FAQ Site question and FAQ's

[simon.branford at hertford.ox.ac.uk]

Paul wrote: "Does anyone have any feel for how these pages are to be 
formatted (with respect to header and footer) and linked together?  
There are easy mechanisms to add common headers and footers to web 
pages and I could easily start work in that area since it is 
independent of content.
What I had in mind was an arrangement like the following on a non-
main page

 [Small Graphic header suggesting main FAQ page]
 [text links back to main Lexicon page and our main FAQ page]
 [FAQ contents]
 [copyright, last updated, report errors here (All text)]"

And talking of graphic are we going to need a logo as well. A while 
back myself, and anotehr group member, drew a few possible logos 
(which are now stored somewhere in our files section). If so do we 
want to tell the group so that others have a chance to design a logo 
and then the best is chosen? Or should we just pick from those 
already done? Or do we as the FAQ group pick one?

Of course I exculde myself from picking a logo if we as the FAQ group 
decide - I think as I have designed some of them the decision should 
be made by the impartial members of the group (if such a position is 
possible!).


Penny wrote (a while back on HPforGU): "<snip>  hopefully the Weasley 
FAQ can be uploaded soonish so you can more easily read the arguments 
we've advanced.  <snip>  Simon has done a good draft of the Weasley 
FAQ so far so ... as soon as we can get our act together & start 
uploading these FAQs, you'll see what I mean."

Not trying to put any pressure on me then! <g>

I am in the process of altering the bit on Charlie and Bill's age to 
reflect all the possibilities mentioned - before it just linked to 
all the discussions!

I have nearly caught up with reading all the messages up to today - I 
then just have to go through and write the FAQ's. So now for a bit of 
a status report.


Predictions (for books 5, 6 and 7) - at the moment I have given up 
with this but I will be going back to decide what to do - if anyone 
has any ideas then please let me know.

Wands - few new messages on this so it should be up in the next week 
(so don't go and annoy me and start some discussion on this subject! 
<vbg>).

Animal Characters - slightly more to update (almost all on 
Crookshanks and whether or not he is an animagi - do we care?), but 
should be as for Wands.

Weasley - lots to do but hopefully will not take to long as much of 
it is fairly simple. The major headache will be on this age stuff as 
I want to do a full rewrite.

Vold - Have this in note form, now just need to type it up into a 
coherent FAQ!

Dursley - Same as for Vold.

Harry - still going through the messages and there are lots of them!



Penny mentioned about the end of January for completing the FAQ's. 
This sounds reasonable to me  - just have to hope that I do not find 
too many distractions (such as the new computer game I got yesterday, 
The Wild Swans that arrived on Tuesday and other silly little things)


Hope things are ok with you all.

Simon