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Old Apr 15th, 2012, 3:11:17 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Fat poccil View Post
Due to your concern, I have taken steps to make the need for donations less conspicuous, including not using "popup" boxes anymore. (You may need to clear the browser cache to see the changes.)

Again, though, this is not about the Web site itself, this is about improving the style (that is, word choice, grammar, and lack of vagueness); the organization (that is, how sections and paragraphs are organized); and to a lesser degree, the correctness, of the battle system pages on my site.
Well, I was going to point out that the annoyingness of your donation stuff makes all of us less inclined to help out on those other parts.

But then you went and fixed it, so, I guess... thanks.

I think your site has pretty bad search engine optimization. Like, when I search "imposter", the Imposter ability is nowhere to be found. When I search a move, it's usually pretty far down the list after a bunch of "Can <X> learn <move>" pages, which should really be removed entirely or at least blocked with robots.txt.

Layout... you could use more columns. Modern browsers are wide enough that making text span the whole page is often a bad thing. And images. Images are relatively small, you can put them to the left of text and move text over. Also, formatting. Ditch the weird font.

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By the way, who is "Marty"? Maybe this is someone who can discuss with me which information in my battle system pages is wrong.
Marty is PS's lead tester. You can find him on #showdown on SynIRC.

UPC is much more accurate than Veekun and Bulbapedia, to say nothing about the other sites we reference on occasion. We were pretty surprised when we found mistakes in it, but I guess nothing's perfect.

I'd really tell you about the errors if I remember, but I suck at remembering that sort of thing. Talk to Marty on IRC; he probably does.
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