Oh-vintage

Oh-vintage

****- (Rated by 11 people, viewed by 227 people)

Oh-vintage is a resource and tutorial site, please focus your review more on my content not my blog. I try to make my site stand out from other sites but it's pretty hard, please criticise and be honest as much as you can, I really would like to know how to improve my site.

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Oh-vintage has 11 Reviews

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    rainbowpool gave it ****- on 9th Dec 2008 and said:

    First impression:
    Your Site looks great! I love the layout. It looks extremely orginized. (this is the first time I have seen your site) and from the layout it looks to be a great graphic site.

    Your tutorials look easy to follow. Maybe putting some screen shots or something that is easier to show step by step on it. But other wise they are great.

    Your rescorces/graphics look really good.

    Overal I think you have a great site and that you are very good at what you do! :)

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    mirageneo gave it ****- on 9th Dec 2008 and said:

    LAYOUT:
    your layout only took seconds to load and it looks really great! I am a HUGE Hello Kitty Fan btw :)
    I like the red/green color scheme that you used, it fites the image of Hello Kitty well.
    and your site name is so CREATIVE :P

    CONTENT:
    The menu that you select the content from is neat and organized.
    I think that your button bases are really cute and if I get a chance, I will totally use one! Your Mini-Blends are adorable, your pixels are uber cute :] the quotes are awesome (especially the Twilight ones :D)

    your overall organization of the site is really good, but adding a larger amount of space between the content in the sidebar would make it seem less -squished-

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    omgitzvicky gave it ****- on 2nd Dec 2008 and said:

    The layout is adorable :)
    The green and greys work nicely together and if feels as if the top banner is popping off the screen and gives it an extremely modern and classy feel.
    Your links are obvious and people don't have to guess what to click or look at the bottom bar to see the name of the page, always a pain to do that :D So hi5 for making it easier to navigate and get around.
    You have a lot of content and it is all of high quality. I used some of the brushes :P Love them!!
    Your tutorials are great, although the paint shop pro ones are over used, but you explain in a way that is easy to understand.

    Over all it's a great site with a catchy, easy to remember name :D well done

    <3
    p.s I'm with you on wanting that I love Edward Cullen shirt :P

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    Bella_Notte gave it ***** on 2nd Dec 2008 and said:

    It took only a few seconds for your page to load, so, that is important and always great!

    Although I really do not like Hello Kitty, I think it works for your page. Its so simply, yet, it really stands out, and I like it as a layout.

    On your about me page, I think the paragraphs kinda throw people off to read them. I am not one to read paragraphs, unless they catch me right off the bat, but then again, this is your about me page, so not big deal. I love seeing what you are fans of, it makes me want to go and do the same on my site, which I might now. xD Plus, I love the wishlist thing! Very cute! ;)

    Your domain page seems very organized, actually your whole site does, but anyways. Everything is nice and tidy. Its tells a lot about your site.

    I quickly looked through your resources, and I must say, they are nice. I actually used some of your web icons, then I lost your site, so, your credit will be going right up on my page. But, you have a good amount of everything! I might download some brushes later. ;) I love your quotes, and I love how I know the Twilight Quotes in there.

    Your tutorials look nice. I like the cutenews one for spammers (I recently got a lot of spammers). On the colorful texture tutorial, the images took a while to load, which, if I had not been reviewing, I would have just left. I like to see what the end picture is going to be and I like to see it quickly to see if I even want to spend my time.

    OVERALL? I think you have an amazing site. I loved looking around it. Heck, I even found a site that I might download some brushes from.

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    nickolena gave it **--- on 1st Dec 2008 and said:

    I am not a big fan of hello kitty. Its very random that she is wearing a cactus suit...Honestly I am not digging the header. The rest of the layout is nicely done though. It is organized and easy to navigate. I actually read most of the information you put there. The colors are blah though. My layout is based on gray and black too, so I may not be able to voice my opinion here. But I think your header should have more of a pattern.

    I am just going to look at your resources because that is all I am really interested in. I love the set up. The colors remind of Christmas!!! Although that may not be what you are going for.

    Your mini blends aren't really blends....they are just pictures with words...

    My favorite pixels are the iPods. It took me a second to figure out what the things were below the ice cream cones. I believe they are gumball machines. Your pixels are yet to be desired. Keep on practicing with those.

