Captainkalaa1 
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(3/13/06 7:10 am)
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 Captain k'alaa's Corner for April, 2006
Common Mistakes New Webmasters Make
This is a partial list of common mistakes. If anyone wishes to add to this list, please contact me at kinda@msn.com, with the title Common Mistakes, and the place where you read this article.
1. Make a message board with no idea of how to get along with others.
2. Create a website for fans with no idea of what other fans like.
3. Post ads on other people's message boards for their own site with no other content in the message.
4. Put messages on their message board or website that makes other people upset or mad at this person with no good reason.
5. Do not realize that a popular website caters to its members, its members do not cater to the website.
6. Have the idea that the site is absolutely perfect with no changes ever necessary, once the site is up and running.
7. Does not care what he or she says to members, because the feelings the webmaster has are the only ones he or she cares about.
8. Does not encourage new members, mainly because they make small mistakes in their spelling, grammar or facts.
9. Create a contest with no feedback to the participants.
10. Exclude people based on where they live rather than what language they speak.
11. Make fun of new members.
12. Ban people because he or she feels like it, rather than a good reason.
13. Create a site and then promptly abandon it.
14. Create links or join webrings and never update them or let the webrings know you have either changed your email address, moved your site, or have decided to close it down.
15. Asks for donations, but tells new people they cannot come to your site to read it, by accusing them of being lurkers instead of new members looking for an appropriate site.
16. Forgetting what it is like to be new to the Net
17. Obtaining members then arguing with them constantly, causing them to leave
18. Not making your meaning understood (whether in a post, a block of text, or an explanation).
19. Taking content from other websites without acknowledging this, at least in passing.
20. Hotlinking pictures or graphics from other sites.
21. Claiming your site is for a certain age, but then continually disregarding this with the content actually posted.
22. Making himself or herself (or the site) seem more important by finding faults with other sites.
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