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Rainribbon
What qualifies you to be a Panelist?
I have been working on internet sites for over 5
years now, and printed publication page layouts and graphic design for
longer. I began my first personal website (that which has become the almost
40 MB monstrosity now displayed at rainribbon.com) before I had learned HTML.
I have maintained some of the old pages within the site, labeled as
"Historical Pages" so that viewers can experience the difference between
how the site used to look and the several improvements that have taken place
over the years.
More recently, I have begun revamping work on
some of my smaller sites, one of which is the My Little Pony Dreamquest, an
interactive story game originally started by Baby Tabby. I added a Flash
intro to the site, something I had never used on a main page before, out of
concern of incompatibilities with viewers' computers. I also made more
extensive use of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets on the Dreamquest site
than on any publicly exhibited site I had created before.
I have worked with several codes/languages that
are used to create webpages or their parts, including HTML, Perl (CGI
scripts), JavaScript, and CSS. I have recently begun working with Macromedia
Flash, and have been using the Adobe programs (e.g. Photoshop, Premiere,
Illustrator) for graphic and motion picture editing for a number of years. I
am familiar with the HTML generated by Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft
FrontPage. While I do not claim to be an expert in any one of the programs I
use or codes that I write, I feel that I have at least a rudimentary
knowledge of each of them; perhaps a little more in a couple ;).
As for my ability to judge websites, I have been
holding independent website contests based on a strict set of judging
criteria for the past year. Effort, originality, and detail are some of the
things I look for in a website. Typos often irk me - just ask some of the
people whom I've emailed about spelling errors ;).
Those are my website making credentials.
However, I don't believe that any of them should qualify me to be a Panelist
for the 2002 website awards. I'm not a huge fan of publicly scoring
something not specifically created for the purpose of being scored as best or
worst. This is especially true for me in the area of a product like a
personal website that can have so many positive or unique aspects, which can
differ in so many ways from site to site.
My Little Pony Dreamquest
This is the intro page sequence that enables a new
Dreamquest player to enter the game. The text is perhaps the most important
aspect of the site, making the "What is the Quest" section and the "Rules"
section the most important. These two sections are probably the most
esthetically pleasing to those working with slow modems; they display quickly
and cleanly. The Flash intro on the opening page is perhaps the most
attractive, attention-getting part of the site. Probably the least
attractive pages are the Main Characters and Secondary Characters pages
because the unity of graphics and text are forfeit when each player has to
submit his own work for each character.
Rainribbon's Pony Site
Rainribbon's Pony Site is a mishmash of work that began
as a terribly done 3 pages; the first non-teaching website I ever created.
Its original goal was to become a multimedia website, but I forfeited that
hope for slightly greater universality of viewing. (At the time I began the
site, I was using a Macintosh computer, and my own pages wouldn't display on
any IBM!).
Over the years, Rainribbon's Pony Site has outgrown all
its free servers, although it is not as deserving of a domain and a paid home
as some of my other sites would be. The first site to display MLP motion
cartoons, "Unusual MLP Sightings," and the reason why I began drawing My
Little Ponies, this site is definitely the BIGGEST (although admittedly not
the best) of my websites.
Some of the nicer, more unique, and popular sections of
my site include the newly added Photo section, the Custom Ponies section, the
Art Gallery (please read the text there, or you won't understand why you get
funny errors when you click the wrong links), and Baby Daydream's Vacation
Scrapbook. The Trades page has recently been redone to load faster and
display trade items more neatly (photos also added).
Poopshy's Place
While I realize that this is not a My Little Pony
website, it's one of my better sites. It's about Poopshy, the Aisha, a
Neopet. The About Me page and the Images page are some of the more important
pages of the site, but the Aisha Arcade (with links to games edited by myself
and others) is the most popular. I advise scanning each of the pages
(including pop-ups off the About Me page) for the small icon Aishas and top
of page drawings, at least ;).
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