Camorr - News and Views from Scott Lynch's Locke Lamora books

Hi, I'm brand new here, and glad to see a site like this being built, so thanks for doing it (spares me the effort - I've been thinking about it for about two months). Here's a few things I've caught which you may or may not be aware of or have thought about (I'm just trying to be helpful):

On the Archives page: "relgion" for "religion", and the same at the top of the page it links to. On that same page there's a weird apostrophe after Chains in one spot, I'd change "expertise" for "area of influence" or something similar and Thiefwatcher is misspelled. Also, I would change "Little is known about the specifics surrounding the Vadran religion" to "Few specifics are known about Vadran religion".

On the glossary page, it should probably mentioned that Contrarequiallas are (generally?) female.

On the fandom art pages, images really shouldn't be resized with img tags, and especially not to to ruin their proportions, like the first one, Calm Before The Storm, by CrimsonCobwebs. If you want a uniform size to fit the page template, either resize the image (maintaining the image ratio) in a graphics program and then link to a full-sized image. When linking to full-sized images with the link set to open in another window (such as the book covers - where the thumbnails again should be properly resized in a graphics program), it should open either alone or with another frame. Keeping the look and feel of the main site obscures the fact that you've opened a new window/tab. On a fast browser/system, this can be quite vexing.

The top banner with Locke (?) and the houses should have a link to the main site front page. This is pretty much standard these days. Also, I think that at least on the front page, it should say Camorr.com. In fact, having it change to indicate which section you're in would also make sense.

The site should have a suitable favicon to make it pop in modern bookmarks and on browser tabs.

Good work, so far, though. I am a translator and writer, and I used to be a graphic designer, so I hope to be able to contribute in other ways than pure criticism in the future. I've been thinking about making a more detailed map of Camorr, but I don't want to guess as to scale and put in any details that Lynch may have in his head but hasn't pinpointed on the two maps we have. We'll see...

Anyways, thanks for this and good luck. I'll do what I can to help out.

I'm only too glad to be of service, and happy to see you take my criticism as it was meant; constructive.

But, yes, resizing an image using HTML tags is bad for two reasons: it generally makes the image look awful (although I think some browsers display it worse than others) and it eats unnecessary bandwidth for those poor unfortunates who are not yet blessed with the miracle of broadband - or anyone popping in via a mobile device.

To the left is the tag-resized thumbnail, to the right the one done in Photoshop. SInce the proportions are off, the thumbnail right now is wider than the original image, so the one for the French cover it looks more like Jean than Locke standing there.

But it's early days yet, I realize that, and so far, most everything looks really good. Let me know if there's anything specific you would like me to contribute, and I'll see what I can do.

(I'm having trouble making the image visible, so here's a link instead)