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Theresa gave it
on 21st Nov 2008 and said:Viewing in Firfox 3 with Windows XP on a 1280x1024 screen resolution
Visually
Your header is a blinding skew of colors. There's nothing wrong with bright colors, I quite like them myself, but there is no other color in your header that softens up the bright colors to make them not so harsh on the eyes. A darker color included would be great. I also can't read the little black text on the header image, it's too small.The color of the font for your "Now Playing" area in your blog, I can't read it unless I highlight it. Consider darker shades of the same colors.
Your sidebar is fine and stretches perfectly to the bottom of the page, your blog area does not, maybe letting it stretch along side the sidebar would make your layout flow a bit better.
With that said, I do like the actual colors that you've used. The goldenrod type color for your headers I find quite attractive.
Content
Visitor - Brushes: There are some cute ones but there are also some that seem like you didn't put very much effort into themVisitor - Gradients: I am a lover of all colors, especially in gradients. You've put together some really beautiful colors
Visitor - Icon Textures: Once again, doesn't seem like anything superduperfabuloso, but they seem like they would be very helpful for what they are.
Visitor - Patterns: It looks like you've got some very beautiful patterns
Visitor - PS Actionss: I appreciate what you're trying to do, make it easier on people who aren't so fluent in PS to
create simple effects, but really these are almost TOO simple.Visitor - PSDs: Copyright infringement much? Almost all of your PSDs are of actors and actresses who I assume you didn't get permission to (not only edit but) redistribute their images? Some people throw a big fit over things like that. It just shows carelessness on your part really.
Visitor - Stock: Your stock images are very pretty, I love pictures of the sky. Maybe you should consider adding different things up there as well, more of a variety. I also noticed your images took a while to load, instead of using the entire image, you should cut it down into a thumbnail in PS, will make page loading tons easier.
Visitor - Textures: I didn't let this page load all the way, once again we're having the issue with not having thumbnails, really makes my computer lag. From what I saw though, they were quite nice.
Visitor - Tutorials: It's awfully nice that you seem to think of your visitors a lot, with all of your tutorials. But they are so simple! Some of them are as simple as 3 steps, things most people could figure out on their own. While some seem like they would prove helpful, I am sure you can cut this section back a little by getting rid of the "pointless " tutorials.
Visitor - Wallpapers: These aren't great wallpapers at all. They seem like they didn't have very much thought or care put into them. Not to mention, you have this linked on your index page and in your sub-page, you only need it up once.
Music: While I am not extremely fond of the player style itself, I love that you have this open in a pop-up window, some things deserve a pop-up window. It's good that you don't have it on autoplay too, that can prove quite annoying.
Domain: The list was a good start, giving brief, simple information. I didn't like the fact that you had your "link me" section before "history of the sites". You should also link to the sites you used in the "credits" section. At this point I would have to copy and paste the addresses into my address bar to view the sites.
Owners: Really, I feel like you should possibly to a easy little profile on this page and include your pictures. At this point all you have to two links to two separate page and it's really boring and bland. Doesn't inspire me to click on anything.
All in all, I gave you three stars because overall, your layout was slightly unpleasing and your content was quantity, not quality. Also, your code isn't valid, which doesn't bother me completely, most of it is outdated coding, but, on the other hand, you have a CSS style in your tag, which doesn't belong there and even if it did, it's not wrapped in which is just as pointless.
I feel like you could definitely catch up on some coding tags. Try http://w3schools.com because I have a hint you've been going to the wrong places.
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adastra gave it
on 21st Nov 2008 and said:Header: It's too big in my opinion. Decrease the height a little, because when I visit a site, I usually want to read the text, not stare at a huge header ;)
The title of your site, on the other hand, could be bigger. Or the lyrical text thing or whatever it is smaller. You should maybe replace that altogether with a short description of what the site is about.Navigation: Needs more space! It's suffocating! Give the text more padding, so that it isn't glued to the border of the navigation. And always remember: Padding and margin are your best friends.
Content: Same as with the navigation; this needs a lot more padding. The yellow and orange font colors on the grey background are a no-go, I can hardly read them. Other than that, I like your choice of colors.
