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1. ladyziev gave it on 2nd Apr 2009 and said:

   First impression.
   The layout is nice, instead of a big celebrity image, I saw a colorful picture of you and your boyfriend. Very sweet :) but the color of your site name on the header is kinda bother me. And try to use a softer pink for the background. Try to center the layout, and instead of using i frame, try PHP include, it will make you site neater ;)

   The content is well organized. How about adding some more paragraphs about you at "Owner" section? I love reading someone's profile. I like the way you explain on your tutorial section, even if, they were only two. You should make more tutorials! ;)

   Anyway, something that bothering me here is that I can't see your bebo skin, I don't have bebo account so I can't view it. How about make a thumbnail? Your faqs has only 3 question, you might want to use a Q&A script instead, so visitor can ask you question directly.

   Broken links to Joshua's site :/, you didn't type it correctly http://www,shattered-scene.webs.com/, plus, it leads to a closed site, change it to http://dangerboy.myfriendlola.info/

   There are some errors in your HTML/CSS anyway

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2. 

   reeshas gave it on 28th Mar 2009 and said:

   I really like the top main image, I’m not a fan of pink colors, but yours looks very professional. It’s also very beautiful. I love the light colors you used for the fonts, but the size is kind of small, you could make it a little bigger. I also like the links with the pick dots under them. The side design is cute and simple what more can I say? I’m not curious about the codes but the overall site; this is my opinion on your site:

   BLOG: I like how there’s an image of you right there with your basic profile. Your navigations easy to follow and I like how it’s organized down to the statistics. As for your entry, you only have one, why not have like 3 or 5 entries on one page and then go back some. I’m not sure how many entries you have but it’s a pain to go back 60 times if you have that much to go on. You’re choice on avatars is awesome, and the cute pixels, they tell it all!

   OWNER: basic info has a lot of stuff, you look so pretty with the colors. Man very long list, why not when crossing out; make it black or something other than pink. Under friends: does RIP mean rest in peace or something else?! Awesome avatars, so that’s what you use for your entries. You should center them or make them the same size so they appear more organized and clean. You have videos but they overlap the page on your site, make their sizes smaller or have links to them to youtube.

   VISITOR: you only have 2 tutorials but they are very detailed and useful. A lot of bebo skins but I can’t view them because I don’t have an account. Why are you repeating your request packages as a sub link when they are on your main menu? Nice, requesting queue. For the reviews page, you could make a quick form for reviews, but how you have it now is fine.

   REQUEST: it’s very impressive and wisely made; you basically ask everything you need for that requested item. Great job! You should have a backup plan just in case your form stops working like an email the person can use or something to contact you other than the form.

   DOMAIN: the history page is good; I finally know who Lola is! You have tons of friends and affils, do you keep in touch with all of them or only the ones you like? Uhh for some reason, your apply form is horrible! It just doesn’t FIT, you know. Have you seen it? I’m not trying to be mean but it looks really bad. And it’s very helpful to make the rules into bullets and list them rather than jam them into one paragraph; people aren’t likely to read if the rules are like that. And the size of the font makes it even harder to view the text. So make the rules bigger, darker, and listed. A nice fair list of credits. You only have one banner for link back, that’s good but also not so good, it’s kind of a funny looking link back. Why don’t you make a lighter colored white and pink one that matches your site design currently in use? And other sizes too because not all your affils are going to link you using an 88 x 31. Haha I love your FAQs, what’s up with the last question?

   COMMENT: its great you have an emailing/form contact and a tag board for quick messages, I normally prefer the taggi =P

   Alright thank you for letting me mess with your site, it was so much fun to see all the things you offer, you should consider making more avatars and other graphics, and you’re good at it. Not everything has to be done for money you know.

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   Sianay's Response:

   Thanks for your feedback. And thankyou for mentioning the apply form! i'd never have noticed it otherwise :L I forgot to change the colours from my last layout because its not included in the css :P && my last faq question was because i asked my friend what questions i should put on it, and thats what he said. it was funny at the time :P Thanks anyway! i loved reading this (:

3. sarah1990 gave it on 15th Mar 2009 and said:

   layout: nothing different that would make me remember the site. its quite plain, sometimes simple can be good but in this case its a bit too plain. try adding more effects and generally making it look more high quality.

