A Shining Beacon

Pros: You have a very helpful concept.

Cons: There are numerous layout issues: blurry image, redundant "Updates" header, plain navigation, unpleasant bold and linked text (particularly important because links are your content), too narrow updates box, div that's slightly too large for the text box. You don't have very many sites listed, which makes it much harder to find premades. Your link backs aren't very well laid-out: I'd recommend putting some next to each other so users don't have to scroll through all of them. Sitely section is very badly organized: why are link backs and directories under credits?

Suggestions: I wouldn't recommend making an entire page for awards you've received when you really don't have that many; it looks rather pretentious. I'd put them in sitely instead. In your directory, maybe consider putting request sites with the others and simply adding request symbols beside them? That'll make your categories look less empty. I would also strongly recommend linking to your lookup when you introduce yourself in your introduction and linking to Neomail you where you mention it in Affiliates.

Total: -5

Short & Sweet

First Impression 7/10
- 1 point: organization; rules and info would be better off above updates as users tend to assume the welcome is over when they see updates.
- 1 point: unclear info section; the bakery-themed labels for names are confusing until one looks through the site.
- 1 point: board section; link is incorrect and section is unclear as to whether you want others to be able to start boards about Short & Sweet or if it's just there for your reference.

Layout part 1 15/15
- No points deducted.

Layout part 2 11/15
- 1 point: italics are larger than the rest of the text, making them look odd.
- 1 point: stripes at the top of the page look out of place.
- 1 point: the layout's border is thicker on the left of the text box than elsewhere; a couple sections' anchors lead to halfway through the first line of text (try not putting them on the same line in your coding as the first line of text).
- 1 point: layout is unpleasantly close to bottom of screen, needs some space at the bottom.

Content 21/25
- 2 points: use of AE in pronunciations is unclear as it can be pronounced as a long A or as a long E, as in "Caesar" and "encyclopaedia" (British spelling of "encyclopedia").
- 1 point: all-consonant four-letter names; four-letter names can't always be expected to be easily pronounceable, but they should at least look like they are.
- 1 point: various listed pronunciations that aren't the only, or even the easiest, way to pronounce the name.

Grammar 13/15
- 1 point: beginnings of sentences and proper nouns in credits need to be capitalized.
- 1 point: various other minor errors.

Usefulness 7/10
- 1 point: site would be more useful if there was a link to the Create-a-Pet page somewhere prominent.
- 1 point: Bellissimo link in the navigation is confusing and unnecessary--just put it in sitely.
- 1 point: in "Order a Treat," it's not entirely clear whether "The Cooking Procedure" is for requests for you to create a new name, requests for you to suggest a name, or both.

Other 7/10
- 1 point: P section in five-letter names is missing a header.
- 1 point: Nature's Way's button is broken, Keychain has moved and revamped (no longer appears to list you), and Maple Leaves Directory is closed.
- 1 point: spacing between buttons is inconsistent.

Total: 81/100

Allison's Pretty Fonts

First Impression 9/10
Your welcome gives a mostly good first impression, though the last sentence leaves me wondering why you have two font sites--I understand that the other one is themed; it's just a little odd to have it as an entirely separate site rather than a section of your font site. Still, that's your choice and won't impact this review. Additionally, the statement that it's "brand new" seems a little inaccurate since it's been open for almost two months. The placement of your counter is also rather unbalanced as it's sandwiched between two long lines of text. I would recommend putting it either at the bottom or at the top of all the text, or maybe even moving it to the info page.

Layout part 1 13/15
All three font sections (name, word, and picture) scroll horizontally because there are font screenshots that are too wide for the text box. It looks like this could be remedied simply by cropping the screenshots closer so that less white space is left around the font. In your credits, the flower image appears on top of the bottom-border of the header. The navigation sticks slightly out of the text box, making it unpleasant to read in places.

