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   Ardith gave it on 1st May 2009 and said:

   Hello! I will be reviewing in Safari.

   Likes: I like the colors; its simple but elegent, and also easy to navigate.

   Dislikes: Just some minor stuff like there are some repeats on you afiliates list and the plugs page could be a little more organized.

   Overall: It's kinda hard to believe your 11! I like.

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   conanpro's Response:

   hehe. thanks REPEATS? I must find them...

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   superawr gave it on 1st May 2009 and said:

   Hey there! My name is Desiree and I'll be reviewing your website while viewing it in Firefox with a 1440x900 resolution.

   The red in your header really stands out against all those dark colors. I like that. The fact that your navigation is at the top makes it easy to spot. I love the rounded corners on hover of the navigation links.
   The font size is nice, it will be easy for almost all visitors to read. However, I do think there should be a little more space between each blog post. It sort of looks like one big entry.
   If your going to have the date, comments, and category part centered, you should have the blog title centered too.

   Your sidebar is clutter free! So refreshing. I think you should change the color of your links - they just don't stand out right now. It's hard to tell the difference between links and regular text unless you hover over a link.
   I like the way you've set up your affiliate links.

   --About--
   Proper nouns (Chris Crocker, Fred, etc.) should be capitalized. However, the words "a" and "and" do not need to be capitalized. Otherwise this page is well-written.

   --Resources--
   To be honest, your icons are rather boring. Add some textures, brushes, something to make them more unique and creative.
   The animations are kind of funny, but they are all of Chris Crocker. Maybe branch out a little more on these?
   Same thing with your Last.fm goodies - you've got Taylor Swift and that girl from American Idol. And to be very honest, I don't know that anyone would have any use for these.
   Your photography is nice! I like the picture of the yield sign.

   --Plugs--
   It was nice of you to make this page. There's not much to comment on as this is just your own opinion on sites you like.

   --Tutorials--
   I know nothing about Gimp because I don't use it, so I can't say whether or not those tutorials are helpful. But I can say that they are well-written and provide excellent screen shots for extra help.
   I think you should go more in-depth with your link styling tutorial. There are so many things you can do with links and you haven't explained any of it.
   How to create a page in Freewebs? Doesn't Freewebs have it's own help section? I thought so. This tutorial is pointless.
   Your PHP includes tutorial isn't helpful at all. How will someone know what their header code even is? You haven't explained anything here. "3: Use the code at the bottum of the page to add it and add it as Whatever its called.PHP and no http or slash. " What does that even mean?
   Your next two tutorials say "pending". You could go ahead and get rid of those until they are ready to be added to your site.

   --Credits--
   This page is fine, nothing to comment on. It's set up well.

   Overall, your site is pretty good. I think there are just a few things you need to work on, which I've pointed out. But I think in time you'll have a really amazing site. Good luck with it all!

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   conanpro's Response:

   Thanks :)

   I will see to it that I get to some of those problems :)

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   Roxy gave it on 29th Apr 2009 and said:

   Layout/Design: Very clean and organized. I'm loving the color scheme, but not so much the round "oval" that appears on hover over the main navigation. I'd recommend changing it's color to the color used for the links, then change the link color (on hover) to white or the dark gray you have.

   I'm not a fan of the indent on "Posted..." under the blog post header. Maybe if there were a little icon next to it or it just pushed into place to align with the rest of the text? I like consistency, and this just throws it off balance.

   Content/Pages: First off, you put your site under the "Personal" category, yet, I feel this site is more for the visitor and less about you!

   Main Page: I think the blog and your welcome message is the only thing on this page that pertains to you! To be honest, the first thing I saw when I first came to your site was the affiliate links. Why, because they stand out to me more then anything else. That's a bad thing. You want visitors to stay on YOUR site for as long as they can and actually take the time to browse through everything you have to offer (and I don't mean just resources and tutorials!).

   With the affiliate list so prominent, it makes me want to click on one of those links, rather then on your navigation, which then takes me away from your page. A good way to fix this would be to either take away that dark gray background color or shorten the list to the top 5 and then add the rest to "links" page of sorts. I've seen some sites "randomize" those types of links too!

   About Me: Are you 10 or 11? Your about me says one thing and your welcome message says another, not a huge issues, but something you might want to edit. So little information about yourself, but I can understand if you don't want to give too much away. Although, if this is a "personal" site, I'd like to see more about you...from a list of anime 's you've watched...maybe even hobbies you have and why! Be original and don't be afraid to show who you are. Now I'm not saying tell people your full name and where you live, just something that pertains to you and who you are. That's what makes a personal site interesting!

   Resources: The animations are extremely random and I wonder who would find those useful? Maybe placing them somewhere else other then the "resources" page would be nice? This is just personal preference of course, if some people actually use them, well good for them I guess?

   Plugs: Hmm, I find that this page could be used for much more...like the links you have of your affiliates. You could "plug" the sites you find interesting at the top and then add the list of affiliates you have at the bottom?

   The border around the little icons doesn't look right at all, you can easily fix this with a CSS class. border: none; As for the guide, I think it would be more useful and eye catching at the top of the page, rather then the bottom.

