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eternalised gave it
on 5th Jan 2011 and said:Hello! This is my very first review here, so your website is my lucky number one ;P Hehe.
First of all, I like your layout. It's simple, with a sort of winter-y feel, which I like and fits the season. Since I like simplicity and minimalism, your layout is exactly my kind of thing. However, I feel like the text is aligned too closely to the sides: I would align more padding to the sides, so the text seems less cluttered, exactly how Syllish already pointed out in her review of your site.
Moving on, there are some photos in your posts on the front page. I think they might look better with a nice border around them, in the same color as your background, and the border of your content area (the blue/grey colour).
Your meta section underneat your posts is a bit small when compared to the other text, and I can barely read it. I suggest a bigger font size.
On the other hand, I love the 'webmiss' 'recently' 'dailies' and 'tweet' boxes underneath. They look gorgeous, and very cute.
Webmiss
Just a suggestion, but maybe you could add a picture to the "Webmiss" page. I know you have a seperate page for pictures, which is cool, but it would be nice to get a glance of how you look like right away.
I love your "More About Me" and "Where I've Lived" pages, especially because they contain pictures. You sure did live in a lot of places...:P The "Life Goal" list is great, but once again, I wouldn't align my text so closely to the left side here. It would look more organised if you added additional padding to the left.
A "Movie Challenge"! Cool, and pretty original. I'm not that much into movies (books are more my thing), but I do like it.
"DVD Movies and Series I Own." I have mixed feelings about this page, since I'm not exactly sure if people would actually read it. Your collection is very impressive though.
I wouldn't put a "Contact Page" under webmiss, but rather under "Domain".
Visitor Content
Well, it's a nice gesture to offer visitor content, but not all of it really convinces me. Those bullets look familiar (all bullets sort of look the same to me) and I'm not sure if anyone actually uses bullets nowadays. I mean, you can easily make them yourself if you want them, and most you can get for free look so generic. Color Schemes are totally unncessary. There are lots of websites, like ColourLovers who offer a bazillion of color schemes, so I think it would be a better idea if you just uploaded your color schemes to one of those websites. People really won't search your website looking for color schemes, I'm afraid.
Icons and Avatars. I'm sorry to say but, not only are you using celebrity graphics I'm pretty sure you didn't get permission for, but they're not all that pretty either. They're just pictures of celebrities; sometimes with an extra layer of color or something, but nothing that really makes them outstanding. If I were you, I'd just get rid of them.
PNGs. I'm pretty sure no one uses PNGs anymore nowadays.
Textures. Ah, now we're getting there. Did you make these yourself? Some look pretty awesome (I especially love the purple flower-like one). Definately keep these.
Vectors. That's awesome. Not many people offer vectors to their visitors, and yours really do look good. Well done.
Brushes and Emoticons; These are wonderful. The brushes look very good, and the emoticons are just too cute.
Fonts: You mention yourself that you didn't make any of these, yet you still offer them for download? Trust me, people won't go all the way to your website to search fonts when there are big font distributors out there they can download them from a lot easier. Just delete these.
PSP Scripts: Never used a PSP Script before, so I really have no opinion on whether or not this is useful.
Webicons: If I were you, I would put my Emoticons and Webicons together on one page. You're just cluttering your site with all these unnecessary pages! But they do look good though.
WordPress Themes: Definately keep these. I like them, they're simple, but look nice, and have a lot of potential for possible users.
Recap: Get rid of the color schemes, icons and avatars, pngs and fonts, and focus more on the content that really makes your website shine: the textures, brushes, vectors, WP themes and webicons/emoticons.
Tutorials
The "Validate your CSS" tutorial is totally unnecessary. I'm pretty sure people who can write CSS good enough to want it validated, can use the Validator. In fact, everyone can use the validator, it isn't all that difficult.
The other tutorials seem decent enough, and some are even interesting, I especially like the horizontal navigation tutorial for CSS.
