Oh-So-Envious

Oh-So-Envious

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    Nadine gave it ***-- on 28th Nov 2008 and said:

    Frontpage/first impression: I like it. But there is something I don’t like either. Like the effect on the layout. The lines if you know what I mean? They could show a little bit less, or you could not have them. And on the right there is a small part that don’t have the texture on. To the right it would be better if you didn’t take the pictures of her that close. To mee it looks weird. I like the coulors in the text. Nice variation. The links right under the layout should have more space. I think they stand too close. The link button don’t work, I can’t see the picture.

    Site/me: Us page is nice, but why can’t you have all the content about you on one page? On the domain page I think you could drop the arrows. On credits page it’s really nice that you write what you’ve used from them. The dolls page you don’t need, you already have it on us.

    Content: Nice that you have games and other funny things. I don’t see why you have the google searcher. Lots of graphic content! You have textures on graphics and downloads. Choose whitch one you want it on.

    Tutorials: They’re nice. But on advance images you have to add really many layers. Try to make it a little more easy.

    Graphics: I’m mostly looking at your blends and icons here. I like your blends. Some of them are really nice. But it’s kinda boring that you use the same pictures of Justin Timberlake in 4 blends. The icons are pretty!

    Over-all: You’re site is nice, but sometimes I feel that I have to go inside a lot to find things. Try to make it more easy for us to find things. Fresh up sometimes in your graphics. The ones from your older site graptopia you don’t need.

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  2. kkickball gave it **--- on 28th Nov 2008 and said:

    I don't like leaving negative reviews and I hope you don't take it that way. I really want to give you constructive criticism because I think it's useful in helping you better your site.

    It really reminds me of a website that I saw back in 1997-1999. Very messy looking, the header looks like it was done in paint and is very pixely and looks like it was saved in a BMP format. That's my honest opinion. It just looks very messy. I'm not into the center aligned text at all.

    I almost missed the navigation because I didn't see it there. It should be spaced between the links better. It should also be smaller or on the sidebar somewhere because it can be easily missed up there.

    None of your content links have any text or content. You should put something there otherwise people will just look at the blog and leave when they see nothing else is there. If you want to keep a visitor, you should really put content.

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    OhSoEnvious's Response:

    "Very messy looking, the header looks like it was done in paint and is very pixely and looks like it was saved in a BMP format"

    The font's not pixelated to me, maybe it's your screen, and it wasn't done on paint, and also it was saved as .png :)

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    Louise gave it **--- on 26th Nov 2008 and said:

    Design
    What sized screen-resolution do you have? Because your layout and text looks uber tiny. I decided to shrink my screen res to 1024x768 and it still looked really small.

    It wouldn't hurt to enlarge your text, especially for your navigation. The navigation and body font look too similar. And your sub-title in the header is barely readable. Why are you featuring Christina Aguilera? Did you interview her or something? Take her photo?

    Coding
    There is a lot of CSS you can condense to make it smaller yet still do the same thing. :) For example, where you have "0px" you can write as "0" because "0" means the same thing regardless of what unit you are measuring in. See this tutorial for more.

    You have some messy HTML coding. You also don't have a need for absolutely positioning your layout divs. You could try something like this (basically shows you a table layout without tables).

    Domain
    I'm not sure you need a link to "the dolls" on this page, because it is right there in the sidebar.

    Visitors
    I don't think anything in there is copyrighted to you except maybe the Textures. The reason is because you've got a lot of "found" resources and any others that you made yourself contain other people's copyrighted images and fonts.

    I'm glad you're offering links to the original sources of programs, rather than putting the .exes on your site. However, you should be linking to the software website, not directly to the .exe. This is so people can see if there are any updates, warnings, system compatibility etc.

    I also don't see the need for you to offer fonts when you have linked to dafont.com :) They probably have all the fonts you have + more. Please note that there are some fonts you may share, and some you may not: Please check Readme.txt files. If there is no Readme, assume the font may not be shared.

    Copyrights
    You do know that you can't put "Copyright © Oh-So-Envious.com" on your pages because you've used copyrighted things made by other people?

    I'm sure you don't want to hear a big spiel about how illegal it is to use celebrity images. I understand that people do it out of fan-appreciation. But the fact is, if you didn't snap the photo yourself, you need permission. And many will give permission if asked.

    Besides, your site has nothing to do with Christina Aguilera, so she doesn't need to be there.

    Summary
    You are good at design. Just please, use larger fonts. :) Please keep practicing and keep up the good work. There are plenty of cool designs you could do without the use of celeb images.

    UPDATED 26 Nov 08:
    Oh bummer! My link was removed from the review for some reason. Here's the shortening CSS tutorial: http://www.tutorialtastic.co.uk/tutorial/shortening_css_codes

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    OhSoEnvious's Response:

    Thankyou for the link, that will be very useful :)

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    Swetlana gave it **--- on 26th Nov 2008 and said:

    Hey Amanda and Emz =) You already konw me so I don't have to tell you that I am not a pro at coding etc. so I will just review your site from the position of a regular visitor!

