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Tried out html5 yet Butterfree?
I don't know to what extent it can be brought back. Largely I think the death of the fansite community is because social media sites like Facebook/Tumblr/etc. are providing the opportunity for self-expression and participation that once drove kids to want to create their own websites, and those aren't going anywhere. But I also think if there were more small personalish fansites, people would be more likely to make their own - I think most people who start a fansite are inspire by other fansites they've seen, and that makes the death of the community a bit of a vicious cycle. I'm doing my part by keeping up TCoD, but other people would probably need to take the initiative and make more sites to increase the odds of others getting into it.
Hello Butterfree!
I was a past Pokemon fansite owner but lost time to update it, even though I was still interested.
Now I notice that the fansite community is pretty dead which saddens me a lot. Any advice on how to bring back the community?
The front page updates are actually just plain HTML manually written into the file - there's no blog engine of any kind driving them. Technically I have helper functions that write out the header and comment links, but that's strictly a "less repetitive edits I have to manually make each update" thing.
The guestbook is a server-side script, but it's ASP.NET, not PHP. I'm sure there are loads of tutorials for doing something like it in PHP, though (but do be warned that it's really easy to shoot yourself in the foot with PHP, and a lot of free PHP scripts you find online are poorly secured).
Oh, and this guestbook too. Is that a php script?
Hey, was wondering how you create your blog posts for the front page. I can't find a decent tutorial on the internet. I do know html, CSS and a decent amount of JavaScript.
Yes, the Zodiac works on a server-side script as well. So do my personality tests, style switcher, randomized affiliate list and featured section (but not e.g. the hangman or Favorite Pokémon Picker; you can view the source of those and see exactly how they work, although it probably won't help you much unless you have a basic idea of how Javascript works).
Oh okay, but what about the zodiac? Doesn't that work in a similar way?
You can't see it by viewing the source because the hit counter is server-side - there's a script that increments it before it actually sends the page over to your browser. There are also free hosted scripts that'll do the same thing for you without any server-side scripting on your end, though.
Ah yay! I do hope it hasn't too, but it has them 'coming soon' things up for ages.
Also, another question, how did you make your hit counter? I had a look in your code but it is a link to another doccument
Zelkova: Yeah, I tried to strike a balance between overwhelming people with too many Pokémon per batch and overwhelming people with the number of batches they have to get through to actually find any favorites, but I'm sure many people would prefer a different balance. I'll consider making it configurable.
Jirachu: Hey! Wow, it's been a while. Hope you've been well.
Flea: I'm afraid I know no more than you do. If it has been abandoned it's pretty tragic, but at least the owner is still around and doing Pokémon art here!
Just wondering if you knew or not. But has Arkeis been abandoned?
Thank you, I can now die happy. :) But seriously, this is very useful!
I wonder if the forum is still active, maybe i'll check sometime. PS; Hi from me XD
Random Awesomely Awesome Hugs For All Of You!!! :D
I would love it if I could pick between smaller groups. Starting out with ~20 at once during the early phases in kinda overwhelming. I kinda want to force myself to pick only 1 out of 5 (or 6 for the sake of being Pokemon) during the early phases if possible and would love it if it was a builtin option to show smaller groups.
If it is too much tromble then don't worry about it. I'm a huge fan of it as it is, just kinda hard to stay focus when I have to decide between ~20 Pokemon for a good while without making a mistake.
Megan: More styles are kind of low-priority for me, since with the little time I have to work on the site, I'd generally rather be making content than yet another style. But maybe someday.
Thank you muchly
