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Platform 1: Introduction

Hello, and welcome to Shibuya Station a review site. I am tenshi and I will be your conductor while you stay here. Some of you might be familiar with my other site Futago, which I run with my twin sister reeuuk. I decided to open up this little station of mine to help out all those people with sites of their own who might be looking for a second opinion. I hope that with my experience with my own site I will be able to give you all pointers and helpful advice that will improve your site! So come along, there are a few places you must go before getting your TICKET, please, follow me to Platform 2: The Rules.

Reviews: CLOSED

UPDATES

1-20-09
Reviews CLOSED!

1-14-09
Reviewed Buttoness!

1-13-09
Reviewed Paper Doll!

1-10-09
Reviewed Sparks of Magic!

1-9-09
New layout! Yay!! I really didn't like the old one, so I made a better one... hopefully you all think its better. XD
Working on changing the color scheme for the headers, text, and stuff.

1-8-09
Reviewed The Audit!

1-6-09
Reviewed Fruits Basket World!
Reviewed In This Moment!
Reviews are OPEN!

1-5-09
Reviewed Soroptimist Directory which is the first site to get a perfect score!

10-30-09
SO so so so so sorry you guys! I just lost my Microsoft Word trial so I wont be able to review anyone until I get it back. XD I use Word to review sites so it is very vital that I have it.

10-28-09
Heads up! I've been asked by Cass to push back Soroptimist Directory's review until she can make a banner for her new layout.

10-23-09
Reviewed Mystical Dots!

10-20-09
Reviewed Fingerprints!

10-18-09
Finally! A new site layout! I cleared out all the past updates.

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Since: Jan. 17, 2009

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About the Station

Before you go on, here are some bits of information about the site.

Shibuya Station has a reputation for being very in depth. That is because I want to be as helpful as I can. I don't like over looking anything, even small things. I think that the more in depth a site is the more helpful it is, because you really get to understand what it is that is wrong with something, and how to fix it.

Number of Scores:
Total sites reviewed: about 55

9 sites have gotten scores of 70 or less.
13 sites have gotten scores between 70 and 80.
19 sites have gotten scores between 80 and 90.
13 sites have gotten scores between 90 and 99.
1 site has gotten a score of 100.

51/100 is the lowest score that has been received.
100/100 is the highest score that has been received.

33 awards have been handed out!

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Platform 2: The Rules

1) Only sites on Neopets will be reviewed.
2) I will only review sites that dedicate their time to help the PUBLIC Neopian community. I will NOT review sites that have only images you found on the web and posted up.
3) Do NOT message me back complaining about your score.
4) I WILL review sites a second time, its what I'm here for, to watch and help your site improve!
5) If you want me to review your site you MUST put up my link back button before asking me to review your site, during the review, and after the review. I'm going to have your button on MY site, so its only fair that you have my button on YOUR site.
6) Your site should be AT LEAST 1 month old.
7) If I see that you have STOLEN content I will NOT review your site.
8) Do not RUSH ME I'll review your site as soon as possible.
9) You should know that "Shibuya Station" is a very popular Train Station in: JAPAN
10) If your site is "Under Construction" "Revamp" or "Hiatus" I will NOT review it!

IMPORTANT: If your site goes under construction, hiatus, or revamp WHILE you are on my waiting list I will AUTOMATICALLY TAKE YOU OFF!!!

After you have read the rules please proceed to Platform 3: Criteria.

Platform 3: Criteria

You must know that I grade sites using FF. Your site SHOULD look okay in most browsers.

Total: 100

15 points: First Glance
Does your main layout make me think your site has good things to offer, or does it make me want to leave? Do the colors match? The main layout should be VERY attractive. It should make people want to keep looking. Did you even make your own layout, or did someone else? Is it custom or premade? Did you just use someone else's code and alter it? It's important that you make your own layout, because it tells the guests that you can actually do things on your own.

10 points: Introduction
Your site must have an introduction or a welcome. You should mention the sites name in it. It should also summarize what your site is about, and explain what guests can expect to find there. Do you welcome them sweetly or do you come off a bit rude? Do you introduce yourself?

5 points: Updates
You should keep an update log, every time you make an update or add something new to your site you should put it in the log. It should also have a date, so people know when you did it, and how new it is. Its important to keep all your past updates because it helps people know what's been going on. It should be very frequent, at least 1 update every week.

10 points: Grammar/Spelling
Do you have little to no spelling errors, or is your site full of them? Spelling mistakes are very annoying, and they can leave a bad impression on your guests. Proper grammar is also very important. If you use incorrect grammar it makes it difficult for people to read whatever's on your page. Using chat speak is a BIG NO! Its not very professional!

20 points: Organization
Organization is very important. If everything is messy, cramped or out of place it doesn't look very attractive, and it drives your guests away. Things should be categorized and have titles. Your site should also have a: Page Navigation A page navigation is very important because it helps your guests get around more easily. You should have one, and it should link to the right places.

20 points: Content
Is there a lot you offer but little quality, or little you offer but great quality? What DOES your page offer to the guest? Graphics, HTML help, a guide, a directory, etc.? Does it do its job?

10 points: Originality
Is it just another (graphics/help/guide/directory/etc) site, or does it offer more? Is it original, or just like the rest? I'll also be looking at the Name of Site. The name of your site is VERY important. It attracts people to your site. If it has a name like Lil_babygurl1234's Graphic's it makes me think you are not very creative.

5 points: Link Back Button
A link back button is important in attracting people to your site. Is it placed somewhere on your site where anyone can find it easily? Is it attractive? Does it have an ugly purple boarder because of the link? Is it a convenient size (88x31), or is it WAY to big? Does it have your sites name on it?

5 points: Extra Features
Extra Features can include, page mascots, a theme, maybe it has a section explaining your sites history, polls or any other thing that get your guests involved. Any extra things not normally found on other sites.

Last Thoughts
You won't get any points for this. This part is just for my last thoughts and comments. I may also put up the things from your site I really liked.

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Recent Stops: Reviewed Sites

Buttoness
Paper Doll
Sparks of Magic
The Audit
In This Moment
Fruits Basket World
Soroptimist Directory
Mystical Dots
Fingerprints
Landslide
Converse AllStarz
Somersault
Signature Fonts
The Goodie Box
Premades by Bess
FLARE

Buttoness


Award Winner

First Glance 13/15 points:
The first thing that comes to mind when looking at your site is: Sparks of Magic. You and your sister have very similar styles. I'm not sure if it's because you influence one another, copy one another, or simply because you use the same program and affects. Whatever the case may be I think you need to try using different affects with your layouts. It's the same blending and overlaying as a lot of your layouts (I've come to the site a few times and I've seen a few). They all turn out looking a lot the same. The set up of the layout itself is basic yet original. Instead of keeping the banner or main image at the top you put it on the side. Although I think the smaller column is a bit too low. Your background is another aspect of the layout that you need to do differently; it's always the same pattern. Anyway, it doesn't seem to work on bigger resolutions, it cuts off at one point. I'm not exactly sure why that happens. All in all, I like the color scheme and the serenity of the layout. The images on the banner complement each other well, and I'm glad it doesn't look to busy.

Introduction 9/10 points:
The introduction is great, I think it makes all the right points. However I feel like there is just too much going on in there. You really don't need all that advertisement up there, especially not the Neopets Celebration banner and the guild buttons. It's kind of you to advertise your sister's site, but simply having her as an affie is fine enough.