    First impression

    Your layout is looking good and I like it. The coing seems to be good aswell and I like the fact that you changed your font, because it was really hard to read! So a plus on that. The colors you chosed on the layout are good as well and they suit the whole layout. The only thing that I think is not alright is that you are using a celebrity image, but as I have used them on my layouts until a few days ago also I won't be harsh with that point. But I also saw layouts of you without any celebrity images and they looked awesome! SO maybe you should stick with them? And now to your sidebar, maybe you should slow your updates thingy down. It's a little bit to fast which makes reading it hard. Besides that your sidebar is organized well and easy to navigate!

    The Dolls

    Emziie's part
    I like to read something about you Emz, but I think you should write in a proper English and not something like this:

    Ppl Str8, wots the point in liein

    I really don't see any point in writting this "gangsta-style" it just looks imature and as you are already 19 I think you really shouldn't write like this.

    Amanda's part
    Your part is pretty short Amanda. I think you maybe should add a little bit more information about you. It's important that the visitors know who the person/s behind the site is/are!

    Domain

    Hmm.. I don't know.. there are informations about your previous sites but I think you could have written it better. It seems like you were just complimenting the other one with your small text about her history. I don't know.. I know that Amanda's site was really popular and I also visited a lot but I didn't know your site Emziie so I can't tell if it was popular or not.. I just can say that to me it sounds like you are just complimenting each other..

    Visitors

    Your artwork is looking really good! Some of them are really amazing and some of them not, for example the second last one.. You have talent I totally can see it, so why don't you use that talent on your homepage layouts?
    You offer alot of graphics and some of them are looking really awesome and some again don't. Your Affie images for example, they are to simple! I went threw all the pages and had a look at them but I won't review them all as a single page!
    You do offer some tutorials but I think you totally should add more of them! I really like your advanced picture tutorials, awesome job on that! But what I recognized 3 of your image effects don't work, so I think you should fix that!
    Okay, I won't review your Myspace and Download section because I don't think their is a need to review those!

    Features

    In your features you offer some games and then help in reviewing for school.. well I don't know how many of your visitors really look at this part.. but it's something I haven't seen before, though I think games aren't something for hosted sites, they are more like something piczo users would have on their sites..

    Yeah the last three sections are Forum, Chatroom and Get hosted and I also won't review them because I don't see a point in reviewing your Forum because you submitted your main site. And a chatroom isn't there to be reviewed..

    Overall

    Okay, I think overall you have a pretty good site with alot of potential! You should thinking about not using celeb-images on your layouts anymore and maybe add some more on your owners pages and also on the site page.. just think about that!

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  5. Ashleyann gave it ***-- on 26th Nov 2008 and said:

    As soon as I open your site I see a huge Christina Aguilera layout, illegal. D: But, I'm sure you already know that. The text is too small, it doesn't really bother me too much but, some people aren't blessed with my good vision. Well moving along.

    Your first blog says "I hate this layout with a passion", why would you post something on your website that you aren't proud of? If you really think its that bad then take it off! Ahaha.

    I don't like how your navigation doesn't really stand out. Its just kind of there. It took me a while to find it actually. Everything else on the side bar is labeled except the navigation. "Updates", "Information", etc. You might want to add that. :P

    I suggest changing "The Dolls" to something else, I was expecting some type of Pussycat Dolls video to pop out when I clicked on that link.

    As far as content goes you have a couple of things to offer. Your artwork is cute. :] For some pages you should just put everything on one page. As I'm navigating through your site I feel like I have to click on a million things before getting to what I want.

    Tutorials: Your site namer doesn't work, I got all excited for nothing! I think overall these are okay, but you should add some more tutorials.

    You should eliminate the myspace section all together. All you have is a codes page with only four different codes. Either add something else or take it out.

    I hate your downloads section! I tried to click on Eye Candy 3 to find out more about it and it just started downloading. Instead of linking to the download, link to the information page. Some people want to find out more about the program before downloading it. I was just curious. I don't think its really necessary to have a section for messengers, most people either have the one they want or know where to get it. :P You didn't make any of your resources? What is this graphtopia site? I tried going to the site but it does not exist? Why is this? Either change the credits on the resources or provide an explanation as to why you have these here.

    Features: Take out google search, why have it? Your site namer works in this section and so I am happy with you again. :D I enjoyed reading your "Ways to Annoy Parents".

    I love your forum only because I am a huge fan of Hello Kitty, but it doesn't seem to be very active. :P

    Overall, I think you have a nice site. You just need to work on adding some more content. Good luck!

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    OhSoEnvious's Response:

    Thankyou for your opinion, i did make the resounces with the link graphtopia.org. the graphtopia.org site was explained on the domain page, this was my previous site,that unfortuantly never got renewed, therefore there being graphtopia links on the graphics.

