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Patricia gave it on 27th Apr 2009 and said:
Wow, your site is one of my favourite. And because of that, I'm going to review you.
Okay, I should start.
Hi, I'm Patricia (as you might know) and I'm here to review your site today.
First Impression
The first thing I always see when I step into your site is the lovely, bright, cute layout. The panda is adorable and it truely catches my eye. As I see real potential in your layout, I actually want to see more of what you can do.
Layout
I really like the warm colours that you've used to create the Bim Bim layout. The navigation is lovely; well centered and awesome! I had fun for about a minute, hovering my mouse over the navigation, haha.
Your container is too long in my opinion. Because you enjoy writing long blogs, maybe minimise how many blogs are displayed. In your case, I might say just 2 blogs.
Your layout doesn't seem to have any mistakes, which is pretty good so far in my opinion. Let's move on.
Content
Your goodies for visitors seem great!
Pugboard: They're fine. It's good to know that visitors can plug in their site for free.
Reviews Request: I'm loving your reviews so I should definitely apply after when my site's over the revamp.
Q*Bee Freebies: i don't know what they are but the pixels are cute. You're obviously good at them.
Premade Layouts: Seeing as though you have only one premade layout, I'd like to see more! :)
Downloads: Your downloads include: Icons, Smilies, and Photoshop brushes. It would be better to put them all in seperate pages, but it's not really a big problem. I'm just suggesting.
Your icons are proffessional, yet rainbowish. Your smilies: good. And your Brushes are even better. But I would love to see more!
Wallpapers: They're very simple. But I like them all the same. I'm even using one now: The Bim Bim one. I showed my dad and he even said it was cute. The only thing I have against is the butterfly one. It just... doesn't seem good to me. I don't know, but maybe I'm used to your vector style or something.
Avatars: They're reasonable but they're just like icon bases, if you know what I mean. But I really like your originality: You draw and take a lot of time on your icons. Again, I seems not to like the butterfly avatars. wow.
Tutorials: They are really helpful. You explain them with good reason. And it makes sense and that I can even follow them.
Your writings: They are even better! I read them and the layout designs article really made me think twice!
Portfolio: Lovely artwork! i love your style, but i seem to like your illustrations, drawings and such more than your blends. :)
Your Site section: No problems. I liked reading the about bit. It's very interesting.
About me page: I would like to learn more about you. Other people's lives are way interesting than mine. And you live in Singapore? I'm going there in July this year for 2 nights from China. :D
Originality I'm giving you full marks for this one. Your site is very original from top to bottom. The site's name is an example. But most importantly, I think it's your dedication to your site that makes it original. You're open to your visitors. You are always active, replying to comments and such. Most web designers are lacking this particular thing.
Overall I look forward coming back. (Lol, aren't we all?)
amourchaleur.com is a great site and make sure you drop a comment!

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Vera gave it on 20th Apr 2009 and said:
I swear I've been meaning to review you for eons. And I'd sit down all ready to start... but then I'd chicken out. I'm always so wary of criticizing lovely designs, most especially since I honestly couldn't make something like this.

Still, I now that I got to the point where I tell myself "Dayna's first, or nothing". I obviously HAVE to review you. XP

= First Impression =
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Every time I visit this site my thoughts tend to wander towards "Awww... so cute! Such lovely artwork". It reminds me of one of those Japanese/Korean games/artists' sites. How I wish I could make something at least halfway as decent...

= Presentation =
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The header image is lovely, I can't get enough of it: just keep staring and drooling over it. While this is of course high praise from yours truly, it also detracts my attention from your content. Even though I've been here countless times, I don't think I ever really read a lot from your site. I think I read (and possibly commented) on a blog entry detailing your date. So perhaps you should consider making the header image smaller. After all, I suppose you want people to view your content as well, right? Then again, it's quite possible that my attention span is firmly lodged in the negative values' area :P