Layout part 2 12/15
The layout image is very rough in places--particularly on the swirls to the right and the title. If possible, I would recommend making your navigation a little smaller; as it is, "pick up" moves onto two lines when I hover over it. I also think the layout would be improved if the background were a little less transparent, particularly over the swirl at the top--it tends to contrast a little unpleasantly with the header at the top of a page. The orange background of the text areas doesn't really match the rest of the layout--all of the other colors used are much softer. The primary headers also look rather plain, mainly when the title is short, as it is on most of your pages; the issue mentioned before, about the swirl at the top of the text box, could account for some of this, but I think making some of the headers longer (e.g. "Information" instead of "Info," "Word Fonts" instead of "Word") would help their appearance--the header on the home page looks better than the shorter headers on other pages.

Content 23/25
The "Default - Rainbow Name" font seems like it would be better off with a more colorful avatar--if not with the Chomby - Colorful avatar, then perhaps with Colorful Korbat or Flotsam - Rainbow, changing the grey "namehere!" to the blue color in the avatar's background. The Starry Name font looks pretty unbalanced; it seems like it would be better if the stars started next to the text rather than below it. Several of the avatars in your word fonts have grey boxes around them; it might be difficult to remove them completely, but they can definitely be cropped closer. The Brotip #900 font could also be better with an avatar that better matches the colors--maybe Bon Appétit or Spardel.

Grammar 11/15
I'm going to accept grammar variations in your fonts as artistic license. In the header on your home page, there should not be a space between the #visitor code and the exclamation point. There should be a comma after the #visitor code in the first sentence and one after "allisontee." In the last sentence on your home page, "forget" should not be capitalized. The last sentence in the first paragraph of your Info page needs ending punctuation. The semicolon before the Earth pixel should be a colon. Under Stats, there should not be a space before a colon (as there is after "Requests") but there should be one after a colon ("Word Fonts" is lacking one). On the Name and Word pages, "a.k.a." doesn't really work in context (it means "also known as," and I doubt anyone calls name fonts "you put your name where it says 'NAMEHERE'") and should just be removed. Also on the Name page, "NAMEHERE" is misspelled, and "is" in the second sentence should be removed. In the last sentence in this section, "secret" should not be capitalized. On the Word page, I would strongly recommend writing out "and" instead of using an ampersand. The last sentence in Picture (the note) lacks ending punctuation. In credits, "coding," "stamps," "counter," and "pixel" should not be capitalized, and the sentences need ending punctuation.

Usefulness 7/10
I would strongly recommend including a waiting list in your requests section so that users who want to request have a better idea of how long it will take, and so that users who do request can make sure that you received their request. Your request section could also be improved by putting an envelope image (plenty of sites with resources, such as The Lunch Box and Bedazzled, have them) under the form instead of placing a text link above the text box. There are two reasons I'd recommend this: one, users are probably going to want to Neomail you after they've viewed the form, so this order makes more sense; and two, an image is easier to find quickly than a text link. Under Affiliates, I would strongly recommend linking "Neomail" to your lookup. I would also recommend including updates, or at least a "last updated" statement, somewhere so that users can tell whether you're active and their requests have a hope of getting answered.

Other 5/10
I would strongly recommend moving your other site; below affiliates might be the best place for it. As it is now, it's inserted between information about affiliates and actual affiliates, interrupting the flow of the information. Your affiliates' buttons currently look rather uneven. To fix this, you should standardize the amount of space between the buttons: either put space between all of them, like the first three buttons, or put all of them right next to each other, like the last line. Under your listers, Elle's Help Guide is closed and so should be removed. You may want to consider removing your second-to-last button; it's cute, but the font is pretty low-quality, so it looks out of place among your other, high-quality buttons. Also, your last credit is outdated: it says that your closed sign is from The Lunch Box, but you're currently using an open sign. I would recommend changing it to something that encompasses both types of signs so that you don't have to change it. Your credit link to Cream Sweet leads to the Neopets home page, and Cloud Puff Pixels has moved.

