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a personal site for me to blog and share my writing! (:

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    mikeyMISFIT gave it ***** on 22nd Feb 2009 and said:

    Overview
    Wow, your site is great! The first thing I thought when I saw your site was "Nice CSS!" Also, I admire your use of capitalization! Most people get docked marks for things like that! Haha! The only thing that could be fixed would be the pencil graphic, if that. It's really pixelated, and would look better if you had done it on a program like Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, instead of Paint. Although it's better than I could have done on Paint.
    Layout
    Like I said, this layout is well put together. The padding is good, it's centered, and the navigation can be easily spotted, and the background isn't distracting. Onwards to content.
    Content
    Owner: Oh, it's you! :D I REALLY like your first paragraph, I'm a huge LOTR fan, so I thought this was great. I wouldn't advertise your email address on any pages of your website, spambots are known for finding them and emailing random tid-bits of nothing.

    45. -sigh.

    I can't figure out what you were trying to say here, either "45 -sigh-" or "45 - sigh." Either way, you should fix that.

    it’s a very sexy yellow nana chromatic

    First, it's a nano (you should probably change that, unless you were hinting at it being a banana).
    Second: I understand how you feel about your iPod, I think mine's sexy too, but this is one of my pet peeves: you don't have a nano chromatic. Chromatic is the slogan used to sell the new nanos, as they come in many different colours. It's not part of the name. It's neat that you summarized at the bottom. It makes people have to read your entire thing and learn more about you.
    Subdomain: Hooray for hating on Piczo. I hate hate hate hate hate it. I share your views about validating, and x-html. As long as it appears relatively the same in all browsers, I'm good! Coding I actually like. I know, big nerd. I see you've been on killgravity and braindeadd. I know the people who run those sites. Well, except Ben. But I am in contact with one of his hostees, Shea. I like how you have a valid reason for choosing your site name. Not just "cause I like it and it sounds cool". Even thought it does sound cool :P
    Writing: As I came to this page, the bold warning after one of the titles popped into my mind, and without thinking about it, I clicked it. One word: LMFAO.

    And that night while I jerked off, his was the image that came into my head.

    I am now convinced that you are quite hilariously amazing and I might just creepily add you on MSN, seeing as you've posted your email.

    Well, not until last night when I basically raped his mouth.

    You have quite an amazing vocabulary. You should have absolutely no problem becoming an author. Even though this story was about two guys, I thought it was great. OH. MY. GOD. That's my reaction to Attention Seeker. After reading these I've come to the conclusion that if you don't become a writer then I will probably bomb you. :)
    Links: Sweet and simple. List of people you wish to link sites with. Nothing else here. It would be interesting if you put up some sites that you admire, or any fanlistings you joined, or even sites you get inspiration from.
    Overall:
    Your site was fun to visit. You writing is quite enjoyable, and it is well presented, without much error and without making me want to gouge my eyes out. That's better than I can say for most people, seeing as they don't know that they are making mistakes, or know they're making them, and don't care. I'm speaking of course of your layout and writing, which are the key features in a good personal site. The only problems were the minor issues with some punctuation, and the header image. Keep up the good work!
    - Clinton

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    farahonfire's Response:

    Lol, thanks (:
    Ahh, I would have done the pencil graphic in Photoshop or whatever, except I don't have anything other than Paint. So really, it's the best I could do, lmfao.

    LOTR ftw! (:

    I fixed the spelling/grammar/whatever mistakes, so that should be alright.

    And thank you! (: Lol, seriously, I love it when people comment on my writing. They can say whatever shit they want to about my layout - it's the writing I care about.
    Don't bomb me. D:

    Thank youu!

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

    First Impression

    Ye gods. Well, it's not entirely bad. It's just that the background doesn't tile properly. It is a cool background, but very distracting. But a background would work here--just something not as busy. And you need a cool header. Right now, that one is boring.

    Now, monochromatic layouts can work, provided that it's not just black and white, but the grays in between. You do have grays, so you did well there. But, what's with all the lowercase?