I love tabbed navigation, and always try to integrate it into my designs whenever possible. Your tabs are rounded, and the inverted kind too... BUT they just looks very odd to me. I remember that this was the case with your previous layout (featuring the pink and green... erm, aliens?). First of all, given the very sleek and shiny nature of the header image, I'm a bit disappointed by the rather "flat" icons near the main navigation. Sucks, I know, but since you took my (metaphorical) breath away with such a gorgeous piece of work, now you've set a precedent. Second, being a person whose attention span tends to jump around and not really sit down for long (so to speak :P), I tend to focus more on the icons accompanying the tabs, rather then on the text near them. When I see a human face like that, I automatically assume that it's something to do with the webmaster. You on the other hand seem to have two. I'd use a wrapped gift box with a bow instead.
Next, your main category descriptions bother me a bit. I used to give fancy names to my main navigation, back in the YS.nu days... that is, until Captious Pedants (wpr site) opened my eyes. Yes, sure it's one way to differentiate yourself from other sites. Nevertheless, I should be able to instantly have an inkling about what you talk about in that section. The "spirit", "essence" and "thoughts" could be named more clearly. The latter, is a bit odd, to me. I assume that it houses your writing. But on first thought, I'd think of it relating to blog posts. Granted, your terms, are not very obscure and hard to figure out... but some of them DO require a bit of thinking to figure out (just by the name) what it's supposed to hold. Not that making people think is bad XD But, I'd rather choose to make them think over a thoughtful article instead of my main navigation. Yeah, I know, I talk in circles a loooot, so if you're getting dizzy it's me, not you.

Upon hovering over the tabs I see that you have a small explanatory text for each section, which makes things much more clearer. That's good, from a usability point of view. From an aesthetic point of view though, it makes the tabs even more cramped than before. I get this feeling that you keep trying to squeeze way too much information into them. There's no need: you have sections that are mostly common to all personal sites, so it's OK to name them as such. In the end, visitors will be much more likely to remember your content/design, than the fact that your about page is named "spirit"... when thinking about your site, I mean.

Another thing which bothered me a bit, was the placement of the twitter and welcome boxes. Being European, I tend to read from left to right, so I'd first read your "tweets" and only AFTER that the introduction. Wouldn't it be more logical to first "introduce yourself" and only go on about other stuff next?

All in all, I really like your design, despite the nitpicking I've taken you through. It's very eye-pleasing and not too crowded, despite the fact that you use quite a few icons, in place of plain text (eg date, comment links).

= Content =
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- Home -
Your blog entries. There's enough for me to read, and you use the ever so handy paging plug-in. I'm not entirely sure about the placement of the category and title of the blog posts. On the one hand, they're typical places, but given the nature of the background/decoration you chose to use, I'd opt for not having them one below the other. My initial tendency is to consider the date as the start of the post. For some reason the dotted border, spells out "end of the part above". Then again, that might just be due to the designs I've had to implement at work. Nevertheless, I'd suggest you move the categories at the end of the post, or make the background, paler, so that it wouldn't attract more attention than the title.

I also very much like how your posts seems to have some sort of picture in them. It makes reading it so much easier.

- Spirit -
Your writing style is engaging and you obviously read a decent amount. However, you have a tendency to use very long sentences. Chop them up in smaller ones.
You also have some grammatical inconsistencies:

I had lived all my life on this small sunny island and is a sensitive Cancerian who is happiest when in the heart of my family and close friends.

Using "had" means that this all happened in the past, and now this is no longer the case. If you want to express an action that started in the past, but is still continuing in the present use present perfect: I have lived here my whole life. Your phrasing uses past perfect *polishes English teacher-wannabe glasses* XP

Oh that's interesting: you started out doing design and only later switched to website making. I'm generally used to it being the other way around. Be careful of some inconsistencies:

It was then when my small world expanded and I moved over to this current sub-domain.

Seeing as next you tell us how you moved elsewhere, I assume that the sub-domain is not your "current" one, anymore.

Your crafts page is amazing. You can make some incredibly lovely things.

The subjects Iâ€™m taking for my O levels were

Pay attention to the sequence of tenses: I'm taking should be I took. You're no longer in high school, so I'm assuming you're no longer studying these subjects.

Same, for the paragraph below (caps, my corrections):

The freedom WAS what attractED me the most. There is also a higher chance of going to a University if I studied there. However, if I DONâ€™t manage to get into a University, I WOULD HAVE to go back to a polytechnic to get a diploma. Having no confidence in myself, I optED to go to a polytechnic. Although the possibility of going to a University is much lower, at least the diploma still serves a purpose.

I'm not too sure, but I gathered you managed to enter a university, right? Educational systems other than my own tend to confuse me :P

For the awards page, it would also be interesting to see the pieces you entered... in case you still have them.

I am lucky to found him on June 20 2005.

"found" should be "have found"; or rephrase is as "I was lucky to find him...".

- Essence -

This personal site is a place where I devote much of my precious time to.

Leave either the "to" or the "where" out.

LibertÃ also known as Freedom in Italian is one of my greatest desire

desire should be desires, seeing as "one of" means that you have more than one.

I am an ordinary girl who needs my own space

"my" should be "her", since you're referring to the "ordinary girl" not the "I".

Oh... another award page? Why is this separate from the one in the personal section?