Total: 80/100

Emily's CSS

First Impression 9/10
- 1 point: busy welcome; recommend moving link backs to sitely section and expanding welcome and updates.

Layout part 1 14/15
- 1 point: link backs' text areas are too small to click--scroll bar takes up the entire box.

Layout part 2 13/15
- 1 point: navigation is difficult to use (recommend adding "back to top" links) and in a different order from the sections on the page (sitely is before affiliates in navigation, after on the page).
- 1 point: banner is a little too busy.

Content 21/25
- 1 point: unpleasantly contrasting title in second 1-column and first 2-column layouts.
- 1 point: item images are not aligned as shown in previews; add style="float: left;" to codes.
- 1 point: busy background and blurry banner in third 1-column layout, insufficient padding in second 2-column layout.
- 1 point: unpleasant background color on second 2-column layout, slightly blinding background on second 3-column layout.

Grammar 11/15
- 2 points: many incorrectly capitalized words: "linked," "new," "content," "in," "myself," "pending," and "navigation" should not be capitalized; "Moment" should be capitalized in credits, as well as "be," "Leak," "Flash," in updates.
- 2 point: misspelled "achievements" (in header), "thank you" and "navigation" (in credits); in welcome, "your" should be "you're"; in updates, "we're" needs an apostrophe.

Usefulness 10/10
- No points deducted.

Other 8/10
- 1 point: organization; affiliates are sitely information, so splitting the sitely section as you have done doesn't really make sense.
- 1 point: outdated link to B'Quest; it has moved.

Total: 86/100

Elyon

First Impression 7/10
- 2 points: updates box doesn't match layout, has an unpleasant header, is too narrow, and has enormous text.
- 1 point: organization; the button and pixel would look better centered on one line.

Layout part 1 12/15
- 1 point: very unpleasant-on-the-eyes and hard to read primary header.
- 1 point: horizontal scrolling.
- 1 point: clicking anywhere in the navigation box except for exactly on one of the links takes you to the home page, making navigation annoying to use.

Layout part 2 8/15
- 1 point: title that does not match layout and isn't very well integrated into it.
- 2 points: low-quality image, especially around Elyon's face; background of layout image is blurry.
- 1 point: headers and formatting that do not match layout image (e.g. bright purple used when there's no purple in the layout, shades of green that aren't in the layout).
- 2 points: navigation is not positioned well in its box (too close to the top and box is too long for it); the "home" line is longer than any of the others and the text is too close to the lines.
- 1 point: odd-looking white background behind Neopets header; add "table { background: transparent; }" to your CSS to get rid of it.

Content 16/25
- 3 points: text that is unpleasant and difficult to read because it's poorly integrated into the image--try adding borders as described here.
- 1 point: mostly unpleasant fonts; try to use more pixel fonts such as Redensek.
- 1 point: lack of borders in many buttons.
- 2 points: unpleasant, unprofessional-looking animations.
- 2 points: stretched, distorted, and/or low-quality images.

Grammar 13/15
- 1 point: many sentences lacking ending punctuation.
- 1 point: multiple misspellings: Genericizing, cannot, vice versa.

Usefulness 8/10
- 1 point: difficult-to-find portfolio; I'd strongly recommend putting it in the navigation.
- 1 point: unobtrusive, oddly-placed request status sign; it would be better off centered above the form.

Other 8/10
- 1 point: credits for resources are not specific enough; you need to state exactly which graphic is from which site since you use resources from more than one site. Also, it would be a good idea to say who Elyon's creators are.
- 1 point: sitely errors. Beauté is now Zen Designs and does not list you as a sister site; Evening Dream's button has a blue border.

Total: 72/100

Laugh out Loud

Pros: Your site does an excellent job of providing quirky, amusing facts.

