Requirements
- Your page must be comic book,
anime/manga, or cartoon animation related.
- An example of this would be pages that are related to
Marvel Comics' characters and teams such as the X-Men, a page about
Ghost in the Shell or Sailor Moon, or a page about Scooby Doo.
- You, the candidate to be a Knight of Comics, must have
spent a good amount of time on your webpage.
- Don't worry, you don't have to time yourself. The
quality of the page itself shows whether you put it together in a
matter of 3-4 hours or have put a lot of effort and hours in it. This
also means that your page must be well-organized, clear, and easy
for the websurfer to search his or her way through the pages at your
website. Pages under construction and/or states that it's under
construction does not show that you have spent much time on your
webpage!!!
- Please if you want to increase the likelyhood for you
to be "knighted" as a Knight of Comics, you *must* have a page that
is near completion. A lot of pages that have been submitted for query
are often "under construction" and does *not* have the webring
material on it. This almost guarantees that the webmaster for this
particular webpage is not ready for "knighthood" at all. The
webpages being submitted for queue *must* meet the high standards set
out by this webring.
- Your page should be well-rounded
with not only graphics, but of good, quality, information as
well.
- Too many webpages exists out there as just sites with
a lot of pictures on it, but no information whatsoever. The website
that you are submitting for consideration should have a good,
considerable amount of information on it (i.e. biographical information,
basic information, etc.) so that the websurfer may familiarize him/herself
with the subject being presented on the webpage. This is one of the
primary factors with which your webpage will be judged upon: whether
your webpage maintains a balance of entertainment (in the form of
graphics, sounds, etc.) and educational (information about the
characters being presented, etc.) value. Too often, many cannot attain
membership to become a knight of the Knights of Comics.
- Like all other webrings, you must
have the Knights of Comics Webring graphic in your opening page.
- The HTML fragment will be given to you once you've
registered with this site and again in the email that you will
receive once you've registered. **No modification to the HTML
fragment is needed!** All you have to do is just copy the text from the screen and/or email and
paste the text directly into your
opening page.
- Like on my Wolverine page, some
sites might have a separate page for webring graphics. If this is the
case on your page, you may option out to put this in your opening
page's HTML, but only if your page has
a separate page for webring graphics (you still must put the
graphical version of the Knights of Comics on your webring
page):
- If this is what will suit your page, click here.
It is
under your honor, if you are selected to be a Knight of Comics, to abide by this rule. If
you are made a Knight of
Comics, and have been found to have violated this requirement,
your knighthood will be stripped and you will not be reknighted until
you have proven to me that you have a separate, linkable page where
all your webring membership graphics are stored with this HTML
fragment in your opening page *or* you have put the Knights of Comics
Webring on the opening page of your site.
- You will receive your knighthood
to this webring once we have reviewed your site and deem it to be
one which is of great quality.
- If you are not sure what exactly is a
webpage of great quality, feel free to visit the webpages of the
knights at this site to see examples of what we're looking for.
- Your site will be examined thoroughly for content,
correct usage of HTML, graphics, ... basically, your site will be
turned inside out. Only the best shall be knighted as a Knight of Comics because
they earned it through painstakingly hard work.
Aspects of the webpage that we will be looking at to
determine whether you, the author of that particular webpage, can
actually become a Knight of
Comics:
Correct useage of HTML, as well as transparent GIFs
(when applicable). Also, is javascript used correctly, if used? And is all
pictures on the page functional or do I find myself staring at
a bunch of broken pictures once in awhile?
How well you use pictures on your page. Are they located
in an organized fashion? Or do they appear to have been scattered
around randomly? If you have a huge listing of pictures, do you
utilize text links or tiny picture links? And if so, are these
linkable pictures easy to load up or do they take forever (because
the website author decided to just resize the huge 400kb picture into
a small 25x25 linkable icon by using HTML)?
What one thing makes your page stand out from other
webpages?
Is the page still under heavy construction?
Is the page filled with useful information about
the character, book, or movie, or is it just another website that
appears to "mirror" another website? (When I say this, I mean is
it a website that gives a good detailed account on who Wolverine is,
or is it a website that just says "Wolverine is that awesome clawed
dude on the X-Men"?)
The overall appearance on the webpage. Is it
well-organized and easy to manuever around it? Or do you find
yourself consistently hitting the "back" button on your browser just
to see another section on the page?
Upon leaving the webpage, does the websurfer leave
feeling that they have at least gained one ounce of knowledge from
your webpage? (The greatest webpages out there aren't the ones that
contains the hugest library of scans known to man. The greatest
webpages are those that has the right balance of information about
its subject along with good, unique scans (scans hardly seen
elsewhere on the web)).
Most importantly: will I want to come back to this
website? When I return to this website, will I find that it has been
updated at least once per month?
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