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toya5185 gave it
on 21st Jun 2010 and said:This is an AMAZING site! Good job. I love the color scheme as well as the way you styled it using the tables in the header... AMAZING!
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yeaaa gave it
on 30th May 2009 and said:i am bill ( i guess u dont know me right? lol) and im going to review your site through firefox...
its a lil bit off that i review a site that has already changed a layout but i just wont review at the coding and layout that much lol
its true that the links used to be off, as well as the shoutbox but with the new layout you have fixed all these things, im not good at coding so i dont care for the iframe :P
morever what i dont like is the font of the pages and that everytime is the same style...i so love your site, not so much coz its amazing but i just love the site lol, the pages have no images and that makes it really boring, but its amazing that u have SO many new oages added with the new layout. the gallery is really good UHQ untagged images, but i got already bored of the layout...the media and lyrics arent appearing so i guess u r working on them
the icons part has no layout , but who really cares since u have the icons which is what u had to add ... i love the artowrks in a fan site and your icons make me be STICK to this part of thesite as they r amazing
its true that u dont code that well and u dont cut the layouts (till now dunno about the future) ive seen u have tried though and it worked nicely but i guess due to your routine u dont have enough time to make it everything as u need.
the cutenews style though is horrible...yeah sorry but the font as well the whole template looks cheap and it makes the whole layout not look that good...cutenews is actually my favourite part and as u r using dreamweaver to code (as me) cutenews is extremely easy to edit...
the recent images part isnt working and i actually dont care that the affiliates r in the first top part of the layout
thank you for your time u took to read my review! i am sure that with ur passion on web designing u r going to have an amazing fan site in the future!
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Luscious gave it
on 31st Mar 2009 and said:Hi, I'm Jenny and I'll be reviewing your site today in Internet Explorer. I will try not to be that harsh. This review will be shorter than my usual ones.
Layout: CELEBRITY IMAGES ARE ILLEGAL UNLESS YOU GET PERMISSION FROM THE PHOTOGRAPHER!! Anyhow, I don't think it's that nice, no offence. The blue headers blend in too much in the grey, you need more contrast. Again, no offence but I don't like it at all. And I HATE iframes, just to tell you.
Your HTML is also invalid. I believe your CSS is too.Err why do you even base your site off a celebrity anyway? Sorry I don't have any time right now to review your site. I'll give you a higher rating (better than what I thought anyway).
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sarah1990's Response:
thank you for reviewing my site.
i know it is illegal unless i have permission, dw about that.
no offence taken different people like different things. i know people hate iframes but like i hvae said in previous, i was taught by a friend and ifames is all i know how to do....before i came on here i didnt know there was anything else i could do, now i know there are other things i am researching.
i base it on a celebrity as i like her and want to inform other fans of any updates concerning her... like most fansites...thats why its called a fansite, what else would it be on??
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Roxy gave it
on 30th Mar 2009 and said:Layout/Design: I'm currently viewing your site in FireFox and everything is just off. Links are overlapping the main image, your shoutbox is far off to the right and not aligned properly, and mostly everything from your updates to your main navigation is sliding to the right. Makes me wonder if you have
align: right;somewhere in your code.I'm not a huge fan of the font nor the font color used for the title and headings. The teal blue is very hard to read against the white background color and doesn't seem too appealing in your site's title. As for the font, for the title it seems fine, since it's a larger size, but as it get's smaller (ie: the headings and tagline) it bunches together and doesn't look good at all. I would suggest using a normal font such as Arial, Tahoma, Verdana, and if you want to make it pretty, Century Gothic is a great font that looks good in any size.
The title, tagline, image, and contact-bookmark links seem so out of line in the place they are now. I would suggest getting rid of the contact and bookmark links. You can hardly see them and if someone wanted to bookmark your site, I'm pretty sure they would know how to with their own browser. As for the image and tagline, again the image is so small, I'm not sure what it is of ( I KNOW it's of the girl, but it's hard to tell). It would be more eye catching if you did something nice with the site title and then added the tagline underneath it, possibly centering it?