Cons: Your layout's formatting colors--bold, the background of the secondary header, and links--are very hard on the eyes and unpleasant to look at. Your home page looks pretty empty: perhaps move the navigation to the sidebar and the updates to the home page, maybe along with a selection of your best buttons? In the world records section, all of the parenthesis in the records are distracting and lessen the amusing effect of reading them. The format of your phobias is inconsistent: they should either all use a colon, all use a dash, or all use "is" (I would recommend the colon or "is"). Your award is rather difficult to read, particularly the URL and bottom line of text. The background in your text areas makes them look more like images than text areas, making it difficult for users to find them at a glance.

Suggestions: I would recommend making your text a little larger and using a different font, such as Arial or Tahoma, to make your site's text more appealing to read--particularly necessary as the majority of your site's content is text. It would be a good idea to add border="0" to the image codes for the Neomail envelope in the sidebar and the Genafire's Art button under Favorites to remove their borders. I would also recommend specifying a height and width of 88x31 for your text areas to make them look better with the buttons. Additionally, I'd add some images (Fun Images would be a good source for them) to your facts sections to make them easier on the eyes. "Trichopathophobia" is listed as both fear of hair and fear of slime.

Total: -5

Cloud Fourteen Directory

Pros: You have a good number of links, but there could definitely be more. Your layout is easy to use.

Cons: The light grey background on your site is rather unpleasant because it makes it hard to tell where the content area ends and makes the page look pretty colorless. Several categories look very empty--I would recommend consolidating any categories in which there are fewer than 5-10 links into your "Miscellaneous" category and perhaps using subcategories to sort them out. The centered text is rather unpleasant to look through; I would recommend left-aligning at least the directory links and perhaps making multiple columns of links on some pages. You don't have a key so I'm not really sure what some of the markings on sites mean; I can guess most of them, but I don't know why there are hyphens after some sites, and it's a good idea to avoid leaving viewers guessing. The text in your text areas is rather unpleasantly large, and under link backs, the text areas look odd because they're twice the height of the buttons. Your description in the link back area seems to suggest that you would link buttons from now closed sites to the Neopets.com homepage; if this is not what you mean, I would strongly recommend rewording the statement, as you must credit button-makers even if their sites are closed. The best way to do this is by linking to the creator's lookup, but if it's hard to find, you should at least continue to link to the petpage, even if it's default or empty. It seemed odd that some sites (including most of the ranked avatar sites) were ranked without being recommended, and some recommended sites were inactive and so not very useful (e.g. Avatarapalooza, which hasn't updated since August; Electric Feel's last update is from early September; Prosperity hasn't updated since July and so has inaccurate game scores and is missing a couple dailies; the Workshop was last updated in July, though it does still have premade graphics up).

Suggestions: I would recommend separating the text and navigation areas from the banner by a few pixels; as it is, it looks rather odd. In your FAQ, I would recommend removing the questions from the scroll box and utilizing all of the space available in the layout; if you want the Neomail link to be easily visible, I'd recommend putting it after the first paragraph. Also, I noticed that Love & Affection is closed and there are borders around the second two pixels in your credit. In the layout section, I would definitely recommend using a smaller, secondary header for the subcategory titles instead of the main header. Throughout your site, "achievements" is misspelled.

Total: -5

Lab Ray Mythbusters

Pros: Your myths' statuses are based on hard fact rather than hearsay, so you can serve as a very good source for information.

Cons: The lettering on your banner would look okay by itself, but it's very poorly integrated into the banner. Your site is unpleasant to use and read because you have no welcome (so users entering the page have no idea who you are and little idea of what you're doing), you have very few headers to tell users where they are in your page, you have no navigation, and you don't use formatted text to make anything stand out (see suggestions). You don't provide a code for your button, making it very difficult for many coding-challenged users to use it. You also don't have very many myths; I can think of several more off the top of my head: the species / color / name of the pet you zap affects the result, you're more likely to get certain results than others (may be true), you can't get the same color/species result for a petpet twice (if you want to expand into myths about the petpet lab ray, which I would recommend since you don't have very many myths), you're not allowed to keep the money you get for redeeming the map on side accounts, you can get royal pets' clothing by changing their gender. Additionally, there is no link to Neomail you on the page, making it difficult for people to contact you with new myths and information. You also have a number of grammar errors--mostly punctuation--more than half the buttons in your sitely section had unpleasant borders around them, and it's unclear what you're crediting Complete Compilement and Vintage for.