    Blog

    The biggest problem I have with this is the lack of capitalization. It would work for the entry titles, but not for everything. Certainly you know how to capitalize words that need to be capitalized. Certainly you know how to capitalize the first letter in a sentence. This makes you look amateurish. So capitalize.

    Now for the other stuff. You need more side padding in your blockquotes. 10px would work here. You also need a little more padding in the entries themselves. An extra 2px would make a world of difference. The size of the font is fine and so is the line height.

    The other pages

    Owner: I don't like lists. So get rid of that top part and leave the details. After the details, put the links with the other stuff at the bottom.

    And you have the same problem that you have on the entries. Lack of capitalization. I find this a bit ironic because I saw the part where you want to be a writer. This doesn't show that you want to be a writer. Well, it does show that you do have a love for words because your bio is longer than mine. But grammar is big in writing. It's well written, but the lack of capitalization irks me to no end.

    Subdomain: Thanks for not calling this section "domain". I have to comment on this.

    oh, let’s get one thing straight. i could care less about validity, xhtml, coding, all that fancy stuff. i’m here for the blog and the writing and you know what? the coding really doesn’t make a difference to me. just thought i’d get that out there.

    Yes, you have to care, because if your site isn't viewable in all browsers (or at least the major ones), you will lose visitors. So seeing as you just told me that you don't care about the coding, I will tear that up soon enough. You want people to see your blog and writing, right? You have to make it viewable for those to see!

    Writings: *rubs hands together* Love writing sections on sites. It's the writer in me. I'm gonna look through a couple of these.

    See, you do write well! I will admit that the first one is very disturbing, though. Your stories are a bit too macabre for my liking (morbid), but they are good. Keep expanding this part.

    You don't need your Twitter page linked up there. And you would benefit from a links page rather than having them on the footer.

    Coding

    Your coding doesn't validate--but you said that you didn't care about that. You only have 20 errors though (in comparision to sites that have 200-400 of them!), so they're pretty easy to fix. You don't have a closing tag for any of your <br> tags. What is the closing tag for <br> tags? Just add a slash to the end. <br /> That takes care of half of your errors.

    & copy should be & copy; That takes care of that warning.

    You're missing a closing <div> tag for your container and wrapper divs. You're also missing a </body> and </html> tag. Those are important! The moment you fix all of those, your coding will validate.

    Now for the other stuff. You shouldn't have your navigation in a <h3> tag! Go here to learn about the proper way to write your navigation (doesn't have to be in that way). And yeah, your major problems were addressed above. Just clean up your coding.

    All right, your stylesheet is out of whack. You have a "rap" div, but you have no styling for that. Why do you need either one?

    I would use em measurements for your font size. This calculator will help you with converting. Here's another. And strive for shortening your CSS. Read up on this.

    All in all...

    Never mind the distracting background that doesn't tile properly (don't use that background again) and the boring header. My biggest problem with your site is the lack of capitalization. Yes, I may come off as a grammar fiend, but it's one of my pet peeves.

    You do have a promising site here beyond that. You're a lover of words; expand on that writing section and add on some poetry or articles. Move the favorite blogs (or affiliates) to a page of its own to free up your footer space. Speaking of, I don't know what that quote is supposed to be about, but I don't think it should be there.

    Your coding is a bit mangled. It's not horrible, but since you did modify a theme from Grab a Theme, you didn't bother to change some of them. Create a layout with your own coding while using this only as a guide. Good luck!

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

    I am going to reviewing your website on Windows Vista via Firefox 3 on a1440x900 resolution. I am going to be reviewing more of your content, design and overall look of Seattle rather than the codes and CSS stuff. I prefer to do it this way.

    On seeing your site I was like "wow". I was pretty impressed. The background was a bit off putting and it's all black and white which gives this 'newspaper' feel but like a 'scribbly newpaper' feel which I think is pretty frikin' cool. Onyl suggestion is have you tried coloring certain pictures on it? That would look awesome. Or even just use primary colors like a real newpaper would do. It would brighten your blog and make it look real swarve.

