eruANNA

eruANNA

****- (Rated by 3 people, viewed by 113 people)

A colourful look on things going on in the world and in the life of a student in the uk.

I've recently redone the whole website and I would like to know other peoples opinions, before I didn't think it was at a good enough standard to be reviewed!

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eruANNA has 3 Reviews

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    Shola gave it ****- on 15th Jul 2009 and said:

    My first impressions aren't very good of your site purely based on the fact I load your page and it took a while for it to fully load. That really annoyed me. Maybe try to showing one blog post at one time, then maybe it wouldn't take so long? I dunno.

    Anyways, I like the look of your site, it's very very nice. I get jealous looking at sites like these because it's so pretty. I'm a nature freak so I love your theme is flower based. It looks really sweet and refreshing.

    Your site name is cool too. Only thing is, in your title it's eruANNA, any reason why? It just looks a bit daft to be honest.

    I am a sucker for clean navigation and I think yours is very easy and accessible. It's all clearly marked and the colours used all complement one another very nicely. I have no problem with your side bar, it's all very clear and concise and neat.

    Looking at your wordpress themes I was kinda apprehensive, I've seen a lot of these before but yours are really cool. I hate wordpress personally. Me and it just don't get along. it confuses me, and looking at your tutorials kinda made things simpler. Suggestions here would be to consider making the font of coding lager of placing it within a box so it's even more clearly marked.

    I ike your about me page, it was funny to read, it took again uite a while to load. it's because of the screen shots at the bottom, possible move those to another page or open a special page for them so it makes loading your about me page easier.

    A pet peeve of mine coming up.
    You have a "content" section.
    It's all content, your whole site is content. Look into renaming this because it's silly. I looked into your *breathe deeply* content area and saw it was tutorials. I think therefore you should rename "Content" tutorials because that's what it is. Or resources if you are redistributing them. Or sunshine daises if you like, something other than content. [ / rant]

    Nice to see an easy findable contact page, very nice.

    Nice links page. Can't really say anything here other than it's well maintained.

    Overall I really like your site.
    Apart from the few things I said you might want to look into changing, in conclusion I am quite impressed. Only thing which bugged me is your site takes a quite a while ot load which is really frustrating. :/ REALLY.

    Have a nice day.
    - Shola

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    eruanna's Response:

    Thanks for your review - I really appreciate your honesty!

    I too hate the use of the word 'content' - until recently there were resources in there too - other than tutorials but I have now changed it! woo!

    With regards to the loading time I've shaved 7 seconds off the 14 seconds it takes to load. Unfortunately my host is very slow at some times in the day so no matter what I do my site will always have slow periods! grr.

    Now to do something with the about me page :)

    Thanks again!!
    Hannah

  2. waynekp gave it ****- on 10th Jul 2009 and said:

    The theme has a lot to do with someone's first impression of your site. It is a very original, well designed and appealing theme. I also have never seen tutorials on sites before, and I think they do a very good job of fulfilling the idea of providing something of value to entice people to visit your site.

    I think that the pictures that you took of your stay in Cypress were very pretty you could probably attract quite a few viewers if you posted more.

    I commented on another blog to the effect that blogs that seem to focus entirely on the "this is what I did today" style of writing are most interesting to friends and family that you already know. If you focus mainly on your writing, I believe that if you want to attract more readers, you need to provide your own take on events that affect many people.

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  3. faketragedy gave it ****- on 1st Jul 2009 and said:

    Hey, my name is Swetlana and I am going to review your site today. I am using Mozilla Firefox 3.0 and my screen resolution is on 1280x1024.

    First impression
    I really like your theme! It's colorful and very user friendly. I saw it on the main page of rev.iew.me and it made me wanna write this review, so I am doing it now :) I also like your sitename. It's short and easy to remember, great job. Though I am not really sure what I means, but I'll see. Maybe I find the information later on your site.

    Layout
    I really like this layout a lot. The colors are awesome, like already said above. What I also really like is the fact that the layout looks really simple! You use some leaves to spice up your sidebar and blog, I like that. Also this little flower thingy next to your main navigation looks cute and shows that you also work on the small details!

    Content
    About I really enjoyed reading your "About" page. Seems like you are a really interesting person! And now I also know what your sitename means, yes! I really liked your previous layouts a lot. I wish I would've seen some of them while they were on your site, but this is my first visit ever.
    Content
    Wordpress Wow! Those wordpress themes are awesome! I would totally download some of them. Great job! Though some of the ones on the bottom have huge footers, I personally don't really like huge footers. Your tutorial on how to write a Wordpress theme on my own is really great! I have been looking for one for ages. Now I found one, yay. The one for the custom smilies is a little bit old. I mean now Wordpress 2.8 is out, and your tutorial is for 2.0 and 2.1, you should update that tutorial.
    Tutorials those tutorials are fine and something I haven't seen on any other site before. Great job! They are also really easy to follow and understand!
    Contact & Links Those two pages are set up good and easy to navigate around. Nothing bad to say.

    Organization and Overall
    Your site is organized very well and is therefore esay to navigate, which is always a great thing! So good job on that! Overall you have a really nice site, I enjoyed my stay here!

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