OOooo, someone's angry! -_- >> Editorial: Fans from the SM Community speak out
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    publish it! ^^		      Hello! Our first editorial was written by Taylor, who kindly allowed me to publish her opinions. They're interesting insights on what makes a Sailormoon page truly fun and useful, I hope you enjoy.

What I Look For In a Sailormoon Site

        1) General layout.  I know content is the most important thing, but most people do tend to be interested more in a site that catches your eye.  There are sites that function wonderfully that don't have much in the way of graphics, but I think having a good design adds a nice touch to the overall effect of the site.

        2) Stuff!  Stuff stuff stuff!  A site has to have CONTENT.  Something worthwhile ro read, laugh over, interact, something!  You can have a very appealing page graphically, but if there's nothing else that will keep me interested, I click that dreaded little "X" in the corner of the screen.
        Often times, I see very popular shrines that are linked up everywhere, but there's actually nothing in them I haven't seen before.  I'll use The Slippery Mermaid as an example.  Catchy title, catchy layout, but you come up with these choices: profile, other Animamates, pictures, galaxia.  It's all facts. Nothing really unique about it.  Whereas if you go to a less popular page like
Planet Mermaid, you find a more "viewer-friendly" site with great sections like "Fashion Sense" and "Coloring Book".  Sugoi!

        3) Originality.  This aspect tends to be kinda iffy.  Sure if you're building a shrine to a popular character, you find that most of your "original" ideas have been taken by someone else already.  I've been in that position before. ^^;;  But there are still plenty of differents things out there that could make a site unique.  For instance, I like the way S.T.A.R. does the Help Section.  Who wouldn't want tips from the senshi themselves?  I haven't seen that on any other pages.

These are some of the things that bug me the most on SM pages:
        1) Lazy bums- I hate it when I go to sites and the people either know almost no HTML and you find random tags sticking out all over the place and dozens of broken links.  It irritates me.  Most often, they're abandoned sites. It's fine if you're just getting started, but always try to finish what you begin, or delete the page if you don't have enough time.

        2) False info- This is one of my biggest pet peeves!  Usually, it's false "dubbing" thoughts and ideas.  A lot of it is actually from SOS, like that horrific "Prince Uranus" thing.  I know my page isn't going completely correct on all the info, but there are no major false ideas and such. 

        3) "Wowee! I've discovered the world of JAVASCRIPTS!" - Giant mallets frequently come to mind when I go to sites that have those hugely annoying javagoodies, like scrolling text(those used to be popular, but have declined, thankfully).  Those annoying pop-up message boxes, like "What's you're Name?". Sometimes the pages themselves are pretty good, but I still dislike
going to them because of the annoyances.

        4) Not really a peeve, but just an observartion: The SM Community has become very closed up these days.  There's a group of the "elite", whom all have pages that EVERYONE knows about, and then there's everyone else.  They all link to eachother, and exchange HTML tips and secrets, the SM version of the
Mafia. In fact, if I go to the link pages of popular sites, I find
that mostly each character has one or two links, and it's the same for every site. The one Pluto site everybody links to is Pluto Planet Power!  The one Jupiter site everybody links to is Evolution.  And of course, you've got all the Kraider's pages thrown in there.  Granted, they're all excellent pages, but I would like to see a little variety in sites these days.

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