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Cherry gave it
on 13th Sep 2010 and said:Hey, here is Charlotte and I'll review your site, but obviously you already know this. : D
Name:
It's a creative name, and somehow fun. :) It is different from the names we're seeing lately, things like love + adjective. It is quite original.Layout
Your layout is so adorable! We soon realized that there is no error in the layout itself, everything is in place. I assume you've made the logo, and I dare say that you did in MS paint. There is nothing wrong with the picture, but like the rest of the layout, it looks like a children's drawing. Not that I'm questioning your skills with drawing:) I like the style of your layout, and I think the colors match perfectly.fonts: The font you used for the title is not unusual, but I had not seen this in some other title. The one you used for text is very simple and common, but while it is easy to read.
The text effects (underline, italic, bold) from what I saw are not much used, but the effect of the link is good.navigation: I like your navigation, despite not having any effect on it is super easy to find, and I really like the layouts that have their navigation on top, not on the side.
footer: I always thought that advertising should be in the footer, then you did well to put it there. And my goodness, does not have music playing automatically on your site, this is amazing. Instead, you put a small radio at the bottom, giving the chance for visitors to choose whether they want to hear music.
Content
posts: I like your posts, they are well written and you always put a picture together. BTW, your photos are great.pages - I'll just take a quick look on the pages.
domain: Has all the information required, well-organized. Do you offer hosting, and that's always an extra point for a site. You also list your hostee past, very nice of you.
owner: your profile is not only the basics, it has information like movies you watch, photos, fanlistings ... pretty good overall.owner: Your profile is not only the basics, it has information like movies you watch, photos, fanlistings ... pretty good overall.
visitor: All your extras are nice and helpful. You only have a tutorial, maybe you should add more. Your graphics are the most common, such as backgrounds, but I like the pixels and scribbles, and the buttons, I certainly would use one.
reads: Many readings fun and useful. No matter if they were not written by you because you gave the necessary credits.
After all, I really like your site, I guess not much has to fix but it certainly can improve. You got a three and half.=D
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Deanna's Response:
Thank you for your review. When I made that layout I had hoped to make it so the menu tabs would raise when you hovered over them but I haven't learned how to do that yet so for now it is boring lol.
Misski gave it
on 23rd Mar 2010 and said:Layout:
I don't know why, but I really love your layout. You somehow managed to match green and purple, though I do recommend better colors.Owner:
The first link I clicked was Movies I've Seen, which is awesome. It's a nice list, and it'll keep visitors busy on your website.I also like your fan list page, but other than that, there's nothing much on this page.
Visitors:
This page is a little confusing. If the Lottery page is closed, why don't you just remove it other than typing "closed" beside it? In addition, I don't think people will go to your website and hope to learn about Core FTP. I find it weird how you dedicated a tutorial page specifically for Core FTP.Reads:
I didn't actually get to read some of it, but I'm sure it's hilarious. However, why not try writing some of your own?Overall:
Cool! Maybe organize the website a little more, change the color of the layout, removing unnecessary pages and you'll be good.Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?
Deanna's Response:
The lottery page is closed but not removed because I do plan on opening it again, soon actually. I was sort of inactive on my website for a while so I had it closed but I have been getting more visitors over the last few months so I think there may be more people willing to join it now.
The reason I made the Core FTP tutorial was because when I first started hosting people they never knew how to use FTP. I was constantly writing out the same instructions for each hostee that joined me. So to make it easier on myself I wrote a tutorial and just sent them to that page for help.
A couple of the reads are written by me. I'm not much of a writer though so it's mostly email forwards that were sent to me that I actually liked (which is rare).
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6birds gave it
on 26th Feb 2010 and said:I love the layout! Cute colors, nice site name.
Nice fanlistings ;)
I lovee how you display all of your past layouts! You are very creative, and you show it off nicely. :)Your content is nice. I think it is nice how, not only do you offer hosting, but you have a list of other websites who also offer hosting in case visitors want a sub domain with a different domain name or extension. :)
Heyy, your "Lottery" game is very original! I'm going to keep coming back until it is closed xD !
I like your website. :) It is really good and pretty organized.
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ditalento gave it
on 13th Feb 2010 and said:Layout
*Main design: Hmmm I don't think the colors match well. Purple and green is not the best combination. I don't like the bear thing and repeat-y for the Teddie. It's a bit weird for it not have hands or legs just a head and a straight body. If the teddies head was smaller and just a head then your site name on the header, with a repeat-y for wood, and a three column footer it would have looked better. Your navigation is an image mapped with no hover effects. Your H1 is pretty boring and dull, but i have to say it matches the layout. and looks better than purple or green. Your links are some what pink, would be better if they were the same color as the Teddie bear.* Browser compatibility & Usability: Your browsers shots were blocked in browsershots.org
* Validation: 11 Errors, 2 warnings. because of your image maps, check out this tutorial http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/images/imagemaps.html
And marquees aren't valid codin, you have invalid attributes which don't exist, and images without "alt="description of the image". Also,Content
Owner
Your about me page is short though i have a pretty good idea of who you are with few words. I think you should combine pictures with you're about me page, as there is already a picture there of you, and it's all about you. Actually you should combine all of the pages you have to one big page called "owner". which will be pretty interesting if it contains these things. if you don't it's just a waste of space to be honest.