I think you have potential. With some practice, you'll get the hang of it sooner or later ;)
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wildx22 gave it
on 21st Nov 2008 and said:Header design
Big with lack of actual design elements. What I can see: unnatural tint of a nature scene, straight lines and text. That is halfway between simplistic and artistic; in other words, not so good. In my opinion, most of the problem goes to the unnecessarily-large size of the header. If you cut the height of your header image down about half, that would get rid of a whole lot of emptiness up the top.Other design elements
When you have a boxed design and there's a margin above the header, it's a general rule (subject to exceptions) that there should be an equal margin below the footer - for balance and consistency. The footer line is tagging to the bottom of the page and is extending horizontally on the homepage. The height of the navigation and content columns are also unequal when it would look much neater if both columns extended down to the footer.(Sorry, I really have to leave this here, need to crash now for an early morning flight tomorrow! I hope to continue this some time when I come back. *dies*)
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Tohru gave it
on 16th Nov 2008 and said:A giant, illegal celebrity image of Leona Lewis. I feel like running away already. It doesn't help that I have to scroll down on every page to view your content. I suggest you completely change this image as soon as you can. Not many people will be impressed by it.
Also the music link seems random and out of place. =/
You could do with a lot more padding around your text. Its all squashed together.
I find your terms and conditions to be contradictory:
Theft will not be tolerated at all and direct linking IS not prohibited. Photography belongs to the rightful owners. The coding is ours, you may not take without permission.
You are using an illegally copied image. You said the photography belongs to the rightful owners, yet you have stolen their work and are using it. I assume they haven't given you permission to use their work but yet you don't seem to care.
Whats wrong with taking your own photo or making your own design.
Code is not owned by anyone. I have seen your "coding" on many other websites.
I don't like how you sign your blog posts. How are people supposed to know which of you is posting the blog?!
You write in the first person in your blog, yet both of you sign it!? Very confusing. Its like you have a split personality or something. O_o
Oh my gosh. 139 stolen images in your PSD section. Just delete all of this section.
You have a god amount of relevant and useful tutorials here.
Get rid of the Cutenews ones though, from what I've heard this is not a very secure script.
Hm, I was hoping for a little bit more about your sites history but oh well.
Another contradiction, its in your hosting section:
5. No stolen content. Period.
Tut tut.
Overall, your site isn't the worst site I've seen. You write good blogs and the colour scheme works well. Also, your coding is fine from what I can see.
The only major off putting thing is all the stolen celebrity images! I'm only warning you for you own sake.
Just take them down, you don't need them. Why bother promoting them even more.
I hope my review helped and good luck with your site.
UPDATED 16 Nov 08:
I'm glad, I'm sure your site will look great. :)
You write really good graphic program tutorials and I think that's your sites strong point. Maybe you two could write more tutorials for the site.I'm happy my review helped you a little and I look forward to seeing the changes to your site.
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Thank you for your review (:
After reading all these reviews, Karma and I are most likely going to get rid of the celebrity images.DollieKizz gave it
on 16th Nov 2008 and said:First impression: I actually really like your layout, but I don't like the fact that it takes up the whole screen; it seems unnecessary. I think if you got rid of the gray line and re-sized the layout then it could look much better.
Coding: You have no paddings on the sides of your layouts, I think you should add them in. I really like how you've used colors from the layout; but the headers for me are way to big with your text and layout, also the fact that your text is really squashed together - you should work in a line-height. There is so much going on in your blogs that it looks really un-neat.
Content: ( The colour when you hover these doesn't match the layout. ) Your blends are too simple. Your layout is so great compared to these blends so I'm guessing they're old? Your layout bases are creative which I love but there's just too much going on; it makes it seem messy. Your wallpapers look great. Some of your icons are great; but some are quite LQ. Maybe some of these are old?