Updates 5/5 points:
You only have four updates, but they are very frequent, you only skipped one day! For feature reference make an update as to when you deleted old updates, as well as why. It's common to delete updates once you have a new layout, once it's a new month; well whenever it is you do it just state it.

Grammar/Spelling 3/5 points:
You do have a few little grammar/spelling mistakes here and there.
Found in the Intro:I decided to have a button request site because I loved button making ever since I started site making." should be changed to, "I decided to open up a button request site because I've loved making buttons ever since I first started running sites."
Found under Amy's Site:I also have a sister site, which is TGB, and you can find out about Stephanie's site in the sidebar!" The "and" after "TGB" should be omitted.
In your rules I just feel like you should move the last rule regarding your button borders under your "Borders" section. That way it's right there for everyone to see, instead of mixed in with your rules.
Found under the For You section: It's pretty much a place where you can find helpful tips for your button request site, and resources, including button bases and a small tutorial that will teach you how make a button." You need to insert a "to" between "how make".
Found under the Button Making Tutorial section (Image):If you go to Neopets background page you will find a lot of really nice neopet images." You need to insert a "the" before "Neopets background page."
Found under the Button Making Tutorial section (Text):I would suggest you not use any of the default fonts on your computer." the "not" should be changed to "do not."
Then, go to attributes again and set your dimentiosn to 88x62." You spelled "dimensions" wrong.
Type in your text on the white area, and zoom in." Instead of "on the white area" it should be "in the white area"
Now, use your pencil or straight line tool and arase the extra black..." You spelled "erase" wrong. Those are the only places I really bothered checking, but what YOU need to do is check ALL your sections.

Organization 15/20 points:
As I said before, the side column is a little too low. It looks a little disproportioned with the top of the main column, and it really just pushed everything down too much. I think you need to fix up the Site navigation a little, the buttons are a little too small, I also think you should separate things from each other. Such as the Pickups from the Portfolio, a well as providing and actual like to "For You" section, like to your resources, and then to the tutorial. I personally think it's a little random to have your sister site and The Goodie Box up with your site navigation. I also think you should just nix the "For You" section and focus more on the little sections in it. At the top, your site looks very clean and organized, but once you start going down like right after the Link Back and Button Pickup sections everything starts looking very crowded. There are a lot of buttons everywhere, so it kind of looks busy. With a site like this I think it would be best to use a layout that hides sections, or do it the easy way without having to learn hidden layout CSS and simply move certain sections to other petpages. Move the "Listed At" section about your "Sister Site" and your site, the gap between the affies and listed at looks weird. It's nice that you have an "About Me" section, but I feel like it adds clutter to your site.

Content 18/20 points:
Very lovely, your animations are great and I think I see different affects other than just overlay. XD I absolutely love button borders numbers 11 to 16! Something caught my eye when looking through your Tutorial. You give the tutorial by using Paint. I really hope you only do that because you know the majority of people out there have Paint, and not because YOU use it. Paint really isn't the ideal program to use for button making. It limits you in SO many ways. Hopefully you don't use it! Although it seems you do add affects to the buttons, I feel like you can try more.

Originality 13/15 points:
Borders 11 to 16: very original. I've seen many sites do the whole thing when they fill the text color with a gradient, but I've never seen someone make the stroke with a gradient. But as I said before, I think you can experiment more with different affects and such.

Link Back Button 4/5 points:
Your link back buttons are nice, but I actually think they are a little dull for a button making site. I think you have buttons in your portfolio that are a little better than your site's ones. Try sprucing them up a bit!

Extra Features 5/5 points:
A whole Tutorial and a Button Site Ranking section!

Last Thoughts:
You have a good site going on here, but there are some aspects of it that need improving.

Score: 85/100

Favorite Stuff:

Paper Doll

First Glance 7/15 points:
There is no nicer way to say it, but your site is very boring. There isn't anything that attracts anyone to the page. You don't have a banner, so the site looks very plain. The layout itself is also very plain and basic. If you had a more elaborate and extravagant layout set up I think it may look fine without a banner. The color scheme isn't the best either; it reminds me to much of Christmas. Especially with that patter on the background, it adds a Candy cane stripe affect. But don't get me wrong, the CSS is nice; it's just that you need to add something to compliment it.

Introduction 6/10 points:
The intro is okay, but I'm really not to fond of the story you have in it. It's nice that you tried to add a little creativity into it, but you really need to be careful. If you add a story to the intro you have to make sure its fluid, makes sense, and is amusing. I'm not really sure if yours is put together well enough. I guess it's just weird for me that the site is based on a Paper Doll. You failed to introduce yourself as well. I honestly think you should get rid of that whole "story" and just add more detail about your site, such as stating what categories people can enter.

Updates 2/5 points:
Your last update was today, but I don't even know what you updated since you don't state it. You technically don't have an Updates section, an updates section should inform people in depth what you have done recently, and even in the past.

Grammar/Spelling 3/5 points:
Let us get right to it.
In your introduction you say, "However wins, gets it." It's not "however", it should be "whoever."
In the paragraph under "What is a SOTM" i found a sentence that says, "You enter as MUCH sites as you want." It should be "many". I also found this, "Then, voting OPEN." It should be "opens."
Okay, so here's the deal, your "What is a SOTM" section is very confusing. You have a lot of sentence fragments in there, and you don't really explain things in the best way. I think you either should redo the WHOLE thing, or just take it off.
Rule number two needs to be rephrased from this, "On-neo, sites allowed only!" to this, "Only on-new sites are allowed!"
Rule number three, well, I just don't get, "You don't have to have a site site to vote!" I think you mean, "You don't have to own a site to vote."
If you WON, you cannot enter your site(s) the next month." it should be changed to "win."
Under Awards you say, "The awards will are coming soon!" the "will" should be omitted.

Organization 16/20 points:
I think your overall organization is pretty descent. The site itself looks very nice and clean. However there are a few things I think you need to rethink the setup of.
First of which is the way you go about with your contestants and voting. You don't really have a way of organizing them. All the sites that enter are just bunched together under one section. I really think you need to make categories for each type of site (Review, Graphic, Guide, Directory, etc.). This will really help the way people vote as well. According to the rules you only let people vote once, but then you go on to say they can vote 3 times if there are a lot of contestants. When do you consider there to be "a lot" of contestants? Once there are 5 sites? Ten? Twenty? You see how you kind of contradict yourself? It would be best if you had categories that way people could vote once for each category. Your History section has a lot in it. Because it has so much in it, it looks as if it's the main thing people should focus on. Instead of putting every single site that has been in the competition just put the winner.

Content 18/20 points:
All you need to do is fix up the way you set up the contestants. I really think it will make better sense in set up that way.

Originality 12/15 points:
I guess the whole paper doll idea is nice and original, but as of now its not very strong and thorough. You really need to fix that up. As well as the site layout.

Link Back Button 5/5 points:
Your link back buttons are all very nice, but I like the ones for your contestants, made by The Goodie Box, better. The quality between the Affie buttons and Contestant buttons is very obvious.

Extra Features 0/5 points:
Nothing, sorry. :(

Last Thoughts:
I got a feeling that the site was still under construction because there were so many aspects of it that didn't seem well thought out. I don't know how old the site is (I can't check), but from the looks of it it seems very new. It still has room to grow and a lot of room for improvement.

