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Nadine gave it
on 28th Nov 2008 and said:Frontpage/first impression: Nice and organised. I like the blue coulor against the white. I don’t really like the yellow boxes and the purple text. And it can be a little boring. Have some brushes. Then it will be more interesting. Nice bolded and underlined text, it’s just how it shoud be. It’s really nice that the music player isn’t turning it self on. That can be really annoying.
Site/me: On Char Breezie it’s really good. You have written enough and good things about your self. Website is nice, but why don’t you have your affies on the front page? Is it because of the approval?
Content: You don’t have so much, but it’s ok.
Graphics: I just found 3 layouts, but i like them. I really like the last Blake Lively blend!
Over-all: Your site is prettty and organised. It don’t have much, but it’s good what is there.
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Beth gave it
on 25th Nov 2008 and said:Hey there :) I suck at introductions and haven't done a reviw in a while, so I'll just dive right in:
Layout/graphics:
Firstly, I really like your header image. The striped colour bit is lovely and everything fits together nicely. However, I do agree with the review above that the background colour could be better. Personally I'd try to find a textured background, or use a light cream colour, but it's mainly just that I have a large screen resolution (1280x1024 I think) so there's a lot of space at the right that's just plain grey.
The CSS you've used is nice, good variation without being too random. The text is pretty small though, if you compare it to the size on this site it's just a little harder to read. I would reccomend making it a little bigger, but that's your choice, I know lots of people like the look of small text. Also I would put a bit of space in at the left hand side between your blog and the side of the page, just so it doesn't look squished over.
Journal page:
You have a nice writing style, clear and entertaining, nice one.
Char Breezie:
Good page, although I'd love to know a little more about you! I like the icons for things you support underneath, very cute and a great idea.
Visitors:
I don't really like that this opens in a new page, mostly because the new page is so completely different in graphics than the main site. I think it would be better if there was more of a connection between the two pages so you can tell they're from the same site. The actual content on this bit looks great though.
Request:
Nicely laid out, good page.Website:
Again, good page, I'm glad you included where the name comes from because I was going to ask that at the end of this review!Hosting:
Good page - one suggestion though, you ask that people know how to use FTP, maybe you could link to some tutorials for people who don't know?I'm rusty on code so I won't comment on that. Overall a good site, I enjoyed visiting it, and I hope my review will help you. Remember it's all just my opinion!
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lluevareina's Response:
Thank you for your review, Beth! I am definitely making smaller layout headers from now on, and changing my visitor section. I really appreciate your review. =]
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Charlie gave it
on 24th Nov 2008 and said:Hi Char,
First Impressions
I cheated a little. When I saw your site go straight to your wordpress directory I deleted the "wp" from my address bar and was taken to your splash page. On Review Me you've just given your main page which tells me you're quite possibly onto something - forget splash pages, make your blog the main page of your site and utilize the fact that you've got your own domain and aren't depending on free hosting sites =)
Your layout image is intriguing and I like the cut-out and stripes idea, but it takes up the whole length of my window (I'm on 1024x768, ancient maybe, but still used by many.) Checking the image properties shows that it's 900px in height and width. You could half that without ruining the effects.
Next time you make a layout, try using graphics made 100% by yourself and not including a celebrity. This will make your site all the more your own.
I'll be honest, I'm not keen on the background colour, it's dull and while it may fit the background of the model's photos it doesn't compliment the header image as a whole.
Your navigation panel is small but neat enough. Putting a couple of pixels more padding to the right of your blog will give more space to the bullet points. Your font size is just ok, bordering on small but big enough to read from a suitable distance.
Blog
I like the use of a different colour for the first letter of your blog headers but it's a bit too difference. Try using a darker shade of brown instead or darkening the rest of the header text. Where you have text bolded there are huge gaps in between words and this obstructs the flow of your entry. Simply using a different colour to emphasis the words would be adequate enough.
The line height you're using is a little too spacious yet on the previous blog entry it's fine. I believe this is to do with the bold and strike through text you're using.
The entry on the first place covers an issue I've thought about a lot and it's cool to find someone has written about it. Carry on using this kind of idea in future blogs, a topic you feel strongly about or can give advice on.
Hmm, for some reason when I view your front page from a "recent entry" link the line height changes. I can't say what's happened there. You've made a couple of spelling mistakes but the grammar is ok.
Char Breezie
Upon clicking the page shoots straight back up to the layout image which is annoying as I have to scroll down once again to reach your content, but the remedy here I've covered above.
This page is very well presented. I like your choice to put your organisations under your biography information.
Visitors - I was surprised to be directed to another window. Adding a note about that is a option because it could easily be mistaken as a whole new site when it's only as you say, one section of it.
Requests - again, a well presented page and fair rules.
Website
Some of your information here is the same as in your biography. Choose which section you think it fits best and delete it from the other. You mention your poems being published, that's awesome - how about displaying some examples of your work on your site? Poetry is one of the best ways to communicate feelings as you'll know and they would match your theme of a personal site perfectly. I'm glad you included the reason behind your site name. Having your hostess self as one of the things your hostee will receive made me smile.
Coding
If integrating your stylesheet into your HTML you should add type="text/css" into the style tag. You've used the XHTML doctype and it's good to see you've closed your br tags. It's clear you're aware of what's required. After your comments section there are two br tags that you could substitute with padding in the paragraphs and just before the textarea tag you've forgotten to open a paragraph (it's closed after the textarea.) THere's also another stray paragraph tag in the gap between that section and the next.
Change your center tags for CSS styling: text-align: center. Your "(c) Char Breezie" can be changed to the official copyright sign by adding "& copy ;" (without the quotes and without the spaces.) The br tags below this haven't been closed.
You say you're not too fond of CSS which I'm guessing is why you've included it internally as well as externally. Your body background image url can be shortened (as long as it's in the same folder as your current WP theme) to url("blakemainbac.png");
You can shorten your CSS by putting element border information on one line. Instead of border-bottom-style, border-top-style etc, just write border: 0px 0px 0px 0px; those four values correlate to top, right, bottom, and left, in that order.
Overall, you've the makings of a good site there, and an even better one to be had if you include more of you writing on it. Face your fear of CSS - you've got the right idea now you just need practice =D
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lluevareina's Response:
Thank you SO much, Charlie, for all of your suggestions. Everything you said I agree to, and this review will definitely make my site better! =] Thanks again.
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