Layout Marathon Guidelines

arashi · **Reply #30 on:** June 13, 2005, 12:37:38 AM

It's all up to the owner

This is just a guideline thread.. but no means is it the "authority". So owners, feel free to make your own rules, as you see fit ^^

Soi Fong · **Reply #31 on:** June 13, 2005, 04:35:46 AM

Yay, thanks for posting this Arashi ^^!

We have marathons running until the end of the year. ZOMG this is awesome.

I think my domain will expire then ;____;. Oh well XD

Dimmie · **Reply #32 on:** June 13, 2005, 08:59:35 AM

[quote name='Shadow' date='Jun 13 2005, 12:26 AM']I have a marathon~

J-rock Marathon
Start: January 1st
End: February 1st[/quote]

This is really interesting, but do you think you could make it happen a lot earlier? I'd love to participate with a J-Rock layout but I'm not even sure where I'll be in January of next year. :/ I don't think it's a problem to overlap with other marathons at all, because no one is participating in every single one of them (and with fandom specific marathons you always cut out a lot of people - like, July and August have a dozen overlapping marathons, which is why people started pushing off the next marathons, but I, in example, can only participate in one of the current ones because I don't even know the other fandoms). Plus, there is always site skinning, or alternative sites if you leave the marathon not domain-specific (I could participate with domain, blog, collective, etc, in different marathons at the same time).

So yes, very interesting, but could it please still happen sometime this year?

Shadow · **Reply #33 on:** June 13, 2005, 07:42:10 PM

[quote name='Dimmie' date='Jun 13 2005, 05:59 AM'][quote name='Shadow' date='Jun 13 2005, 12:26 AM']I have a marathon~

J-rock Marathon
Start: January 1st
End: February 1st[/quote]

This is really interesting, but do you think you could make it happen a lot earlier? I'd love to participate with a J-Rock layout but I'm not even sure where I'll be in January of next year. :/ I don't think it's a problem to overlap with other marathons at all, because no one is participating in every single one of them (and with fandom specific marathons you always cut out a lot of people - like, July and August have a dozen overlapping marathons, which is why people started pushing off the next marathons, but I, in example, can only participate in one of the current ones because I don't even know the other fandoms). Plus, there is always site skinning, or alternative sites if you leave the marathon not domain-specific (I could participate with domain, blog, collective, etc, in different marathons at the same time).

So yes, very interesting, but could it please still happen sometime this year?

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Nevermind.

I'll do it in September. The thread should be up tommorow-ish, or even today.

So...

Jrock Marathon
Start: September 1st
End: November 1st

Kari · **Reply #34 on:** June 13, 2005, 07:45:35 PM

I'm actually thinking of starting a Naruto marathon. Would anyone be interested? ^^'

Sophia · **Reply #35 on:** June 13, 2005, 07:50:12 PM

xP. also, just as an interesting thought, skinning a site is REALLY easy to do. i can help with the coding for people who want to do two marathons at once. also, a suggestion for the marathon guidelines- i think that having different skins for marathon should be ok'd for almost all marathons. just my thougts.

Soi Fong · **Reply #36 on:** June 14, 2005, 04:33:15 AM

I agree. We should be able to host more than one marathon at once. Or at least, for blogs, anyway. We should have blog-only marathons that run for a bit or something.

Because I must be the only person who changes blog layouts every week when I'm inspired. I could probably do it everyday, too o___o;;.

And yes, skinning isn't as hard as all those coding looks XD

Daphne · **Reply #37 on:** June 14, 2005, 07:02:46 AM

I made an early post about how I feel that two marathons can run at the same time. We're doing it now at TFL. I've emailed the starter of the other marathon, just to see that she was okay with it, and went ahead and ran one with a completely different topic. It just gives more variety, because not everyone likes the same fandoms

I'm really excited about all the marathons starting here, I must say! :/

arashi · **Reply #38 on:** June 14, 2005, 07:39:02 AM

Guidelines changed (see #3) and Shadow's J-Rock Marathon added. Will include thread link when it goes up =)

Kari · **Reply #39 on:** June 18, 2005, 01:46:03 PM

Kya. I'm gonna do a Naruto layout marathon

Theme: Naruto
Start: August 25th
End: September 25th

I'll post the link when I get the rules correct :/

Melissa · **Reply #40 on:** June 18, 2005, 03:10:38 PM

I'm gonna do a Tanemura Arina marathon, starts December 25, 2005, ends January 25, 2006.

OMG ends at 2006!

Firefly · **Reply #41 on:** June 18, 2005, 10:24:46 PM

::raises hand::

I would like to do a CLAMP marathon, but with all these marathons going on at once, what does everyone think would be the best time to do it?

Amber2 · **Reply #42 on:** June 18, 2005, 10:36:06 PM

I would also like to have a Takahashi Rumiko marathon.

I'm guessing it'll have to start in January of 2006, ne?

arashi · **Reply #43 on:** June 18, 2005, 10:50:07 PM

Well, some people mentioned that it'd be okay to have 2 marathons running at the same time...

Firefly · **Reply #44 on:** June 18, 2005, 11:43:07 PM

Ok, well, would making it run from December 15th to January 15th be ok? (I know this runs slightly into the OTP marathon.) But this would be good for me, because that's during my winter break.

Layout Marathon Guidelines

Melissa

Firefly

Firefly