One thing that most of us who have worked from home learned early is that your definition of “working” may not fit others’ definition of working. So, you get interrupted. Sometimes more than is helpful. But that’s the way it goes.

Mrs. Kahuna is a teacher. In the next week or so, she will have to begin doing distance learning so that they can finish the school year. Same thing with Kahuna Offspring #3. Kahuna Offspring #2 has to postpone her university graduation ceremony for the same reasons. Everyone is going to get a crash course in working from home.

So what does this have to do with me? Right now, I get the requests to do/help with things while I’m working on stuff. And I do them (sometimes grumbling) because, well, they wouldn’t ask if they didn’t need things done. But the interruptions slow things down.

So I was only able to really get one project complete this week. But it’s one I like. I had to dig into CSS coding, ask for some help, try out a new feature on the World Anvil website, figure out a workaround when it didn’t do exactly what I thought it would, put in a feature request, and then, when they were able to modify the feature to do what I was hoping, go back and make it all work right.

By the way – Kudos to Dimi and team at World Anvil for the incredible work they do! They are constantly adding features and making modifications to make worldbuilders and storytellers work easier and more interesting.

So what did I make? A job board for Arnathia.

So why a job board? Well, in this world I am creating, the job boards are where you find adventures, or where you find things that lead to adventures. The adventures may not be fleshed out yet, but these give me placeholders for those adventures and give others clues as to what might be coming. Think of them like the trailers for a movie.

They are set up as a carousel of pictures. Clicking on any one of them takes you to a larger image of the poster and the details, with links (if they are available) to important elements in the poster.

It took some time to get the carousel images to link to the right pages (again, thanks to the crew at World Anvil for making this easier). I also had to work on getting the text to look right on the images, and create the posters themselves. In addition, the pages with the large images of the posters all needed a header that unified them. This led me to making a special template just for those pages to make it easier to put together in the long run.

But I’m happy with how it turned out and it was worth the effort. Still lots of things to do before this really kicks into high gear, but this was a big step.