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   baiorin gave it on 15th Sep 2009 and said:

   I see your site is on a revamp (XD)
   i recommend closing review submissions for your site, and you can re open them so you don't have to waste 5 points (:

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2. North gave it on 9th Sep 2009 and said:

   Overall, the site looks good even if it's not professional quality.

   First thing to say is that the banner, although it looks nice, is HUGE; even with my above average resolution. That's not good and means users with smaller resolutions will find they have to scroll everytime they change pages. Considering how narrow the page is, I would think you designed it for small screens. Branding is important but it's not as important as the content. So reduce the size of that.

   Next thing would be the intro text (under "welcome") on the left. It seems a bit weird with that set as justify. I would think align center or align left/right might do better. It might also look better italicized and somewhat shortened. Introductions should be brief. The rest should go in the about page. In addition, I think it would be better for that block to appear only at the top of the homepage. Once a user sees it, they won't want that bugging them forever. Note that you forgot a space after a comma on there.

   A word on the menu: "Home" should go on the left. For a menu like that, it's quite unusual to see that go on the right. You should also link the logo to your homepage. Users will expect for that to take them home.

   Moving on to the advertising section. You might want to change the title to something like "Sponsored Sites" or something. That way, there's actually a chance that someone will click on the links. As it is right now, it will be highly unlikely someone would click and therefore, advertisers would look elsewhere. "APPLY" should be changed to "Advertise here" or something similar. You should also include the average number of clicks each ad gets per month. That's what the "real" advertisers with big money looks for.

   So...not bad, but improvements can't hurt.

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   xvicky gave it on 8th Sep 2009 and said:

   I'm using Mozilla Firefox with a screen resolution of 1366x768. :)

   I do like the layout, but I don't think it's the best layout you've made in terms of colours. I find the red really out of place because the other colours are 'neon' and the red just stands out a bit too much. I love the effects you've used on your site name, though.

   The red on the grey in your CSS hurts my eyes. You should tone it done a bit so it doesn't blind people as much. The noise background is quite random but it looks OK. I think you should have it fixed instead, though.

   Your container is just a little too wide for 800x600 screen resolution. Although, that resolution is old some people still use if and you should cater for everyone.

   About- On the advertising page, domains and sub-domains don't need to be capitalised. The rest of the pages are self explanatory and what you would expect on any ones about pages.

   Articles- On your 'computer cleaning' article:
   whatch should be watch
   supose should be suppose
   unseless softwares should be useless software
   uninstaled unseles softwares should be uninstalled useless software
   reccomend should be recommend
   aroun 10-20 centimeters should be around 10-20 centimetres
   maintenence should be maintenance
   You also have a few &raquo's you forgot to a semi-colon to.

   On your '5 star website' article:
   will won’t remember should be will not remember
   care about your it should be care about your website
   FanUpdate should be one word.

   Your articles are good, but I think you need to work on your writing skills. I know English isn't your first language but the way you write is kind of hard to understand sometimes. Ask someone to proof read it for you, or use a spell checker.

   Resources- Your blog smilies are cute; I'd love to see a wider variety, though.

   Your brushes are great; I love the way you've displayed them too. I'm not too fond of the text brushes though.

   The container templates are self explanatory but they do help a lot of people.

   Your free layouts are good; especially the CSS layouts. However the same can't be said about the celebrity layouts. I'm not too fond of them, not just because they container celebrity images but the way they've been set up.
   I know you know they are illegal as well, but it's your website.

   Fonts are self explanatory but glad you've linked them to DaFont instead of redistributing them on your own website.

   The PSP scripts are good; perhaps include a mini tutorial on how to use them?

   I honestly don't see the point in adding noise backgrounds. They are so easy to make and are so pointless. I like the flower backgrounds best.

   Your icons are good but I prefer the non-celebrity ones.

   I don't understand why people ask for credit for PNGs/PSDs. All you done was cut them out, the image doesn't belong to you.

