function has been down or running incomplete, but it is now repaired. It should accept a name in the optional field and return all the proper confirmations. My apologies for how long that took!

In accessibility news, Ink Burns now supports some basic WAI-ARIA roles. This should make the site more easily navigable by screen readers and no-mouse visitors. Over time, I hope to add to these.

The site has also just switched over to ‘pretty permalinks’, which means that story and page titles will appear in the url instead of the story or page id number. This should not result in any broken links, since the site will interpret both urls correctly. If you notice any problems, please let me know.

As repeat visitors may notice, the site has gotten a new layout. Some things have been moved around, and I hope the new locations will be more intuitive and handy. In particular, the series menu was getting way too long and it is now collapsed into a dropdown format. To see the arcs, just select the arrow beside each series name. To expand or collapse the entire menu, select the “Expand All” link beside the “By Series” header. The story pages will now show descriptions, labels and character/pairing up at the top of the sidebar. Hopefully this will make for better reading for those who have followed a link directly to a story page. I hope no one was too inconvenienced by the change-over and testing today!

Ink Burns is now print-ready. When a story is printed off through the reader’s browser, the header, sidebar and comments will not appear, and the story itself will be styled nicely for clean reading. This should also be true if you chose “print to pdf” in your browser’s print dialogue box.