The vast majority of websites have a lot of generic content. This list caters primarily to Pokémon websites, of course, but a good deal of these apply to any website at all! Yeah. Go have fun.

Most of these things are the sort of thing that any respectable webmaster wants a hopeful-affiliate to go beyond. Every single Pokémon fan on the internet has already seen most, if not all, of this already. Any site that only has things that are on this list... probably sucks. Sorry, guys, but it's the truth.

This is not to say that the contents of this list do not belong on a Pokémon site. There is nothing wrong with some generic content. I will, however, suggest that anyone who makes a website composed entirely of things on this list changes what they're doing. No, really. Show that you care.

The Lists

Generic text goes here. (Can you feel the irony tonight?)

Pokémon specific~

Explanation of Effort Values, probably entirely [inaccurately] ripped off of Serebii. Serebii is not even a reliable source: why do people copy it?
How to Catch Insert-Pokémon-Here
Natures
Basics of Alternate Colour Pokémon
Pokémon of the Week
A Pokédex that is put to shame by Veekun, or simply a list of Pokemon
List of Items Obtainable with Pick Up
List of ‘resources’ that absolutely everyone has already seen
Copypasta
“What Pokémon Are You?”
Information copied from SPP
Anti-Anti-Pokémon
A collection of Fake Pokémon, usually including ~~crappy~~ original fake Eeveelutions.
New Pokémon sections with partially inaccurate information that clearly shows that it's all been copied from Serebii. Yes, copying things from SPP warrants three bullets.

Any Website

Pages on How to Make a Site
Unnecessary splash page(s)
Awards pages with everything being along the lines of Insert Name Here likes Insert Site Here
Things supposedly made by the webmaster with non-original art
A styleswitcher
“Gateway” pages: where it consists of a short list of maybe five links for no apparent reason
A Shoutbox
A small forum
An FAQ where about five of the questions have ever been asked by someone with a functioning brain
Pages on the subject matter with the same information as every other website

Other Things That Will Make Me a Sad Panda

Unlike the previous lists, these are things that should not be on websites. Period. No, seriously, don’t do this. Ever. No, not even then.

A complete disregard for the English language. You’re establishing your visitors' opinions of you as a webmaster. Make it a good one. Your site does not need to be written formally — mine isn’t and where are you again? — but it does need to be easily readable. Show that you expended some effort in writing your pages. If I visit a website, the last thing I want to see is random chatspeak. For that matter, if I’m instant messaging someone, the last thing I want to see is instant chatspeak. If people can type coherently on IRC, then they can type correctly on their websites. Also, for the sake of all that is awesome, proofread your pages.
Invalid code. W3 is your friend. Make use of it!
Table layouts. Not only are table layouts obsolete, but they also happen to take longer to load and are basically Bad Form all around.
Fixed-width layouts need to die in a fire.
Any of these colors: #f00 (red, #ff0000), #0f0 (green, #00ff00), #00f (blue, #0000ff), #ff0 (yellow, #ffff00), #f0f (fushia, #ff00ff), #0ff (cyan, #00ffff). They will blind your visitors.
- It is also rather silly to define things as #ff0000 instead of #f00. You can do it and it will not do anything bad, but it takes up more space and might require a bit more thought.
- In general, it’s stupid to worry about web-safe colours. Worrying about web-smart colours, however, is up to you. It will not affect much, and there’s enough variation between shades in that palette for it to not restrain anyone to any noticeable degree. Use your judgement.
Lack of CSS. Stylesheets exist. Use them! Save yourself time. External stylesheets, too. Much easier to read.
Randomly defined classes instead of, I don’t know, heading tags. This seems to be a common thing for people who are bright enough to know what CSS is - and, indeed, what classes are - but not intelligent enough to just redefine tags to fit the content.
Inability to distinguish from classes and IDs. IDs refer to one element; classes refer to a group of elements.
Badly written tutorials that are about as helpful as a quick stab to the groin.
Not being cross-browser. (Pot, you’re black, too.) It is, however, better for it to work in Fx and not in IE than the other way around. Vaguely.
[ab]Use of Flash. There are other ways to do nearly the exact same thing that do not involve Macromedia Flash. Or Microsoft Silverlight, for that matter. Flash movies, okay, sure. But navigation? Hell no.
Godawful website tips. If your advice sucks more than a Kirby vaccuum cleaner, there is a problem.

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