WordPress on your Index is also an unncessary tutorial. I've installed WP a million times now, and never before has it appeared on a subdomain /wp, unless you tell WordPress to do so during the installation.
I would delete those two tutorials, and keep the others.
Domain
Yay, another Buffy fan! I used to love Btvs back in high school (and I still love it now, sssh :P).
Ok, first of all, you really should just get rid of a lot of these pages and combine them all into one page. For instance, Listed at, Link here..., Affiliates, could all be under a new page called "Linkage" or "Links", or they could just all be on your Domain page. That would make tihngs a lot easier for your visitors too, who don't want to browse a bazillion pages to get somewhere.
Delete the "Site Name" page, and either add the content to "Site History" or the main "Domain" page.
"Plugins I use" can be under "Credits & Resources".
Try to get the level of pages here down to about 4, maybe 3. Keep in mind: less is more. It's okay to put stuff on your basic "Domain" page too.
General Thoughts
I like, and I don't like your website. I like parts of it: the layout, the simplicity, most of your 'webmiss' section, and some of your visitor content and tutorials. I dislike the things you didn't make yourself, or are too generic, or just so easy anyone could do them (like the validate css tutorial). I think you still have to search for a path inbetween, and really seperate what content your visitors would like from what content they would never use. If you manage to find that path, your site really has potential.
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Sillyish gave it
on 3rd Jan 2011 and said:LAYOUT
The title is nice and clear, navigation is easy to find, content area obvious, all good things.Here are some of the things I wasn't so huge on:
-Graphics I think could be better. Graphics are hard, and I'm the first to admit that I kind of suck at them, but that doesn't mean I won't nit pick them in a review! I love the idea of these snowflakes, but the black/white gradient over them makes them feel like clip art created in 1998. I think something a little simpler and less obtrusive, like these simple vector snowflakes would have looked cleaner and nicer. This goes for the title as well, with the outer glow and the gradienty look feels so so outdated. Here is a list of some amazing photoshop typography tutorials with some great text effects you can create that isn't too hard as long as you follow the instructions :)One thing I DO like with the graphics is the snowflake behind the date. This snowflake looks cute, and it fits with the date perfectly.
Stepping away from the graphics and more into the layout of the site:
Text spacing could be better for sure. Here are two screenshots
-The way your text currently is
-The way I think it would look better
The changes I made: More padding on the left and write so that the text isn't so flush up against the edges, left-aligned text for better readability and to fix strange spacing between words, and a slightly different line-height for better readability.The issues with justified text really come out strong in the footer for 'about you' The spacing between words has been made really weird as the computer attempts to make it all line up. So here are another two screenshots:
-The way you currently have it
-The way I think it would look better, with left aligned text---
Also:
-The colour of the links when you move your mouse over them in the "File in:, Tags:" at the bottom of each entry is hard to read (the light blue on hover, not the default dark blue. That colour is fine.)
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Webmiss intro is good.
More about me uses the huh? Which you already used in the intro. Two huh?s in a row starts to feel like overkill.
"Hence, the domain name, huh?"
"So, you want to know more about me, huh?"
The rest of 'more about me' I read for a bit but I eventually started to skim to the bottom. Your spelling seemed good and grammar seemed good, but I didn't feel sucked in. Is this something that's fixable? Maybe not. Maybe if I read your blog on a regular basis I'd be more inclined to read it, or maybe not. It's tough to say!Movies and Series I own is probably something that no one will ever look at or be interested in...
Your visitor content..
-Bullets are fine, although they look exactly like the bullets I have seen on visitor content pages all over the place...
-Colour schemes seem a bit pointless, again
-Same with the PNGs because who wants to take an image that has your site name right across the front? Unless they want to use it to link to you, of course, but I'm assuming that wasn't your intention.
-Your vectors are much better than anything I could have done and I think this is a good content piece because it is more unique artistically speaking.
-Your emoticons are cute
-The fonts page again seems sort of pointless since you didn't actually make them and people can find them on a font site...