Resources;
I love your brushes, but I don't really like the previews XP You should remove the font downloads unless you actually made the fonts. Wow. I love your gradients. I really like how you've set them out. Some of your icon textures are great, but some I dislike; mostly the last few ones. I like your PS actions, but not the previews. Your textures are very creative :]Tutorials;
Your tutorials are fine, I never have a problem with tutorials :POwners;
These pages look quite un-neat. But they were fun to read, I like it when people show their personalities x)Overall;
I actually want to give your 3.5/5 but I don't think you can do that with the rating system. You have a really nice site and from your layout it seems like you have great graphic skills. You should make your graphics as great as your layout and also work on you CSS skills as the CSS is messy.Good luck! ;)
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stepherz gave it
on 16th Nov 2008 and said:Design
I like the color scheme that you used for your website, but I'm not a fan of the big header image. It's too tall in my opinion, and takes up too much of my screen. I'm also not a fan of celebrity layouts... the image isn't yours to take and manipulate. The music link seems way out of place. The link buttons you guys have are really cute. I'd love to see a layout that looks like some of them. :)Visitor
The fonts are pretty, but do you have permission to be redistributing? I really like the patterns, they remind me of kaleidoscopes! The PSD images don't belong to you guys. I love the photography. You guys should do more of this. I wish the thumbnails linked to the actual image, but I have to admin, I didn't know I could drag images to the address bar, and was amused for a few minutes trying this out. The textures took a long time for the images to download and I'm on a fairly fast connection. It must be horrible for the few on dial-up. I think you should use a smaller image for the thumbnail instead of just resizing the image with html. Like you with the blends page. (Which are pretty but the images don't belong to you...) Same thing with the neopets layouts; I'm not going to wait for them to load. I like the last three wallpapers a lot. Though the preview that's slathered on the thumbnails irritate me. I must admit, I changed my background to the last wallpaper. It's pretty. :) I'm assuming the tutorials are for photoshop? You might want to specify. Some of us are outdated and still use Paint Shop Pro. Nothing terribly innovative of original in the tutorials. Ah, you confused me. Why do you have image effects separate from the Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro sections? I don't understand. And what program is the pen tutorial for?Site
I wish it said what the name meant, or how you thought of it. Nothing else I can really say here. On the credits page, you should make these links instead of just text.Owners
I think it would be better if you combined both of your profiles onto one page, since neither are terribly long. Dani, you have a broken image on your page. Karma, I'm amused by the intro to your about page, but I think you should consider reformatting it. It looks a little too cluttered. Try using putting them into paragraphs instead of just using br. I think it will be easier to read.Overall
There's some neat stuff here. I honestly wouldn't visit again, but that's because it's more of a tutorial site which doesn't suit my personal needs. Except for those awesome patterns... and pretty wallpapers. I still love that flower one. :)Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?
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Thanks for your review and using a wallpaper, haha (:
Why do you have image effects separate from the Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro sections?
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For the image effects that can't be translated into both programs. You're right. I should fix that XD![[img: avatar]](/avatars/thejayster.png)
thejayster gave it
on 16th Nov 2008 and said:First Impression:
Leona Lewis is pretty, but why must I be bombarded with such a huge image of her.. I would have been way happier with the fall leaves and maybe some cute illustrations meaning, NO CELEBRITY images. I won't lie and say I don't use celebrity images, but only for icons. That' I'm planning on eliminating altogether. Anyway, back to you. The header.. well it isn't half bad it's just really large and you should have been mindful about those who use wide screens because there is just a lot of space on the right side which in my opinion could have been manipulated a little more to please the eyes. The random music link on the left I find.. unnecessary. You could have easily placed a small text link somewhere in the side bar, but why there? That isn't the focal point of your site.. or so it seems so really, it shouldn't be there.
One thing I put the most thought into for my site are my headers. It's important that they are attractive, but not too much. Your headers are too large. I don't think anyone eyes are so bad that the text should be increased to such an enormous size. If they're eyes are that bad, they shouldn't be on a computer any how. I believe that font is Georgia.. such a commonly used font that I love, but because of the LARGE and ITALIC, I thought other wise for just a second.
Content:
It is great that you have a lot of content for visitors to browse through. I'm never care how much content a site has, but more so the quality. What I'm most pleased with are you textures and brushes. You're brushes are really adorable, and when I'm done I may be downloading some. I'll let you know. My second favorite are you textures. I'm a texture-holic and yous are great.The content that I don't really like or don't serve any relevance are your
1. Blends
I used to make these when I first got into the whole design shabang. Then I thought about what relevance they serve? None really. For one you're doing nothing but taking owned images, doing a few steps and calling it yours. Not really the route to follow. If you're going to make blends, make them for your own self enjoyment. Re-distributing them isn't really the right thing to do, nor is their a real reason. What's yours?2. PSDS
That's only encouraging people to take photos that aren't theres. Maybe I'm biased about the whole thing but using PSDS of people in layouts just annoy me. I don't have much to say besides re-distributing them is just something that needs to be reconsidered.3. Fonts
Plain and simple. Most sites I see with fonts just get them from dafont.com or some other free site they found on google. Key word. Google. If you want to recommend fonts, tell people where you got them, in turn they may even find more that you didn't post. Anyone can go to google or some search engine to find free fonts. Sites that share them I believe wasted their time making previews and taking up their site space to share fonts they didn't create. As I said, if you want to share a font, provide a link. :) I hope I didn't sound harsh.Tutorials:
You have tonssss! That's great, but are they all helpful or well written is the question. As for the tutorials, I'll keep it short and sweet...Provide screen shots for you cutenews tutorials. It's easy to get lost. If anything, it's important to provide screenies for when teaching a visitor about a platform, script or any program for that matter.