Score: 51/100

Sparks of Magic

First Glance 10/15 points:
Well, first things first, the layout takes a VERY long time to load. I'm not really sure why that is; it may be because the image is big, or because there is a lot of content in the site, it just really takes a while to load. The layout is fair, but I feel like it could use some work. The images makes things look a little to crowded. It is original in the way you have the layout set up, but the image has too much going on in it. I also think it could use different affects in it. The only two affects you seem to use in it are blending and overlaying. I noticed in the layout that you have s few things written in black pixel text. I really don't like the black, it adds to the crowdedness of the site. I think either using a blue or simply changing the opacity of the font to 50% would really help it blend in more. The placement of that tiny text isn't very ideal either. The text that indicates credit just looks weird placed on the side like that, and the small sub text by the site name should go toward the end of the name, not the middle. All in all it is a great layout, it just looks like too much is going on.

Introduction 8/10 points:
You do make all MOST of the points I feel your introduction should make; all but stating what theme or themes you focus on. I noticed that you tried to use that spiffy code that puts the name of your guest in the introduction, like "Welcome to Sparks of Magic, amyshenborn2000!" Well it seems you have use the wrong code so that instead of displaying your guests name it displays your name. You have a lot in your introduction that really isn't necessary. You really should take off everything after the sentence where you introduce yourself, up to, "Sparks of Magic makes you high quality..." Here are the reasons why: Number one, it's really just unnecessary for you to mention that, it drags on for too long. Number two; it's really not something you should mention. SO you were so bad at making buttons you had to basically change your sites identity so people wouldn't remember? That makes you seem shameful in a way, and it makes me wonder just how bad you had to be at making buttons to have to do that, how are you now?

Updates 3/5 points:
You have a "Daily Update", I find a few things wrong with that. First of which, where are all your OTHER updates? How do I know if you've been active or not? Second of all, what happens if you don't update? Then isn't it no longer considered a daily update? DO you update daily? You need to have some form of history in your updates, so people can find out if they have missed any important additions to the site, and so they know whether you are a daily updater.

Grammar/Spelling 3/5 points:
I noticed a few little things that need some adjusting.
Your tiny text credit on the image by the main column needs the second "all" omitted from it.
The first sentence in your "Weekly" section needs some clarification, "This is where I get to post polls ON button request sites!" Instead of "on" did you mean "concerning"? Same sort of clarification is needed in the Weekly Poll "Tell the Truth!" part where you say, "Also, this is the first poll, so I will have it on Sparks of Magic. Usually it's on other button request sites!" Oh and you should NEVER start sentences with "also".
In your rules section, in question number 6 you say, "I do not make buttons for guilds, shops and user lookups. I only make IT for a site." The "it" should be changed to "them".
In your "Without Links" section you have a sentence that say, "After the my appraisal, I decided to link all my buttons!" I'm not sure whether "the my apraisal" is a title in which case it should be capitalized.
In your "Affies" section you say, "Can't copy it? Will here it is again if you can't copy it." The "Will" should be changed to "well", and "if you can't copy it" should be omitted since you already state it in the beginning.

Organization 13/20 points:
I have come to realize that the reason your site takes SO long to upload is because you have a lot of content in your site. I'll address the "Pick Ups" and "Without Links" sections first. Okay, so it really isn't necessary for you to make a completely different section for the buttons with links and the buttons without links. Don't make it so complicated and just put them together under one section, possible called "Portfolio". Another way to not make things so complicated is to not link the buttons at all. It slows down your loading time, plus what happens when the site closes or moves? Do you go back and edit the links? If you don't then it's just pointless. Your "Pick Ups" section isn't much of a "Pick Ups" section for TWO main reasons. The first is that you don't even provide the code for the people you have made them for. It is your responsibility as the button maker to make things as convenient as possible for your guests. A lot of your guests come to you because they themselves cannot make buttons. What happens when they can't code them? The second reason why it's not really a "Pick Ups" section is because you use it more as a "Portfolio". Seeing as you have so many buttons which contribute to the slow loading of your site, maybe you should move all your buttons to a single portfolio in a completely different petpage. The "Weekly" section is more of an extra feature to your site; therefore it should be moved above "Sitely" in your navigation. Speaking of the "Sitely" page, it is very crowded. It would be best if you moved the "Link Back" through "Listed At" sections to a page called "Affies" and kept everything from "Sister Site" and on in "Sitely".

Content 17/20 points:
You are a great animator, almost all of your buttons have animations. They are very nice, not choppy or glitchy, but smooth. Your borders are great as well. You have a lot of nice customization choices to choose from. The buttons are nice too; the images are crisp and clean. However they are a bit plain. You don't seem to do much to the actual images besides resize them, and the occasional overlay affect with that pattern. The overall feel I get from your buttons is: plain. It's nice that you can animate them, but you need to add more affects to the images.

Originality 14/15 points:
You do have a few basic borders to chose from but most of them are original to your site. You also offer quite a few of animations; I don't think I've seen a site that offers eleven different types of animations! But as I said before, your buttons are a little lacking in affects, they are a little to plain.

Link Back Button 5/5 points:
Of course you have some pretty nice link back buttons, although I'm personally not to fond of the two middle ones in the top row. I think they are some of your older ones, right?

Extra Features 5/5 points:
You have a "Weekly" section filled with quite a few interesting features.

Last Thoughts:
I noticed that in your weekly poll you have gotten quite a bit of votes for the option of being at the bottom of a person's top 5 list. It's the option you've gotten the most votes for. This is something you really should look into. Maybe you should ask the people who voted for that one for feed back in what you can improve. Your buttons are very crisp and clean, fill with great animations, but I feel like you have paid to much attention to animations and not enough to actual image affects.

Score: 78/100

The Audit


First Glance 10/15 points:
The first thing I notice when coming to your site is your banner and its relation to the CSS. They really don't seem like they belong together. This is because the banner doesn't really match the CSS' color scheme. It does somewhat match the background, but not the headers and text in the columns. The colors that stand out to me in the banner are the Blues, Golds, and Browns. However, the text and headers in your CSS are red, purple, and green. Some of your headers don't stand out as much as I think they should, in fact they practically blend into the white background. All in all, the banner looks fine with the background, but you need to fix up the CSS, which just throws everything off.

Introduction 7/10 points:
The introduction is a little weird. I'm glad to see you introduce yourself, and you do come off as friendly when you tell people to enjoy themselves and you encourage them to feel free to ask you questions and such. However I think its set up wrong. You just fly through the introduction, you also fail to mention the name of your site. Here is a better way to set it up:
Hello! Welcome to The Audit. A review site run by me, Alex! Here I will view your site and try giving you some pointers on how to improve it. I hope you have a good look around! And don't be afraid to neomail me!"

Updates 4/5 points:
Your reviews are somewhat all over the place, I didn't really see a consistency in them, but they are quite frequent. Something I noticed about your updates is that they seem more like memos to yourself rather than statements for your guests. Insted of saying "Finish a request!" it should be "Finished a request!" You have quite a few like that, and I don't know if they are grammar mistakes or if you purposely wrote them like that.

Grammar/Spelling 2/5 points:
I mentioned the Updates section, and the grammar. I really think you need to re-write your introduction, as I said before, but I also think you need to re write your rules. Especially number 2. All you need to say is, "Don't get upset if you end up with a bad score." and that's it, nothing more, or else it just runs on and on. Rule number 3 should simply state, "I will only review sites once."
Some sentences in your Criteria are so need to be rewritten. Especially under Content. The first sentence under there says, "Is your quality of your content good, or did you slab it on MS Paint?" It should say, "Is THE quality of your content good.." The last sentence under Content also need revision; it says, "Are your link back buttons professionally done, or is it done in poor quality? " When it should say, "Are your buttons professionally done, or ARE THEY done in poor quality?"
Under your request section you say, "For the theme, I'm asking is it a graphic, button, or request site (etc.)." When it should say, "For the theme, I'm asking IF it is a graphics, button..."
After spotting these few mistakes in grammar I'm starting to think that the mistakes mentioned in your Updates section are mistakes, and not purposely done.

