Wow... I feel Silly

Our goal isn't to actually leave Tumblr or turn people to our website. The website's only goal is to serve as a hub to all our other content. All the main updates and all the new content will be on Tumblr. The website just is a hub to everything else.

Thank you. We are looking into the cost of a site. Hosting a name is about $30 USD dollars a year, based off what I can see. Wix wants to charge monthly... so we will see what we do. To start, it may unfortunately be a "free" site for awhile. If it gets the traffic we want directing through it, we will upgrade.

1. All very valuable information. The black was done to be uniform with the Tumblr, but it definitely isn't concrete. Thanks for letting me know it can look jarring. We will keep playing around with colors. We also tested white, a light yellow, and a sky blue. 2. Good idea. We used that since it is sort of the official logo that everyone recognizes. We do have a 2.0 version of the same logo, but for some reason it doesn't look as good. Noted your remark. 3. Front page will be changed. 4. Same as 3. 5. As the draft version, we did not include any way to contact us. Even when complete, the most we will allow people to contact us is through a message system or through Tumblr. 6. We've tried to distance ourselves, but it's hard. We often say Adorkable Twilight instead of Twilight Sparkle. But we can't shake what made it all popular, being off the coattails of something far more popular. No mention of MLP will probably be mentioned on the site except maybe to say a "Fan series based off of MLP:FiM." 7. Working on that. 8. Valid. 9. Thank you for the valuable feedback! Super in depth!

I have seen some artists turn their Tumblr into a formal website, it pretty much keeps the mechanics of following and messages/asks but it also presents it like a .com site. Maybe someone knows more about this?

Luis_El Oso_Graciano

Well, it is a really nice thing to have. But if the site really should go life, buy a real web-hosting. That Wix thingy,… just,…no. Horatio is kinda right with the black. but it should have the same color as tumbler. so you can recognize it quickly. In addition, the tumbler logo is on withe background, the one on the wepsite is black. Overall it is really simple, just like the art style.

Hello Ataf. The idea of a central website under your control aggregating all content is a good idea in my opinion. My remarks/suggestions for the website draft: 1. very black background. I can see why you chose it but it forces all text and objects to be light or for darker text/objects to be inside a light element. Did you consider alternatives for background color or patterns? It means additional effort for you due to your visual style being outlines on white background which you have to cut out. Also, having the characters cut out on a black background is a bit jarring in my opinion. 2. the "1.0" Twilight in the header does not depict your current artistic capabilities. Maybe use a more recent variant? 3. Smaller image on the front page. I scrolled down the large image to find... copyright and patreon information. 4. More content on the landing/front page. Maybe put some of the links, the latest episode or something else on the front page instead of just text and the image 5. I could not find any contact information for "business inquiries" or maybe for commissions? 6. No mention of MLP:FiM at all? 7. For "start at the beginning" the view under the following link is easier to scroll than the archive view: "<a href="https://adorkabletwilightandfriends.tumblr.com/tagged/adorkable%20twilight%20&amp;%20friends/chrono" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://adorkabletwilightandfriends.tumblr.com/tagged/adorkable%20twilight%20&amp;%20friends/chrono</a>" 8. Include information about the target in the link text. For example clicking on the characters opens a new window to the wiki. There is no indicator for that in the link text. Could be a text on the page ("Clicking leads to the ATaF wiki") or mentioned in the link text "Twilight Sparkle (wiki entry)" 9. I love your work. A beautiful day to you!

Horatio Pitt