    I have to say my favorite graphic is your wallpapers. Most of them are gorgeous. The ugly dog one is funny. Keep those up.

    Overall your resources are nice. They definitely need improvement, but don't we all. Your layout just needs a little more pizazz. I love unique and eye catching layouts and yours is just gray...

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    kinza gave it ****- on 1st Dec 2008 and said:

    First Impression: When I visited your site, well it took about 20 second to load, but that's really good with my connection. I was met by a soothing gray and a burst of green, which was really not hard on the eyes. And I loved the vector you used!
    Layout : As I said before, it loaded really fast and wasn't too hard on the eyes. But the star above the 'i' in 'oh-vintage' really was bugging me. Maybe change it to a traditional dot? The gray was safe for the layout, but maybe you could have tried using a pattern - it's okay to be a little more original.
    Sophie: I think this part of the site is very detailed, and it didn't bore me like some other bios have in the past. There's a grammar mistake in the third paragraph:
    when I discovered how awesome Photoshop – it’s much better. I’m and artsy person and I love to draw and paint. I’m creative with many ideas when I come round to it.
    should be:
    when I discovered how awesome Photoshop is I’m and artsy person and I love to draw and paint. I’m creative with many ideas when I come round to it.
    See, you'd be just repeating yourself twice in the same sentence if you used the hyphen.
    Resources :
    Bullets : REMOVE the animated bullets! No one will use them, and if they do, they will distract the visitor from the actual list (did that make sense?)
    I'll just skip over the ones which I don't have a remark for...
    Color Palettes If you must have these, please put the hex color under the color. It's a big help to the visitors that have programs that don't tell you the hex color. Or you can remove color palettes altogether!
    Quotes The one with the Cross on it seems almost like you're forcing the religion onto people - I think you should remove this.
    Tutorials : These are well written and easy to use. I'd definitely come here if I need to learn something about CSS.
    Overall : Your site has great potential and the makings of a great site. Just need to fix a few infringements, and it'll be wonderful!

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  7. DeziatRRR gave it ****- on 30th Nov 2008 and said:

    Wonderful graphic/resources site!! The layout is nicely done, but it is a little plain, it could had some more done to it.

    I like the smileys! From all the other smileys I've seen, those are probably the most unique. The reason I like them so much is because they are like little dialouge boxes.
    I also like your blog smileys! They're so cute! Will you put them on the downloads? I really want to use them ^.^ Of course, I will give you full credit :3

    The tutorials are wonderful. They are very helpful, but you should make some GIMP tutorials, if you use it at all ^.~ It is pretty hard to find good tutorials on them, on a reliable, fast, and non-popup site.

    Your hello kitty doodles are so cute!! It looks like your drew them on the wall though, lol. I wish I could draw like you, too bad I SUCK. You should make some drawing into graphics so people come put them up on their page or something. I know I would totaly use them.

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  8. kkickball gave it ****- on 28th Nov 2008 and said:

    Layout
    The layout is pretty plain. I like the header, but the layout itself is extremely plain. Though, some plain layouts are very nice. I just think that it needs a little more work. My biggest pet peeve is when text isn't aligned. I like when everything looks neat and clean and that's how aligned text is for me. I don't like when it's aligned right or left without being "boxed". (For lack of better words.)

    Blog
    I do think that the blog could be a little more interesting with better grammar. That could just be me because I'm a writer and a grammar freak. LOL! Maybe add some Meme's to your blog when you don't have much to say or find a writing prompt, or write about a news story that is interesting to you or something you're interested in writing about.

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    moneypenny gave it ***-- on 28th Nov 2008 and said:

    The graphic is cute and the colors are fine (easily readable text, I mean), but the layout isn't very exciting. I would like to see more use of color in the layout, like maybe green from the cactus in the image. I also think your sidebar is very cramped feeling; each section is smooshed against the next with no padding.

    I think having the sidebar centered makes it look messy, at least the Ask Me and Affiliates sections. Why not have those left-aligned like the other sections? The Ask Me section in particular is odd looking because the select menu is pressed right against (vertically) the input field, and the Ask button is also pressed against the input field. I would put a margin on that input field and try to lay out that section better; just those three little form elements look cluttered.

