Love Smile

Love Smile

****- (Rated by 6 people, viewed by 84 people)

LoveSmile.org is the centre of my fandom universe; it holds the videos that I have made, as well as an awards section for fellow fanvidders to submit their videos and win awards. A newer section is also the reviews one, where sites can get my honest and fair opinion on their site too.

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Love Smile has 6 Reviews

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    aeris gave it ***-- on 21st Feb 2009 and said:

    Visual:
    You didn't make any part of the layout yourself, correct? Still, it's easy to look at. Not necessarily memorable, but that's hard to do nowadays. The most important thing is that it's above average. There are some minor things I would change. Don't use special characters like brackets to highlight words. "Awards" has the same impact as "[Awards]" Sidebar text should be left-aligned. Under likes and dislike, words are separated with a forward-slash while others are separated with line breaks. And as someone already pointed out, most people would name the last section "about" or "info" instead of "Web/Site".

    Content:
    Since I'm no teenager, the only section I found remotely interesting is web/site. But I can see other people getting hooked and coming back for more.

    Coding:
    Your code is wildly invalid. You're missing a doctype, vital block-level elements, CSS is on every page when it could and should be external (as another reviewer mentioned). Etc etc. The CSS could also use a lot of work. Try to find someone who actually knows html to code your pages.

    In Credits > General, one tag looks like this: <a href="www.heartdrops.org " target="_blank">which is rendered by a browser like this: http://www.lovesmile.org/www.heartdrops.org

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    Fairy's Response:

    Thanks for taking the time to review my site :)

    I've just changed the credits so it all links, i'd forgotten the http:// part!

    Anyway, thanks for the review!

  2. Freshcherry gave it ****- on 21st Feb 2009 and said:

    Hi I'm Ghislaine and below my review.

    First Impressions/ website: The layout looks great! I love to see layouts with celebs on it and I regonize the girl from gossip girl haha ;) So I like the layout but I think your website needs a background or maby not the color white. It looks a little bit empty to me. The navigation looks nice, great hover/ css. The css looks also nice.
    The sidebar, looks great to. The buttons are beautiful. And I like the cbox. Everything is organized.
    Content ; you have a lot to see on your website. I like it and it makes you stay. The navigation looks great to.

    Good job!

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    Fairy's Response:

    Thanks for your review! :)

  3. killthehurt gave it ****- on 20th Feb 2009 and said:

    First Impressions/Layout:
    Nice layout. Don't know who the girl is, but I like how the layout is set up. It looks a little off-center, though. It would look great fully centered. There are many tutorials on how to center your layout, so i'm sure if you wanted to you'd have no problem. {http://www.falsetto.paper-hearts.org/containers.php ; check that one out :)}
    One thing I'm not too crazy about are the navigation links. The light color pink doesn't look right with the rest of the darker colors in the layout. Maybe you could make it that darker color in your headers, or even the bold color you have.
    As I look at the font, I noticed it's a bit small. My computer screen is big, but if I was on my laptop, I think I'd have a hard time reading it. Just a size bigger would be nice.

    Content:
    Fanvideo info & Videos; I've never been to a site with this before so yay for originality? Although, I'm not sure what it is exactly. As far as I can tell, this section is for your youtube account, right? Maybe you could write a little section to explain it all.
    Win an Award; Like a contest but with videos, not graphics. Cool cool :) It's nice to see a more original title than 'Contests'
    Reviews; Nice. I like how everything is set up. The Rules are straight forward, no stupid rules or anything.
    Web/Site At first I thought it was a typo, but once I clicked it I realized it was webmistress/site :) nice, nice ,nice.

    I hope this review helps a little :]

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    Fairy's Response:

    Thankyou for taking the time to review :)
    Just so you know, the girl is Leighton Meester off Gossip Girl x] Off center? Since you're the second person to say that i'll take a look at it, since it's centered on my screen...

    The videos section holds all my videos, so if you click on an image, you get to watch the video at youtube. As for the fanvideo information bit, it's just about backup accounts, faq's and suchlike :p

    Thanks for reviewing, and i'll definately take what you said into account! :)

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    solovely gave it ****- on 20th Feb 2009 and said:

    Hellos! I am Ivy and I am here to review your site. It would be just an overview, but I hope it helps (in my opinions).

    Layout: When I first got onto your site, I saw your header which I really like. Leighton Meester is a great actress and she looks very nice as a layout, too! The color combination in your layout is nice and organized as well as appealing to the eyes.

    Sidebar: Your text box's wording font can be smaller. It would be so much better if you did because it seems weird that everything is so small and all of a sudden that part is huge! You have a lot of button links within your sidebar, but is it necessary? If it is, you can ignore this. But if it's not, you should reduce the amount of button links within the sidebar because it seems way too busy here and too many of these link buttons seems overwhelming to the eyes. Maybe try some text links as well.

    Blog: Your blog text is really small and it's kind of hurting my eyes. Maybe if you make it one point higher, it would be alright. The blog post title can be a different font as well (but not needed) because it would be more appealing to the eyes. It would also catch my attention if you have done this.

    Overall Content: You have a lot going on on your content. There are videos, reviews, and a Contest. There is a lot to offer here, but it seems organize enough to be displayed on your site which is good. I guess this is a mini-fansite with all these different kind of content here as well. Overall, it's a pretty good content you have going here and well organized.

    I hope you find this review useful. :)

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    Fairy's Response:

    Thankyou for taking the time to review :)

    I think i'm going to make my top affilates text links, but the reason I have the links out section is because the sites there have asked to be put on every page on the sidebar x]

    Thanks for the review! I'll definately think about what you said :)

  5. shockwave gave it ****- on 20th Feb 2009 and said:

    Hey, I am Allie and I will be reviewing your site in Firefox. I have a resolution of 1280 by 800 pixels.