Suggestions: I would strongly recommend using formatted text or headers to make the following things stand out from normal text: the title of the myth, the status of the myth, and the names of your sources (i.e. usernames and Editorial numbers). I would also recommend using more detailed statuses, as you cannot bust or confirm a myth without a statement from TNT. For example, I would put something like "disputed" as a status for the "cannot zap back to level 1" myth since you have people with different viewpoints and something like "plausible but unproven" for the Draiks and Krawks myth since you don't have anyone who has claimed otherwise but you have no input for TNT. This style of layout also isn't the best for a site with a lot of text content; I would recommend getting one with a taller content area and navigation. It would also be better if you linked the usernames of users you quote to their lookups.

Total: -6

Halcyon

Pros: Your layout is nice and original; at first glance the text box seems pretty small, but since you don't have huge amounts of content in any area, it works. Your pixels are very nice and cute, particularly the giant cupcakes, though in some, such as the ice cream pixels and and the bunnies, the shading isn't really as apparent as I would like--the bunnies in particular look a little flat, possibly because their shape reminds me of gingerbread men.

Cons: I found the way that the link back buttons on the side of the page change from page to page a little distracting, as was the way your counter appeared on every page but your home. I would find it difficult to use the code your provide for your resources because the text area is too small for me to see the entire code and edit it; I would have to copy the code, go to wherever I wanted to use it, and then copy the image URL in, and I'd probably find it more convenient to simply write out the code myself. You could remedy this by making that text area much larger (adding style="width: ##px; height: ##px;" to the text area code will allow you to do this). Your text is just a little too small for my reading comfort--I think upping it half a point, from 7.5 Arial to 8, would work wonders. You don't link to me anywhere, as required by my site's rules. The "for me" link under sitely is confusing--it led me to expect something to do with the secret pixel; if it's just a note for yourself, why not put it on an empty petpage or your lookup, where people are less likely to stumble across and be confused by it? If it has some purpose in your site, it really needs a clearer label.

Suggestions: Perhaps make the background for your page a little more blue? At the moment it's pretty grey, which gives a melancholy feel to your site. Based on your current layout, you might want to try adding some scribbles--of course, there's no need to, but the one in your layout is very nice and you might want to offer some for others' use. As well as offering buttons on each page of Halcyon, I would recommend adding a link back section under sitely with all the buttons so that visitors can look through a full selection to decide which button they'd prefer to use--at the moment, if I were going to be affiliated with you, I'd probably end up going through several pages to find my favorite button. It would also be nice if you linked your name in the welcome to your lookup.

Score: -3

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Nature's Way

Pros: Your turtle, whale, octopus, and ice cream vectors are adorable. I also like that you link the "back to top?" links to the navigation rather than to the absolute top of the page; it's much easier to use. Although some of your pixels don't particularly appeal to me, others do--I like everything in the cafe section except the chocolate-dipped strawberries.

Cons: The title and graphic part of your layout is much too large--I have to scroll too far down to get to your content; it really shouldn't be larger than the main text box. Your most important content--your pixels and resources--is hidden away in annoyingly tiny scroll boxes. The only place where you explain how to use the graphics, if they're general premades, etc. is the bakery--are the adoption center, cafe, and gardening center merely different categories of pixels or is the adoption center, like most pixel sites' adoption center, somewhere where each pixel can only be adopted by one person? You don't have my button anywhere. Under resources, you have codes for some graphics but not for others--this makes it look like only those graphics are meant for viewers to use--and it's hard to tell whether the divider is a graphic you offer or a divider you're just using. Under banners, the first sentence makes it sound like the maximum size of the banners is 88x31, which would make it much more likely that anyone would want to use them. There are no back to top links in your sitely section, which makes it difficult to return directly to the navigation, and the navigation link labeled "vectors" links to the cafe. You don't introduce yourself or have a contact link anywhere.

