AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of a newspaper article in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
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- Part 1 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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How to Make Deadpool's Thinking Boxes on AO3 by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom, Deadpool (Comics), Deadpool - All Media Types
20 Jul 2015
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This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of Deadpool's thinking boxes in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
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- Part 2 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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How to Make iOS Text Messages on AO3 by CodenameCarrot, La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
10 Apr 2016
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic iOS text messages on AO3 without the need to use images. There's also a chapter on how to have emojis displayed on AO3 as well.
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- Part 3 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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How to Make Invisible Text (That Can Be Highlighted) by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
21 Oct 2015
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This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.
MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.
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- Part 4 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Original coding and design is from layouttest. I make no claims for it, just tweaked it so it will work on AO3.
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- Part 5 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.
EDIT 6/28/17: The third chapter now shows how to use anchor links as an index/table of contents.
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- Part 6 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of lined notebook paper in their work. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
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- Part 7 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a live example of my AO3 skin that allows the author to recreate the look of sticky notes (aka Post-Its) in their fic. To learn more about it, you can find the tutorial here.
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- Part 8 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Bored with the default page dividers? This is a tutorial/live example on how customize your page dividers with no images needed (though I do show you how you could use images if you wanted to do such a thing).
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- Part 9 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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The following tutorial/live example explains how to mimic Sans’, Papyrus’, and the main game’s text on AO3. (I also discuss briefly on how to change the font color, to say yellow, or how to write W.D. Gaster’s text, but because they both have issues attached to them, they’re not automatically included in the main code.)
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- Part 10 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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As of April 2016, The database that stores works on A03 does not allow emoji. If you try to add an emoji it will end your story there. Any words after the emoji? Poof. Gone. This is a known, if poorly advertised, issue with the archive.
There are some workarounds; you can find them in: How to Make iOS Text messages on A03. But here? Here is for ALL THE EMOJI*.
10 chapters of emoji tables, each with the HTML for putting the emoji into your work and the CSS for putting it into your workskin. Copy-Paste baby. Copy-Paste.
*Does not contain the 2016 Unicode release. You'll have to come up with the code for pickle yourselves.
(Note, because this is 10 chapters of emoji tables, here is a link to the Index Tables (chapter 1) to speed up load times and reduce confusion if you have preferences set to "entire work.")
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- Part 11 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic email windows on AO3 without the need to use images.
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- Part 12 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to align images to the left or right of the screen and have text wrap around them.
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- Part 13 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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How to Mimic Author's Notes and Kudos/Comment Buttons by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
20 May 2017
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Anonymous on tumblr: do you have a skin that would mimic the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons section from the end of a fic? the desired effect being that the fic could go on after the “end” of the fic, so after the author’s notes and review/kudos buttons
Here's a tutorial/live example to do just that, with some of the buttons actually functioning. I'll explain more inside!
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- Part 14 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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How To Change Text on AO3 When the Cursor is Hovering Over It (Or Clicked on Mobile) by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
22 May 2017
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This a tutorial/live example on how to have text change or appear once a cursor is hovering over it. Helpful for pop-up spoilers, language translations, quick author's notes, etc.
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- Part 15 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.
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- Part 16 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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How to Mimic Letters, Fliers, and Stationery Without Using Images by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
27 Jul 2017
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to mimic the look of letters, fliers, and stationery (as well as other forms of written media) without using images. For all your epistolary fic needs.
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- Part 17 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to make large images fit on mobile browsers but remain normal size on desktop browsers.
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- Part 18 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time update this and take a crack at finishing it. (Links and Images are in, the new Audio and Video tags are not.)
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Add a direct link to comment on a chapter that looks like a real A03 button!
Right now, if a user is reading in "entire work" the easiest way to comment on a chapter is to open the next chapter in a new tab, then go back a chapter, click comments, and then leave a comment. Readers who downloaded a work have even more hoops to jump though.
This is a guide to making a direct link to the feedback section and/or dedicated comment pages so that our readers can give us some. It uses AO3's default CSS classes to piggyback on the archive formatting our reader is using, making it look like an official A03 button on the web. (CSS formatting does not carry-over if the work is downloaded, but the link will remain.)
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- Part 20 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials