rev.iew.me

aimee.apple-town has 8 Reviews

Below are the reviews left by other members on aimee.apple-town. Jump to review form?

1. jessica_p gave it on 25th Nov 2008 and said:

   I am going to try to be fair with this review. However if I am not I blame it on the pain my head suffers from due to the brightness of your layout. Sorry but that is how it is.

   I must say the first thing I spot during the time my eyes try to adjust is the little blob (whatever they call them - I forget) hugging the Fire Fox icon. I do think that is the cutest little thing I have seen yet! It's even better once you see the blob pushing away the Internet Explorer icon. I am glad you linked the creator back. I must go looking for that & see if I could 'adopt' it. It is one of those things that make you smile.

   I wish that there was more about your and your web history. I know writing that up is hard. However to know the background of the webmaster can go a long way in some peoples eyes. It shows you care about your site.

   Some of your linked images have a border around them. I do not know if you meant for it to be that way or not. However a bit of CSS can fix that right up. img { border: 0;}

   On Internet Explorer your iFrame background is white - not transparent or anything. It actually looks better in Fire Fox which is a bit odd for iFrames. Or so I have noticed.

   You should also make sure the php tutorials you offer are secure. For what I understand .inc files are hackable & should no longer be used for includes & whatnot. If you have any questions about them there are many php sites out there.

   Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?

2. 

   Ricky gave it on 16th Nov 2008 and said:

   OMG! The colours are giving me a headache. That was my first impression. Any real user would have just xed the whole window completly.

   Layout: It seems very well designed, but a bit too childish for me. Most layout designs, these days are "creative" and take a lot of effort, but they look professional. Also colour schemes is something you have to work on.

   Coding: 1. Um...where is their a question mark on my cursor. It makes the website look even more worse.

   2. Why are the link, and the category drown down in that fashion. This makes the coding and your website seem obsolete. I know that you are a beginner, but you should be learning codes that are modern in the web community.

   A suggestions, please use hovers on your links.

   Headers: I like them.

   Content: You have alot, and that is good. I see a variety of resources avaliable. It is a shame that your layout is so ugly, because your content is great.

   Visitor:
   Backgrounds: Great, and usable

   Headers: There is nothing there, even if you are "getting them there", don't make a possible page to visit. Take it off your webiste, until you have it all updated.

   Favicons and Bullets: There good, and handmade.

   Avatars/Downloads: Don't know much about them so I won't comment.

   Tutorials: I can't really comment on the way they are written, due to the fact that there are not that many tutorials to form an opinon on.

   Making A Website: I guess this is alright, as you are advertising to beginners. However I don't think anyone would take this seriously, because of your layout and coding skills.
   Make Ipod: Not up there. Take link off
   Tote: Don't know what it is.

   Pixels: Don't know anything about them.

   Site: Great you give a history of the site. I like that, because I can read more about how this website came to be. However, I have a problem with the plugboard. You aren't doing a great job advertsing other people's webiste. I mean I had to click a while, until I got to them. If I was linking you, then I would put you last or something. Bottom Line: Put them somewhere people can see, easily. This way you get more hits.

   In the End: You have great resources and potiental. You just need to brush up on your graphic abilities and you will be fine.

   Using MSIE on Windows | Report This?

3. 

   Joe gave it on 12th Nov 2008 and said:

   Holy crap, my eyes! The colour scheme is nice, but you might want to tone down the pink a little bit. I actually reeled back when I opened your site because it was just that bright.

   First thing I noticed once your site is fully loaded: an iFrame. Eugh. iFrames are so incredibly outdated, and have never been a good design technique. There are virtually no advantages and a ton of disadvantages to using them.

   I also noticed that your hosting your images on Photobucket. Why? I've never understood why people do this. I can't be to save bandwidth, because if your images are so big that you need to host them elsewhere to conserve bandwidth, then you should really consider using smaller images.