   The vectors and vexels are good.

   Tutorials- On your make circle brushes tutorial, this doesn't mean anything to me; Make a new document, take elipse tool and draw a circle. You should provide a screenshot or something, because I have no clue where the ellipse tool is! Same goes for the rest of those tutorials; you need to explain them in depth, not everyone has had experience of using Adobe Illustrator.

   I'm going to skip the Photoshop tutorials...

   "CSS means Cascada Style Sheets" Does it? I believe it is 'Cascading Style Sheets' The rest of this tutorial is good for beginners.

   BellaBuzz should be one work on the Miscellaneous tutorials.

   To be honest, I'd been through your tutorials 100 times so I couldn't be bothered but the majority of them are fine. However, you do need to explain things a bit better and use a few more screenshots. Not everyone is an expert.

   Cristina, you have a good site here with lots of useful resources. Your theme on the other hand isn't one of my favourites. The design itself is good, but I'm not very keen on your choice of colours. I think it would have looked better with softer colours, perhaps even pastel colours.

   You need to work on your English. I remember at one point your English was practically perfect but lately I've noticed it's gone a bit down hill. I know English is a hard language but there's nothing wrong with getting a little help. The way you write things is a bit hard to understand sometimes.

   I don't recommend using celebrity images; just because 'everyone else' uses them, doesn't mean you have to. Be different.

   Good luck with everything. (Sorry this review was kind of lazy, haven't reviewed in a while...)

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   life2cris's Response:

   Thank you for everything, I'll try to improve my way to write, and correct my errors. Are many things on my website that should be fixed and I need to do this. First modify the colors of my layout and after, I'll correct my errors. I dunno what's wrong to me, I know that my English become hard to understand, maybe I should learn more things.

   Anyway thank you for the amazing review you made.

4. thistudio gave it on 7th Sep 2009 and said:

   This is my personal opinion. You don't have to agree or make any changes that I suggest if you don't want to :)

   First Impression: I really love this look. It's got a very simple header image which is always nice, I love this type. Your homepage isn't cluttered or anything, it's perfect. The colours you chose to use in your CSS really bring the over all look together quite well :)

   About: This page is really well organized. A lot of websites who use the duel colours look messy but this one is great. The colours all work well together, good job :) . I like your owner page. There is a lot of information there but you don't give out TOO much which is good because you never know who is there reading about you. You an I have a lot in common when it comes to the type of music we like lol. I like the photos you have added of yourself, very pretty :)

   Articles: I like the one about blogging ideas. Most of the time I have nothing interesting to blog about and i usually talk about a whole lot of nothing lol. Maybe I'll use a few of these topics :D . Promoting your website was a good help to me since my subdomain is new and not a lot of people visit. Thank you :) lol

   Resources: I like the amount of resources that you do offer. I think you could be a little more organized with it though. Don't get me wrong its fine the way it is, but maybe you could put them in groups. For example, container templates and themes could go together in one section. you could call it downloads or something like that. Maybe even put all of the things that you have to download in one section. I love your themes, I have used one of them, their great :D

   Tutorials: I love the amount of variety you have to offer in this section. A lot of it is very helpful and this is what brings people to your website. I'm always looking for different wordpress tutorials, and I have found a couple new ones here that I may follow :D

   Validation: Since you do have these buttons on your website, I thought I'd click on them and see what happens. Your CSS is valid, but your XHTML is not. On different pages there are a different amount of errors. This isn't a huge deal, but when people review your website this is often checked if these things are valid or not. It's up to you to make the changes - you don't have to :)

   Over all: I loved your website. It's a huge help to beginners for sure. If I was a first time viewer I'd come back for sure.

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   life2cris's Response:

   Thank you so much, I'll try to make my resources in 2 separate sections: resources and downloads. You're right this would be better for my visitors.

   I noticed that many pages aren't validated, but I have around 150 pages and to check all of them, will take me a lot of time, anyway when I'm bored I'll start checking them:)

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