Bitten -- New werewolf RPG site

[blossomshadow]

Hi there. I'm Blossomshadow. I have been roleplaying for several years now. I began with the Warriorcats series and found the official site in 2011. After the closing of that site in 2016, I found the unofficial site here on ProBoards as another member of the original site created it and in the almost two years it's been opened, it has over 2,000 members. I took a slight hiatus from that site to focus on college and work, but when I returned home from school, I discovered another ProBoards site I've been privileged to be an admin on, a Twilight site. Now that I've been watching certain Netflix shows for the last few years, I've realized that I wanted to start my own site based on the Canadian SYFY show, Bitten. It is loosely based on the book series Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong. I'd love your opinion on it. 

It's been open less than a month and I've made a lot of tweaks to it since it opened and I've gotten a lot of Guests, but no one interested in joining. I'd love a few reviews on my site, including but not limited to, plot context, graphics, layout and presentation, overall site feel and let me know if there is anything I can do to get and keep members. 


Thank you in advance!

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Are you looking for a role play that’s based on the SyFy show Bitten or the book series Otherworld? Then look no further! We are a brand new site with many canon and original characters open to Roleplay. We are a one account per character site and are looking now! It is not required to have seen the show or have read the book series to join! If you have any questions, feel free to message me here or check out our site and comment in the Shout box!

[blossomshadow]

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[Storm]

I can't offer much advice since I'm not familiar with that show. But I will say that I have very sensitive eyes, and your theme is hard to look at (for me). Especially the shoutbox, where it's really hard to read because of the color contrast.

Your banner is really cool, though!

[blossomshadow]

Thank you for your feedback. I really appreciate it!

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[GingaLord]

Heyo! Stumbled across Bitten already and decided I could give some tips. By the way, never heard of Bitten, will need to check it out some time.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

Looks good, will say I like the banner, and the structure seems good. I honestly just think that the theme needs a change, I'll describe it more below.

SKIN

Themes, skins, whatever you want to call it, seem to be a very important thing to look for in themes. People will often be pleased with very eye-catching themes, take Punki's available themes for example. You can browse for themes in the Theme Library to pick out a theme that you think will make viewers interested. For now, if you want to make your own theme, maybe experiment a little, and I would suggest making the theme not vibrant colors so it's easier for people with vision problems to read, etc.

STRUCTURE

Structure is overall good, nice titles, etc. Don't see anything wrong.

CONTENT

I really like the content! However, you're missing one major thing: Credits. Excuse me if I never found any credits and there are credits hidden here, but credits are SUPER important. Mainly the thing that needs to be credited is the banner, icon, whatever you want to call it. What if people aren't allowed to use it without permission? Even if they are, still credit the original author Also, maybe provide more information about Bitten, so people who are unfamiliar really know what it's about?

Overall, I think Bitten is really good, very good job for maybe someone who is new to making roleplays if this is your first.

[blossomshadow]

Thank you, so so much! Honestly, I do not even know who are the artists for either banner or icons. I did not intend on stealing them, but realizing now that I basically did without crediting them.

The only thing I am concerned about with adding a new skin is that I would lose all my plug-in settings.

If could, if you don't mind, put my mind at ease about my inhibitions pertaining to the plug-ins.

Thank you again,
Meredith

[GingaLord]

Sept 4, 2018 17:58:51 GMT -8 blossomshadow said:

Thank you, so so much! Honestly, I do not even know who are the artists for either banner or icons. I did not intend on stealing them, but realizing now that I basically did without crediting them.

The only thing I am concerned about with adding a new skin is that I would lose all my plug-in settings.

If could, if you don't mind, put my mind at ease about my inhibitions pertaining to the plug-ins.

Thank you again,
Meredith

Makes perfect sense! For credits you could always put "credit belongs to original author", owner, etc, so that way you're still crediting them even if you don't know who made the banner. I sometimes worry about losing some plugins when adding a new skin, so I sometimes experiment with a certain amount of skins from the theme library to see which one will work. If none of them work, I just stick with the theme I made and I usually just improve it a bit.