The Easy PSD layout is of some what 'low quality'. The final product was too appealing and instead of making me want to try the tutorial, it made me want to look for a different technique. To be quite frank, if you're going to have a image/graphic tutorial, make sure the final product is of good taste so the visitor would actually want to try the tutorial.
The Pen tool tutorial. Your examples of what the pen tool can do is just a mere insult to the tool. The shapes you made aren't really shapes at all and that's basically what you get when you just move the anchors from one place to another. The pen tool can do so much more and I find that tutorial.. ''messy" That's the only word I can come up with.. at least for the final result.
Links:
You link PSDS in two places. When you do such thing, it makes it seems as though one aspect of content is more important than the other. Is that really the case? One link.. just one. If they're a true visitor, when they visit the visitor section, they'll find it I'm sure. There is no point for the double linkage.Coding:
The average person would look at your site and say your coding is fine. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm only 15 and I'm not at all the coding guru. Whilst teaching my self I learned what's important and you're missing one of the most important: A DOCTYPE!! If you don't know what that is, then shame on you! lol Go find out and add it as soon as you can. It works wonders.Your text padding is to close to the edges of your DIVs. Everything is readable, but it is just one of those things that bother me. Speaking of your divs, you're prone to the old fashion way I see. Be brave and experiment with containers and you'll see that so many < div style = blahh " > tags aren't really necessary.
Personally, I would visit again. Your site has major potential and it provides so much content that just needs a bit of retouching. After that coding errors and content is revised, your site will sky rocket up on my personal scale. But, it's just me right? I wasn't bashing at your site in anyway, just gave a truthful, honest opinion of how i feel. Who knows? Maybe you'll agree with me some things. Best wishes to your site!!
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Thank you (:
I just fixed the navigation... and I'm going to see what a doctype is now XD
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Nnie gave it
on 16th Nov 2008 and said:FIRST IMPRESSION
Okay...so...celebrity layout. HUGE celebrity layout. They're copyrighted, you don't have any permission to use them. Yeah, you steal them.LAYOUT
As what I said--celebrity layout. I'm not a huge fan of them, I hate them. But apart from the celebrity images, the layout is quite simple...you just use PNGs and picture tube, eh? And you give a little effect in the bottom of the image...and brushes. Nothing special. Well, your font is fine, nothing wrong with your font. Good job in the color scheme--very autumn.VISITOR
Tutorial;
ARGH, CUTE NEWS!? You give people tutorials about CuteNews? CuteNews is really insecure and--well, I never used CuteNews but I've saw my affiliate that use CuteNews with 100 spams in it...oh my god. Overall, your tutorials are good. Good job.Brushes;
Nothing wrong, but the "Cobra Starship" preview looks really messy.Fonts;
Did you make them?Gradients;
It's better if you separate them individually for people who doesn't want to download whole set.Icon Textures;
Great, maybe I'll use one of them.Patterns;
Nothing wrong in here.Photoshop Actions;
Nothing wrong in here. Very original.PSDs;
People can cut their image. And woo--celebrity images :[Stock;
Nothing wrong in here--original.Textures;
Nice, but not impressing.Blends;
These are pointless--and based on...celebrity images. Some of them aren't good.Neopets Layout Bases;
No comment.Wallpapers;
Boring, no effects, except the Cobra Starship, but they're based on celebrity images.Icons;
Well...some of them are boring. And based on celebrity images.PSDs
You don't need to insert this link to your main navigation.LR.ORG
Change it to "Domain" or "Site".
Your history isn't interesting at all...they're short, yeah, TOO SHORT.
Your link back buttons are good, no comment.
You should put Affiliates in "Other Links".Affiliates;
These rules are weird:
[quote]You must get about 50 hits a day. Some exceptions are made, only if you're site is absolutely adorable.