Visitor
Your site tips should be under articles. And your site names, free hosting sites, cute sites, resources, and Plugboards are just useless.They're waste of space and instead of creating numerous pages for them you should have done so for your graphic. They're just crowded in one page. Your graphics are nice, could see people using them. However, the background stuff are okay, you could see them in stripe generator.
Avatars are graphics.
Domain
Good to see you mention your site history and screen shots of your past layouts. Nothing else to comment on.
Reads
These are not written by you, why on earth do you provide them? You should add articles to it, and for it to contains your 'site tips".originality: Could not say your original, you carry other people's content and some links.
organization: Not very organized
Overall rating
You should work on the layout, scribble layouts are often not good, but make them work with better coding. All of the links to other sites should be gone, and your reads are not yours.Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?
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MsDanger gave it
on 10th Feb 2010 and said:First Impression:
OMG! Final I have found a Canadian blogger! (I am one as well) The layout looks cute! It is very different. Let’s explore!Name:
I love it. It is original and easy to remember. No hyphens, numbers, or symbols which is good because they make it harder to get the right URL for the next time someone wants to visit. Unless they are like me who remembers almost everything. I really like the meaning behind it. That is always interesting for readers.Layout:
It is cute simple and colors pretty much match. I really like how it is shaped. I personally find the writing too small. But that is preference; then again if it was bigger it would ruin the layout. The colors going from the layout to the html background color do not match. One is off by a shade. You should try and fix that because it makes it look off. When numbering you should use the coding for it. It can be found simply be searching Google I don’t remember it off the top of my head. The pink goes really nice with the greenish color. Not a huge fan of the cross hair cursor. You can’t really view it with the grey colors that the links change when hovering.I think the best part of your layout s that it is all drawn out on the computer. You can tell just by the first glance. Not a lot of people can do that and you should take pride in that. I personally can’t do that I am more of a coder but that talent is something you should be proud of.
Validations:
CSS Level 2.1= It has no errors! Congrats!
XHTML 1.0 Transitional= Has 11 errors. I have seen worse but it is important to fix those.
It is always good to get into proper coding habits. And it doesn’t take much effort once you master it!Originality:
You have many things that make your blog originally. It is awesome that you show readers of your site a lot about it. It brings people much closer to the writer and makes people you talk to online seem more real. Your contests are very creative as well. Never seen a SOTF before. Love the idea. The articles are nice. I always see people writing about the same thing. Yours are different.Dead links:
I include this because I hate it when no one’s tells me if there is a dead link on my website. I didn’t find any at all. Always check though because you never know.Spelling and Grammar:
I couldn’t find anything. The spelling was fine as well as the grammar. I am a bad proofreader though so you should be all means go and get others to double check. Sorry if I missed something though!Content:
You have a lot of amazing stuff as I pointed out the ones earlier that I had never seen. Your content is different which is always awesome. I like how your blog takes us into your life and we can learn a lot more about you in the domain page. The articles are nice. I always see people writing about the same thing. Yours are different. In a good way! They are original and more geared to real life. I really like the article on horoscopes. You got me down right! lol :)I suggest using a more secure script for blogging. Cutenews can easily be hacked and I don’t think you want to be blamed for it if your site causes the whole server to go down. Try maybe FanUpdate or wordpress. They are easy to install. If you have a cPanel you can use the auto install wordpress in there. Make it much easier and there is no harm to your website using those.
Nice to see you update! That is always nice to see. I also enjoy how you share tips of what to do and explain them. Some people don’t do that.
You have so much content it is amazing! You have a lot of graphics and resources but I think you need more tutorials. You will get linked if they helped people and it makes more visitors for your website. It is always good to have visitors. I think you need more photos to give your site some liveliness to it. I it’s nice to see the world through the bloggers eyes and pictures help to explain your blog posts better.
Compatibility:
It is viewable from the following that I have access to. I don’t know about others though.
--iPod touchs and iPhones
--Safari
--Firefox
--Internet Explorer
I really dislike it when I can only see a website layout on one good browser and when they say that but you have been able to be really flexible. It even looks awesome on my iPod!Extras:
You have a lot of extra content. I really like that. It is awesome that you are sharing your talent. As I said earlier you have a lot of original and valuable content which adds to the perfection of your website.Overall:
I absolutely love this website. The layout is so cute, the compatibility is awesome. You have so many awesome articles and it is really easy to get to know you. It is also awesome how I can view your website layout from many places and have the layout look fine in all. The fact that you have a lot of good quality resources and graphics is another amazing feature. I am not a huge fan of the blogging system but I am a huge fan of the domain name. It is creative and original.I think all you need to do is improve or maybe (if you want to) use some of my suggestions. I really do stress the point on the blogging system because it does make a difference and you may like a more complex system better. It gives you a lot more oppurtunites and saves space. (Gosh I sound like I am advertising! :P) Anyway you should.....
Take pride in all the amazing stuff on your website because that is what makes people visit and come back for more.
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Deanna's Response:
Thank you for your review. I have made some of the changes that you have suggested, the biggest being switching to Wordpress. I still don't have the website up to where I want it yet but it's a step in the right direction.
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