Organization 10/20 points:
There are a few aspects of your site that make it look messy. First of which is the fact that the color scheme does not match the banner, it throws everything off. There also is the fact that the headers don't stand out enough, because they don't stand out enough they don't really work as proper dividers. You also have a lot of headers that all look the same. You need to make them significantly different from one another so that they don't look so repetitive. In Fire Fox, the scroll boxes in which your Normal Reviews, and Story Reviews are in align to the left, rather than being centered. Something I feel looks really messy is the "Sneak Peak" section. The percentages at the ends of the site names make everything look to clustered, it would be best if you just removed the percentages. You should also link the site names to their actual review, that way people can get to them easier and look at their score, rather than you having to put it next to them. Your Affies section has way to much under it. You've made everything more complicated that it really is. You don't need to separate your Review Site Affies from your None Review Site affies, just keep them together. You also don't need to keep a Pending section for the sites you've asked to be affies, just put them up as soon as you do ask.

Content 16/20 points:
Your reviews seem fair and logical, although they could be a bit more in depth. Something that I fell needs a little work are your Awards. They are a little to plain and simple right now. They really should be nicer, people want really nice awards, not plain ones.

Originality 13/15 points:
The sites name is very nice, it fits a review site very well. The Story style review is also very original, but I really don't think its the most ideal way to review a site.

Link Back Button 4/5 points:
Your buttons are all very nice, however I think they are a little hard to find. Try making the scroll box they are in a little bigger, so its not so tiny.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
Its nice that you have incorporated the Desert theme of your site through out the site, with Awards and counter.

Last Thoughts:
You have a pretty good site going on here, you just need to fix up a few things. I also want to encourage you to make most of the graphics and such in your site. You didn't make any of your buttons, nor did you make the banner or CSS. I personally find it hard to trust peoples advice when they themselves cannot do things on their own. It sort of takes away from the whole experience aspect of a review.

Score: 71/100

In This Moment


Award Winner

First Glance 13/15 points:
The banner is great, it was made by you, so I can already tell that you have good skills with graphics making. The colors you have chosen for the sites headers, links, and previews all match very well with the banner. However the overall impression of your site is dull. A colorful layout isn't necessarily going to do better than a darker toned one, but it is the actual colors you have chosen in this particular layout that make it a little boring. I think if you simply took the banner and made the pinks, blues, and reds in it a little more brighter it would really make thinks pop.

Introduction 7/10 points:
The introduction started out good, but it went on into something I really don't think you should have in the introduction. First of which is the whole story of your bandwidth exceeding and you having to switch to a new image hosting site. It is nice that you added that to try to keep your guests informed, but it just takes up to much space int the intro. Instead why don't you take it out of the actual intro and move it under it in a completely different paragraph. What else isn't needed in there is when you say that you aren't as good as so and so at making buttons. First of all you really shouldn't be putting yourself down, your buttons are great. Second of all it really isn't something you should be saying, especially not in the intro. Its not something your guests want to hear, I mean who would want to get buttons done by someone who is saying they aren't very good at it?

Updates 5/5 points:
You update very frequently, almost every day, and when you skip its only one day. Your updates are also very informative and in depth.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
Nothings wrong with your grammar or spelling, great job!

Organization 18/20 points:
Your organization is great! Your site overall seems very neat and tidy. My favorite part is your "Sitely" part, where you have all your Affies, Listed At, and Reviews. I just really like how you have so many buttons under there but you managed to keep it nice and clean. There are some little things you may want to fix though. The first is your Reviews, I see you've been reviewed at quite a bit of sites, but you don't have any scores to show off. A lot of people look at a sites review scores for many reasons, so it is important that you have them up. Something I noticed about your site is that you have two "Pick Up" sections, or at least two signs. The second is under portfolio, after the buttons count. I don't know if that is meant to be there, but it looks a little weird.

Content 17/20 points:
You have some very spiffy buttons made. They are all of great quality, but there are some that are a little hard to read. Such as the "Hanna's Lookup", "X Reviews", "Pinyata", "Tangible", and "Aura" ones. Button Count 70 isn't that many, and I spotted quite a few that were personally for your site. Your button borders are nice, there are some in there that I have seen a lot of though, and one that looks suspiciously a lot like one of mine... XD I like all the animations and fonts you offer.

Originality 13/15 points:
All your buttons are very bright and colorful, I really like your style. As I said before, try adding some uniquely different button borders, maybe you can provide different renditions of the same button, such as taking a buttons actual border and making it dotted or lined. This is just a simple way of adding more options.

Link Back Button 5/5 points:
All very nice! Which should be expected from a button site! n.n

Extra Features 2/5 points:
I really didn't find any extra feature to your site.

Last Thoughts:
Your buttons are very nice! It's a pretty new site but I've already seen quite a bit of your buttons around Neopia. I still feel like you can do more to make your site unique from all the other button sites.

Score: 85/100

Fruits Basket World


First Glance 10/15 points:
The first glance is fair. Its the standard columned layout, nothing to spiffy, but its set up nicely. The banner looks great, however I don't feel like it really matches the sites overall color scheme. There are pinks and yellows in the image, but the pinks and yellows you have chosen for your headers, fonts, and background are the wrong shade. I think by choosing colors that match more with the banner the site may look a little more put together. You didn't make either the banner nor the CSS, I am glad to see that you edited the CSS a little though.

Introduction 10/10 points:
Perfect scores here, you've made all the points I feel you need to make.

Updates 3/5 points:
You seem to update quite often, however most of the ones up there now seem to only announce affiliates that have been added rather than actual content for the site. The placement and set up of your updates section needs a little work. It really should go in a scroll box, the way you have it now makes it so that a lot of things get bumped down lower. The Updates section is very important, there for it should be moved to the very top of the column, before affiliates.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
I didn't find anything to serious, but I did find something you can fix up.
Under your affiliates section you say, "This where all my lovely affiliates are." You need a IS in between "This where..."
In rule number three for your affiliates I found this, "If you are deleting your site, please notify me." I think it will make more sense if it said, "If you delete your site, please notify me."

Organization 12/20 points:
There is a lot you need to fix up in your site. Its mostly just section positioning. I decided to position things for you and take snap shots of it so that you can see what difference it actually makes.

Something I don't show here is that I moved the "Credit" section to the very bottom of the main column. Something else you may want to do is move up your "Onigiri Adoptables" section to the very top, since they are so small. As for the Fan Art picture, try making them smaller, so two of them line up side by side.

Content 13/20 points:
I really love how you have a "How To..." section showing your guests how to make a plushie onigiri_ You also have a how to draw chibi's thing. However some of the things in your site make me feel like they benefit YOU more than your actual guests. Most of the site seems like a place for you to personally showcase your fan art and comics. I don't really see how people can use that in any way. Yeah, they can at least read the comic, but it still really isn't something they can use or find helpful. The little onigiri pixels you've made are very cute, you should definitely add more of those. Something I think you should fix when making those, however, is making the backgrounds transparent. I feel like you need to add a lot more things people can actually use such as the adoptables.