   I'm not a big fan of that JavaScript menu either. I don't get any visual feedback when I hover over "Visitor", "Pixels", "Site" and "Links". Obviously a fairly web-savvy person will know they're supposed to click there, but the average browser may not. Many people won't see the cursor point to a hand and will assume they can't click there. To begin with, even I didn't notice that clickable heart with a question mark in it below the menu. However, the collapsible menu does keep everything a little organised. :)

   Having a look at your content, and the images in the "Sozai" section are really quite nice and cute. :) Some of your avatars are using copyrighted images (the animé ones, I'm not sure about the others), which as many others will say is not a good move. Also, something that has already been said, you should never offer downloads of things that aren't yours (i.e, fonts).

   As for your tutorials, they aren't great. Being an avid PHP coder, I made a bee-line straight for your PHP tutorial. Slightly underwhelming. I get the impression that you're not even entirely sure what PHP and how it should be used. Your "Text coding" tutorials include a lot of severely deprecated code which isn't valid in XHTML. Same can be said for the majority of your tutorials - outdated code and outdated design techniques (tables).

   The hit-counter and the IE/Firefox animation just seems tacked on at the last minute up in that corner, as cute as it may be. :P

   It's an alright start, but there's definitely room for A LOT of improvement. However, I'm assuming here that you're quite new to creating websites, so don't worry too much, we've all been there! Just take some time to read up on W3C standard XHTML and CSS, as well as visitor accessibility. Keep it up. :)

   Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?

4. Marmallow gave it on 11th Nov 2008 and said:

   I think your site is really cute! Its really creative and the colors fit really well together!

   my favorite section is the avatars, cause i love avatars.

   Anyways, now to the juicy stuff ^ __ ^

   style/design;
   The style is REALLY cute! you can tell that you thought of it 100% yourself. Its really creative but not so detailed which is perfect.

   content;
   The content is very original! Very modist.

   coding;
   THe coding seems really! also seems EXTREMELY advanced.
   Your have a really high advantage in HTML.

   originality;
   as i said like 10000 times, A W E S O M E ! ! !

   other;
   one thing thats a - for me is that you don't have
   dates on your blog / updates. wich makes it
   really confusing to know if you updated or not ;

   but overall its a really good ! you should be really proud of yourself for having a NICE running site. i love it a lot (:

   - A N A Y L A
   visit my site at http://marmallow.webs.com
   leave me a tag! ask for affies! i would like them!

   i ran out of things to say!

   a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

   Using Safari on Mac | Report This?

5. MelissaSue24 gave it on 11th Nov 2008 and said:

   I'm gonna make this the first website I view in the morning -- it's better than any caffeine!

   The layout is very cute, but like most others that have commented -- I don't like the inline frames. Depending on the browser, they don't always work as well as you'd like.

   I love the collapsible menu -- it's adorable! The freebies you offer are also cute. It's kind of a theme :-P

   The pages that offer coding help like "text coding" you really shouldn't use the textarea box for that. It's a more appropriate to use .

   I like the addition of recipes -- it's an unique touch you don't see often.

   There are few spelling errors -- make sure you double check that.

   It's a lovely start and you've come so far from free webs! Good luck :)

   Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?

6. 

   Aisling gave it on 11th Nov 2008 and said:

   Your layout is cute, but VERY bright. There does not seem to be very much contrast, which makes it difficult to look at. You use images for your navigation, which is one of my pet peeves. I dislike when things I am supposed to click don't change on hover.

   Your title needs to stand out more. I barely noticed it on the side there. Also, your text is WAY too tiny.

   Also, you are using IFrames, which are ANOTHER one of my pet peeves. Try and make the switch to CSS layouts, using divs. It's really not difficult! And it will improve your site tenfold!

   Your main updates area looks messy. It needs more structure and consistency.

   HAHA! I just noticed the little guy in the corner, hugging Firefox and pushing away IE. That's very cute.