   Avatar gallery: you have shown your creation skills better here than on your layout (try take some of that into your banner of your layout) also you might want to create more for people to look at than just avatars in there....maybe add some wallpapers or signitures?

   since you are a design site the first thing people will look at is your presentation of your site...that is one thing that as a webmaster i look at, if i see a design site with a low quality layout then i dont bother to look at there other work, i go straight to the next site.

   you should make it more obvious what you give the viewer....i have not seen this site before and just by looking at the index page i wasnt sure what it was giving me, whether you do that by change the way you set out the content or by a welcome note stating what you will find.

   tutorials: you should add more tutorials, if i want to go and find how to do something i go to a design site...you only have a tutorial for a simple retouch, if you make a good layout or avatar do a tutorial on it so others who likes what you have done so they can do it aswell.

   overall: you need alot of practise on your presentation of your site and practising your layouts. make you sites purpose more obvious to new comers.

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4. 

   aeris gave it on 6th Mar 2009 and said:

   Visual (1/5)
   Nothing catches the eye. The graphic needs something that makes it stand out. Contrast, colors, either clearly defined edges or better fade... Can't tell you anything else, just keep practicing :)

   Content (1/5)
   I guess I could say I know you a little better, but that's the only unique part. When you reorganize, think about each page and how much you really need it.

   "MyFriendLola Is 100% Copyright To Sianay, And Was Created and copyrighted to me, unless stated otherwise."
   There's unnecessary capitalization and it doesn't make any sense - copyrighted to you, and created and copyrighted to you?

   "The name My Friend Lola C(c)ame from three different places really. It started off as a piczo site many many years ago, it(')s closed down now. I loved the name and since i couldn(')t come up with anything else when i got hosted, i(I) decided to go for it! Secondly (it?) was M(m)y ex-best friend Naomi's very old piczo passwor(-e)d. I don't know, it inspired me. Thirdly, My l(i)ttle cousin Lola was born around about the time the origi(-o)nal m(M)y f(F)riend l(L)ola was created. It's all boring and complicated, but unique!"
   So your piczo site was called My Friend Lola? And your friend's password that inspired you was also My Friend Lola? Plus your cousin's called Lola? One name from three different places? Boring? No. complicated? Yes :)

   Coding (0/5)
   Read a beginner's guide to get the hang of it. As most people will tell you, iframes are a no-no. The double scrollbars make pages hard to read. You can do the same with divs or PHP includes.

   This won't do anything: top:490; left:200; width:200; HEIGHT:100
   this will: top:490px; left:200px; width:200px; height:100px

   And this is how you make a list:
   <ul> (unordered list)
   <li></li> (list item=
   </ul>

   Try saving images as JPEG's. Most of the time you can get the same quality as with PNG's and with much smaller file size.

   "Click to visit?" in Domain>History looks like this: <a href="http://www,shattered-scene.webs.com">

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5. 

   Greykitty gave it on 5th Mar 2009 and said:

   Center this thing please! That would improve your layout a lot. The header is ok, it's nice to see a layout that features a photo of people that AREN'T celebs. Bravo, I'm impressed by that.

   There is too much of a gap at the top of your page, you can easily push the header up against the top of the page and again this would make your layout look better. Also I would suggest thinning it out a bit, slim about 100 pixels off the top of that image.

   I like grey and I like blue so I already am enjoying the color scheme, but egads what's this... micro text! Oh noes. I think you win the award for tiniest text I have seen in about four years. Your header text is a good size, you should make the resIt of your font in that size and then up the size of your header font a point or two. 12px is a decent size for a site's text.

   You need to add padding to your div boxes, it smashes right up into the edges of your containers. If you had borders it would make it really hard to read anything you put up because of this, but since you don't I just suggest it because it will help give your site a bit more of a professional flavor and look nicer.

   I find it ironic that there is one thing centered on your site and it's one of the least important things on the site, the stats.

   Looking at your coding I already see one error, you have duplicated your body tags. You are using a stylesheet, yet you still have style code in your content. I would remove all of this and put it into your style sheet. You don't need it in the content and it will clean up your coding.

   If you don't know how to connect your info on the style sheet to a particular div it's really simple, you just make a title or class name for it and depending on which you use you will either use a # or . in front of the name so if I called my div class="banana" I would put it in my style sheet as .banana {font: tahoma;} and if I used title it would be #banana {font: tahoma;}.
   If you need some really good tutorials on css check out this site, it is really great and helped me learn a lot.