Suggestions: I would recommend adding hover text to describe each cake to users--maybe put what flavor it is? I'm also not sure why birdhouses are in the bakery. Wouldn't it make a lot more sense for them to be in the gardening center? The main thing I think could use improvement in your pixels is the shading. The way a lot of your pixels are shaded--perfectly symmetrically--makes many of them look somewhat washed out and doesn't really make them appear three-dimensional. It's particularly bad in the birdhouses--I can't imagine natural light hitting an object in a perfect line down the center and fading away at the edges. It would look better if the highlight on an object was not in the perfect center--like the last two pixels in your cafe.

Score: -5

Meow Buttons

Pros: Your layout and banner are very nicely color-coordinated. Your request types are very original and helpful.

Cons: The bright blue of your links is blinding and painful. A number of the image links on your site have borders. You should add headers to your sections so that users can tell at a glance which section they're on. Your home link doesn't seem to lead me back home. Your buttons could use some improvement, particularly where text and animations are concerned--you should try making the requests look more like the currently online and currently offline buttons; they're excellent. You should link to your lookup where you introduce yourself. You should also actually state that /~CloudKitty is credit for the Neomail envelope--it's not easy to guess. The scroll boxes you use in your sitely section are so small they're difficult to use, and several of your affiliates are closed (Joealia's Premades, Style Trends, Burlesque, Pickle's Fonts, and the Lighthouse button doesn't actually lead anywhere).

Suggestions: I'd recommend reading the button-making guide at Create Impressions. Their tips really helped me, and using some of the effects they describe could really add quality to your buttons.

Score: -6

Tae Tae's Shop Directory

Pros: You have a excellent number of shops listed. Your shops page is well-organized and easy to use.

Cons: Your page scrolls horizontally. I'd recommend putting the rules before the application to get listed, since people should read them before getting listed, and putting the application in a text area so that people can use "Select All" to copy it. The only shop you have listed under "Luck" seems to be holding a contest, which is against the rules; similarly, it seems odd that the shop listed under "1,001 NP Deals" has no items in it for 1,001 NP and, in fact, has a number of overpriced items. Paint brushes and Neggs are very different items, so it seems odd that you have one category for both. It's not immediately clear what the numbers after each shop mean; I'd add a note explaining them. You need to explain what you're crediting each site under "Credits" for instead of just putting their buttons there.

Suggestions: Adding navigation to each category on the shops page would make it easier to find shops and tell shop owners looking to be listed which categories you have. Also, as neither your main page or your sitely section is very long, I'd recommend compiling them onto one page.

Score: -4

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Flower Garden

First Impression
{9/10}
I feel like your layout could use a little more unity. Perhaps try using the pinks and reds from the image at the bottom in your layout's formatting? The main thing that jumps out at me is that your layout doesn't work very well, as I'll explain in the next section.

Layout part 1
{12/15}
Your updates are on top of your main area, so it's fairly impossible to read them and pretty difficult to read the main area, too. The flowers at the bottom of your page also make it difficult to read the text. Also, the updates and small sidebar are cut off after the first two buttons.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
The green stem of the flower pixel in your welcome contrasts a bit unpleasantly with the purple background. I would recommend using a slightly lighter purple for the main text box's background to make it more comfortable to read. Something about the flowers in your top image simply looks odd--perhaps an effect used? I'm not sure what to call it, perhaps "overexposed"? Something also makes them look spliced together.