    Site Name / URL.
    Simple to remember, and cute. The word "love", however, is used often in many URLs. It's not as unique.

    First impressions.
    You have a nice layout, but I can not read your blog very well. You have a nice line height, but your text is way too small.

    Layout.
    As I've already mentioned, the text is way too small. I have to squint a bit to read it. The navigation is also too small. Make he words bigger! It will make the navigation more noticable. Your sidebar is a bit long too. Are your link back buttons really that important? Maybe you can make a separate page for them or put them on a page with your affiliates. And with your top affiliates, instead of their buttons, maybe you can just link their names in text. Other than that, I love your layout. It's nice and simple, and the colors don't hurt my eyes. You have a great theme going on.

    Content.
    Fan Video info - I'm assuming that's sort of like your site stats.
    FAQ - Your FAQ is helpful; maybe you can install a script so visitors can ask you questions themselves.
    Awards - They can go in your Site / Web section.
    Backup Accounts - You should notify your visitors if they are external links or not. It's good to notify them of your backup accounts in case your site is down.
    Fandoms - I'm guessing it's some type of video, or the summaries of videos you made.
    Your Subscriptions - Not really neccessary. It's just a list of links that you've subscribed to on youtube.
    Nominations - I don't think I need to review this.
    Projects - There is really nothing on this page. You should take it down.

    Videos.
    Basically just the videos you've made, okay.

    Win an award.
    I'm assuming this is a contest where you make a video and you win an award for the best ___ . I don't think it's neccessary for me to review this.

    Get Reviewed.
    You review other sites as well, I see. Did you make those Octipi yourself? If you did, they're very adorable. If you didn't you should credit them.

    Web / Site.
    About Me - I suggest you right a mini bio of yourself as well as your list of likes and dislikes.
    About Love Smile - It doesn't look complete. Your last sentence is "It eventually opened on... " and doesn't go on anymore.
    Affiliates - Very organized.
    Archives - Just your past updates; looks like you update a lot.
    Fan Fiction - Good, you notified your visitors of the external link. Kudos for that.
    Mailing List - Nice way to have people come back to your site a lot.
    Video History - Nice little bio of how you started to make videos. Great way for visitors to get to know you better.
    Credits - Good, you've credited a lot of people
    Contact Me - Maybe you can add your e-mail on the page too, or some other type of linkage where they can contact you.

    Organization and Creativity.
    Your site is pretty organized, you just have a lot of subpages. Your videos are pretty creative, too!

    Overall Comment.
    You have many pages, and that ought to keep the visitors busy looking through them all. You have potential, your site is great! :]

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    Fairy's Response:

    Thankyou for taking the time to review :)
    I'll take into account the text size though! As for the Octupi, I didn't make them, but I have credited Heartdrops for them :)

    Thanks!

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    Greykitty gave it ****- on 20th Feb 2009 and said:

    Layout
    Colors are nice on the eyes, but why isn't it centered? It can easily be done with your CSS so that would be one of my first suggestions. I would also suggest adding a border to each side of your layout or adding a box around each part of your text because as it is your layout is very bland.

    The font is an ok color but it's tiny! Try upping it to 12pt at least. That's pretty much the standard size font should be. The navigation is ok, but there again it's too small. I would almost suggest getting rid of your side column since your layout is very narrow that way your content has more room. All the stuff in your right column can be moved to another page or moved to the bottom of your pages. And you could move the "welcome" paragraph to the top of your main page.

    This will help the whole site look a little less cramped in general, which I think will help improve it.
    The header image is nice, I like that it's soft. It's a celeb layout, obviously, so I'll touch on the whole copyright issue. Just make sure you have credits and permission to use anything you do use or you could get in trouble for it. Usually they leave people alone so long as they aren't making money off of it, BUT it can happen.

    The last thing I will mention is the bright pink font, it's not that it doesn't fit, I just find it a bit hard to read against your background. Maybe change it to a darker shade.

    Just glancing at your coding I would suggest you move all your css info to an external stylesheet. This will help you separate code from content and help your pages to load a little better. I would suggest checking your site out in the W3C validator.


    Content

    I don't see many fan video sites around, so your site is kinda neat. I used to make a lot of them when I was younger. You have a fairly large selection to look at too, which I don't really have time right now to look through them all. I took a look at one though and it looked nice enough.

    Your fan vid info is good enough, shows your awards, faq etc. Nothing to add about that. I also like that other people can send in their videos to receive an award. Adds to helping draw people back to your site for sure. Random reviewing, it's nice to have but not something I thought would be on a video site. I thought at first it was just get a video reviewed. Which might be a decent idea too. Tell people what you would suggest to help them make their own videos better.
    Your reviews are ok, they give a fairly decent amount of info, much better than most I see on personal type sites.
    It's good that you include a screen shot of it as well.

    Your site section is very complete. It'd be nice to see a short paragraph about yourself on the "about me" page though rather than just a bunch of lists. I like that you have a little blip about how you started making fan videos too.

    Overall

    I think you have a pretty nice site. There's enough content to keep people busy for a while, though you mainly focus on harry potter from what I saw, maybe try to diversify just a bit more on that. The layout is nice, but I think you could add a little more to it to spice it up. Maybe a slight background image, something that's not too bright and distracting but enough to give the background a little texture.

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    Fairy's Response:

    Thanks for taking the time to review my site :)
    As for the layout, it is centered in my screen x] And i'll definately take into account the font size.

    Video reviews, eh? Never even crossed my mind! Thanks :)

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