This section concerns displaying your familiar on your web site. If you have no web site or do not display your creature there, this section means very little to you.
If you have a web site, you may place your familiar on it. Doing so not only gives your monster a boost to experience, but also increases its chances of winning battles. The best part is that it is entirely automated; once you put the code on, you never have to change it. The adoptable will update itself automatically as your monster grows!

Where do I get the code to display my familiar on my web site?
What will be displayed on my web site?
How do I change the way my adoptable is being displayed?
Why isn't my monster being displayed on my web site?
Where can I display my adoptable?
Where should I display my adoptable?
I own a web site with friends. Can we all display out monsters on one site?
How does my monster get experience from being displayed on my web site?
Why isn't my monster getting experience from being displayed on my web site?
How does my monster benefit in battle from being displayed on my web site?
Where do I get the code to display my familiar on my web site? You can get the HTML code fragment by logging into your account on the Battling Dragons main page. Once inside of your account, click on the Get HTML Fragment tab. The tab only appears if you have a web site. If you have a web site but do not see the tab, go to the Edit Account Info tab to include your web site URL in your account.
To get your adoptable onto your web site, you must first copy the HTML fragment. This can be done by highlighting the contents of the textbox and: Once copied, go to wherever it is your make your web site. Paste the HTML fragment exactly where you want it to appear. Pasting can be done by: The fragment should be placed into a text area that accepts HTML code in order to work.
What will be displayed on my web site?
How do I change the way my adoptable is being displayed? Also from your account log-in, click on the tab Edit Display. This will lead you to a screen full of the options used to customize the way your monster is being displayed. You can change which information about your monster will be shown and on which side of this information the picture of your monster will be placed.
A picture of your monster is always displayed. Which picture will be displayed is randomized with every viewing. Every adoptable monster has one picture for each of its stages, and another for each spell in each of its stages.
Why isn't my monster being displayed on my web site? If you are seeing the HTML code fragment instead of the adoptable, it is because your web host does not allow HTML or you have it turned off. Turn on your HTML or get a better host.
If nothing at all is being displayed, check your fragment. If it is correct, then your host may have a block against importing scripts. This means that you need to get a better host.
Where can I display my adoptable? You can display your on any page of your web site. Do not display your monster on every page or almost every page by way of SSI or other methods which place it on many pages instantly. It does not get any advantage from being displayed this much; it just makes your web site load a little slower.
Do not post your monster in a forum or on any other CGI-generated page that is constantly reloading. If you own a forum, you may place your familiar at the entrance and that is it.
Do not display your friends' monsters or have them display your monsters. If multiple monsters are seen on one web site, it will be construed as the illegal operation of one person with more than one account. Where should I display my adoptable? The best place to display your adoptable monster is at the entrance point of your web site. This can either be a splash page or just your site's main page.
I own a web site with friends. Can we all display out monsters on one site? It is allowable for multiple monsters from different accounts to be displayed on one web site; however, all of these monsters may only be displayed on that one web site and that web site alone. If these monsters appear on more than one web site, it will be considered cheating and all offending account removed.
It is also recommended that the monsters are not all displayed on one page.
How does my monster get experience from being displayed on my web site? For every unique hit the page your adoptable is on receives, it will gain one point of experience. That means that if the same person views it more than once, no experience will be received. This is why it is futile to display your monster on more than one page.
Why isn't my monster getting experience from being displayed on my web site? The most likely reason is that you are currently participating in a tournament, have challenged, or have been challenged by another member. You cannot earn experience during any of these events because you cannot level up while in the middle of a battle. The experience points are not lost, however. They are just stored as latent experience.
If none of the above is true, the reason is because a non-unique visitor is viewing the creature. Unique visitors are calculated by IP address. If someone with an IP address similar to a recent visitor views the creature, no experience will be earned.
How does my monster benefit in battle from being displayed on my web site? During a Web Battle against another member with a web site, the member whose site received the most unique hits during the last turn of combat will randomly receive a small increase to one of its statistics for a short time. Uniqueness is calculated in the same way as earning experience from web site views.
In the case of a tie, neither monster receives an increase to its stats.
The RPG, tournaments, and Web Battles against members without web sites benefit in no way from your adoptable monster being viewed. If your opponent in a Web Battle does not have a web site, the hits you receive become latent XP instead of helping you win the battle.