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| Essential traits of Awesome:
- Has good taste
- Liking things for the things themselves, not for their image
- Understanding that “not mainstream” does not always = Awesome
- Intelligent
- Has a good sense of humor AND possesses adequate wit
- Possesses some vein of creative artistic ability
- Has a healthy sense of hate/rage
- Accurately perceives and judiciously uses sarcasm and irony
- Learns without being physically pummeled with information
- Is willing to try new things
- Confident
- Does not need/constantly seek others’ approval
- Cognizant of the distinction between emotion and sentiment
- Lets that which does not matter truly slide
- Self-aware
- Is an individual
- Possesses acumen, especially with respect to:
- Fear
- Stubbornness/acquiescence
- Presents self judiciously
- Does not lie about taste or otherwise falsify any quality of Awesome
- Does not talk about that which he or she knows nothing
- Does not pretend to know things he or she does not
- Recognizes his or her own superiority and inferiority, depending on the situation
- Possesses loads of knowledge many might regard as meaningless
- Can create favorable situations in the midst of or out of unfavorable ones
- Possesses excellent command of his or her language
- Does not hold own language to be the center of the universe
- Willing, able, and active in learning new languages, especially when traveling.
- Subtle
- Cultured, but not above the little things
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| Things that make your Xanga site NOT Awesome (and that means you aren't, either):
1. Background images/colors that obscure the writing. The only
exception to this is if the image rests at the top or bottom, takes up
less than 50% of the viewing area, and the text is perfectly
readable as long as it isn't over the image part.
2. Lack of
consideration for other resolutions. Not everyone runs 1024x768, so
don't make a fucking site that looks like shit in anything else (except
800x600, you can disrespect that one all you want). The fact that your
video card/monitor sucks is no reason to crap on those who have decent
equipment.
3. Alternating caps/lowercase text. No example will disgrace
this Awesome site, you all know what I mean.
4. Entering/exiting effects.
This category includes stupid fucking fade-ins/outs that remind me of a
shitty power point presentation as well as "message windows" that say
"WELCOME TO MY SITE!!!" or some other such crap. I clicked on the
fucking link to your site because I thought there might be something
interesting there, and most of your crappy scripting is IE-exclusive
anyway, which makes it suck more.
5. Chatterboxes. Aside from being incredibly useless, they also produce pop-ups and GATOR INSTALLERS.
6. Never posting pictures or links ever.
There are tons of free image hosters. There are billions of websites,
some of which must occasionally pertain to something you post about sometime. Text
text text is boring boring boring... Quizzes count for pictures AND
links, but only if they're good ones. And you can't use them all
the time.
7. Music. It just makes your site take longer to load, and is never, ever worth it.
8. Music. Your taste in music probably sucks.
9. Music. It interrupts the visitor's personal music.
10. Music. Get the picture?
11. All poetry, all the time. The occasional poem is cool, but no one's is good enough to devote their Xanga exclusively to it.
12.
"No right click" scripts. God, what a fucking waste of the 8 lines of
code it takes. First of all, your site is not so impressively coded
that someone needs to steal anything (especially since you probably stole the
code for the script in the first place). Secondly, if someone actually did want to steal something from your site, they probably wouldn't do so by right-clicking anyway. | | |
| The queen bitches of Awesome, Nate and Popo, are busy. (being Awesome...duh.)
Check it later... | | |
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