There are more grammatical errors, but... erm, I'm too lazy to point them all out. Plus, I really hate nagging about grammar (get into it way too much). I suggest you go through all your pages and carefully read through. Most of your mistakes are mostly verb tenses related (you use present and past referring to the same action).
General rules:
- if you're no longer doing something (eg taking O levels) just use past all around.
- if you're still doing something that you started some time ago, use present perfect (I have + 3rd form of the verb).

OK, no more grammar lessons from me. In case you're wondering: yes, I even disgust myself.

The search page is very badly placed. If people are looking for something, they should be able to search from every page. I suggest you put the form in the footer, instead of having its own page. There's no reason for one text input and a submit input to need an entire page to themselves.

- Inspiring -

I LOVE your portfolio. It's incredibly well organized, and your works are all lovely. I hope you have (or will consider) making desktop wallpapers. I'm always on the lookout for some :P

In the webdesign category, Summer Bloomz doesn't have a description, unlike the rest. You DO realize that now I will keep having sleepless night wondering what is was made for. *cue shocked expression*

If I don't manage to finish this review... just know I got lost drooling over your photography category.

- Thoughts -

This is where I pen down my thoughts in written words

Penning down words means your write them down...

Person A and B started web designing at the same time. Both could achieve the same level of skills if both of them have the same level of the desire to learn.

Technically, that's not quite accurate. Some people (points at self) have much less talent and artistic inclination compared to others (points at you).
It's an interesting article, though I disagree with its main focus: originality is better than professionalism. I feel that there are more factors involved in making a layout, than just its look. You can't really have the same type of design for a company's website, as you'd have for your own personal one.
But yeah... that's just my personal opinion on the matter, and not really relevant to your review. Meaning: it doesn't change my opinion of your site. :P

I feel that we have to experience with the different colours in our graphics editing software to design a good layout

Isn't that supposed to be "experiment" instead of "experience"?
It's a very interesting approach to using colors. I'll have to try this out, seeing as I'm one of those "I use boring colors" type of webmaster :P

- Visitors -
Yay! Wallpapers! *downloads*

Your wordpress tutorials are most very helpful to beginners, though sometimes I do find it odd to have a brief paragraph saying "read this to find out how to...".

= Coding =
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Your HTML and CSS are nicely formatted and your mostly separate content from coding. You might consider trying to put all your javascript scripts into external files, to help with page loading... I didn't have any trouble loading your pages, but then I do pay for more than the lowest speed connection. You might consider lower a bit of your javascript codes, or not having them on pages that don't need them. For example, you should only use the gallery related scripts on pages that have image galleries.

Score: 3.8/5 ~ 4/5

For the most part, I greatly enjoyed my visit to Amour Chaleur. I will definitely be back more often from now on.
You seriously need to re read your pages though. There are a lot of grammatical mistakes in them, which I'm sure are mostly due to lack of proper attention. I don't mind a few mistakes, here and there, but reoccurring ones, and more than 3 on a page, tend to attract unwanted attention.

So all in all, you have a lovely site. Just pay more attention to your grammar (sequence of tenses mostly).

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toxicspells gave it on 18th Apr 2009 and said:
Wow! Going to AmourChaleur felt like going to a new wonderful world! Your layout is amazing, cute, and sweet!
Site Name- AmourChaleur is a very unique and cute site name. It is DEFINETLY the site I would recommend for any use. "AmourChaleur" is sometimes hard to remember, but the good thing is, the domain helps alot.
Layout- Me, I, personally had been to your site lots of times. All your layout are totally adorable. The organization seems to also match your layout. Does the header match though? having the header to match is a very important thing that really catches every persons eye. The first thing they look at is the layout, the header and the content. Indeed, you have all the things I had listed.
Organization- Your organization is very neat. I love your links!
Content- Your content are very high quality! Amazing!
Blog: I like how your b l o g is neatly setted up! Wonderful job! Personally, yours is totally neat! Keep it up!
Links- Your links all seem to work, which is great, amazing, I mean... totally fantastic! Having your links to work is a big part of your website.
Spelling- Wow! no Spelling mistakes! Everything seems to be spelt correctly with no errors! Congraulations! I had not seen a site with no spelling mistakes for the first few days!
Content Info- your Awards: Seeing your awards "WOWS" me out! You showing your visitors these awards make them love your site even More!
Disclaimer: I like how you DO NOT use celebrity images! It really amazes me how you can create a website with cute little animals throughout your website! WOW! Congrats to you for that! I had not seen as much people like your website yet! So, Congrats again!
Coding: looks like you perfect it! Nice job!
Impression: My impression? Oh yes! I would never forget my impression to your website. Without a doubt, it is amazing, simply amazing, fantastic!
Webmiss: You seem to be an extremely talented person! Quite amazing designing! Fantastic Ideas! SUPER!! You also seem to be an amazing webmiss to your visitors. All must love your website.
Overall Impression: After all that writing, there must be an overall impression! Indeed! Your website is amazing, as I said before! It's cute, and not too dark, which I prefer. I would allow all my siblings to visit an wonderful website like yours!