- No .tk, freewebs, pizco, or geocities sites. Or .co.nr. Only sub-domains or domains. If your site is amazing, and it's freewebs, get hosted.[/quote]What's wrong with hits? Okay--I see, you're obsessed with hits.
Why ONLY sub-domains or domains?Credits;
You don't credit FanUpdate and FastOnlineUsers. They should be credited too.Hosting;
Nothing wrong in here.OWNERS
Nothing wrong in here...good job.CONCLUSION
Nothing special, but your site is not bad. Don't use celebrity images again--you steal them.Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?
L0V3R10TX's Response:
Thanks !
And I think we're going to take the fonts down, you're right. They take up a ton of space and we didn't even make them.![[img: avatar]](/avatars/Aisling.jpg)
Aisling gave it
on 16th Nov 2008 and said:Gah, celebrity images. I read that you don't see an issue with it, but... say you were a photographer. You FINALLY get a chance to shoot with a celebrity. You prepare the lighting, the effects, position the person, get amazing shots which you process to make even more beautiful... and then it gets chopped up and "blended," with some "brushes," on some random person's website. It loses all its integrity!
At the same time, YOU are losing your integrity, because by using a celebrity image you are essentially going HEY! LOOK! I HAVE NO TALENT FOR DESIGN!
The use of numbers in LOV3R1OT.0RG is annoying. Your domain is LoveRiot. Use LoveRiot.
EVERYTHING needs more padding. It's all cramped in its little boxes, and makes it look messy.
There is no point in linking to Tutorials on your Visitor page and also in the sidebar. I think the link on Visitor is the most redundant, and would be best removed. Your brushes are pretty cute. You should NOT be redistributing fonts that you did not create. PSDs are celebrity images and therefore subject to copyright, which you are infringing on. Same goes for the rest of this page, except your stock photos which are original. Please try to ditch the celebrity images and focus more on being creative. It is clear that you're capable. Your tutorials are okay.
PSDs don't need to be linked twice. But, yeah, they shouldn't be on your site at all, so...
Your site page is... meh. Nothing interesting. Hosting doesn't need to be linked here as well. People will get there eventually!
It's funny that one of your hosting requirement is no stolen content. Period. Hello, celebrity-image-user, meet hypocrisy.
Owners pages are fine.
Overall, not a horrible site, but not one I would necessarily visit again. Celebrity images are a big turn off for lots of people. I prefer to visit the sites where I know people have new and original things to offer. And actual talent. Which I am sure you have. But, no offense, cutting out a celebrity image and splattering some brushes around is not talent.
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L0V3R10TX's Response:
Thank you (:
Yeah, I understand the celebrity images thing now. Karma and I agreed to not use them anymore on the site.Ladytee gave it
on 15th Nov 2008 and said:My first impression when I got to your site is that it's autumn-y hence the leaves but then you have Leona Lewis and that got me going 'hmm'. She takes the full autumn concept you had for your site away because she's not even dressed for autumn in that picture so her being there clashes completely with the idea behind the layout!
Your site is not validated at all...You have a total of 25 Errors within your HTML...Your CSS couldn't be validated for reasons to do with W3C CSS validator...As for your HTML, you have no Character Encoding, No Parse Mode and No Doctype!!! This shows to me that you must be new to the coding aspect of web designing because those three things listed above is a MUST in coding! Make sure you change that!
More details on that hereNow back unto the site! The colors don't clash which is good but the Padding used for each heading is too big, the font used is too big, I advice you to make the padding smaller and the fonts smaller and this CSS just might look better.
While going through your site, I also found out that you have no footer! Visitors like footers, why? because it has those back - forward - home links on them making it so much easier to navigate because they don't have to be pressing back and forward on their web browser.
Why is the navigation called 'explore?', if this is a site that is meant for Visitors, try to make it more professional and just call it the usual Navigation.
Why do you have links Tutorials and PSDs under the sidebar when there are also linked when the visitors clicks on Visitors? It just seems to be a waste, have those linked in one place, not two.
Lr.org, change it to Site or Domain.
Put the link back to the index page, Home before every other link on the navigation div.
Why is Music linked at the very top? Why is it even needed? A radio isn't needed because the visitors probably already have their Itunes opened or their Last.fm.
The CSS for the navigation is boring and very unprofessional, it's all in lowercases making it look childish.