    I like the name Seattle. I was like "I am sure that is a city..." huhaha. I think it is pretty nifty to remember. Try and saying something other than 'the blog about nothing' it's not seeling yourself, is it? :P

    The navigation bit is pretty cool. I like the fact you don't use capitals, adds charactet. on it though wher eit says "owner subdomain writing" try putting full stops so people can differenciate(*sp). SO it would be owner. subdomain. writing." I think it would look better seen as you and the shift key don't get on. (:

    I am pleased with your "about me" section, one of the few people who actually get it's a PERSONAL site so they write personal stuff about themself. Well done. (y)

    Overall I liked your blog. it's simple and pretty cool. I don't know why the previous people were getting anal about the capital things, we don't all need to conform to spelling! Deviation from spelling is breaking the mould which is never wrong, eh? ;)

    Oh and the twiter thing, it should be a link rather than on the navigation because it take s people to another site which is quite misleading even though the background on it is the same.

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

    Layout

    A tiled bg that's ultra busy and doesn't repeat seamlessly, ouch.
    There aren't many positive things I can say about this layout to be honest, and I don't mean to be rude when I say this.

    Looking at your coding it's not horrible but you forgot to close your body and html tags. How you link to your stylesheet is off you should use a code something like this:


    link href="stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /

    I would suggest running your site through the w3c validator. You have 20 errors and 1 warning.

    I also recommend you stop by this site. Just browser around her tutorials a bit and some of her articles, they are extremely helpful!

    It would look much better if you made a nice image header, even if all it is is font. Find a nice fancy font and put your site title in that. Your navigation is squished together and looks bad. I would suggest finding a different font and color to put them in and make it stand out more. Put more space between each word. I would also suggest you bold your links or underline them so they stand out more.

    Breaking up your text with a few images here and there is a good idea because sometimes long pages full of text tend to intimidate the viewer and sometimes they won't bother to read through it all. I am one of those that doesn't have the attention span to sit through a large page of text unless it's broken up.

    Also take care to properly punctuate and capitalize your words. It makes it not only easier to read but make your blog a bit more professional looking. Just one of those basic unspoken rules of making a site.

    Your background is mind bogglingly busy. It might work if it wasn't black on white, say a very light grey, but as it is it overwhelms me and grabs my attention more than your blog does. It might look nice if you add a slight border around your blog box too. Your header fonts could be a little smaller and I would change the font face so it's not all the same.

    You can stick with the black and white scheme it can work, but sometimes it really helps to add some color to it. Even just a little would be nice to break up the monotone.

    I think you could make a nice image divider under each of your header fonts too, just some small swirly type thing in light grey. I think it would look nice. I would also remove any offsite links from your navigation, you want people to stay on your site not leave right away. Though most do know what twitter is it's just better to keep that to, say, your "owner" page.

    Content

    Your blog is riddled with a bad case of the no caps. As I said above it's best to properly punctuate your entries and content text. I noticed this is something that continues on every single page. Aside from that your blogs are ok, most of the topics are interesting so not much to comment on about those.

    You have a good amount of information about yourself on this page. Maybe break it up just a bit more with a couple more photos. Maybe add a subpage about your beliefs and opinions on things and another subpage about some of your favorite movies or say what your favorite genres are.

    Subdomain info is good enough, nothing to add there.

    Writings, looks like you got a good amount. This should go for the layout but I think it would look cool if you dropped the regular li bullets and add a small image in it's place. I would be more inclined to read them all if there were capitalization to be honest. It drives me nuts when a large amount of text has no caps in it. From the bits I did read you are a pretty good writer.

    Overall

    Your site is ok, but the layout is what really drags it down for me and the lack of capitol letters. You really should consider fixing that whether it's a code in your css or just a personal preference. You have a fair amount of content, since it's mainly a blog there isn't really a need for visitor content. Though you could add a few things here and there like maybe add a debate section, post your opinion then leave it open for the opinions of others. That's about all I have to say for now. Your site has potential, I just think it needs a better design.