Content
{21/25}
First, I'd like to say that I understand that much of your layouts' designs are dictated by requesters and I'll take that into account when scoring this section. Starting from the most recent layout in your portfolio: in the latest layout, the placement of the Neopets footer is a little awkward--I think that layout could have been improved by using .sf {display: none;} to remove the footer. In the second layout, I don't really like having two equally-sized text boxes on top of each other--without a "dominant" element that's much larger than anything else on the page, the viewer doesn't really know where to look. The third page is very drab, but I understand if that's what the requester specified. I feel that the fourth layout could have been considerably improved by making the updates box as narrow as the navigation, and perhaps shortening it to line up with the rest of the layout. I think it could also be improved by the removal of the skinny column to the left, or perhaps by putting a little more space between the divs. I really like the sixth layout, but the seventh layout seems a little unbalanced because the buttons are so much narrower than the area above them, and it's another layout that would look better if you hid the footer. In the eighth layout (Fallen Petals, if you're tired of counting), the text box looks oddly placed because it's across all of the different images and not really aligned with any of them. I think it would look much better if the text box was centered on top of the round-cornered square. This is as far as I went through your portfolio. In general, your layouts are nice. Since you have petpage fixes under "requests"--with a form--I don't think you really need it in another section, particularly since you don't have the same form. I would recommend removing it from the requests section and putting the form under Petpage Fixes and Codes; if you're going to have it in both places, you should have the form in both places. Finally, I think it would be a good idea to put the "helpful site pages" under petpage codes and fixes, since they're mainly HTML and CSS guides.

Grammar
{19/20}
You need a comma after the visitor code in your welcome paragraph. In your third rule, the phrase in parenthesis doesn't really make sense; you could make it fit by adding "for some reason" before them. I would recommend slightly rephrasing the fourth rule to make it more clear: something along the lines of, "At any one time, you may request up to..." When you direct people to examples, "here" shouldn't be capitalized, and strictly, Neomail should be capitalized throughout the site. Where you say that some layouts "are not made for any particular reason," it would be clearer to state something along the lines of, "Not all of these layouts are requests; some of them were just made because I felt like it." In Credit, Neopets should be capitalized. All of these are very small errors, though.

Usefulness
{10/10}
The only thing I'd recommend is that you link the envelope image in your sidebar to Neomail you as well as having text links. It's a small thing, but most people expect the link to be on the envelope itself.

Other
{9/10}
I'd recommend putting a note somewhere that the examples you use for "Pure CSS" and "Image Based" aren't made by you. It's not something that could get you in trouble, but it gives the wrong impression for a moment. Also, I'd remove the placeholder boxes from the pickup and replace "Username" in the unused waiting list slots with something like "Open slot." Placeholders tend to give your site an unfinished look.

Total: 88/100

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Buttonier

First Impression
{8/10}
Your welcome seems very messy and cluttered. I would highly recommend moving your award to another section (sitely) and including a welcome where you introduce your site instead of simply ordering viewers to press F11.

Layout part 1
{12/15}
Your content div is slightly larger than the box in your image, so your scrollbar is on top of the image and in some sections, such as Credits, your text is on top of the box's border. Also, in the link back section on the side of your layout, "more?" is on top of the border of the box, and "simple but beautiful buttons by Allissa" is difficult to read because the grey outline is so light.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
The image in your layout is very pretty, but the edge of the text is fairly ragged, and I would prefer a larger content box--the way you have it now, everything seems squeezed into the content box. Making the content box wider would also help your welcome look a little less cluttered, as the SOTM buttons would be on one line instead of two. Also, your "Link back?" box seems sort of out of place, and you might want to use yellow instead of grey for scrollbox backgrounds and text area formatting, since there's more yellow than grey in the image.

Content
{23/25}
Your buttons are very pretty, but in some buttons, such as those for Splash, the Weewoo Journal, and Rattlesnake, it's difficult to read the text because the outline color is too light or bright--in others the text is legible, but it really doesn't stand out from the background very well; your Panedmonium and Untaken Real Names of Hobbies buttons would be an example of this. I happen to really dislike the "glowing" effect because it makes the button difficult to read, but I seem to be in the minority on this. Besides trying to make sure that the outline color for the text makes it stand out and easy to read, I would suggest perhaps offering a few font options--nothing fancy that's hard to read, but maybe some simple fonts like Redensek and Silkscreen. However, you don't need to do this if you'd rather not.

