Welcome to SMW Central, new user (or if you're not a new user, welcome to the rules thread)! Please take a brief look through these, and once you're done, feel free to introduce yourself in this thread!
General Behavior:
Layouts:
If you have any questions, send an administrator a private message. Enjoy yourself!
General Behavior:
- Do not flame or troll other users.
- Do not submit copyrighted or commercial ROMs or any other illegal digital goods to the website. If you want to upload a hack, create an IPS file and upload that. Unsure of how to do that? Check this out.
- Avoid creating posts just for the sake of advertising.
- Do not post any NSFW material. This mostly refers to pornography, but you should know what is suitable to post on a public website and what isn't.
- Many forums have a rule thread stickied at the top, read it and the forum description before posting.
Layouts:
- Please avoid eye-searing font/color combinations. If you can't read your own post, nobody else can either.
- Avoid using images that have large file sizes in your layout, or anything that will cause slowdown on older computers.
- Please use the "My Files" feature to upload anything pertaining to your layout. By doing this, we can be sure your files will not randomly vanish.
- All parts of your post must be fully readable at all times. This means, among others, that side images go beside or behind your post box, not on top. Hover effects and opacity tricks are not valid substitutes for being readable by default. You may put side images on top of the post box border, but never on the actual post.
- Links may not be made unclickable by placing anything on top of them. If you really need anything on top of your post box, apply pointer-events: none; to the relevant element.
- Hover effects may not make any large changes; it's distracting. For example, changing the opacity of your post box background or side images is no longer tolerated. Make your layout readable by default. Click effects are to be treated the same as hover effects.
If you have any questions, send an administrator a private message. Enjoy yourself!