Originality 15/15 points:
The "How Too" of the onigiri is very creative, its the first time I've seen anyone offer something like that in any site. The "How Too" for making chibi's is cute too, I think you should add more of those, and maybe clean up the picture you have of it? It's a little messy. I also like how you make onigiri a big part of the site, they are on the link back buttons, you have adobtables of them, you even show people how to make their own. The whole idea of the site is great. I've seen many sites that dedicate themselves to a neopet but never one that dedicates itself to an anime. The name fits perfectly!

Link Back Button 3/5 points:
You have 5 pretty decent buttons. You made 3 of them, so I'm glad to see that you put some effort into it. But lets talk about the set up you have going on with your buttons. First of all I see a lot of unnecessary text taking up space, such as the little intro to the buttons section, and the little bio's you've made for each button. You really don't need any of that. It's a little annoying, all you need there are the button previews and the codes, oh and of course credit to the ones that need it.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
The "How Too" sections are just so unique, especially the plushie one!

Last Thoughts:
This is a very unique site, not only in it being the first site really revolving around and anime, but it has many unique features to it. It still needs more resources/graphics people can use though. Instead of focusing on showcasing art you've made, why not make more adobtable type things? Or open up the Fan Art section so people/guests of the site can show off their own fan art?

Score: 76/100

Soroptimist Directory


Award Winner!
Re-review

First Glance 15/15 points:
I just love the layout! It really fits in well as a site directory's layout. The color scheme goes well with the banner, which is lovely. I also really like how you incorporate the theme of the layout (Pirates) through out the site. You have a pirate negg icons in the intro, pirate paint brush pixel links, a nice "Thank You" banner and "Search Soroptimist" Banner. You even use Pirate lingo to title your headers! I just really love the feel of your layout, the banners are great and the CSS is stupendous, you did a great job!

Link Back Button 5/5 points:
I counted a total of 16 buttons! All very lovely and of great variety to chose from. I think I only counted 2 made by you, its not a lot, but seeing as this is a Directory site and not a graphics or buttons site its fine. Maintaining your site overall is more important than making buttons! XD

Introduction 10/10 points:
The scroll box it is placed in is a little small, but I managed just fine. I usually don't like it when sites open up with some little story about the site, because usually they have this very long monotonous paragraph before the actual site introduction. However you managed to put a very creative story in your intro without making it too long. Once again you managed to incorporate your sites theme into this part of the site. Its very creative, and I just love it! Especially since you make all the right points: You introduce yourself, Sites Establishment History, Sites Mission Statement, etc.

Updates 4/5 points:
You update EVERY day and your updates are always very in depth, great job!

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
Nada!

Organization 20/20 points:
A side from making the scroll box in which the introduction is place (if you want to) I really didn't find anything wrong with your organization. I really like how everything is placed actually. You have great sections with nice names! You have everything needed to make your guests stay comfortable and convenient. Like the little mail pixels at the sides of each section in your directory. I really like those neomail buttons you made by the way.

Content 20/20 points:
This is one of the most popular directory sites for a reason. You have so many sites listed for every one of your sections its incredible. Most directory sites I've seen have what you have in ONE column, as apposed to your two columns.

Originality 15/15 points:
I already talked about the many cool way's you've incorporated your sites theme through out the site. The site name is great which really fits in with your site and sites mission statement.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
Search Soroptimist is an excellent idea!

Last Thoughts:
I love this directory, love how you've set everything up, love your originality, I love your helpfulness, love it all! And I also love the fact that you get to be the first site to get a PERFECT score! You deserve it!

Score: 100/100

Mystical Dots


Re-review

First Glance 8/15 points:
This is my second time reviewing this site, its changed a lot since my last review. Unfortunately I remember the first time I liked the look of the site a little better. It's nice to see that you took my advice from last time! You added a site banner, although it's a little too simple. It's a simple image with a rubber duck, which is a little weird. I do give you points for creativity because you picked out a duck with dots, and your site is called Mystical Dots! The banner is a little distracting... there is too much unnecessary text on it. You don't need the "Graphics and More" part on there, nor do you need the "Flip" part either. All you need is the sites name on there. The image does go along with your sites name, but it's done a little weird, instead of a rubber duck I think it would look better with an abstract sort of banner with dot patterns. The site CSS is basic, you didn't make it, but you altered it, so at least you are attempting to make it your own!

Link Back Button 2/5 points:
The buttons are placed too low on the column, they are very important therefore I think they should be placed higher up on the column. They aren't the best buttons I've seen, but you made most of them so you are putting effort into making them. My favorite one is the first one, made by Day and Night, but it has a transparency problem. The one I'm least fond of is the second to last one. You can't read what it says, and it's hard to see what the image is. It also isn't transparent, when I think it should.

Introduction 6/10 points:
You did a little worse here than you did the first time. You need to omit a few things from it. Such as, "I am getting better at making graphics! I will try to change up my stuff and make it better when I can!" that really isn't necessary. When you say, "The site name has changed if you haven't noticed." it comes off as a little rude, try re wording it, and mention it right after you mention the site name. Other things you need to mention are: what type of site this is, what you offer, what themes you stick too, and you also need to introduce yourself, I'm pretty sure you don't want people calling you: iflip4gymnastics1.

Updates 4/5 points:
Your updates are sort of all over the place. You sometimes update pretty often, but you also have pretty significant gaps. The updates section looks a little clustered, I think you should set it up like this:

10-23-09
Updated some things...

10-22-09
Updated some things...

The date is right about the update, rather than right next to it, and each update is spaced with a paragraph, rather than a break.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
None! Great job!

Organization 10/20 points:
You did fix up a few things since the last time, but since it's a new layout there are new issues I feel you should fix. The first of which are your headers. You need to fix up your headers in a way so that they show how important something is. Right now they all look the same. You need a main header, then one or two sub headers. Headers can be use to divide up a section. For example, see how you have a section called "Custom Graphics"? Well you would use a main header for that, and then you would go on and use sub headers for the "Buttons" because it is a section within that section. This brings me to my next point, which is: sections. You have TOO many sections! It's not necessary to have a header that says "Site Nav" then "Main Nav" then "Side Bar Nav", or to have a header for "Affies/Listed at/Waiting List/Etc." or a section that says "Request Forma and Rules" then "Form" and "Rules". You only need one header, and you only need it over the actual section. I really don't like how you have so many sections and headers. It gets to confusing. Especially in your "Request" section. First off you have a header that says "Request Forms" but no actual request forms under it. Instead what you have is another header that says "Button, Icon, and Banner Request" And under that header you have another header that says "Borders" which stand out more than the header above it, which I think should be vice versa. The "Borders" header isn't even an actual header, its part of the picture. The "Shield Colors" picture isn't necessary; it takes up to much space to show all the actual shields. Simply writing out what colors you offer is fine. Instead of writing out all the letters in the alphabet when you show the fonts you offer; just write out the name of the font. It also isn't necessary to write out the same font but in different colors. I really don't think your site is set up well at all, there are a lot of aspects of it that I feel you can change, but I really can't mention them all, sorry.

Content 10/20 points:
I'm not entirely impressed with your content, the few buttons you have made aren't of the best quality. Some of them are VERY hard to read, and seem really fuzzy. Some of the buttons you have made are WAY too big, they all should be 88x31, you yourself don't accept affies with buttons bigger than 88x31, so then why do you redistribute them? You really shouldn't offer button bases that are MEANT to be transparent when you can't make them transparent. Your Backgrounds seem okay, but you only have 4. There isn't a lot to grade you on, and what you do have is a little weak. It seems to me like you haven't added much to your site since last time I was here.

