OrangeAipom
Commenting on: 12-16-12

You need to update your Front Page because it still mentions the splash.

[19/12/2012 14:58:22]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 12-16-12

I'm not moving it there, but next time I get around to editing server configuration stuff, I'll make pokesite.aspx the default page for the domain, so that just typing in dragonflycave.com will fetch pokesite.aspx instead of index.aspx. Wouldn't make any difference whatsoever except saving the browser the trouble of making an extra request, though, since currently index.aspx just redirects everyone (unless the redirect=no parameter is passed) - you'd still get the front page if you continued to type pokesite.aspx every time.

I generally don't think Butterfree or Charizard's colors are the best suited for a website skin, least of all together, but maybe, I suppose. The mascots aren't entirely gone, though, since they star in Magikarp: the Gathering, and I still plan to make another game along the same lines that would also feature the mascots (this time including Quentin the Dialga plushie and time travel shenanigans). It's just in a very rough draft stage.

[19/12/2012 02:22:11]

Happy
Commenting on: 12-16-12

Alas, poor splash! We knew it, Dragonfree; a page of infinite enjoyment, of most excellent in-jokes; it hath borne us on your server four million hits; and now, how abhorred by the internet its kin are!

I can't be bothered doing the rest but there you go. :D
Out of curiosity do you plan on moving the main page/newest updates to the index page - or just leaving it as a redirect? I memorised typing in pokesite.aspx for years before learning you made it redirect past the splash page anyway, haha. Perhaps one of your future projects should be a butterfree/charizard site skin, so the mascots can have a stronger presence once again. :?

[19/12/2012 02:11:27]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 12-16-12

Given I just explained splashes are a bad idea and the only reason it was still around at all was sentiment, the answer is bound to be no.

[18/12/2012 22:46:52]

Jirachu

Apperently, the forums work's better now that I changed my Missingno. avatar…..very, very weird. o-o; Yep.

[18/12/2012 03:52:30]

Ji-rah-choo

Ultimate test…:3 Pai yai XD Brings me back to the ashier days…XD lol Ash.

[17/12/2012 23:11:15]

Jchoo~

LOL I loved that "Tea" and "CoD" joke…XDDDD Tea CoD.

Yeah I hope that the forum works again soon I just joined it *nod nod..*

[17/12/2012 23:10:29]

Bayleafqween

Let's all drink Tea and eat CoD while we wait for the forums to return from oblibion

[17/12/2012 21:47:49]

Mohacastle
Commenting on: 12-16-12

Hey, what if I make a splash for you? IT WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE TEST

Hah. No, but really. If I can make a good one, will you use it (with tweaks, obviously)?

[17/12/2012 21:19:34]

J-chu
Commenting on: 12-16-12

…and now to get past the forums' error issues ^_^; Just to put in my 2 cents on this ^_^;

[17/12/2012 20:11:48]

Jirachu

….Dang those server errors are annoyin'. :/

[17/12/2012 20:06:50]

Jirachu

Weeee I joined teh new forum *bounces like a freak*
XD;

[17/12/2012 20:01:49]

Jirachu

I guess I never really….noticed. XD; All these years I mostly used the Mew styal lol.

But ya know. :3 This styal could very well be my new favorite XD The colors are just beautiful~<3

That Mew styal still is cute and dare I say a bit nastalgiac, though XD I used to really like Mew a lot anyways. Mew's cool :3 (and, yep…..i'm a total sucker for the color pink~<3)

[17/12/2012 04:50:28]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies

Articuno style has been around for several years; I just made it the default if you don't have a style set.

[17/12/2012 03:06:49]

Jirachu

One last thing: Lovin' the new Articuno styal, Butterfree. :) It's absolutely divine~Wonderful job! *clap's for you~<3*
^-^ <3

The snowflakes are so cute too <3 And the light blues…Ahh~I can't get enouth of how pretty looking this is. x3; Once again: Bravo dear bravo^-^

*curtsy's in delight~*

(and, to this very writing: still no new 'guestbook shinies' XD; yeah, I have no life…)

[17/12/2012 02:58:16]

Jirachu

I'm probably one of few people that'll miss the TCoD Splash page….I'm weird like that. xD; I guess it's nastalgiac for me but I can live without it. It WAS rather annoying to get through, time by time, I guess, anyways~

[17/12/2012 02:54:29]

Butterfree
Admin
Website: The Cave of Dragonflies
Commenting on: 12-12-12

Oh, I find them annoying too. It's a silly tradition established when I was twelve or thirteen and everybody was doing it, and I've since made an effort to make it unobtrusive by making it just redirect to the front page if you have a style cookie - I never even see it unless I specifically click it on the menu.

What with how by now I no longer have easy access to a scanner and only have a piece-of-junk tiny laptop mouse to use with my daily-use computer, though, it's become harder to even keep the tradition up properly, so at this point I really might as well put it away. Maybe I can later resurrect the tradition in some form that doesn't involve forcing people to go through hoops before entering the site for the first time.

[16/12/2012 14:08:09]

magical
Commenting on: 12-12-12

> Oh, and suddenly 4,500,000 front page hits! Thanks for that. Now excuse me while I panic about how I should have had a new splash ready by this point.

Might i humbly suggest that you retire the splash page? Personally i find splash pages in general to be annoying, and i'm sorry to say that TCoD's is no exception. They're also bad for usability, if you believe people like Jakob Nielsen.

[16/12/2012 08:28:15]

Spoon

Yeah, Bayleafqween, I think it's been an issue for most everyone. The past two days haven't been as bad as the few before it, however.

[16/12/2012 06:26:34]

Bayleafqween

Has anyone else have difficulty getting on the forums? I've been getting the "Too busy!" message thing every time I get on.

[16/12/2012 02:06:50]