"It's a M-U-S-T see website!"
-toxicspells

Mark, rating: In conclusion, I must let you know your mark and rating! I think you deserve perfect! Keep your wonderful; amazing; sweet; delighful; memorable; cute; adorable; cool; extraordinary site up! All those words mean something and all of the wonderful adjectives means your website! Keep up the great work! I'm sure your website will become and extremely successful website in the future! Wonderful, yes indeed wonderful! Keep up with the amazing work! It had been a pleasure reviewing your site!! Keep up the amazing; adorable; sweet; and cute layout and content! I am looking forward to reviewing you again when you switch your layout! I hope you keep up the wonderful website opened for CENTURIES and don't forget that

AMOURCHALEUR IS REALLY AN

m u s t b e s e e n e d w e b ! !

Good luck with yoru website in the future! Keep up with the amazing awesome work!!

Final Ending: Continue with the adorable website!!

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Frisby gave it on 14th Apr 2009 and said:
Hullos, Danya, I'm Frisby. Your (very) nifty layout caught my eye, so I'm going to review your site, although I have this feeling I've done it before... o.o

First Impression:
The layout loads pretty quickly, which is a plus. Additionally, the sticky-note tabs on the sides stand out and look very cute. The banner at the top is very unique and attractive as well. I like how you have the RSS link up there, and the style of the picture in general is very unique and fits well with everything. The panda does seem to stand out because of the way its not shaded like the other elements of the image. In the future I'd advise either making something like this really stand out or not stand out at all; it doesn't seem to fit as well as it is.
I like the navigation links, they're very cool, as well as the comment links and their nifty hoverability...
One suggestion on the organization of the layout would be to switch the twitter and welcome boxes. It seems more logical, at least to me, to read the welcome message first.

Moving on to "The Spirit" section...
I've seen most people cram everything onto one page, and the way you've spread the information across multiple pages under different topics is a good idea.
I'm not going to read it all, but from what I see there isn't really anything to improve, contentwise...
I see the whatsamajigger thing...xP...The mini nav bar that gives you the links back to the pages you were just on--Thats a nice touch.

Essence of the Spirit "Domain"...
I guess this is what some people call the "Sitely" part of the website. Just skimming, I don't really see anything to improve...I guess your cryptic naming of the parts of your site might be a little off-putting to some...but thats not too important.

Inspiring
Clicking on the blends I see that your organization with multiple pages serves its purpose very well, and your work is amazing. I love it!
Just noticing as the preview box loads-The loading wheel looks like it was made to go with your previous layout; maybe you should change that.

Thoughts
I think you raise a lot of good points here, and the I find a lot o it very interesting. It looks like you can only comment on some of the writings though, and if you could, commentability on all would be great.

Visitors
-skimming around-
Your cupcake layout is amazing, and it'd certainly be great to see more layouts.
Downloads--Your brushes don't seem too great from the preview image. I dowloaded the copyright pack to see if it was any good, and it really doesn't seem all that useful. Sure, you can stamp a big c on all your banners, but only I don't think thats really what people look for with brushes...The other preview images don't make the brush packs look too interesting either. This is probably the biggest area you could work on.

Since I'm sort on time, I'll sum it up. Your site is pretty spectacular. THere isn't much room for improvement, but of course there always some. THe part of the site you should try to focus on most is the visitors branch. Other than that, there are a few things to fix and keep in ind here and there, but not much! Stupendous job! :D
The only reason you don't have a five is just in case I stumble upon a site better than yours someday, unlikely as it is.

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Natalie gave it on 13th Apr 2009 and said:
Hello Dayna. You asked for me to review you (and others to as well) in the tagboard, so here I am ;)

I use firefox on Windows XP, but that shouldn't matter if your site is well coded with the ways of cross-browser compatability. I generally don not read the previous reviews, so don't be annoyed at me if I repeat what they say/said. I will review your site under seven main categories, and the content of each varies from site to site. These categories are: First Impressions, CSS Styling/Coding, Originality, Actual Coding, Content, Grammar & Spelling and Overall. Now, let's get to the actual review istead of my rambling on and on...