Originality 10/15 points:
The name change was a great idea, I'm glad you went through with it. Like I said before, it's cute how you tried to match the banner with the name of the site, but I think you should do it in a different way. Because you have little content, and you don't seem to have added much since last time I was here I really can't give you any more points here.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
You offer button borders that I've never seen before.

Last Thoughts:
This was a re-review and you did do better on some aspects of it, but what really got you down was the fact that your site doesn't seem to have grown much since I was last here.

Score: 60/100

Fingerprints


Award Winner

First Glance 13/15 points:
I see a lot of grey, but the color scheme works very well. It does all scheme a little dull; the same color scheme may look a little better if the shades were brighter. You made the layout all by yourself, great job on it! It works perfectly on FF, and it looks pretty much the same on IE, except for the colors being a little darker and some of the text changing font style. The site banner is cute, although a little simple. The fact that the banner is under the main text area is original, yes but it's a little distracting. I think keeping the text area overlapping would look fine just as long as you move down the banner. Just don't cover so much of the meerca with the hat.

Link Back Button 4/5 points:
Your link back buttons are all very well made, you have a lot too! It seems that you like link back buttons so it would be nice to see one or two made by you.

Introduction 10/10 points:
Everything in the introduction looks great. I'm glad you mention that you changed the site name (that helps avoid confusion). It's also nice to see the story of how they sites name came to be. The only thing I think should be moved from the introduction section would have to be the little spiel on how to preview your layouts. Instead of having that "How To" there, move it to the actual area where you have your layouts.

Updates 5/5 points:
You only have 8 updates, but they are very consecutive. I'm not sure if you normally delete your updates or if it's something you only do when you put up a new layout. Either way it would be nice if you mentioned it, that way there is a sort of "land mark" as too when your updates start.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
I didn't find any grammar or spelling mistakes!

Organization 13/20 points:
Your organization is great, I really didn't find anything you need to re locate or move around besides the little "How To" spiel in your intro. There is something I do think you should change, and that is: the way you preview your layouts. I think you preview them like how they are now to both: save time, and really get to show people what the background's or image's on the layouts look like. I personally think it's annoying that you don't get to see what the actual layout looks like. Instead of just taking a screen shot of ONE, take a screen shot of all of them. If you want people to be able to better see the backgrounds on them then just make the previews bigger.

Content 16/20 points:
You have a lot of different layouts you offer: petpages, pet descriptions, and userlookups. The CSS on them is pretty basic, but it's okay because most of what you offer is meant to be used as bases. The images you offer with them are nice, but I think they can be a little better. Just try doing more to the images, use different affects, brushes, and textures.

Originality 10/15 points:
You offer pretty much the same basic one and two column CSS a lot of other CSS sites offer. It would be nice to see some different set ups in layouts, maybe some blog styled ones like your site layout.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
It's nice to see you offer seasonal goodies, not many sites do that, I think it's because it's so tedious.

Last Thoughts:
You have a pretty good site going here, it just needs a little tweaking here and there.

Score: 81/100

Landslide

First Glance 13/15 points:
What an amazing lookup! As always Kaz has outdone himself. The image just pops in contrast with the blue background. It was a great decision to get a custom from Kiss of Beauty, but as always, I must urge you to try and make your own original layout. Kaz makes great lookups, his trade mark is his style and his background usage, I'd really like to see YOUR style portrayed in YOUR site.

Link Back Button 2/5 points:
The buttons didn't really catch my attention. They are a little dull, and well the pictures on them aren't very attractive. I know the sites name is "Landslide" but that doesn't mean you HAVE to use landscape pictures. As well as with the layout, try designing your own buttons.

Introduction 10/10 points:
The intro seems a bit short, but it makes all the points it should. It sort of gives the impression that you don't really like communicating with your guests though. Try elaborating in it.

Updates 5/5 points:
You seem to update pretty frequently, but there is a little mix up in it. The oldest update was made on the 7th of October, but the one after it is the 6th, I think you messed up in it.

Grammar/Spelling 2/5 points:
Your grammar is a little... bad. I noticed this a lot in your Rules section and your "Neomail Me" section.
Well first things first, you have a punctuation error in the first rule. You say, "Be nice. Don't be rude in other words. Short, sweet, simple, and to the point." Instead of a period after, "in other word." you need a colon ":"
Rule number three needs some revising as well. You say, "Your site must not have stolen content, never been on a wall of shame, and must not be off neo." it would be best if you changed it too, "Your site must not contain stolen content, must never have been on a wall of shame, and must not be off site."
Number four is worded oddly, change it to "To get listed, say "Max" when I say "Fang." Otherwise I will ignore you."
Rule number five can be omitted, all that little explanation on affies should just go under the "To be Affies" section.
The "Neomail Me" section needs to be completely reworded. You never use the word "also" at the beginning of sentences, especially as continuous as you did. Tru changing that whole paragraph to this, "Please neomail me if you have any questions or concerns. If you spot an error, please neomail me as well! I would appreciate it if you did not send me any hatemaile. If my inbox is full, you can neomail me at warrior19_96 as well"

Organization 15/20 points:
The page looks a little sloppy. I noticed that you are already aware of the columns, but I would like to address them anyway. The come off of their area just a little bit, all you have to do is move them to the left ever so slightly. Everything is aligned to the left in your columns; it would look a bit better if you centered them. Things look a bit crowded on your right column, the credit section is rather long, it would look best if it was at the bottom of the main column. You can leave the "Page Views" section there though. It's nice to see you have more specific categories under each section, it makes it easier for your guests to look for what they need. I think that's something you can incorporate in your site navigation. You can make the broader category links bigger, and add sub category links in a different size and color. Maybe you can make bullet points under the main category links.
Oh and by the way the link to my site "Futago" doesn't link to the home page. It would probably be best if it did ;)

Content 17/20 points:
You have a lot of categories, but some of your categories only have 1or 3 sites under them. You can definitely add more to them.

Originality 10/15 points:
Well it's pretty hard to be original with directories, because all you are really doing is the same as all the other directories out there. Therefore it would really help with originality if you designed your own layout and buttons for it.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
Award for affies.

Last Thoughts:
Directory sites are popping up everywhere. Most likely because they are the easiest sites to put together and maintain. You really need to try and make the site more original, make your own graphics, make it a BIG site.

Score: 79/100

Converse AllStarz


Award Winner

First Glance 13/15 points:
The layout has a plain black and white, grayish color scheme going on, but I think it looks great. You didn't make it, but I'm glad to see it was custom made, at least there is some originality to it. However, it would still be nice to see a layout made by you.

Link Back Button 4/5 points:
You didn't make any of the link back buttons for your site. But they are all very nice and well made.

Introduction 10/10 points:
The intro looks fine, it makes all the right points and it comes off as very welcoming. Good job!

Updates 5/5 points:
You update almost every day! I counted down on your updates and you aren't missing any days. The only gap I found was from the 11th of September to the 19th. Not sure what happened there, but it's the only gap. It would be a little better if you made the updates box a little bigger, right now it's somewhat tiny.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
I noticed a little mistake in your intro, but it's nothing too bad.
You say, "You have found the right place!" the sentences before it make it so that it should say, "THEN you have found the right place!"
This sentence was also found in your intro, "Here at Converse AllStarz, we strive to show you as many sites that can help your needs as possible!" I honestly don't know whats wrong with it, but it sounds a little weird.
Rule number 4 has a little mistake to, "4) You must link back. After all, I am placing your link up, it is only fair id you link back to me, in some way, shape, or form." I don't know if that "id" should be "if" or if it just needs to be omitted.
Thats about it though, nothing too bad.

