Welcome to the Cave of Dragonflies guestbook.
Hey, was wondering how you create your blog posts for the front page. I can't find a decent tutorial on the internet. I do know html, CSS and a decent amount of JavaScript.
Yes, the Zodiac works on a server-side script as well. So do my personality tests, style switcher, randomized affiliate list and featured section (but not e.g. the hangman or Favorite Pokémon Picker; you can view the source of those and see exactly how they work, although it probably won't help you much unless you have a basic idea of how Javascript works).
Oh okay, but what about the zodiac? Doesn't that work in a similar way?
You can't see it by viewing the source because the hit counter is server-side - there's a script that increments it before it actually sends the page over to your browser. There are also free hosted scripts that'll do the same thing for you without any server-side scripting on your end, though.
Ah yay! I do hope it hasn't too, but it has them 'coming soon' things up for ages.
Also, another question, how did you make your hit counter? I had a look in your code but it is a link to another doccument
Zelkova: Yeah, I tried to strike a balance between overwhelming people with too many Pokémon per batch and overwhelming people with the number of batches they have to get through to actually find any favorites, but I'm sure many people would prefer a different balance. I'll consider making it configurable.
Jirachu: Hey! Wow, it's been a while. Hope you've been well.
Flea: I'm afraid I know no more than you do. If it has been abandoned it's pretty tragic, but at least the owner is still around and doing Pokémon art here!
Just wondering if you knew or not. But has Arkeis been abandoned?
Thank you, I can now die happy. :) But seriously, this is very useful!
I wonder if the forum is still active, maybe i'll check sometime. PS; Hi from me XD
Random Awesomely Awesome Hugs For All Of You!!! :D
I would love it if I could pick between smaller groups. Starting out with ~20 at once during the early phases in kinda overwhelming. I kinda want to force myself to pick only 1 out of 5 (or 6 for the sake of being Pokemon) during the early phases if possible and would love it if it was a builtin option to show smaller groups.
If it is too much tromble then don't worry about it. I'm a huge fan of it as it is, just kinda hard to stay focus when I have to decide between ~20 Pokemon for a good while without making a mistake.
Megan: More styles are kind of low-priority for me, since with the little time I have to work on the site, I'd generally rather be making content than yet another style. But maybe someday.
Thank you muchly
Hello Butterfree!
I have a question.
Have you thought about making a new theme for your styleswitcher? I'd love to see a new theme.
I'm not using private browsing, I'm using firefox 35.0.1, and I definitely don't have localStorage wiped out when I close the browser. I haven't paid too much attention to when it disappears, so I'll try and take notes if I notice it happening again.
Downloading a save file would be cool! Saving would also make it easier to use the picker to do favourites from a certain region, or favourite Water-type, or whatever without losing your progress.
Well, for me "released" means that players can use it, unlike "announced" or "revealed".
Are you using private browsing, by any chance? That would throw out your localStorage data when you exit. Other than that, I can only think of 1) you're using a really old version of Firefox, or 2) you've one way or another specifically set it to delete your localStorage (perhaps you've set it to automatically clear all cookies/history on exit?).
Unfortunately just your favorites list is insufficient to recover your state - the picker also has to keep track of which Pokémon have been eliminated by which Pokémon. I suppose I could add the ability to manually download your picker state as a file and upload it again?
Is it possible to make the shared version of the favorite Pokemon list into some kind of save file? My save always seems to disappear, and I can only get through so many Pokemon in one day.
(This time I actually lost my save somehow accidentally clicking the forms checkbox and the yes button when my cursor moved weirdly, but besides that it seems to disappear whenever I close Firefox.)
TKuja: Pokémon you pick don't go on your favorites list immediately. Picking some Pokémon means you're eliminating the rest (for now), and when you've eliminated every Pokémon but one, that's when the remaining Pokémon is put on your favorites list (because it has to be your number one favorite). You can continue to find your second, third, etc. favorites by the same process, and they'll get put onto the list then, in the correct order.
I was looking at some referrals the other day and saw other people confused in a similar way, though, so I'm changing the description to make it more obvious that that's how it works.
Konrad Borowski: Hoopa was officially revealed on pokemon.com on January 13th. I just didn't update the site between then and this update.
