Advertisement Guidelines And Forms, for rpg's, non-rpg's and non-forum rpg's

Welcome to RPG-Directory [RPG-D] for short. The Directory is your main service for advertising your board here on RPG-D and the following rules apply when submitting your advertisement to the directory.

.::. General Rules for Advertising .::.

• In order to submit your advertisement, you must have fifteen [15] quality posts on RPG-D.
• All ads must be submitted by an admin or global moderator of the board.
• Boards must follow both the Inivisonfree Terms of Service and the Terms of Service of the webhost they are on.
• Ads may be submitted for any board host [IF/ZB/IPB/vB/PB/phpBB/ etc.] but members should be able to sign up for free.
• You must have our mini-button on the index of your board, either in the header or footer. If we can't find the button your advertisement will be trashed (the button should be visible, not in a drop down list or in another form).
• Our button should not be altered in any way, shape or form. You will be asked to replace it with our original button within 24 hours if this is noticed.
• Fill out the whole template, or else your topic will be deleted.
• Please place a proper rating in the template. For an explanation of the rating system, see here!
• If your forum RPG has a website, please link directly to the forum, as it makes sorting easier. You can include the link to the website, but the first link should be directly to the forum.
• Forums should be online and should not force guests to log in to see them.
• All forums should display the original credit to the maker of the skin and/or graphics.
• If your board is in the submissions area and a staff member has replied to it, you’re always given an amount of time to fix something, 1,3 or 5 days! So please check back on your advertisement!
• Once your board has been sorted into the Directory, a colored dot will indicate its activity level. It is not allowed to change this topic marker yourself.
• If your board is listed in the Directory and has been closed (either turned offline or deleted), please PM a Directory Checker so the advertisement can be removed.
  
• Members are allowed one 'freebie' bump after their ad has been accepted into our directory. This 'freebie' bump may only be made within the first month of their ad being sorted, and cannot be used at any other time while their ad is in our directory. Because the sorting multi-mod is counted as a post, the ad submitter may reply to their ad within the first month without being penalized. However, after that bump, the ad submitter must wait one calendar month before bumping again (the period extending from a date in one month to the corresponding date in the following month). Anybody found bumping more than once-per-month after their 'freebie' bump will be warned, and further bumping will result in the trashing of the ad.
• Non-forum RPGs (Second Life, blogs, email etc) are accepted at RPG-D. Please read the additional notes below!
  
• Advertising via PM is strictly forbidden. If you have received a PM advertising a board, forward this to 'ShinLi' and do not reply to it.

.::. Additional Rules for Non-RPGs .::.

• Our mini-button should be located on the index of your board. We will not make exceptions for non-rpgs.
• Use the Non-RPG advertising template, located below the RPG template in this topic.

.::. Additional Rules for Non-Forum RPGs .::.

• Our mini-button should be located on the index of your website. However if you have troubles with this, please pm ShinLi to see if something else can be arranged!
• Use the RPG advertising template, try to link to a page anywhere that might view your status on the website, otherwise noting your function might be good enough too.
• Remember that your board will always be sorted in the Non-Forum RPG category!

.::. Mini-Banner Code .::.

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Please check over your topic after posting to see if you have everything done correctly and the links work properly. This will help the staff a lot with sorting. Thank you!

Advertising form for Forum RPG Submissions
*Note: Please do not alter this form in any way, whether this is making the text another size, coloring it, centering it, making it all caps, or any other form of modification not included in the code. This does not include the 'Plot' section, which may be filled out as you see fit. *

Advertising form for Forum Non-RPG Submissions

*Custom skins are made specifically for your site, generally made by someone else for your site only. Credits are either put normally on the skin, mentioned in the sidebar, or simply mentioned in a topic somewhere
*Self made skins are made by yourself for your own site. Credit is not necessary, but can be put anywhere on the skin or in a topic. RPGD will not make it necessary for you to put up a credit for the skin if you don't have a credit on the skin
*Premade skins are skins made by others and codes submitted onto resource forums, like skins you can find here in RPGDs Skindex. Credits should always be kept intact and where the skin maker put them originally. They cannot be removed or moved somewhere else (say you remove the footer copyright, and add a copyright note in the sidebar).

** This is a new field for directory submissions, so if you have any questions about what it means or what you have to put there, please pm a directory mod.