Organization 15/20 points:
You are pretty well organized, but the site in general looks a bit to crowded. I'm glad to see you have the basics: Intro, Site Navi, Updates, Blog, Rules, Site Overview, Status', Affies/Listed, Links, Credit and Content. But you also have quite a bit of extra stuff, such as: Mascot, Featured Site, About Me, that little Click! section, Awards, Reviews, and the Refer section. I feel like a lot of this stuff is taking up a lot of space. I'm not saying you need to delete it, all you have to do is move it around. A simple fix would be to add a third side column, like on the right, and put a lot of the extra stuff on there. I feel like the Rules, What to do & Where to do it, and the About the Girly sections are all pushing down the blog and links way too much. By adding a third column you can move these sections to it so they are not pushing this down. You can also move a few other things from the left column so there isn't too much on there, you know balance it out. Making your side column wider will also help you so that the scroll boxes where you have the Affie links and such aren't so long. If the columns are wider, the scroll boxes can be wider, lining up your links side by side.

I hope you don't mind, but I went through your code and altered it to show you how you might want to fix it up. You don't have to fix it to look exactly like this. Drag these to your address bar to view them.
Here is your layout with a third column added, notice most of the stuff on the new column is the "Extra Stuff":

Here it is with the links fixed up side by side:

And here is the end of it, notice I put the credit till the end:

Content 17/20 points:
As far as content goes you have a fair amount. There are a few sections I think need more content, such as Adoptables/Pixels, Customs, Fonts, Guild Layouts, Icons, Music, Petpages, Quizzes, SOTM's, and Screenies. I'm glad to see you have so many sections though.

Originality 15/15 points:
The name is very unique, at first I thought it was a little weird to have a site named after a shoe, but you incorporated throughout your site quite nicely, and I think the fact that your mascot is a shoe is pretty funny.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
Featured Site, Mascot, Converse theme throughout site, Award for affies,

Last Thoughts:
The site looks great, but I feel you can put a bit more effort into making it a more professionally well known Directory. There are a ton of directories out there, mostly because they are one of the easiest kind of sites to maintain. Really try to make yours stand out.

Score: 89/100

Somersault


Award Winner

First Glance 13/15 points:
It's a nice layout. The colors are great, they match well with the image. You als made the entire thing, it's always nice to see that. n.n It's not very complicated though, its simple, too simple. It looks like an average layout, one you can easily find in one of the many Premade CSS site ot there. Try livening it up a little, try making it different, so it can stand out.

Link Back Button 4/5 points:
You have a lot of cute link back buttons, all very well made. The problem is that I'm not sure whether you only made one and everyone else made the rest. Seeing as you have a graphics site, it would look better if you had made most of them. I think you understand what I mean seeing as rule number eight in your Button Request page states, "08. I do not make buttons for button request sites. You should be showing off your own work, not my work."

Introduction 10/10 points:
The intro looks great, although you fail to mention one thing. Its an NR site right? Mention it in the intro n.n

Updates 5/5 points:
The updates look great, the only times you seem to go long without updating are during glitches and when you go on vacation, so it's okay n.n

Grammar/Spelling 3/5 points:
I noticed a few grammar mistakes in your intro. You have a few places where you fail to capitalize, such as your name Emily, and at one point when you say "and viola...", the word and needs to be capitalized since it's the beginning of that sentence. (BTW you really shouldn't start sentences with "and" anyway.)
Here are a few places when you need to fix up the sentence structure:
....its just the same as all emily's other sites." Should be, "...its just the same as all of Emily's other sites."
Just they all will have the same name & updates, etc." Should be, "However, they will all be part of the same site."
I really hope you enjoy everything Somersault has to offer and you neomail all your suggestions gelatisimo. " Should be, "I really hope you enjoy everything Somersault has to offer, and please neomail all your suggestions to gelatisimo."
This one was found in the intro to your Graphics page. "Only, of course If you follow the rules below." Should be, "Only, if of course you follow the rules below."
I didn't go through everything, I'll leave that up to you. n.n

Organization 20/20 points:
Your organization seems flawless. UI don't have any problems with how things are set up. It all looks neat and tidy.

Content 15/20 points:
Your content is all of great quality, your buttons are great, your banners are great, recourses and CSS all great. However you don't have much of it! You only have 4 CSS petpages and you already ran out of ideas? Only four banners, and 8 icons. Two Open/Closed pixles, seven New pixles, and seven Back To top pixles. I mean If I can count all your premade content you really should add more.

Originality 9/15 points:
As I said before, the layout isn't very original, and it's not very promesing to see that you have reun out of ideas for CSS with only 4 petpages up. The borders for Button Requests are cute, but they seem like pretty common ones, of course you link back buttons themselves are very nice. You really need to add more for me to be able to see what you really have to offer.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
That entire Competition page is great!

Last Thoughts:
The site looks pretty great, but some aspects of it seem pretty average. Liven it up a little, make a few changes to the layout, make a layout no one has ever seen before, and add more content to show off your skills.

Score: 84/100

Signature Fonts


Award Winner

First Glance 14/15 points:
The site looks pretty cute. n.n The colors are very nice, its actually a pretty simple layout, but it work very well. It looks very nice for something you made using some very lacking programs. Something that needs a little consideration is the image and the way it is cropped. All though it fits on your screen, you need to remember it won't fit on other screens. The image cuts off at the bottom, and it looks a little weird on the right side because the grays don't really mach. I don't know if this is possible to do on Picnik, or MS Paint, a good way to blend things in is to erase the edges with a soft eraser.

Link Back Button 4/5 points:
Your link back buttons are cute, very well made. I would like to see some made by you though.

Introduction 10/10 points:
I think your introduction is good. I think you could do without the part that says "(just no idea how to code a petpage for them). Once I created the perfect layout, Signature Fonts was born!" It's just not that important to mention. Other than that, its great.

Updates 4/5 points:
You seem to update quite frequently, there are times when you go about four or five days without updating, but that's not so bad. I like how you have a pattern going on with your dates; it helps them stand out from each other. It looks a little bit crowded right now though. Spacing them with a paragraph break will make it look more spacious.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
Well under your Stealers section you say, "This girl was using my font, as well as a font from Sunnyneo, and claiming it as YOUR own." It should say, "This girl was using my font, as well as a font from Sunnyneo, and claiming it as HER own." That's about it though, not a big deal.

Organization 18/20 points:
Your organization if very nice, there are a few things that I feel need some changing. I already addressed the Updates section, now about you About the Owner section. It is a little long, especially if you have it on a site, and located in a, what I think, is a random place. Since it's pretty long and detailed, why not make it's own page? I noticed the "Looks Best in IE" button at the top of your page. It looks pretty nice in Firefox, the only thing that needs work is the fact that the content areas get slightly cut off at the bottom. You really should try fixing that, at lest make the layout work in IE and FF. Everything else looks great though n.n

Content 15/20 points:
Your fonts look great, although you don't have many premade ones. You should try adding more of those, I'm not really sure how many avatars there are out there, but I'm pretty sure you don't have all of them. Try making that your goal, to put up fonts for all the default avies first, and then go for the special ones. Your requested fonts look great! Overall your content is of great quality, you just really need to add more fonts!