First Impressions:

When I first get to the site, I notice it takes a while to load, maybe it was just my computer being stupid. But it was worth the wait. The thought that went through my head when the cute banner with the panda on it came on the screen was "Oh my gosh! So cool. I'm going to want to use all the visitor content if it is at that standard. So then I sit there for about 2 minutes going gaga over the details of the banner/header image (and the cuteness of the Panda Bear) and then decide to go onto the actual site.

Then I read your welcome message. It tells us that you own it, what the site's name means, a little bit about you, where your from and that it is a mainly personal site. But it doesn't suck the visitor in (um... that sounded scammy). What I mean is, you want to tell the visitor what they have come to, what they will achieve by visiting this site and that sort of stuff. It's like an introductory paragraph of a story or the blurb of a novel... It needs to get the reader/viewer intrested in a short, snappy and creative way. Other than the vagueness welcome message, I am AMAZED. (by the way, my welcome message is worse than yours, so who am I to judge?).

Also, Although your banner is very cute, it is at the maximum height that it should be at. Because the 800x600 resolution people (although rare, they still exist) pretty much only see the banner and the navigation. But yes, your layout banner still quilifies under my standards (say what...?).

CSS Styling/Coding:

I will both look at your CSS personally and run it through the validator. Okay, your CSS is soooooooo long, I can't possibly go through it all, by myself.

So I will rely on the validator and hope it is telling me the truth *interrogates validator*. Yay, no errors... but wait, there are 14 warnings, so I suggest you fix those. Pretty much all of them are there because you haven't declared the width of something, and this could be fixed by declaring it. However, it this effects your site in a bad way, just go back to having the warnings. I don't mind either way.

Originality:

The layout certainly is original. I have not seen such a panda anywhere else (at least I think I haven't) which is good.

(Off topic, I'm not even halfway through this review and have more than 500 words at the moment, gah!)

Moving onto your actual content's originality I notice that you have general stuff that most people have these days (then again, I do to...) apart from the qbee freebies, which I haven't seen anywhere (apart from the qbee website) before.

Actual Coding:

You validate in XHTML and I can't be bothered to go any further than that, because I don't want this review to be to long, and I am just that lazy. *facepalm*

Content:

Your visitor items are all very good quality, and by the looks of things, don't violate copyright laws *high-five* so yay you! I have plugged in the plug board, read some reviews, been amazed by qbee freebies, wanted to eat cupcake mash (that layout), loved the downloads, said "wow," to the wallpapers, wanted to use the avatars and learnt from your tutorials. I also had tons of fun going through this section. A++ stuff for the visitors items :D

I can't be bothered to do any more typing about the content of your site because I am again finding myself to be incredibly lazy today. But before I move on though, I will let you know that your blogs and writings are very interesting, I look foward to reading more in the future ;)

Grammar & Spelling:

This part of the review dosen't matter too much, but it is just here because some sites "TyP lYk DiS!1!11!!1" But I don't think you have that problem. Although I did notice a few grammatical errors. Fro example, in your welcome message you have written "AmourChaleur which refers to warmth and love (in French) is the personal domain of a twenty year old..." which does not quite sond right, perhaps it should be "AmourChaleur refers to warmth and love in French, and is the personal domain of a twenty year old..."

But, I don't think we need to worry to much about that, becuase people get the message anyway, even if it does not sound right to me.

Overall:

Overall, you own a very cute site and I enjoyed reviewing it. I give you 4.5 stars and I hope you can improve a bit on grammar, the warnings on you CSS, your loading time and adding a few more orginal visitor items when it is possible. Thank you for asking me to review your site as I would not have found out about it otherwise. I look foward to coming back soon to read some more blog entries and have a bit more of an explore around the site. So yes, I hope you can keep on making things at the quality that they are at as they are completly mesmorising. If you can manage to get your site close to perfect, I will come back later and change it to five stars, just because. My fingers are really, really sore now :(

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Dayna's Response:
I will think true the welcome message again to see if I could come up with a better one. If I did, I'll be sure to let you know. ;)

Yup, I understand about the 800x600 resolution problem. There's only 1 problem with this resolution which is the fact that the date and comment link of the post wouldn't be visible at all. I may not optimise it for 800x600 though because the content area would be really small. Last time I check my statistics, only a very small % of my visitors still uses this resolution. But I'll keep this point in mind for my next layout. I'll see what I can do about it.

