Apprehensive

Apprehensive

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Apprehensive is mostly a personal blogging site for the owner , Eri , but offers resources and hosting.

Added by robotrally in Personal

Apprehensive has 3 Reviews

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    arrowsmash gave it ****- on 3rd Aug 2010 and said:

    Hello, there, Eri! I'm going to be reviewing your site in Internet Explorer with a screen resolution of 1024px by 600px.

    > SITENAME
    I think your site name is absolutely unique :). "Robotrolly" makes me go, "WTF is this?" in a good way. I like that, and I think your site name says a little bit about what's inside.

    > LAYOUT
    What bothers me most about your layout is your links. After about the 2nd time they got annoying and affect how you read the content, or links themselves. Don't give them borders/padding/etc. unless they're navigation links. It just annoys people when the words move on their screen while they're reading.

    You have a DOCTYPE, which is good, along with the other tags including and . Good.

    I like your header, though the site name was a little hard to find. And since you haven't specified the name of the site in your tags, the viewer might be left guessing.

    Your layout overall looks nice, but could be made even better with a tinted or patterend background. I suggest grunge.

    > CONTENT
    The navigation links are a bother because they constantly move. Maybe change these into display: block links instead?
    >> HOMEPAGE
    Nothing much to say here.
    >> CONTACT
    You've done a nice job with this page, and it's organized. Good job here too.
    >> HOSTING
    Nothing much I can really say here -- I can't give an opinion on your hosting. But I like that you're providing it :).
    >> EXITS
    This can be better known as "affiliates," or "blogroll," or "loved," or something, because "exits" reffers very much to social networking-type exits. But I guess "exits" is alright, since the other ones are a bit too long for your small sidebar navigation. This page is also organized. Why do you have hearts next to certain people's names though? Just wondering about that one.
    >> CREDITS
    I think you should credit for textures, fonts, brushes, PNGs, etc., even if you're no longer using them in a current layout. You're using them on your free layouts, so the creators of your materials should be credited properly.
    >> LAYOUTS
    Your layouts are nice, and I like the CSS ones a lot. The colors meld well.
    >>> /fashion.html
    I personally like this layout, but don't like the links and background. The links are annoying, and the background's too plain. :| These are really bothering my designer's eye, since I like snazzy, but sophisticated, links, and backgrounds that don't blind you, but add a sense of texture and extra apeal to the layout.
    >>> /fall.html
    I like this layout as well, but again the links are bothering me. Other than that, I really like that the background is black, and adds a bit to the layout. Though, again, I think finding a grungy background that's dark/black would work very well with this layout.
    >>> /summer.html
    I'd really just suggest repeating myself for the previous layout, fall.html, but I don't think I will because that would be a waste of your, and my own, time. But anyways, the links are annoying and the background is bland.

    > ORIGINALITY & CREATIVITY
    Your layouts are creative, and I do like them, though there are some things that bother me. But something always bothers me, and they're easy fixes.

    Your site strikes me as original in a way, not sure how to explain that one though.

    > ORGANIZATION
    Your website is organized, so no problem there. I would suggest adding a "site" page or something for a history, and an about you. I don't think you ever mention your name in the website, since I have searched for it and haven't found it.

    > OVERALL COMMENT
    I like your website and it has great potential :). I'll visit again.

    Review by: Katarina @ Arrowsmash

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    Kalliste gave it **--- on 28th Mar 2010 and said:

    Today I'll be reviewing your site on 1024x768 using Firefox.

    First things first. I CAN'T SEE! No, I can, but I feel like I'm slightly blind when I look at your site. It isn't that it is bright or anything, in fact probably the opposite. The colours contrast so little that it is very hard to decipher what is what.
    An example of this is for your blog. I had to click on your comments just to determine what was your heading and what was your blog and after that I was still confused.

    Is there a way to access your blog post without clicking on the comments? I couldn't see it.
    While I'm on the topic of the comments. Your blog post and the comments melt in together. I could barely work out where your post ended and your commenter began. It'd be great to see some text manipulations (even if it is just bold or underlined text).

    In regards to the text size, I haven't had the same issue as OCP. Unless you've changed it since their comment I can read everything very well... size wise anyway.

    Onto your content, your layouts don't link correctly with your actual layout... are you using iframes for this theme? If so, your site could easily work without them and you don't need them.
    If not, I'm not sure what has happened because your navigation disappears.

    Overall, I want to see more. Either more content or more in depth blog posts. Just something really!

    It is a good start but some extra care needs to be taken I think. Especially on your text (links, headings, contrast).

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    ocp gave it ****- on 14th Mar 2010 and said:

    Hello there! (:
    My name is Ashley, and I will be reviewing your site!
    Before I start, I would first lke to clear some things up:
    I will be using internet Explorer while reviewing your site, with a size 1280 x 800 resolution! :)
    So how about we get started?

    Okay first of all I would like to start with the layout,
    I like how you didn't overdo it, but what I thought was odd, was the fact that you didn't put your site name on it? Like all it is is a some text, a flower thing and a picture. And your site name isn't anywhere on that?
    Hm..
    Also I personally don't feel like your header images/textures or whatever you wish to call them, don't go together really. I feel like all you did was put some pictures down, and that text paragraph and called it good.
    So I feel like if you add a bit more to it, and add your site name to it, it will look better! :)
    Also, everything is SO SMALL. Like I have to increase the size of my browser to 120% just to read it.
    It hurts my eyes to have to look at that tiny text. Maybe consider upping the text a size or two?

    Content:
    Your textures are nice! I just also feel like they could have more added to them so they don't look so plain. But for sure add more to this section! (:

    Your first website layout is really cute! I would of course use this, though I think you should make a text area like right under the ribbon? Like where that big area of grey is so people can add their site name!
    But other than that, it is really nice!
    Yet again though, I feel like the text size could be a bit bigger. But other than that, you should really add more to this section, you are really good at making these. :)

    Other than that, I feel like your website really lacks content.
    You are really good at graphics making so MAKE MORE! (:

    Overall:
    Great site! I feel like you can improve in some areas, but other than that, I feel like you really have worked hard on this, and I am sure it will be great once you add a bit more!
    Good luck!

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    robotrally's Response:

    Thanks for the review , it helped lots ! ((:

    I was contemplating against putting a site name when I made it or just adding a site name when I coded it. I guess ill add a site name in the coding soon ((:
    I love the small font , I think it compliments the small layout but I dont mind bring it up a size.

    Im definitely going to make more graphics and edit my CSS for my website layout. Again , thanks for the review ((:

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