Why is the "elite plugs" the first thing I see upon entering your site? Do you want your visitors to leave your site that badly? You don't give them time to look through your site, before you're shoving other sites into their face! I would highly recommend placing this section in another spot other then the very top. Your welcome message would probably be more appropriate there, since after the long drop it gets lost between the links and the rest of the side bar and posts. This also goes for the shoutbox that is currently pushing to the right and out of alignment. Place it in a spot less distracting and eye catching, you want people to look at the content pertaining to the website's topic, not frivolous things that at the moment don't matter that much!
Looking at your side bar, you could do a lot to fix it up. The site features seems handy, but the text underneath the images are too small and while using the image above each section is "different", it doesn't add much to the layout. Almost seems like you had the images and just didn't know what do to with them. If you really want to keep the images, I would make them smaller, probably cut them in half, and make the text bigger.
Your site navigation is find and dandy, but currently pushing out to the right, like most of the elements on your site. I would fix this asap!
So, what is the difference between Elite Plugs and Top Affiliates? Either way, stick with the links you have and get rid of the "apply" and "apply [PROCEED]" links. It looks tacky, no offense.
The site information is fine, but the text way too small and also the teal blue font/text is again pushing to the right. It just doesn't look right.
I just noticed that your whole layout is just one large image, leaving out the shoutbox and iframe update box. Where in the world did you learn to create a website like that? You say that the site has been open for a year, meaning that you should have had enough time to learn how to code a proper website without using a whole image, like you have with this layout! I'm not trying to be mean, but you have to understand, if you want to make a website, the least you can do it is make it right!
HTML/CSS: Eek! What a mess.
If you have an external stylesheet, you don't need to add inline or embedded styles to your HTML document, just add them to the external one. If by chance you're not sure what I'm talking about;
Inline styles are styles such as this:
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body {
background-image: url(bglite.jpg);
margin-top: 0px;
background-color: #141414;
}
.style1 {
font-family: "Frutiger SAIN Rm v.1";
font-size: 10px;
}
-->
</style>While embedded styles are styles such as this:
<div id="Layer2" style="position:absolute; left:357px; top:1270px; width:68px; height:13px; z-index:2">You're obviously using IDs within your DIV tags, why not just add that style attribute to that specific ID? You're just making more work for yourself adding style to places they don't need to be.
I'm going to assume the Javascript is for the rollover images? I would highly recommend using a simpler method with CSS. For one thing, not many people these days like to enable javascripting on their browsers, thus becoming a problem to view your website properly.
I noticed you are using a few tags for the wrong reasons. One being the paragraph tag. That tag should be used for what it is called exactly, paragraphs. You're using it to hold a list of links that you can easily execute with either an ordered list tag or unordered list tag.
Example for an unordered list:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://">LINK NAME</a></li>
<li><a href="http://">LINK NAME</a></li>
</ul>The same would go for an ordered list, except the
<ul>tag changes to<ol>.You're using DIV tags to hold certain elements and also place them in an absolute position on your site. Now I see why your shoutbox and certain other elements to your site seemed to go off to the right. While DIV tags are used to hold a group of elements to a certain area on your site, you're not using them correctly. For one, I would highly recommend not using absolute positioning, as you can see with my monitor it looked as if you were having an alignment issue. Absolute positioning is just that, absolute! So no matter the size of someone's screen resolution (may it be big or small) that set element will always stay in that exact coordinate. Which in reality isn't a good thing.
I would get rid of the iframe for your updates. It's an old coding method that died away in the 90's and for good reason! You can easily add the update section into a DIV tag or paragraph tags. What they were meant for!