Oh, the warnings. Yup, I've been so lazy that I have ignored all the warnings because it didn't have any impact or problem on my layout at all so I'm just plain lazy. ;) I have lots of plans to revamp the entire visitors content section to have more quality resources there as some of the downloads are quite old and dated back to like 4 years ago? I plan to have a clipart/illustration section as well. But time is my constraint now so that will have to wait until my summer holidays in June. :P

I need to reread some of my grammar books, it has been too long since I last studied English and it's getting rusty. I'll make sure I do that. Thanks for all the advice and suggestions. I'll be keeping all those points in mind. :)
Sillyish gave it on 12th Apr 2009 and said:
My little review of your layout :-)
A list of things that I thought could be changed
*I noticed this on your 'spirit' page: the link to you book list moves down and to the right on hover, which to me wasn't an attractive effect. Having its background change to the light pink on hover, the same as the books themselves, would have worked better for me.

*Your input field gradients didn't really work to my taste either. It makes them look 'outset' ... I think it might look better if the gradients were going the other way? or if you had borders set up to make it look inset? Also, re: emoticons on comment form being inside something that looks like an input field was weird. Thought it'd be nicer if they were just chilling above the textarea without a special bg/border.

*Also, why would the input fields have a gradient but not the textarea?

*The header is really big, and although it looks AWESOME, it's still... big. And I'm not a fan of oversized headers. But, assuming this is something that obviously can't be fixed for this layout at least, here's some suggestions for the header itself:
- A hover effect for the rss link
- The sign with your site name on it have a hover effect/link home effect.

* A bit more padding for the comment meta headers (where the poster's name is/the date of their post is) and the picket that goes underneath. I think it's a bit too close to its bottom border atm.

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And honestly: That is IT. I cannot think of any other criticisms for your website at all. I'm jealous of your art skills.

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Dayna's Response:
Point 1 gotten. I have changed the background to a pink shade on hover. :)

Input gradient wise, I still have to think about it. Might come up with a new idea somehow. Oh, regarding the emotions, I preferred them contained inside something instead of floating around. I find it neater that way. :P

Regarding the header, I have thought about the RSS on hover effect but I couldn't think of what effect to have so I left it like this. :P As the header is already quite huge in size, having the site name linkable etc would increase loading by quite a bit due to the size of the image. But I'll be keeping this in mind for my next layout in June. :)

Thanks for the review and constructive criticism. I will keep those pointers in mind for the next layout. :D
rockcandy gave it on 20th Dec 2008 and said:
First impressions:
Your layout is eyecatching, and wellmade. Good job! :)

Blog:
I like how you used the "read more" button at the bottom to make your blog more cleaner & neater, instead of flooding it with images like some people do.

Content:
Nice content. I would suggest putting them on different pages to make it neater. Also try to add more visitor content too.

Articles/Writings:
Good job, they're very interesting. :)

Portfolio:
Really nice. I also like how you used the script too. :D Nice job.

About Me:
Your about me is good, and I'm glad that you actually wrote about yourself.

And overall, your site is really good! I don't really have much to say about it. xD Your CSS is also amazing. Good job! :D

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Dayna's Response:
What do you mean by putting the content on different pages? Aren't they already in separate pages?

Thanks for the review. :)
flashglam gave it on 20th Dec 2008 and said:
Hello there . . .
I'm going to review your site. I'm usually good at supplying corrections to any errors with spelling, grammar and punctuation. I have an opinion based on common sense and that's what I'll be sharing with you today.
If there is a page not reviewed, it's 90% of the time because there is nothing wrong with it.
Having said that, let's begin.

// FIRST IMPRESSION //
Holy crap! I love your layout to pieces. I love the sun, the rainbow and the cute little . . . uh . . . circle things. . . :)
Very adorable. I also love the way you have set the navigation. Usually I'm very opposed to the colour scheme that's going on in this layout, but you've found a way to rock it. Kudos.
The font is readable and a good size, at that. Lots of room to breathe.

// SPIRIT //
Cutely written little snippet about you.
* If you want a snowy, white Christmas, come to Canada. There's usually snow on the ground from October/November to March/April. But in some Canadian places, there's snow all year round. So beautiful :) *
-- All of the pages here are very well-written. No complaints or anything! That's what I like to see. :)

// ESSENCE //
Again, everything on this page is absolutely, 100% flawless.

// INSPIRING //
To be honest, I didn't look at every page here, however the pages I did look at are extremely amazing (especially the cartoons!!!)
You have some serious talent, and I hope this is not the first time you hear that. :D

// THOUGHTS //
I've just scanned over a few pages and what I saw was pure genius writing. :) I'm going to bookmark your site and read the other pieces later because I think they would really benefit me, lol.