Originality 15/15 points:
Well honestly the only other site I know of that provides fonts is SunnyNeo. I'm not very aware of the Font sites out there, maybe that's because there aren't many. It's a good service you provide!

Extra Features 5/5 points:
It must be really complicated to make the fonts, I can't imagine how much harder it is to get requests for them. There must be really good communication in order to get them right for people. You seem to do it well!

Last Thoughts:
You have a very nice site going here, but I was surprised to see few fonts. Try adding more premade fonts, try giving yourself a goal to help you with it.

Score: 90/100

The Goodie Box


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First Glance 13/15 points:
The layout is pretty nice. n.n You did a good job with customizing KTL's CSS, it looks very spiffy and clean. However, I'm not too fond with all the green, it all seems somewhat colorless. The banner is well made, but again, there's all that green. Nothing really seems to stand out, or pop, it all blends in. I also remember that you used pretty much the same layout about 3 times before. I think you first had a yellow one, then a magenta one, and now a green one. Some variety would be really nice with your layouts XD

Link Back Button 5/5 points:
Of course, they are very nice. Your buttons are always very nice.

Introduction 10/10 points:
Your introduction makes all the points and introduction should. Oh and by the way, I am very glad you decided to give graphics making one last try. I mean, your site has come so far!

Updates 5/5 points:
I swear you update almost every day! Your updates are very clean and to the point, but they provide a lot of input.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
I looked through all your pages, mostly focusing on the intros and more important text areas and found no spelling or grammar mistakes. n.n

Organization 20/20 points:
I just love the way your site is set up. I really have no problems with any of it. There are little things you need to fix with your Index though. From what I can see you took down your userlookups, however, on your Recourses and Button Bases pages you still have the link to the Userlookup page on the Index. It's a bit confusing, as well as the fact that you still link to the Userlookups page in one of your FAQ questions. I also noticed that when you go to the FAQ page both the FAQ and Button Requests links on the Index are slashed. But really that's all I need to point out, no need to take points off for those little things.

Content 20/20 points:
Your buttons, your button bases, and button borders all rock, need I say more about them? I don't need to, but I shall. Your buttons are the best here on Neo, I can't go to a site without seeing AT LEAST one button made by you. Even my site Futago has a button on there made by you! I just love the colors you use on them, they are so bright and luminescent, and they are just so nifty! I hate looking through your portfolio because I envy you so much XD All your recourses are great, as well as your banners.

Originality 15/15 points:
It's all just too sweet. Love your work and creativeness.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
Well your are the Queen of button making, there for you have the sweetest button borders ever.

Last Thoughts:
You seem to focus on the little things, buttons, backgrounds, color schemes, pixles of sorts, but they are all key when creating a site. You have the ultimate site here, keep doing what you do!

Score: 98/100

Some Fave Stuff
Um… how bout all your buttons!

Premades by Bess


Award Winner

First Glance 12/15 points:
The layout itself is very creative, very original. It's obvious you spent a lot of time on it, the CSS is amazing, and the graphics are very well designed. The theme is very nice as well. The thing I'm having a problem with is the way its set up. It looks very awkward when you scroll down. Each section is spaced very oddly; it looks like you attempted to make one of those hidden layouts without actually hiding the content. I think it will come together more nicely if you actually hid the different sections, or put them on completely different pages.

Link Back Button 4/5 points:
Your link back buttons are great, although I don't think you made any of them. Seeing as your site is a premades site, it would look batter if there were some buttons made by you as well.

Introduction 10/10 points:
Your introduction is very nice, its to the point, but very informative. Although I feel like you can add a little something telling your guests whether it's an NR site or other.

Updates 4/5 points:
You update quite frequently, there are a few odd gaps here and there, but it all looks pretty good.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
I didn't go threw ALL your content, see as you have so much text to go through, which is good, I'm glad to see you communicate with your guests. Any who, I found no grammar or spelling mistakes and your grammar is just superb!

Organization 15/20 points:
Well I pointed out what it was that bugged me about the layout set up before. I'm not sure how I feel about the way you preview your petpages and layouts. I personally like viewing how a lookup or layout looks while up on a user's lookup page. They look very different from the small clip you provide, and it takes FOREVER for it to load once you click on it. Instead of having an entire page with screen shots of the entire lookup, that just seem to complicate things more, why not provide a small screen shot of the lookup? Same goes for your petpages.

Content 15/20 points:
Some of your lookups are actually pretty straight forward. Most of them are simple blends, some of the blends look a little weird though. Especially the Faerie world one, the images on it look a little blurry. I'm not to fond of the coding on your lookups, it looks like all the other neopets lookups I've seen. Or rather, the coding set up like that is too over used. I've seen your coding abilities, and I know you can make it look a little nicer. You can do more to the images themselves, use different affects, use textures, or filters. I also noticed that the fact that your coding doesn't work well in certain situations comes up quite often. You really should work on your coding so that there aren't so many issues with it. I mean you even have an entire section dedicated in your site for people who have issues with it.

Originality 10/15 points:
As I said above, your graphics are pretty straight forward, I think you can do more to them that will really make them stand out from all the other Neopets graphics out there. I really don't like it when premade sites have names like "Premades by so and so" you can be way more original with the name.

Extra Features 5/5 points:
The way you preview your lookups is very original, although some what inconvenient. Your site history section is great too.

Last Thoughts:
The site looks great, but you really need to make your content look and work just as great!

Score: 80/100

FLARE


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First Glance 11/15 points:
I'm not so sure I like the layout very much. Its nice, but I don't think it fits your site very well. For a site with your sort of theme I think you need a more professional look. I do suppose the layout goes well with the sites name, but not so much the theme. It seems a little cramped up, with the banner on the side and 3 different text boxes, and the navigation. The fact that you put the banner to the side is very creative, but a little weird too; it kind of throws things off. It's a premade code of course, which I'm never too found of, but at least it's different than most premades I've seen.

Link Back Button 3/5 points:
You have a nice amount of link back buttons, but none of theme were made by you. I would really like to see something made by you.

Introduction 10/10 points:
Your introduction is great! One thing I do advise not to do, however, is refer to yourself in the third person, it's a bit confusing, especially since you start off by saying "I".

Updates 3/5 points:
You seem to update and blog quite frequently. Your Blog entries are REALLY long… maybe a little to long? I'm not sure about your sites history though, seeing as you deleted all but 2 blogs and 3 updates. You shouldn't delete your blogs or updates, its hard to tell how often you do update if there are only 3 entires.

Grammar/Spelling 5/5 points:
I went through most of your site, except the actual posts by people, and found no grammar or spelling mistakes, great job!

Organization 13/20 points:
The site looks very, very crowded and messy. There is just so much text to keep track of. The actual site layout doesn't really help either; it makes it look even more crammed up. Instead of a blog style layout I think you would be better off using a never ending layout. You have a lot to fit into that box, so it makes it looks messy. Or you can stick to a blog layout but move certain content to different pages. Maybe you can keep all the information about the site: The welcome and the "How Do I Post" section on the home page, and make individual pages for the "Answer" section, "Ask" section, "Advertise" section, "Extras" section, and "Sitely".This way you don't have a scroll box within a scroll box within another scroll box.

Content 20/20 points:
I love the three different sections you offer for people to submit a comment too. I don't think there are any other sections you can offer, it's all fine the way it is.

Originality 15/15 points:
The theme is fantastic!

Extra Features 5/5 points:
Extras section. n.n

Last Thoughts:
I really like your site, its so original! You go beyond the simple "Comment Site" and improved it 100%. Great job!

Score: 85/100

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