A sentence in your Disclaimer made me laugh, Photography belongs to rightful owner but hold on, you're using a Leona Lewis picture and using a celebrity picture which isn't photographed by you is illegal
Content
You have really good content and it's really good that you're updating your site, shows that you both are dedicated.Tutorials
Wow, a good variety of tutorials! That is really good! I couldn't go through all of your tutorials but I went through at least one from each category.
The Cutenews tutorial needs pictures to demonstrate what you mean, the sentences are too short!, There should be a page with 2 options. Choose the second one. You get what I mean, go into depth, let them know why it is their choosing it and what it means etc etc. Don't just tell them what to do, teach them.
Another tutorial I came across is Easy PSD layout...The instructions you're giving to the visitors is hardly readable because it's written on the picture in a small black font.Visitors
I love your brushes, Icon textures. I'm in love with your Patterns, gonna download the last one!
Fonts - You have fonts there but the rightful owners are not credited! Just link the visitors to the right font pages, such as dafont etc.
Textures Are these Icon Textures? The pictures are not linked to the original sizes...The only way I can get to the larger sizes is by right clicking the previews, that's not how it should be right?
Icons I advice you to get the Iconsort script, it's much more organized, you can download it hereHosting - I advice you to get a real form, lots of forms can be found on the internet.
Dani - There is an Image error there...
Grammar
You have some spelling mistakes here and there...I can't list them all but check your site over and you'll see the mistakes that I saw.Overall
Overall your site needs some work here and there...The only big issue is the HTML coding. Your layout isn't original either, it's a layout template that has been done over and over again in this world of web design. Get a new layout idea, play around wit ideas and come up with something new.Using Firefox on Windows | Report This?
L0V3R10TX's Response:
Thank you (:
I fixed the broken image on my 'About Me' page, and I'm going to work on the HTML.It's really sad I have no idea what they are, eh?
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Shadow gave it
on 15th Nov 2008 and said:Warning: You may get torn apart by others. Don't take this as an attack--we're only doing this because we care.
First Impression
HUGE. Celeb. Layout. No. No matter how well done it may be created, the truth remains that you don't own the pictures, and that's copyright infringement. The title on the browser of your site is in l33t speak. Not cool either. The text, other than the happy birthday, is tiny.Blog and Sidebar
The text is small. You're using 8pt. It might make a world of difference to use 10pt. Or, if you want to use px, you can choose at least 11px. Make it big enough for people to see. I can't help but to laugh at the terms and conditions of the site. Why? Because of this.Theft will not be tolerated at all and direct linking IS not prohibited. Photography belongs to the rightful owners. The coding is ours, you may not take without permission. Failure to follow these simple rules will result in a blockage from accessing this site.
Let's see...you're practically stealing images of celebrities and also claiming the code is yours. I can assure you that 95% of sites like yours have the same coding. Can't get on them for that. Practice what you preach, basically. Why have a section for your hostees if you only have two? I'm just wondering.
The other pages...
Visitor: Let's start with the tutorials. *screams* Cutenews! Did you know that Cutenews is insecure and can get hacked easily? As for everything else, it's been done before. You got very lazy with some of the tutorials by just putting the images up and nothing more. Either you explain it all or not at all.
Now to the resources.
I like the brushes, even though the concepts have been done before.
Do you have permission to distribute those fonts? If not, they don't belong. With that being said, thank you for showing me the way to Bittersweet World. But it doesn't make it right.
There's nothing special about the gradients. They are pretty, but that's it.
I actually like some of the icon textures. You should create some more, but switch up the styles a bit. As is, a lot of the styles are repeated. You have a scratchy texture, then you have about 5 more, just in a different color.
The patterns are ugly, and pretty repetitive as well.
You have Photoshop actions, however, some people don't know how to use them. That would be a great tutorial.
139 PSDs?! And they're all copyrighted images! Drop this section altogether. Not too many people use them anymore anyway.
The stocks are really pretty. I wish you would create a link to the full size rather than telling us to drag it to the address bar! Get some more stocks of variety. Like trees and stuff.
The textures are hit and miss. Some of them are good, and some of them should be trashed. The light textures are the ones I have a liking for.
No blends with celebrity images.
The layout bases for Neopets are really bad. Seriously, I was like "ooh, no." What made it worse was your watermark all over them.
The first wallpaper contains copyrighted images. Everything else is fair game, but still isn't anything special.
I am not going to even go into icons. That's the infringement page.