// VISITORS //
I really like the premade layouts. The strawberry one just strengthened my all-day craving for strawberries. Ha ha ha!
All of the other pages are phenomenal.

// FINAL //
Your site is amazing and deserves nothing less that a five star review. Kudos, yet again.
Congrats!

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Thanks for the review. :)
carisse27 gave it on 18th Dec 2008 and said:
1. Site Name (3/5)
First of all, I really don't know what AmourChaleur means. So a rating of 3 out of 5 will be for you for your site name.
2. Design (10/10)
Perfect! They have said nothing is perfect, but your design is. I love your navigations, like the details the hover effect and the colors! It really matches your header. Likewise, your header is very cute!
3.Popularity (4/5)
I know Popularity does'nt make sense in your site, but it would really mean, more visitors the more you become famous! One good advantage of having more visitors is many will appreciate your work, or otherwise help you have some improvements.
4. Content (38/40)
-Posts
There's nothing wrong with your posts, perhaps I love the "Read More" button. colorful! Also the pictures, it makes your readers more tempted to read.
-Pages
Now I'll go with all your pages.
Spirit- about you
No comment! You have a good intro about yourself!
Essence- domain
Now I know what AmourChaleu is! haha
Inspiring- design galley
wow! This is really useful and awesome! Keep it up!
Thoughts- your writings
I really had fun in this page! No improvements needed. Just keep it up!
Visitors
Very good!
-Grammar
This one
"If you hover over the navigation links, you would realised that I had added some small text so that the navigation is less confusing." It should be "If you hover over the navigation links, you would realize that I have added some small text so that the navigation is less confusing."
You know why realised is wrong? It's because it's a verb in the past tense form and the action is not done yet.Also had should be have; had means you had a thing but it's gone.
That's all I can say about your site!

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Dayna's Response:
AmourChaleur is actually a combination of 2 French words - love and warmth. :)

Oh, okay. Point understood.

Thanks for the review and the grammar tips. :)
jakeboyles gave it on 17th Dec 2008 and said:
Hi, I like the colors a lot in the site, its really bright and draws attention. I also really like the little ball peple things, they are good quality and they bring a lot to the header. The sign is also really nice to. One thing I am not sure about is the gray on the Hover of the nav, maybe make it a little bit more colorful or maybe make it a lighter black? The background is really nice it brings a lot to the site and makes it look a lot better. Really good job with the details too! Good job!

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Dayna's Response:
Thanks for the review. I actually used a lighter shade of grey now because the layout is quite colourful already, so I hope to "neutralise" the effect. But I will think about this. Thanks again :)

UPDATED 08 Jan 09:
I have changed the grey background on hover to a new rainbow design. :)
IF_Danger gave it on 16th Dec 2008 and said:
E'llo, I'm IF! I'll be reviewing you this fine night! :)

Layout:

I love it. It's colorful, cute, organized, well-coded, and looks good overall. I like your creative names, though it's a bit confusing as to what you mean. You could maybe use a hover effect to change the word to what you really mean? Other than that, I don't really see much of a flaw with your layout.

Content:

I didn't really focus too much on the personal aspects of it, because I can't really grade that as it's, well, personal! But I did grade your graphics and other content, and say 5/5! For that! You have excellent, superb graphics that blew me away. Your thoughts articles are well-written, to the point, and mature. They are well thought-out and very well done.

The only thing I could really find wrong in your site was that one little confusing bit about your navigation. Other than that, everything superb. You have a great site!

<3 IF

UPDATED 16 Dec 08:
The navigation is much better now! I really like it, you did an excellent job!

<3 IF

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Dayna's Response:
I will think about how to improve the navigation system and will keep your suggestions in mind. There is actually details in the title tag of the links.

Thank you. :)

UPDATED 16 Dec 08:
I took your suggestion and edited the navigation to actually have some details on hover. If you have the time, do check it out and let me know if it is better. Thanks :)
Naco gave it on 16th Dec 2008 and said:
First Impression
First off, your layout is ADORABLE! I love the bright colors and cute creatures, makes me really want to check out the rest of your site :)

Design
As I said already, your layout is adorable. I love the colors you chose for everything, the navigation itself, etc. Overall there isn't anything that I see that could be improved here :)

Content
Ah, the section about you seems to be first. Detailed but straight to the point. I have always enjoyed reading where everyone got their start with websites etc. I didn't notice any errors or typos. The section about your website (Essence) confused me at first, I thought I clicked on the page about you again at first. I loved looking at the past layout page for your previous site, those designs are just as impressive as the current.