-Your webicons are good as well, although you need to update the rules on this page "If you use any emoticon set" should be "If you use any web icon set"Your tutorials seemed fine :)
Under Site History some screenshots of past layouts are always fun and interesting for visitors.
Your credits page is quite large and I doubt you actually use everything you have credited. Keeping it small so that people can actually tell where you obtained what is nice. Only credting for your current layout and saying things like
"I got the font for the title from xyz"
"I got the texture for the background from abc"
"I got the tutorial on how to .... from 123"
etc.This cuts down the credits, makes it easier for people to know where to go for what, and makes the credits more meaningful instead of a huge link dump of people who you maybe used some of their stuff in a layout last year or something.
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CODE
Your CSS and your HTML both did not validate, things which could be fixed.One CSS error you got was this, an easy fix:
Property font-color doesn't exist : #aaaaac #aaaaac
(font-color should just be color:)The other error was a browser hack related error, something that can't really be fixed and isn't a big deal.
Your HTML validation seemed to stem from you using a mixture of HTML & XHTML and not choosing one or the other.
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This piece of code seemed totally weird:
<script language="Javascript" src="http://www.crazy-cordy.net/ccount/display.php">
<!--
//-->
</script>
....Why are you including a .php file using Javascript? It should probably be more like this:
<script language="Javascript" src="http://www.crazy-cordy.net/ccount/display.js"> </script>Another odd coding piece was this:
<div id="navigation">
<a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/webmiss/" class="navigation">Webmiss</a><p>
<a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/visitor-content/" class="navigation">Visitor Content</a><p>
<a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/tutorials/" class="navigation">Tutorials</a><p>
<a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/domain/" class="navigation">Domain</a><p>
<a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/ask/questions.php" class="navigation">Q & A</a><p>
<a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/" class="navigation">Clear</a><p>
</div>
Why do you have a P tag after each link? You never close any of these P tags, either. This would be much nicer & more correct if displayed in this way:
<ul id="navigation">
<li><a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/webmiss/" class="navigation">Webmiss</a></li>
<li><a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/visitor-content/" class="navigation">Visitor Content</a></li>
<li><a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/tutorials/" class="navigation">Tutorials</a></li>
<li><a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/wp/domain/" class="navigation">Domain</a></li>
<li><a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/ask/questions.php" class="navigation">Q & A</a></li>
<li><a href="http://crazy-cordy.net/" class="navigation">Clear</a></li>
</ul>
If you were to do this you would obviously have to update your CSS as it's no longer a<div id="navigation">, it's a<ul id="navigation">, but I think once the updates were done to the CSS the coding would be much better.Anyway, those are a few things to look into coding wise.
-----------------------------------------------Hopefully some of the things I pointed out end up being useful to you! I realize the layout will probably change soon anyway because Christmas is over and all that, so maybe some of this can be transposed into the next iteration of Crazy-Cordy.net.
Good luck! :-)
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crazycordy's Response:
Thank you for the review! I am always looking for ways to better my site =)
A few things I do want to clarify for you and possible other reviewers... the "gradient" i used on the snowflakes was actually a bevel effect, because I didn't want them to look flat and boring. It did take a long time for me to make the graphics, which is one reason why I'm defensive about it lol
Also, about the PNGs... the logo of my site name is only on the previews of the images, you click on the preview and the actual full size image pops up.... that's kind of how most people show their PNGs for download.
The only other thing I'd like to point out is the javascript code... it's a code from a script I downloaded for BellaBuzz, a question and answer script, so I really can't do much about having the .php extention in the code.
Thanks again for the advice, I will definitely take it into consideration!!! =) ( and the layout is a winter layout, not just a Christmas one =D )
UPDATED 04 Jan 11:
not bellabuzz, something elseUPDATED 04 Jan 11:
haha, yeah, sorry the javascript code isn't from BellaBuzz, but a different script I had downloaded for counting clicks... it keeps track of how many times something is downloaded (i use it on my wordpress themes and brushes)
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