Tutorials: All right, you have this page in the visitor section already. You don't need it in the visitor page again.
PSD's: Once again, the link's in the visitor section. But even so, these shouldn't be on the site in the first place.
li.org: General stuff.
Hosting: I have nothing to say about this. I was too busy with my eyebrows raised because of some of the terms. So what if someone doesn't have an AIM screen name. They can't put the required phrase in, which means that they can't be hosted anymore, or at all? That's steep!
Owners: Since you both have lengthy pages, putting it on one page isn't much of an option. What I would do is to write a small blurb introducing the pages so that it won't look bare. The image in Dani's profile is broken by the way.
Coding
I totally forgot about the music link you had on top of your header. You don't need it. Music on sites is out. I was quickly reminded of this when I saw the Javascript popup.You have...no DOCTYPE. I can't put it through a validator. No position:absolute;! Use your CSS file! You have plenty of things that can be defined using CSS! You don't need those two breaks. Basically, the coding needs a huge overhaul to make it valid.
All in All...
I am very unhappy with all of the celebrity stuff you created. Some of them are good, yes. However, they're not your images. You need to scrap a lot of those things and create things that are you own. I think you're capable of doing things original. You just need to lay off of the copyrighted pictures. Good luck!
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So what if someone doesn't have an AIM screen name. They can't put the required phrase in, which means that they can't be hosted anymore, or at all? That's steep!
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Its where you put the 'If you read the rules' phrase.Thank you (:
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zai gave it
on 15th Nov 2008 and said:Layout
The layout is quite pretty, and the autumnal colours you've chosen complement each other nicely.
I also like the effects blurry effects you've used in your header image. The image itself is a bit discoloured, because on my screen its beige background is substantially darker than the rest of your page background. I'd recommend doing a print-screen, eyedropping the background colour of your Leona Lewis image as it is shown in the screenshot and replacing your page's current background colour with the new colour so it matches better.
All the divs would look great with some more padding.
Your footer on the homepage (previous page link and fanupdate stuff) would be better in its own div (it looks slightly out of place at the moment).
I love how even the music player matches the site's theme really well. However, in my opinion it's not that important to place a huge link to it next to the header image. I think you should put the link to the music player in the sidebar somewhere, and then in that space next to the header place a link to the homepage for easier navigation.
In the sidebar - maybe change the link 'lr.org' to 'about lr' or something like that? Because at first I thought it would link to the homepage.
"We're a Resource & Graphics Site that contains a large amount of resources for your use" is a bit wordy. You could cut it down to "We contain a large amount of resources and graphics for your use."Content
First up, the tutorials. The site name ideas are cool. And I'd recommend putting 'adding cutenews' at the end of 'installing cutenews' - this would make more sense and would be easier for visitors to follow.
Maybe include a mail form on your hosting page, just for ease of use? (Some people are lazy.)
Cuuute brushes.
Nice selection of fonts up for download too, but you should state who made them.
I like the layout bases, but why are they linked as 'neopets layout bases'? Surely they can be used for anything? And maybe you could write that you have to drag and drop the thumbnails into the address bar.Overall the content's great. Maybe a few reads, like your articles and opinions etc, would be cool too. The layout is also good and quite original and different compared to other websites taking into account the colour scheme. So well done and hopefully you'll consider my suggestions!
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Thank you !(:
candierocks gave it
on 15th Nov 2008 and said:First of all, your layout. I really hate layouts that take up the whole screen. I have to scroll down to see your content, and that may shoo visitors away. Everytime you click on a link, you have to scroll down a whole bunch. Very time consuming and very bad. However, I love the colors you used and the leaves. I like how it correlates with Thanksgiving.
Under your Visitor page, I do not like how all the links are centered. They don't line up, and it looks kind of weird.
Tutorials: Great job on them! Short and easy to follow. Keep it up. (:
Fonts: I would suggest taking them down because they're not yours, and you redistributed them without giving credit to the owners.
Gradients: Cute! I would suggest making the font on the previews the same so there's more unity and so it's less all over the place.
Icon textures: I would definitaly use them. Good job(:
Patterns: Good job. No suggestions here.
Actions: I don't like how when you download one, you get 5 different actions. It confuses the visitor. This sentence, "The previews all have names, so when you download the actions you'll know what action is which label. " is pretty much common sense and doesn't need to be stated. The paragraph at the top is already too much to read. When you say "Every set of actions has one called "Border" which adds a 1px black border around your imagein the click of a button. ", I think you should take out that action because everyone knows how to add a 1px black border and you don't need a separate action for it. It will just take up more memory on their computer and the visitors won't like that.