   I enjoy the collapsible menus you have! It keeps everything organized and nice.

   What does Sozai mean, though? Anyway, the backgrounds in this section are very cute. I think you should get rid of the bit about the Headers not being there. I don't NEED to read that they're not there. I can see that they aren't! I wouldn't expect them to be there if you hadn't linked them! Oh, and unsurprisingly, your buttons and favicons are also cute. :D

   Your anime avatars use copyright images, which is not cool. I'm not sure about the rest of them, they could be stock images, but if they are not, I suggest you ditch them, and make new ones using stock images that are designed to be redistributed.

   Your emoticons are cute. You SHOULD NOT be redistributing fonts or games that you did not create.

   Your printables are cute and original, but you shouldn't have a link for the section that does not exist yet! I enjoyed your recipe section (cooking/baking is one of my favourite activities), and your pet section was also original!

   Some of your tutorials are relatively useless I'm afraid. :( For example, anyone who knows how to make a website knows how to bold something. And anyone who knows how to make a proper website, knows that strong is the tag that is correct.

   Pixels are cute and... pixelly. ;)

   Once more, with Site History, don't link to a page that has nothing on it. It's a waste of the visitor's time. Also, a page about your site is kind of important, you should finish this one quickly!

   Affiliates could be put in the link section. The Link section is extensive and organized, which is nice.

   I barely noticed the little heart with the question mark, which leads home and to other stuff. Make an actual home button please, and label this section properly so it is not overlooked! Also, I find it funny that you have an extensive section about copyright, when you use copyrighted anime images in your graphics. ;)

   Your coding needs a lot of work, starting with the elimination of Iframes. You have a minimum of 63 errors on any given page.

   Overall, it's a nice beginner site, but still could use with a lot more work.

   Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?

   dandycup's Response:

   Thanks, i know its bright ^_^

   I completely forgot that i have some parts which i hadn't updated... the history should be there though... maybe the page isn't refreshed?

   Yeah i know iframes are crap but for some reason i decided not to use the php include... cant remember why. But there is only one so it doesn't bother me.

   I didnt really want the "title" to stand out.

   And yeah the copyright images and blah, i have this on my site just incase: "owners with copyrights of images or downloads not made by me have the right to ask me to remove them".
   Maybe next time round i wont put them there.

7. pbrigitte gave it on 11th Nov 2008 and said:

   First Impressions

   My first impression is that it's a giant blue fairy and an inline frame and, for some reason, I don't like those things. Actually it reminds me a bit of Neopets, do you play that game? I have sensitive eyes and so the blue on light blue isn't enough contrast and the font is small - I know it looks pretty color-wise but your readers might be not-20-years-old and thus have a hard time reading it.

   Aww, you make things, I make things, so kudos for that! It's a super good move to post tutorials on your site but people like photos with text more than illustrations (again tiny font). It will bring in more visitors if you have step-by-step photos - once that's done I strongly suggest submitting it to various tutorial collection blogs/sites because they'll really bump traffic up.

   Visitor It drops down and is hard to read but I love recipes, I post them myself and feel uncool but I really love them. It's a sweet, personal thing to share. The photos are very very very small though.

   Pixels I was a pixeling machine back in the day so I love pixels, but a pet peeve is the "rules" section so I just left.

   Site A lot of this is blank or under construction/revision. I think there should be a lot more here!

   Links Do you really need a Plugboard and a Button Wall in two separate parts of your site? It seems like a lot of your content is links-related.

   Conclusions

   My conclusion is three stars because the site needs some love. The layout is rough going (even if it's not my personal taste it's hard to navigate) and there's not a lot of meat to the content. Tutorials are a great idea but all of your content needs a larger font and more room to breathe. I suggest adding a lot more personal content (an About page for starters), ditching the iFrame, and revising the color scheme and layout to be more user-friendly. I wish you all the best though and hope you stick with it!

