I know that advertising is a good thing, but honestly, if we don't have !@#$% to show and we aren't even close to the best we can be, then is it even worth it? And all of you are thinking too grandly or too extravagantly, in my opinion. Here are some things that we should do that are easy and targeted so that they are more effective, practical, and smart:
- For custom sprites that are "show worthy", we should make a ZFGC tagging system that advertises and links back to here in the images themselves. For example, I see on Spriter's Resource several sprites that are from users here, but almost all of them have no reference to here. To bring in members and spriters, add my proposed tags.
- Put an image in your signature on other places you go to that is a clickable image link to here. Not only is it easy to do, but it is also helpful and reaches a bigger audience.
- cuff's idea (didn't see if it belonged to others) is also fine. It targets fans of Zelda and advertises good games. However, it should most likely be left to the people making the games to do it.
- Finally, if you do advertise somewhere, don't break the rules to do it. Doing so only makes us look bad because of your association to us.
Also, any ideas beyond advertising. If you posted one and I didn't see it, post in again anyway.