   Tutorials: If you don't have the tutorial up, no pointing in putting a "pending" sign for it? If anything, why not write out what the next tutorial will be and then put pending next to it?

   Why don't the tutorials have any styles? This doesn't look so good. Just add the style of your site to them. Perhaps you forgot?

   Coding: Clean and correct. There are a few <br /> that need to be close, but that's about it. Also adding a DOC type will come in handy if you ever want to validate your HTML.

   Overall: Like I said above, your site isn't very "personal" at all. Add more about yourself and what you like, believe it or not, many people find that more interesting then looking at resources and tutorials. Good luck!

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   conanpro's Response:

   So,thank toy for the first layout comments, And yes, I did think Should change the Hover cover on the top as well. :) I made them, just not thinking and using a sort-of red color for a different layout, And never changed it. :P

   Well, my site is actually my Personal website and not so much of a Visitor website. But, this site is new so Its just kicking in. :)

   Well, indeed the affiliate are A stand out, but Whenever I do a clear out or exclude people from the main page I feel bad about it all.

   Oh my gosh, That I did not notice. what happened was, I made a new welcome message and Never changed the "About" page! An honest and stupid mistake . xD

   Well, Somebody said they where very good (my animations) So, It made me to keep them For a little while longer.

   Mhm... border? I don't see anything . :(

   What happened with the tutorials was, on my old site, It would not let me exclude pages fro the navigation, and so, I had to post them to a different site. The good side is they look good on mobile phones? xD

   Yeah, I wants to find some time to fix the thing...

   Thanks for the stars . :)

   Yes, I write VERY long responses.

4. 

   miaWithLove gave it on 28th Apr 2009 and said:

   Hello! My names Mia and I'll be reviewing your website today =)

   Layout:
   Ok, I really, really like your layout. The simplicity of it is bliss, and the colors you used are wonderful. They make your site look very fancy and high class. Good call there! Your sidebar if very neat and organized, so that's good. No one likes a messy sidebar. One thing you could add to improve your site is a title. That way, when people favorite it that just see "Ouran" or whatever you want your title to be, not the whole address. I just spent a couple minutes looking though all the tabs I have open trying to find your site, and a title would have made that so much easier.
   I just noticed that your homepage has a title, but the rest don't. I don't know whats up with that =/.

   About:
   Your "About Me" page is pretty good (It's nice to met another High School Host Club fan!). You could probably type a little more about yourself, as this section of this page seems a bit empty. The History section is very good though! Very informative. You have a lot of little spelling and grammar mistakes on this page, so I'd read over those and get them ironed out.

   Resources:
   You don't have very many resources yet, but I'm sure this will fix itself in time. The "pictures" section is definitely my favorite resource. It's really the only one I could see myself coming back to your site for. But again, I'm sure you'll get more content as your site gets older.

   Plugs:
   I really like the way you have this section organized (Were you found it, then the link). I think that's really cool. It's also really nice of you to list your favorite websites, so that you can give them a few hits. Other than that, not much to review here.

   Tutorials:
   Now HERE'S a section I'm interested in! I'm really glad you have some gimp tuts, because that's the program I use. I breezed through all of them, and the "Kanon Tutorial" was definitely the best out of them. Most of the other ones just seemed to be "How to use this filter" tuts, and that's fine, but the canon one was definitely more informative
   One of my mean problems with this page is that the tutorials open in new windows/tabs without any CSS. Why is this? This page could be much improved if you made them open in the same page, like your resources.

   Credit:
   Not much to review here. Nice page, and I'm sure the people who helped you out really appreciate the credit.

   Overall:
   You have a nice website here, and I'm sure it will get even better as time goes on. Just check your grammar and make some minor changes =). I hope my review was helpful! Have a nice day ;D

   3 out of 5 stars!

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   conanpro's Response:

   Thank you So much for your layout Compliments!

   And thanks for the sidebar compliments to :) But there is not much to organize anyway! :P

   Hehe, yeah... about the Title... I thought I was finished opening up the site then I realized I was missing one, but I was so out of it at that time, I put it on the Homepage, looked at the Homepage, saw it was good and moved it. I will fix .xD

   Yeah... I should put some more information on me... But I never know what to write that doesn't make me sounds stupid. xD

   Yeah, On my very old site I had TONES but the where Crapo. So, I started over :D There is much more to come...

   Why thank you! (for your comments about the Plugs) I just thought:
   A: I fond the ADORABLE Icons
   B: And, I wanted to link them But I had enough affies and The did not belong in the credits.

   Well, the main reason I did that was because of, My old site. jamiesamek.wordpress.com did not let me Dis-clude pages from the navigation so I had to make them separate. xD I was just to lazy to convert them all... hehe.

   Yeah. thanks :D for the credits uh...thing.

   Wow, thanks! I did not think I would get THAT many stars xD. Its not 5 but, its not one either :D

   Oh yeah, every month or so, I do a grammar check :) I'll make sure I get those nasty mistakes.

   My sister one time said one of my blogs had SO many errors it made her cry XD. Yeah, I'm that bad at that sort of thing.

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