   Avoid iframes, they are of the devil. Check out this article.

   Also always remember to close your tags, you have no closing body tag.

   So I magnified your site's font now and will go after the content.

   Owner- I would suggest putting your basic information at the top of this main page so that the visitor has at least something to look at besides a page full of links. Having a little content there will at least draw them in. To me just a bunch of links is unattractive and doesn't really make me want to explore more as it's just boring.

   Your basic information is ok, gives me enough info about yourself, but filling it out a little more couldn't hurt. I would suggest expanding on things like opinions, beliefs (since you briefly mention them) and maybe future goals you have. Like what your dream career would be etc.

   That chatango thing is really out of place with your color scheme, being hot pink. I would suggest changing it, though it's not a big thing. Your icons are pretty unique, maybe make them all one standard size or organise them by size so you don't get ones of random height just popping in there with the other sized icons.

   Oh and one thing I didn't mention before was, drop the back and forwards links on your pages. They really serve no purpose. It's basically just like the browsers back and forward buttons, so it's just an added javascript that you don't need.

   Too bad your portfolio isn't up yet, I wanted to look at it.

   Ok now it's off to the visitor content!

   Tutorials- Well there's only one there and it's a really easy thing to acomplish so not much to say there...try to come up with really unique tutorials if you are going to have them. Try browsing other sites, see what they have, and then try to come up with ones you have never seen. Try making up your own spiffy effect.

   Bebo skins, I never used Bebo so I can't see what these look like... a preview thumbnail would be nice.

   It's nice to see requests, nothing really to add to that, and thank you for not linking to pages that aren't up yet! Placeholder text is good, but soooo often the person links to a blank page, that's a pet peeve of mine.

   Nice that you have some contents up, reviews are also good to see and you actually put a fair ammount of text into each one, unlike many other personal sites I have bumped into.

   Your story... you need to format that blob of text. Nobody is going to want to read all of that since there is no way to remember where you stopped if you are reading it unless you highlight it. You could easily make four or five paragraphs out of it all. Try to keep in mind all your basic English rules even if it is online. It will reflect upon you too. If your writing is neat and spaced it's more likely to be read and taken seriously.

   Domain section is pretty standard. Nice to see a bit of info about the site, I don't really see the point in the FAQ since you only have there questions there and two aren't really info someone NEEDS to know. Link back, only one button, you should make more and make them higher quality.

   Going back to the blog, reading some of the entries they don't stand out to me and they aren't that interesting. I would suggest rather than just blogging site news and everyday things add in some or your opinions, funny stories, or just share something you found in the news that was interesting. This will help you to draw in readers. Oh and avoid putting a please vote for me on every entry. This get's tiresome to look at on every entry.

   Overall your site is ok, but I think you need to work a lot on your coding. The design itself and color combos aren't that bad. Your content is kind of ho hum, I think you should try to get some more original and unique only to you type content. Focus on getting your portfolio up, and focus on your original writings and such more. I wouldn't get wrapped up too much in making tutorials and site graphics. This is a site about you so therefore you should be the main focus, and if you are and make you and your works the main point of the site it will be unique.

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   Sianay's Response:

   Thanks, ill bare all that in mind. Ill deffo center the layout and make the text bigger. The story wasnt written by me, therefore i posted it how the writer wanted it, and i did clearly state that its writen by my friend.. if you bothered to read it? thanks anyway x

6. 

   Shadow gave it on 5th Mar 2009 and said:

   First Impression

   I remember the last layout I reviewed. That one was downright horrible. This one is better, but still needs a lot of work. This would look much better centered. There are some layouts that works on the left, but since the header is large, it would work a lot better centered.

   The effect on the picture in the header is a bit cheesy, but at the same time, gives that "porcelain doll" type look to the little girl, and that is really cute. Downright adorable. Haha! But once again, your font is way too small for anyone with even 20/20 eyesight can see. And I'm far from 20/20, so you should know that without my glasses, I wouldn't be able to read your site at all.

   Blog and sidebar

   If you insist on having the layout left-aligned, you need to put a margin on your sidebar to get it away from the far, far left. Once again, the font is way too small. You need to up that at least 2 more sizes. Not only that, but you also need padding all over. Everything is smushed. Oh, the smushiness!

   I will commend you on having a short and sweet sidebar though. Great job on that.

