New site...Futurama freakout

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Im glad to say that my site has just opened. hooray. Its www.futuramafreakout.cjb.net  please post any broken hyperlinks.

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My PC crashed last time i was making comments, i'll be brief:
A) No design
B) No content

Open the site when you have a decent content base, and then maybe work on a design.

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If you're looking to start a real site, pay for it and get some people to help out also get rollover and map images for a cool design

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There's not much content, and the design isn't all that good, but the thing I'm most bugged by is your forum.

My suggestion is to have 1:15 board to active poster ratio. Now, I don't mean 1 board per 15 active posters, but to have that many more before you make a new board.

Or something like that...

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dont think i can do that, but ill look into it

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I don't think you understood what YLB said. You have a 12:0 ratio of boards to members now. YLB suggested that you should have about a 1:15 ratio of boards to members. Basically what that meant was you should have about 15 members (more or less) before you make another board. You could easily use just 1 board for every topic (as there's currently no members or posts). Or you could do just Futurama Chat, Offtopic, and News and Questions/Feedback. Something like that, just take out some boards basically.

I hope you understood that. 

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Frankly, just drop the messageboard.

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you need a better site to support your messageboard, also this is what PEEL is here for I doudt anyone would relly concider joining your board anyway, no offence

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Im gona try to rebuild my site...just give me a while. A long while. And thanks for the feedback, even if it was all negative. I learn best from my mistakes.

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chunks wrote:
get rollover and map images for a cool design

Number 1: Use of JavaScript rollovers and imagemaps != design.
Number 2: JavaScript image rollovers are soooo 1997.  Right up there with statusbar scrollies.   

f_r: Use CSS to lay out your page.  It's child's play to make a site look pretty using CSS, and no horrid messing around with tables to layout your page.

That, and you have wayyy too many forums, and I have a certain dislike for the forum software ProBoards use.  Just goto the older threads where I was more of a web-standards-zealot, and see.

You also use bitmaps for your images.  Turn them into PNG, and if you need a free (good) image editor, use The GIMP.  You'll probably want the 2.0 series, as they have spiffy GTK2-ness.  Which looks much better than Gimp 1.2, which uses GTK1.

And chucks is right, you need a better site to be able to support a messageboard.  If anything now, the peak of Futurama fans was reached 2 or 3 years ago, so you shouldn't really make new boards.

Edited (speeling mistakes)

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Screw that... use irfanview... it's possibly the best freeware image editor out there... Of course it isn't an image creator like say PSP or Photoshop, but if you need a resize on the fly, or the like, irfanview will be your bestest best friend. 

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I have photoshop 7.0, it douse everything, creates resises, morphs etc.
P.S. Futurama Frakout is being rebuilt at this very moment, Im hopeing to open it early-mid next year.