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username: scoutd pet: kitaro, a blue leo pet: loki_wolf, red fenrir 03/01/2004 - 04/01/2004 04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 05/01/2004 - 06/01/2004 06/01/2004 - 07/01/2004 07/01/2004 - 08/01/2004 08/01/2004 - 09/01/2004
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7.23.2004 1. Image Hosting - Okay, so stealing bandwidth is called stealing for a reason. There are so many free image hosts out there that you don't need to link to images from someone else's server. My personal favorite is Image Shack, because you don't even have to sign up for anything. But there are also Photo Bucket, Village Photos, and many many more. And of course, you can also host them on the server your site is on. 2. Copyright Infringement - Okay this is for zeta sites and not. If you use information, srticles, text, or images from another site, you have to give the original authors credit! Remember in school how your teachers constantly harp on plagiarism? Well, guess what? That's what you're doing if you don't give them credit. And it can get your website yanked from its servers. Specifically if you take anything from Zetapets.com, you have to post a copyright notice on every page something of theirs is on. If you use a pet image and modify it and then turn it into a banner for every page, then every page needs to have that notice on it somewhere where it is not obscured. Not only can your site be yanked from its server for not complying, but your account on zeta can be yanked, too. 3. Spellchecking - You do not have to be a spelling champion to create a nice looking webpage, but spellcheckers are wonderful things. If you know you're not a good speller, check every page, and then double check for things that are not spelled "wrong" but are wrong for the sentence. A few mistakes are not a big deal, but lots of them start glaring in the eyes of viewers, and they start playing "Find the Spelling Errors" instead of reading the info on your site. 4. Readability - This is a difficult one. There are some of you out there who absolutely LOVE graphics as backgrounds. I'm not a big fan of them, because it is so hard to put any text on them that is easy to read. And if you put text on a webpage, I am assuming it is because you want the viewer to be able to read it. So do your viewers a favor and make sure that it isn't a strain to read it. And this is not just concerning graphics backgrounds, plain colored ones can be hard to read, too, if the font color doesn't pop off it. To fix it, first take a look at the page, as a viewer and not the creator, and see what looks hard to read. You can lighten up graphics in an editing program so that black text will be seen, or use large bold white text for a darker graphic background. Or put a table on top, with a solid color background, and put the text in this.(for an example of this, take a look at my zeta homepage). Okay that's a good start. Notice I am not saying anything about how you should layout your page, or what you should talk about. Content is up to you. I'm only explaining what I think helps viewers concentrate on the content and not on aspects of the page that look "wrong" to them. I may scrounge through the web this afternoon and find some examples to show you of these. ~me~ at 10:09 AM
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