   The other pages

   Owner: *nose twitch* Your bio can be expanded upon with more paragraphs and less list-rattling. When you expand it, you can put that on your main page, as opposed to that forsaken link-only page. *twitch* Please use real zeros rather than O's, and capitalize your I's when referring to yourself. In other words, watch your grammar.

   All of the other pages can be combined with your bio or eliminated altogether. Your friends list, for example, can definitely be combined with your bio, and the personal avatar gallery can be eliminated.

   Visitor: All right, I'm not a huge fan of visitor content because although there are instances where it works, most of time it doesn't due to lack of originality. Case in point:

   -You have only one tutorial, which I've seen several variations of, and they were explained much better than this.

   -I can't see the Bebo skins without signing in. If I don't have a Bebo account, I can't see them, so I can't judge on how they look. But those that feature bands and other celebrities shouldn't be distributed on account of copyright infringement.

   -I've seen a site that has a story writing competition. It's not an overused concept, so I won't say much about it, but if you don't get any entries (and I should have mentioned this on the other site as well), then don't hold it, unless it is requested. Writing competitions are the hardest ones (something about writing outside of school is hated because they do a lot of writing inside school) to have.

   -You need to write longer reviews, which includes ways that someone can improve their site. And I couldn't help but to think that you told someone that their text is too small when yours is small as well. Hmmm... But yeah, you're on rev.iew.me. Read through some of the reviews, preferably some who are closer to the top of the members by review list. Don't be afraid of writing a 2,000 word review that not only gives constructive criticism, but also ways of how to better their site. Your reviewees will thank you for it.

   -Fanlistings and your story should not be in the visitor section. If you have more writing pieces, you can create a section for those. As for the fanlistings page, it serves no other purpose than to display your one fanlisting.

   -The link-only pages are killing me. At least have an introduction or description of the sections!

   Domain: Oy, more grammar issues. You misspelled "little" in the name section. Proofread stuff here. Well, proofread everything on your site. I don't know why people think that an FAQ page is needed. It's not.

   Oh, and one more thing--if you have a page on your site that isn't up yet, don't even list it until it's done.

   Coding

   The first thing I noticed was the use of Iframes. I said this in the last review--step away from Iframes. You're using PHP for your pages. Why not look into PHP includes? It will definitely cut down on your site coding time (since otherwise you'd have to change all of your pages, whereas with php includes, you have to change only two). Look into coding with divs as well. But whatever you do, leave Iframes alone.

   I can't really touch the coding because of that, but I will throw in some other things.

   -You need to have a Doctype. Your site won't validate properly without one.

   -You also need a character encoding label. I don't know why you need one, but it won't validate properly without one of these either.

   -Look into semantically correct navigation. The way you have it now is very messy with the breaks and all.

   -This:

   <img align="left" img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/21c7280.jpg" border="0" alt="Sianay "></a>

   is wrong. How did your picture show up is beyond me, but it should be:

   <img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/21c7280.jpg" border="0" alt="Sianay" />

   And use CSS to align your picture. Don't forget to add padding and margins.

   -Breaks (<br>) need a closing slash. So it should be <br />. So does <img> and <link>.

   -You don't need two <body> tags. Get rid of the second one, and use CSS to code that.

   body{
background: url(http://i40.tinypic.com/91dcty.jpg) fixed repeat;
}

   -XHTML has no capital letters in coding.

   -Absolute positioning=bad. Use margins, padding, and floats in CSS.

   #sidebar {
float:left;
width: 200px;
margin: 20px;
padding: 5px;
}

   -<center> is obsolete. Use CSS here again.

   .center
{
text-align:center;
}

   -<b> tags are discouraged. Use <strong>. Same thing with <i>--use <em> and <del> for <s>. Don't even underline regular text.

   In other words, use your stylesheet more.

   All in all...

   The layout is better, but still needs some work. Try centering it. It would look loads better. But the text is too darn small! You need to proofread, proofread, proofread! Use 0's rather than O's to represent numbers. It looks childish otherwise. Capitalize your I's.

   Your visitor stuff needs a lot of work to it as well. Work on originality.

   If your pages were people, I'd strangle them. I hate link-only pages. A description would help here.

   You also need some help in coding. Iframes. Oy, I got sent back about 9 years!

   You have potential. So keep on it and good luck!

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   Sianay's Response:

   thanks :) yeah, my writing was a bit bigger before but i had a STUPID brainwave and decided to make it smaller. thanks anyways x

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