Hi!
About a month ago I made the website ganium.t35.com, and very recently I moved to www.ganium.net. Do you think you guys can give me some tips on the site? Thanks!
Wow.. huge improvement! I love the template and layout.
Good job, for the updates maybe you could use like a blogging like thing for example cute news or word press? It makes it a little bit easier to make updates, but awesome site. ;D
I did try wordpress and cute news before, but I really didn't like depending on software I didn't create. I may consider writing a similar program sometime, but I do like how it is now. ^^
Wow, I love the site layout. Maybe you should create your own Pokedex, Rather than linking it to someone elses... It may cause people to change to the fansite your linking it to. I'd help you with the PokeDex if you need it? Just drop me a PM :)
Overall though, This site looks like it will turn out fantastic.
Hey, I randomly passed by, and I noticed that all of the sprites used on your site (including the ones on your Eeveelutions page) are hotlinked images from Dragonfree's website (Dragonflycave.com). Do you mind not doing that and saving images to your own server? Because I'm pretty sure she wouldn't appreciate that.
I'm also pretty sure the art in your banner is actually fanart, so you'll want to either credit the artist for it or switch to a banner that uses official art/art you have permission to use. I don't mean to be blunt, but a lot of fanartists also don't like having their art used without a credit line.
Other than that, not bad.
Edit: I wanted to add a bit more advice, if it's all right with you. A lot of webmasters seem to fall into the same kind of pitfall, but when creating a site, you'll want to have actual content on it -- something that a visitor can look at and remember -- before actually releasing it. While you have a word search, a soccer team page, an AAC page, an interview page, and a page about Eeveelutions, there's not much else here that's yours. A lot of your pages center around either the site or forms. Even the competition doesn't have much on it. (For example, what sorts of prizes would a person get for designing for you? What are the rules?) Then, the Ierukana page is just a link to a YouTube video, and although the website tips are helpful, there's a number of other sites out there that already boast that kind of page. (Dragonfree's notably.) The page with the most content on it, as a result of all this, might either be the Eeveelutions page or the AAC page, and the latter is a bit on the confusing side. Since that comment needs a bit more explanation, allow me to elaborate in spoilers.
Spoiler:
See, the Anti-Pokémon/Anti-Anti-Pokémon war's already several years old, and even the people who have been in the fandom since those days, yours truly included, didn't really care enough when it was actually ridiculous to make fun of it that much. So, it's a lot like going onto a webpage that makes fun of the Cabbage Patch Kids right now. You want to aim for the people who remember the movement because they'd find it funniest, but the people who remember it might not actually care too much anyway.
And then, on top of that, what you said about how not many people were actually like this is true: very few people were. The biggest members of the movement were actually well-informed about both sides or were addressing the AP people who didn't bother to learn much about Pokémon at all.
Mostly, what I mean by "confusing" is two-fold. First, it might not be that funny because either your audience doesn't remember the AAP days or they do but never thought much about it. Or, in other words, you're pretty much making fun of something several years too late, so the humor might not work as intended. Second, I'm not sure how lampooning something that didn't really happen works. Not to be blunt, but yeah, there weren't that many people who were actually like this.
Now, if you really wanted to lampoon a ridiculous movement from back in the day, you could always target the anti-character pages. There were a lot more of them (because shipping was serious business back then and the wank involving character bashing didn't start until a couple generations later), and they were pretty much as ridiculous as you'd imagine them to be. It makes trawling through Anipike with the Wayback Machine's help hilarious.
Tangents aside, to clarify, it's a very pretty layout, and I know you just started. I'd just really recommend getting more content on your site before advertising to make the experience unique. Try to figure out what your website is geared towards. There's a lot of Pokémon fan pages out there, so there's a lot of sites that might boast the same information you're trying to put up. That's why you have to look at your website and try to figure out why you want it to exist. Maybe you might benefit from making your domain all about Grass-type Pokémon. Maybe you might want to make it about how to construct a Pokémon website. Either way, figuring out the function can help you avoid creating another generic site with the same kinds of pages as Dragonfree's or Serebii's, which means that visitors' experiences on your site will be unique. That'll make your site more memorable, and as a result, it'll make visitors want to come back and go through your content again. That and it'll help you out with filling up your site: narrowing down the number of topics that you want on your webspace will keep you focused and entice you to write pages full of unique content.
Hope that helps a little. Good luck!
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