Going through your CSS, I'm a little shocked to see what I see. First off, you don't need these characters anywhere in this file;
<!--
-->
</STYLE>
<style type="text/css">That's what the whole external stylesheet is for. CSS coding! You also repeat styles for your links, delete the top set. The coding below for the scrollbar colors is an outdated hack that newbies used to play with back in the 90's. I would suggest deleting it as it only works in older versions of IE.
body {
scrollbar-arrow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-3dlight-color: #B7B7B7;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #B7B7B7;
scrollbar-face-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-highlight-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-shadow-color: #FFFFFF;
scrollbar-track-color: #ffffff;
}
Content/Pages: You seem to have a significant amount of information about this celebrity and that is a good thing. I see that you use some information from outside sources, while you credit them under your credits page, the correct way is it to credit each source on the page the information is on. Especially when it comes to text. If you didn't write those paragraphs and copied and pasted the text from an outside source without their permission or crediting them on the page, that is called plagiarism.
Overall: While it's nice you want to create a fansite for your favorite celeb and have a great amount of information and images of the person, your web design skills lack to a high degree. I would highly recommend you read tutorials and articles on proper coding and elements of design and colors. Then, you can go ahead and make a great site worth showing the world. Please do not take any offense in what I am saying. I just want to be brutally honest with you and help you along the way. If you have any comments or questions, please do not hesitate to ask! Good luck! =)
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sarah1990's Response:
first, thnx for reviewing my site.
yes my site has been open for a year, but the way i am coding is the way i was taught by a friend so i havent really known any different.
for coding a use dreamweaver so i dont do the coding as such.i know what you mean with the whole picture for the layout...this was just a quick layout as i didnt have much time to code, i do normally 'cut' it up.
everything with my site is what i have learnt from my friend who has a site of his own.
so with the crediting i will change now i have been told thats what i need to do (i knew about plagiarism but i thought i was covered by the credits page), so thanx for thatas for getting better since the first review i have started to read up on coding so i can improve and find better ways.
thnx again!
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katili gave it
on 23rd Mar 2009 and said:// Layout
... IFRAMES?! Seriously? /sigh. I don't have the time or energy to go on my spiel on why IFRAMES are bad, but there's a reason they're not commonly used anymore. They were acceptable in the 90's, not so much now.
I like the color scheme, mostly, but you need a different shade of blue; one that's not so neon. This one is hard on the eyes, and thus hard to read.
I like the overall look of the page, but I think there are a few parts that need some tweaking. The fonts used up at the top for "contact" and "bookmark" look horrible at that size and the words aren't immediately clear as to what they say. I also think the header bar overall would look better without the tiny thumbnail image, though I can understand why it's there. Good concept, not quite executed properly.
The titles on your news/update sections are a little small, I'd bump it up a bit. Actually, a lot of the text is a little too small.
The crosshair on link bothers me. I like my default cursors; if I didn't like them, I'd change them on an OS level.
The "Online Now" number jumps up a bit and attaches itself to your host link. That's probably an issue with the code that generated it I bet, but you should try to fix it.
A run through the WC3 validation brought up 27 Errors, 4 warning(s). Many of them are missing ALT tags; you could clean up the code and have it valid pretty quickly I think... yes, validation is important.
But like I said, overall I like the layout, there's just some things that could be improved. I hope I didn't seem horribly nit-picky or negative.
// Content
Having never heard of Anastacia, I was hoping to quickly find on the front page who she is and what she does. It's easy to figure out, but I think it should be more blunt. I know it's a fan site and so hopefully your visitors already know, but a clue for the rest of us would be nice ;)
There's a good chunk of information, and some cool resources. I'm not going to harp on copyright laws cause well, I don't know them all, but just be careful, and make sure to honor any cease-and-desist notices you might get.
// Originality
I'd say it's more well done than a lot of fansites I've seen lately... good job :)
// Overall
The site seems pretty solid. Ditch the IFRAMES, clean up some of those little things, and don't get sued and I think you're good to go. The IFRAMES killed me though; I would have given higher but I can't, out of principle :p
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sarah1990's Response:
great thnx for the response. thats actually better than i thought so thnx alot!
ive only gone by what my friend who had a site before me has shown me so im only just starting to look a different ways of coding...
apart from changing to php what else can i use instead of iframes? if you have any ideas please messege me thnx.
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