Shiny Grimer
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Guests are not able to post messages or even read certain areas of the forums. Now, that's boring, don't you think? Registration, on the other hand, is simple, completely free of charge, and does not require you to give out any personal information at all. As soon as you register, you can take part in some of the happy fun things at the forums such as posting messages, voting in polls, sending private messages to people and being told that this is where we drink tea and eat cod.
Of course I'm not forcing you to do anything if you don't want to, but seriously, what have you got to lose? Five seconds of your life?
Stupid fads
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Ryan the Terrible
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ColorBlind
I keep coming back lol
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How most sites try to create a "Wall of Shame" page and it just has a message that says, "Nobody has stole from the website yet. Good job everyone!"
Pokémon sites that try to make HTML guides. They always suck.
Around last November, I tried browsing through Pokémon sites, and half of them were on hiatus. So I hate hiatuses too. And I don't like it when they go on a hiatus promising new and better things, but they don't come back.
I'll think of more later.
Pokémon sites that try to make HTML guides. They always suck.
Around last November, I tried browsing through Pokémon sites, and half of them were on hiatus. So I hate hiatuses too. And I don't like it when they go on a hiatus promising new and better things, but they don't come back.
I'll think of more later.
Sandstone-Shadow
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There's a lot of them...
Hiatuses. If you're revamping your site, leave it open and work on the new site in a subfolder or something. This is made worse because most of the revamps that I see consist of maybe a few new pages and a new layout.
Or, the site promises to "be back in a week" and is gone a month. I dislike release dates in general; how can you know exactly how long it's going to take you to rewrite a page or something?
Splash pages. Guess what, I can get to your site and your forum by just looking at your menu. I don't need the splash page to do that. If all your splash page has is a link to your site, then it's even more pointless. I don't care to see what browsers your site works in; if it doesn't look right when I go in, then I'll deal with it or go to a different page. I'm not going to go download another browser because some random Pokémon site will look better in it.
That's all that I can think of right now...
Edit: Oh, what also bothers me is when webmasters update and apologize profusely for not updating for so long, and then proceed to give a huge list of reasons for why they haven't updated. I used to do this, yes, but now I see that it's really a waste of time; instead of spending time apologizing for updates, work on an actual update, maybe?
Hiatuses. If you're revamping your site, leave it open and work on the new site in a subfolder or something. This is made worse because most of the revamps that I see consist of maybe a few new pages and a new layout.
Or, the site promises to "be back in a week" and is gone a month. I dislike release dates in general; how can you know exactly how long it's going to take you to rewrite a page or something?
Splash pages. Guess what, I can get to your site and your forum by just looking at your menu. I don't need the splash page to do that. If all your splash page has is a link to your site, then it's even more pointless. I don't care to see what browsers your site works in; if it doesn't look right when I go in, then I'll deal with it or go to a different page. I'm not going to go download another browser because some random Pokémon site will look better in it.
That's all that I can think of right now...
Edit: Oh, what also bothers me is when webmasters update and apologize profusely for not updating for so long, and then proceed to give a huge list of reasons for why they haven't updated. I used to do this, yes, but now I see that it's really a waste of time; instead of spending time apologizing for updates, work on an actual update, maybe?
IcySapphire
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I think by this point making your own Pokemon site has become a stupid fad.
So many people try making a website just because every other person in the fandom seems to have one, fill their site with tagboards and oekakis and the like just because that's what's on every other Pokemon site, and then go on hiatus or close when they get bored of it because all the other sites do that too. That's why you see so many of these little Pokemon sites fail. Only a handful of these webmasters actually have the time and devotion necessary to learn how to make it work. I learned this from experience. :\
So many people try making a website just because every other person in the fandom seems to have one, fill their site with tagboards and oekakis and the like just because that's what's on every other Pokemon site, and then go on hiatus or close when they get bored of it because all the other sites do that too. That's why you see so many of these little Pokemon sites fail. Only a handful of these webmasters actually have the time and devotion necessary to learn how to make it work. I learned this from experience. :\