Post by Guest Passing Through on Jun 19, 2012 13:39:43 GMT -6
Hello,
I was just looking through your site and thought I would give my opinion/suggestions since it seems fairly new. Note: these are just my opinions and suggestions to only help the site, please do not be offended if you do not like a suggestion.
First of all, it is really well organized and easy to navigate so kudos to you. One thing I suggest is that if possible, I know things vary site to site on what is possible and not possible, perhaps you should have the area called Staff in the corner changed a little so that you can click the name of the staff member and go to their profile.
Again, note these are just small suggestions, I did not find anything major to critique. Another suggestion is that although you Character Directory is organized and the area called People of Panem (or something to that affect, I apologize if I'm slightly off) is good, but something that might be a bit more organized is if there were a side box where you could click each District or Area and the characters of the area would appear below in a list form that you could click and go to the character's bio.
One thing that stuck out to me the most was your length requirements on posts. I have seen site where there is not length requirement and sites where there is, but all sites have a requirement that is equal to about a decent paragraph. I understand that twenty-five words is to accommodate those who have a harder time writing longer posts, but it just seems a little lenient to me. I personally would not be able to role play if the other role player simply gave me one line responses.
Another thing that is very common in many sites that I noticed is not present here is an "Of the Month" sort of award I guess you could call it. If you have not seen them, it is where on the side, there is a place where each month, typically, a member, character (one male and one female), thread, and couple are voted as the most creative, best, favorite, ect. This is another unnecessary suggestion, but I feel that it is something that you may want. There are many, many Hunger Games sites that you are competing with and this may just help you some.
Yet another small suggestion would be that you keep your weather for Panem more or less correspondent with the actual weather. I noticed you currently have it to be winter, but in most areas it is actually Spring or Summer. Now, I do understand people from all over the world make sites like this and for all I know, you may live in an area where it is in fact winter and in that case, ignore this suggestion.
As your site grows, I would suggest an area called Role Play Tutoring. This would help members who are newer to role playing get help so that they can improve. It would simply be an area where designated Tutors would help any member who wishes to be tutored in a certain area of their writing.
Also as your site grows, you may need a board for just staff, assuming that you will need more staff as more members join and this would simply be a place to discuss anything and keep all staff members on the same page.
Also, something for the members to be able to control would be the skins. Not for the entire site, but for their own personal account. By this I mean have several options they can choose from under Modify Profile and then when they log on, that will be the skin they see. I would still keep a default skin for anyone not logged or not a member.
I sincerely hope these suggestions help you, but if not I am sorry that I could not help you any. You have a great site and I'm sure it will do well.
I was just looking through your site and thought I would give my opinion/suggestions since it seems fairly new. Note: these are just my opinions and suggestions to only help the site, please do not be offended if you do not like a suggestion.
First of all, it is really well organized and easy to navigate so kudos to you. One thing I suggest is that if possible, I know things vary site to site on what is possible and not possible, perhaps you should have the area called Staff in the corner changed a little so that you can click the name of the staff member and go to their profile.
Again, note these are just small suggestions, I did not find anything major to critique. Another suggestion is that although you Character Directory is organized and the area called People of Panem (or something to that affect, I apologize if I'm slightly off) is good, but something that might be a bit more organized is if there were a side box where you could click each District or Area and the characters of the area would appear below in a list form that you could click and go to the character's bio.
One thing that stuck out to me the most was your length requirements on posts. I have seen site where there is not length requirement and sites where there is, but all sites have a requirement that is equal to about a decent paragraph. I understand that twenty-five words is to accommodate those who have a harder time writing longer posts, but it just seems a little lenient to me. I personally would not be able to role play if the other role player simply gave me one line responses.
Another thing that is very common in many sites that I noticed is not present here is an "Of the Month" sort of award I guess you could call it. If you have not seen them, it is where on the side, there is a place where each month, typically, a member, character (one male and one female), thread, and couple are voted as the most creative, best, favorite, ect. This is another unnecessary suggestion, but I feel that it is something that you may want. There are many, many Hunger Games sites that you are competing with and this may just help you some.
Yet another small suggestion would be that you keep your weather for Panem more or less correspondent with the actual weather. I noticed you currently have it to be winter, but in most areas it is actually Spring or Summer. Now, I do understand people from all over the world make sites like this and for all I know, you may live in an area where it is in fact winter and in that case, ignore this suggestion.
As your site grows, I would suggest an area called Role Play Tutoring. This would help members who are newer to role playing get help so that they can improve. It would simply be an area where designated Tutors would help any member who wishes to be tutored in a certain area of their writing.
Also as your site grows, you may need a board for just staff, assuming that you will need more staff as more members join and this would simply be a place to discuss anything and keep all staff members on the same page.
Also, something for the members to be able to control would be the skins. Not for the entire site, but for their own personal account. By this I mean have several options they can choose from under Modify Profile and then when they log on, that will be the skin they see. I would still keep a default skin for anyone not logged or not a member.
I sincerely hope these suggestions help you, but if not I am sorry that I could not help you any. You have a great site and I'm sure it will do well.