   Using Firefox on Mac | Report This?

   dandycup's Response:

   No, i don't play neopets.

   Yeah that was a very quick tut, i actually made it quickly for a forum and decided to put on my site too... i have another one in the making with actual photos.

   What size screen are people using that the text looks so small, its fine on my comp. Or alt and that rolling thing on the mouse makes it larger.

   I dont really want people knowing too much about me... people like to stalk me. for real. So no major "about" page sorry -.-

8. 

   Tracy gave it on 11th Nov 2008 and said:

   First Impression: Very cute! The colors are lovely, the drawing of the fairy is really nice. It's one of those cute iframe sites :)

   Main Area: No blog? :( Oh well, but your content area is nice, not too slim, it's got enough space for all your updates. The font size is ok, the font color could be a little darker

   Navigation: Oh my, it's so cute! I was shocked to see it's a collapsing menu, I've never seen something like this, well, not in a cute way you have it. Very nice.

   VISITOR:
   --> Sozai: A lot of cute content. I like that you offer favicons, they're really cute. I'd move the "back" heart to the bottom of the page though, because why would you want to go back before you've looked a the content? Your Headers won't show. Broken links.

   --> Avatars: Your Cg avatars and signatures are adorable. The Signatures, Photo themes page is too small to display them correctly, seeing horizontal scrolling is deactivated.

   --> Downloads: Cute. The download-disk is cute :) - it makes me want to download...

   --> Fun: My favorite part of the visitor section. You offer great stuff. Recipes, the pet section. Lovely.

   --> Tutorials: The Making a website section's back image (the heart) has a border around it. The other sites don't. I didn't look at all those codes you offer, I just hope they're correct. I like that you added a resource site with additional links. Nice. I like the Tips for new site owners.

   VISITOR- to sum it up: Great content. Some tiny errors (like the border on the back image), all in all though it's a very nice section of your site.

   PIXELS:
   Well, what can I say? Cute pixels. I like your Adopt special. I've always liked something like that, also on other sites. It's a neat idea. I might adopt that little doggie - I'll have to put up my "Toybox page" first though ;)

   --> Toyboy's: I actually thought that was your toybox (with an odd spelling in the nav). Why not put that section into the Visitor section?

   PIXELS- to sum it up: Cute :)

   SITE:
   Needs some working on it, but you're working on the history part today anyways ;)

   LINKS:
   --> Directory: Nice. I like how you organized the links.

   Webmiss: Aha, there's a blog. Why is it hidden there? I see you don't blog a lot and you don't have comments offered, but I wouldn't put your blog under the "webmiss" category.

   --> About Blurb: I don't think it's too long :) I liked reading it

   SUMMARY: I really like your site. Too bad it's mainly a site aimed to the visitors, otherwise I'd visit it daily to read your blog. Why not switch to Wordpress?
   Your site is very cute, you offer a lot of content and put a lot of work into it (at least that's what it looks like). Lovely

   Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?

   dandycup's Response:

   lol for some reason i hate when back buttons are at the bottom... i prefer for them to be at the top when i browse peoples sites. so when you go back a couple of times you don't need to scroll down... im laaazzzy.

   My headers wont show? the show fine when i use firefox on windows...? i dont know what happened there.

   yep the history is up now

   I tried switching to wordpress but the host for some reason doesn't support images i upload... (like for headers, lines, icons and blah) anyone know why?? maybe i should ask her why that is.

   Yeah i was thinking about just making a blog next time, make it look quite normal and boring ^___~

Write Your Own Review

Leave your feedback for aimee.apple-town below, and remember - the longer your review, the more points you receive. Don't forget to look at things like style/design, content, coding and originality as they will all help to improve the quality of your review.

You have to be logged in to write a review.

Site copyright © 2008—10 Jem Turner. Designed by Jacky Gilbertson © 2008.
About ⋅ Terms of Use ⋅ Site Map ⋅ Help ⋅ Contact ⋅ Points Charter