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    Becca gave it ***-- on 25th Nov 2008 and said:

    Oh deary deary me.
    Not another celebrity image-site :/
    I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to knock your rating down because of the simple fact; celebrity images are illegal :(
    Other than that, I like your site a lot.
    Another itsy complaint, you're typing in capitals all of the time, is this a part of your coding? if it is, please change it. It looks like your shouting at me. :(
    Also, change the letter spacing a tad: the letters overlap in a few cases and it's not very easy to read. I was squinting at one point. Also, slow down the update marquee - It's unreadable and not very easy on the eyes.

    In a coding validator you recieved five errors. Not too bad tbh. Most people get more. For a perfectly validated site, correct these points here (:

    I'm not going to go through each individual page, I'm just going to tell you the basic problems (the coding issue).
    So there y'go.
    Enjoy repairing those errors :P
    (If it makes you feel better, I have 80 errors, YES EIGHTY! :( )

    x

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    Liz gave it **--- on 25th Nov 2008 and said:

    Hi I'm Liz and I'll be doing this review.

    Layout and overall design
    First off I notice your font is really really small. Especially the dates in your blog. Remember that all fonts should be 10px or up. Then I also notice EVERY THING IS IN ALL CAPS SO IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SHOUTING ALL THE TIME. That's really irritating to visitors make sure your only capitalize like you should using grammar. The headers in your sidebar are also very small and very smoshed together. I can't even read the Grey links they should be gray so there is enough contrast between them that the visitor can read them. With the rounded corner part of your layout it looks like it should be longer like so: http://i37.tinypic.com/2qsuzqr.png
    I really don't like this layout 2 pictures of Christina Agulara in black and white and blended together it looks sort of sloppy.
    *Sight* celebrity images? I'll spare your the very long lecture but using them is wrong and illegal. If you were a photographer how would you like it if people stole your copyrighted works and thought it was okay?
    The back forward home links in your footer and just pointless people nowadays just use the buttons in their browser. The marquee thing is a little 2001 and a bit distracting.

    Coding
    Uh oh your forgot your doctype! This should be the first thing in your header and above the head tag. Also save your css as "style.css" and put this code in your header (remove spaces of course)
    I notice a ton of random tags. If you're going to use them close them the proper way. I also notice you never close your body or html tags which should be at the very bottom of your page/footer/whatever. ALSOO NEVER CAPITALIZE ANY TAGS any header or br tags whatever

    Pages
    For your navigation I would not put something like "the dolls" and wow you're both around the age of 18 I would expect this.
    "The dolls" Owners-
    Are you using javascript for the tacky image fade thing? Some people turn javascript off so I really don't see the point of it. The "about me's" are extremely short and in need of details. Also the text under neath your names is so small I can't even read it.
    "Domain" Site-
    Maybe a history of both of your previous site and how you got started? Not a ton of information in "Domain". Under credits crediting the site your got your stole celebrity picture from that probably stole it from somewhere else doesn't make it right.
    "Visitors" Resources/Content-
    Artwork- I like these small previews they look pretty and load fast even on my slow internet. I like the city one. No celeb images! *high five* Where did you get that stock photo of the city or did you take it yourself? All of these are nice.
    Graphics-Affie thumbnails? Does anyone really use these?
    Button bases- So formatting stolen celeb pics makes them yours? I'd get rid of these.
    EHMAHGAWD A JONAS BROTHER BLENDZZ~
    love that under the title it says copyrighted to oh-so-envious. These pictures aren't yours you didn't take them it's a violation of the law and blends are tacky anyway.
    Filmstrips- Oh joy more copyright violations. This time on little film strip things.
    Headers- What are these used for? O.o
    Icons- More celeb blahblahblah~ get rid of these.
    Pixels- These give me seizures O.o
    Quotes- Ooh I like these.
    Textures- The light ones are nice.
    Tutorials
    Ahaa your "html tuts" discription says "all the tuts you could need" yet there is only 1 here. Lean the basics before you teach others html ;).
    Myspace
    The only thing in here is codes? Eh these are useful and I hope they work with the new profiles.
    Downloads
    Why do you have programs on here? You didn't create them they're copyrighted. Brushes are cute love the eiffel tower ones. Glad that you link the original files on fonts. Ahhh on textures you capitalized the a in your tag so it didn't close properly. Scripts- yet more celeb images!!! Why not use stock: sxc.hu?
    Features
    Ermm google search box? That's what the box in my browser is for, Ladies. It's really unnecessary. Under "fun" or articles "sentance" should be "sentence" in "A sentence that suits you" that scroll box thing yeah all the text in that is white so I had to highlight it. Aha I ran over a gangster because I'm a ninja. School revisions will come in handy in 2 years when I'm a junior. It's helpful. The photography of events is nice especially the wedding one.

    Overall
    Clean up your coding a lot. I see that the majority of your content has a celebrity's face on it. I love your portfolio do more things like that. Add more articles. Not everything has to have some random celebs face on it(: you have a lot of potential and I'm sure if you cleaned up your site it would be a lot better. Any comments or concerns comment on my site: http://oh-blarg.net

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    OhSoEnvious's Response:

    Thankyou, we will be taking your comments onboard, I have already made a few chnages that you suggested, font size, and head and body tag :).

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