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    farahonfire's Response:

    thank you for your review. clearly you don't like my layout, like you said, but that's alright with me. i know the background isn't seamless and is busy, but for some reason i have an affinity for it. it's attention-drawing and i love all the different pictures in it. so thanks, but no, i'm not changing it.

    and the capital letters? that is a personal preference - i really hate typing with capitals unless i have to. so i don't think i'll be changing that either, lol.

    other than that, i'll try to take your advice to improve my site as soon as i can. (:

  5. dkinneyy gave it ****- on 21st Feb 2009 and said:

    Hey there I'm Diana. I'm reviewing your site with the latest version of IE.

    Okay, I first entered your website in a markup validation service. It says here that your site has 20 errors and 1 warning. Since your site is blogging and does not offer any sort of HTML tutorials and such, it's not a huge problem. But maybe take a day or two to correct this so you have perfect coding (:

    First impression? Black and white, simple for a blogging site. But the background definitely says BAM when you look at it. Did you make this background? If not, you should credit it. Or credit yourself.

    Owner. I love how you introduced your birthday. But isn't capitalization important for a blogging site? I'm a perfectionist. There's one sentence that should be world-class procrastinator instead of world-class procrastinators. No biggie though. I love how you write about yourself. In fact, I love the Twilight series. But I completely agree with your opinion. I like Twilight for the story, not because I am obsessed with Edward, who everyone thinks to be a glowing, psychic, gorgeous vampire but regardless, he is a book character.

    Subdomain. I like how you segmented it to make it more appealing, and added humor to what you call "boring" section (though I agree, quite a boring section). You are quite the writer!

    Writing. I see you offer 7 short stories, and I will not read them all now. I may read them and edit this section later, but I will read "Better Than This." Just because you warned the homophobics not to read it.

    Blog. This just goes to the homepage. I am also reading Night in English! Well, we just started reading it, but no way. I absolutely cringe when I read the fact that they shot babys for target practice. We're only in the second chapter.. and I've definitely got some disturbing mental images from it.

    Twitter. I like how you kept the same background for your Twitter so it seems like your on the same page still. Small things impress me haha. Otherwise, there's nothing really to say about this.

    Overall, I love your site! Your humor interests me, and I've bookmarked you. I don't know if I approve of the non-capitalization thing goin' on for this blogging site, but otherwise this is a great site. I like it a lot (:

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    farahonfire's Response:

    thank you for your review, and for your praises.
    i'll try to fix my coding as soon as i can, so thank you for that. (:
    honestly, i don't remember where i got the background from - i didn't make it, but i found it a REALLY long time ago, and i have no idea from where. i'd credit if i could, but obviously, i can't! haha.

    lol, the non-capitalization thing - honestly, that's a personal preference. i really hate capitalizing things. the shift key and me just aren't good friends, lmfao. so that won't be changed; but otherwise, thank you!

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

    Overall your site layout is nice; I like the simplicity. The background is particularly cool -- did you draw it? I love the artistic details in it.

    The greyscale colour palette works well, but maybe adding an accent colour would enhance the layout and give it even more of a wow factor. You could use this colour for links for example, so that it's clearer to the visitor what's a link and what isn't.

    You have a great writing style which makes your pages interesting to read. I like your about me page and I agree with your views on Twilight; it's true, it's not worth the hype.

    I'd suggest perhaps linking the site title to the index page, as is the convention with many sites, just to make navigation more convenient for the visitor. Maybe even take out the text-transform: lowercase to make reading easier, but this isn't urgent.

    I have nothing left to say except good luck writing and with your site :)

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    farahonfire's Response:

    thanks for your feedback (:

    no, i didn't draw the background - i found it on a site. unfortunately, i don't remember where, since it was a while ago, haha.

    i'll try to take your advice as best i can (: thank you!

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