character sheets require a CS degree?

The fact that character sheets require an advanced knowledge of HTML or CSS coding should be listed BEFORE you spend the money to sign up. Its like buying a car only to find out that in order to run it you need fuel only found somewhere you can't get it from. Feels kinda like a misleading thing to me.

Hi Smeggco, I'm sorry that you feel misled in your endeavours. The sticky in this Forum entitled ' Important Info on Character Sheets -- Read Me First! ' does allude to the fact that Character sheets require knowledge of HTML and CSS. It also links to the&nbsp; wiki which contains further information and points to the ' Building Character Sheets ' wiki page which details the specifics on the use of HTML and CSS when creating a sheet. However, all of that said, advanced knowledge is NOT required, with a couple of quick online tutorials, a look at some existing sheets code and a desire to learn by doing you can easily create a simple sheet. That's what I did ;) If you wish to discuss your subscription in more detail please contact the dev team directly on <a href="mailto:team@roll20.net" rel="nofollow">team@roll20.net</a> who will be happy to help. Thanks.

It can feel a little daunting, but it's really not all that bad. I got into this by stealing code from the other character sheets. &nbsp;As I did that, I learned what everything does. I'm guessing you have a custom character sheet you were hoping use in your game? What game? Perhaps there's an existing character sheet that can be easily modified to get what you want? If not, perhaps someone can create it for you?

Smeggco, I took a pre-existing sheet and stripped out what I didn't want then editted the roll mechanics to fit my chosen system. I then started tweaking the interface (the character sheet appears) to be what I thought would be the best appears. If you compare the Basic Fantasy sheet (my sheet) to it's origin sheet (the BECMI sheet), you will see they are very similar in layout. I'm also a complete noob to html and css coding (have proclaimed to be a total clutz in coding) so if I can do it, anyone can. Just take your time and experiment with stuff.

Definitely look at some sheets, pick one and copy it and start from there. You'll probably want to use one that does not have JavaScript. Most still don't. Even with coding experience, I was totally confused looking at everything possible.

Anything's doable if you're willing to learn. HTML and CSS are relatively simple when it comes right down to it, although you can accomplish some more complicated things. The CSS Wizardry thread has a bunch of people posting a bunch of examples with code snippets to learn cool tricks from, and the internet is full of general HTML/CSS tutorials to learn the basics.