The visitor content is nice as well, I love your smiley sets! The tutorials are easy to read and understand, I'll definitely have to check out the validation one at some point. All of your content is very well organized too, which makes it very easy to navigate.

Conclusion
Overrall you have a very lovely site. It's very well organized and not only is the layout to die for, the content matches it too. Keep up the good work, I will definitely bookmark your site to see what else you come up with in the future.

UPDATED 16 Dec 08:
Looks good! I love that you added the picture as well as the navigation with the information at the bottom, makes it much easier to navigate :)

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Dayna's Response:
Regarding the "Spirit" and "Essence" page, it might be a bit confusing due to the way the navigation is presented. I have actually added a personal photo of myself under the "Spirit" section. I hope that it would reduced some confusion and it's clearer which section the visitors are reading.

Thank you for the review. :)

UPDATED 16 Dec 08:
I edited the navigation to actually have some details on hover. If you have the time, do check it out and let me know if it is better. Thanks :)
arcaeic gave it on 15th Dec 2008 and said:
Layout

Obviously, i'm a guy, so i'm kind of turned off to the layout. But if I think of it from a girl's perspective the layout is very "cute" and put together, good job.

CSS

Your navigation is amazing. I like how you've matched all your colors, tags, headers, and nav links together. Good job, you've done what alot of people are too lazy to do!

Content

I have no problem with your content, I especially enjoyed looking at your magnificent blends. I'm glad that you remembered the important principal of quality not quantity.

Overall

Your website was very well put together, I enjoyed reviewing. I'm sorry about the short review, i'm stepping out the door now. Good luck in the future!

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Dayna's Response:
Yup, I think most guys would think that way. But I'm fine with that because everyone are entitled to their own opinion and I do admit the layout is more girlish and cartoon-ish, but that's me. :)

Thanks for the review. :)
Aisling gave it on 14th Dec 2008 and said:
Hey there! I am really loving your design! It's so bright and cheery. I LOVE bright and cheery (I also love dark and emo... I'm a conundrum) and this one wins me over instantly.

Design-wise, I only have one real hang-up, which is the navigation. I think it would look much better with the text about... 2 or 3 pixes higher (which would make it centred), and a lighter text. The black is the darkest thing on the page, and it's a little bit harsh. Lightening it a few shades on the default state would be nice. It looks nice that colour on hover though!

Other than that, everything seems nicely spaced, and is generally very pleasing for the eyes!

On to content, your Spirit page is very nicely written, and you have an engaging tone that makes me want to know more about you! And lucky for me, you have plenty of subpages to supplement everything, so I can get what I want!

Your Essence page continues in this lovely and easy-to-use manner. The consistency between the two sections is great. My one concern is the bit where you say that AmourChaleur is the "predecessor" to Confessions and LibertÃ . That means that it came before the other two. It should really say that it is the "successor."

Of course, your Inspiring section is incredibly cute. Your Thoughts section continues in your trademark style. That's something I really love about your site-- the consistency! And, your Visitor content is delicious.

Overall, a fabulous site! Certainly very close to perfection. :)

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Dayna's Response:
I've increase it 2 pixel higher so that it is centred now, I had not notice that before. Thanks so much for pointing it out to me. :) Colour of the navigation text had been changed to a lighter tone and changed the wrong word used in the content (on my poor English).

Thanks so much for the review, it has helped. :)
DollieKizz gave it on 13th Dec 2008 and said:
I haven't reviews site's for quite some time but I still check back on this website for new sites and reviews. I saw your site and clicked it and HAD to review it, because it's just so amazing.

When I first got to your site I was thinking, wow. I need to get my site up to this level! Then I realized that that would be really hard and that I should just take it a step at a time.

You're layout is amazing, and centered. I usually hate gradients at backgrounds, but making yours fixed works so well. There are so many colors that give off the happiest vibe from your site, the navigation is great too.

On some of your navigation, it's kind of hard to tell where I'm going. It's cool that you've tried to be original, but it was tricky to know which part was about the site etc...

Everything is organized so well. I've checked out your graphics, and they are great. All of these are as great as you homepage layout; which is good because sometimes people spend ages on their homepage layouts, and give something to their visitors that they would never use themselves.

Your site is great! My ONLY suggestion is to make the navigation a little more obvious to know what you're clicking at. EG: Instead of Essence, write Domain. But I know that you were trying to be original and it worked well :]

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Dayna's Response:
I will think about how to improve the navigation system.

Thank you. :)

UPDATED 16 Dec 08:
I edited the navigation to actually have some details on hover. If you have the time, do check it out and let me know if it is better. Thanks :)