PSDS: Nice PSDs. However, I don't like how you said "If you don't credit us, we'll report you and make a quint little place for you on our WALL OF SHAME." at the top. It's a bit immature and unnecessary.
Stocks and textures: They take forever to load so I would make actual previews for them, and make the previews clickable rather than just resizing the texture using a code and making the visitor drag it to the address bar.
So overall, your site needs a little bit of work, but I can see it has a lot of potential. Good luck and great job! (:
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Under your Visitor page, I do not like how all the links are centered. They don't line up, and it looks kind of weird.
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I don't get that either. I've checked it a million times, and there's no center tag. And, since I use Firefox, they're aligned to the left.![[img: avatar]](/avatars/Anna_Kirstin.gif)
Anna_Kirstin gave it
on 15th Nov 2008 and said:First Impression: There is a giant stolen celebrity image that takes up my entire screen. Did you take this image yourself? No? Who did? Do you know? Do you have their permission to use it? Are they receiving royalties for its use? That image is copy-right to someone. You have no right to use it without their permission - which is the reason I call it stolen.
I don't see the point in the pop-up music player, but at least you had the sense not to embed it into the page.
Text: Your text is very small. I would increase the size some. You also need some padding between your text and your divs. It gives a very unprofessional appearance when you have your text so close to your div border.
Navigation: Your navigation is easy to find, but like I mentioned above, the text is too close to the border of your div.
Links: I do not like that when I hover over your links the color becomes soo light that I can not see the link anymore. This occurs with your 'music' link too. It becomes black (which is the background color) on hover. Your text-color should always remain visible on links.
You should never use 'here' links. Where exactly is 'here'? Your links should describe what it is that I am going to. 'Click' doesn't work either. NEVER use 'here' or 'click' links. They're amateurish and you want a resource site to say something along the lines of "We're professional and know what we're talking about."
Also you should consider finding a way for visitors to know when a link takes them off-site. Many websites achieve this by using a small image next to the link that looks similar to a page with an arrow leaving it. You could find something more original, but the basic concept is to let visitors know when they are about to leave your site and to allow them to decide whether or not they want to follow the link away from you.
Credits:
All resources distributed are (c) loveriot.org unless otherwise stated. Theft will not be tolerated at all...
That is exactly what you're doing. Those photos belong to the photographer and your using them IS theft.
I always check credits on these type sites: Images...Any Celebrity Fansites I've googled. You can't even credit the place that originally scanned the photos?Hosting: No offense, but I find it hypocritical that you mention in your hosting rules and agreement " 5. No stolen content. Period." and then don't bother to credit the sites who took the time to upload those celebrity photos you've edited.
Your hosting form is not a form - it's an e-mail. If you're not going to use a form, it would be better if you simply said "Please e-mail us with the following information if your are interested in becoming a hostee." Follow with the information you're requiring.Dani: There is an image that is not showing up on your page. The image has a 404 error and is showing up as a the typical box with the little 'x'.
Karma: I think you were going for your opening/introduction to be attention getting. The only thing it got from me was "What? What planet do you live on?" It felt like a waste of time to read it. I want to know about you as you are - not as you are not.
lr.org - History of sites - "Eyexcandi.co.nr, than" should be "then". That really could have been written better. You could write something more descriptive and still keep it short.
Affiliates: Your "must" in your rules blends into the background color too much. It's hard to read. Consider changing the font color.
Overall: I don't see much here that I haven't seen on other sites very much like yours. Resources sites all seem to be the same to me. Very few stand out.
You text really needs some padding. It's annoying trying to read it with it being so close to the border and I didn't even bother reading into the site as much as I normally do for this exact reason.
Your use of celebrity images is illegal and one of the reasons for the rating. I would try to incorporate more of your own materials instead of relying on the stolen, copyrighted material of others that you decided to edit.
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Thank you for rating us (:
I've tried with the padding for the text, it bothers me too. But when I do, it comes off on the other side :/UPDATED 15 Nov 08:
Thank you for reviewing us (:
I've tried with the padding for the text, it bothers me too. But when I do, it comes off on the other side :/We'll work on the images thing, many sites use celebrity images on their layouts and I don't really see an issue with it. But thank you.
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