    It seems inconsistent to have the 'Search' title in the sidebar be bright red and in a regular font while all the other section headers, like 'Welcome' and 'Navigation', are scripty black text. I would treat 'Search' like the other section headers in the sidebar.

    I think you have a lot of design patterns going on in this layout and they don't necessarily all mesh. Like the ALL CAPS links in the 'Navigation' section corresponding to entry titles in ALL CAPS, those two match, but then you've also got all this girly script. The all caps text is blocky sans-serif, and the script is not; I don't think the two look good mixed together.

    If you're the only owner and blog updater of this site, why have your name in script after every entry? It's superfluous.

    There's no padding between list items in your Last.FM sidebar section, and so the dotted bottom border on the timestamp nearly overhangs into the next list item. I would space these out vertically to prevent this.

    The layout overall seems inconsistent with itself. There's no single pattern that I find throughout the layout, so the whole thing feels messy and under-considered. The color scheme is not exciting and beyond the image in the header, there's nothing else very pretty to look at. This layout could benefit greatly from attention to detail.

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    Maison gave it ****- on 26th Nov 2008 and said:

    Hey sophie. I have always loved your website and your style in graphics.

    First Impression
    I love love love how you always have simple layouts. It's so refreshing to see after seeing all of these complex and hard to look at websites. This layout isn't one of my favorites, namely because I think the colors don't really go together as well as your past layouts. I still like it though. It looks kind of weird to see a pretty cursive header in your sidebar and header, but then there's a totally different header in your blog. I know it would be hard to make images for all of your blog titles, I'm just pointing out that it looks a bit strange. You have a good sidebar, the only thing I wouldn't put in there personally would be the calendar. I think the Sophie section of your website would be better suited as a page under Domain.

    Sometimes I think the signing of your name thing at the end of each blog is cute, sometimes I think it's unnecessary from a site that only has one owner. Your blogs are pretty interesting to read. You know how to keep people coming back.

    Domain
    I'm looking through your past layouts. Version 28 looked a little myspacey. I liked 26/27, they were simple and had a nice easy to read placement of the sidebar and content and everything. (I know that didn't make a whole lot of sense.) Twenty one and twenty two were probably my two favorites of all time. That's when I first started coming to your website, and I fell in love with the simplicity.

    Resources
    Your bullets are quite large. I like the 4 square ones. Your mini blends are cute, and it looks like you might have taken those two pictures you used? which is good, instead of infringing on someone else's copyright. I love your cute cartoon-ish stuff. Cute pixel text. You've got some good stocks, too.
    Your brushes look kind of like the kind of brushes every graphic site would offer. They look good, its just that you could probably get brushes like that almost anywhere. Mine are like that too though I think, it is hard to be original with those.

    Tutorials
    You've got a wide selection of tutorials, which is always good.
    I see you offer cutenews tutorials, and the more you know, right? But I think its kind of encouraging people to use such a horrible script like cutenews. It's so unsafe. I'm not going through all of these tutorials, but from what I did see it looks like you know how to explain things pretty well.

    Overall, you're way better off with your website than most people that offer things like you do. It's a really good website, and especially for your age. Keep being awesome sophie.

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  11. paperheart gave it ***** on 26th Nov 2008 and said:

    First impression was wowzer! I love your vexel of tokdoki hello kitty!The css is a bit plain, but goes well with the layout. Maybe add a bit green to the links or something. Your blogs seem pretty funny when ive read through them! Actually their hilarious.
    First we'll have a look at the "sophie" page.

    Sophie:
    Grammar mistake (You might have already guessed that my name is Sophie; I ) It should be (You might have already guessed that my name is Sophie. I) I think your autobio is well written and not many mistakes.

    Domain:
    Your links are very neat and tidy. The green css looks good in addition to the layout! IVE looked through your past layouts and i have to say im pretty impressed. Your layouts look much better without celeb images but your twilight ones cool :]

    Resources:
    Ive quickly looked through your pages. The pixel text's are really pretty; i especialy like the i love... ones The "stock" page are great too.
    The brushes. I love the twilight quotes! i might download them...

    Tutorials:
    The screenshot tutorial is pretty useless. Peope can easily google it. The rest of them are pretty well written.

    Overal i think your site has a lot of potential. You should make some vexels for peop download 'cos your pretty talanted :]

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