Grammar
{14/20}
Hiatus is spelled wrong on the banner proclaiming your site to be on one. In your latest update, "I," "Buttonier," "Neopets," and the first words in sentences need to be capitalized, and your first sentence needs to be ended with a period before the smiley. Check out is two words and it's needs an apostrophe. "Deleted monthly" and "Press F11" should both start with capital letters and preferably end with periods. It seems odd that you expect people to put credit up before getting a button instead of when they put the button up--are they supposed to say "Currently non-existent button by Buttonier"? In your fourth rule, the first "to" should be removed. Under options, "Click and drag to new tab" should start with a capital letter and probably end with a period. In the Button College, in the last rule, I needs to be capitalized. In the paragraph under "Phase One," the second sentence is a bit rambling and rather unnecessary: "First come, first serve" makes the point perfectly well. In your portfolio, I would suggest putting "Total: 63" and "As of 4/17/11" on different lines, or at least separating them with a period. In Credits, I would recommend writing out and instead of using an ampersand and there needs to be a space between "(c)" and your username. Also, in the note at the bottom, there should be a period after "Thanks." In Extras, in the Fan Icons, the colon should be removed. The note telling people how to view fanmail needs to be ended with a period. Under your navigation, Neopets should be capitalized.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I would suggest having the button images in the pick up beside the codes for the buttons so that people can see what their button looks like before they pick it up. I would also recommend making your affiliates and listers boxes larger because the scrollbar doesn't appear in Firefox and makes it difficult to scroll through your affiliates and listers.

Other
{8/10}
Your fan icons don't look very good--the images are stretched and blurry and the text in the first one isn't very well-integrated into the icon. Also, it seems a little odd that "Request" is the only navigation link that's capitalized, and I would recommend putting your button collage or at least a link to your button collage in extras; as it is, there's no indication in your navigation that you have a button collage and it would be difficult for visitors to find it.

Total: 81/100
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Vika's Buttons

First Impression
{8/10}
Your layout is very nice, although the "Button request by Vika" text on it is slightly blurry. It would also be nice to have a more detailed, coherent welcome. For one thing, the way your welcome is broken up into one-sentence paragraphs makes it seem choppy. And then you might want to put in a little of the history of the site. Including an updates section would also help with your welcome section; at the moment it seems rather stark and empty.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Your layout has no problems with functionality or readability.

Layout part 2
{10/10}
There are only a couple of things I'd change about your layout, and they're not very major. One, there's a little bit of unnecessary vertical scrolling: your layout is small enough to fit onto the page, but the scrollbar still appears. I understand if you can't fix this, though. The second thing is on your top banner: "Buttons" stands out really well but "Vika" is too close in color and effects to really pop. It doesn't make your layout look bad, but it does give the impression that it could look better.

Content
{24/25}
Your buttons are very nice! However, the Lady's CSS and Rowlier's Guide buttons are a little hard to read, and I'm not very fond of animations that make the text difficult to read, such as the animation on the Shine! button and the Bia's Screens button. Also, although this is up to you, you might want to offer people a chance to choose which border and animation they want on their button. You don't have to, though, if you prefer to make those choices.

Grammar
{14/20}
In your banner, since you've made more than one button request, "button request" should be plural. The sentence "Hi there" needs a period to finish it and I'm not sure what you're trying to convey with the smiley--it looks like it means you're being dazzled, exhausted, or exasperated, but none of that really fits your site's welcome. In the second sentence in your second line, "is" should be "are," since copy cats is plural, and I would suggest being more direct and simply saying, "Please do not copy or steal from my page," or something along those lines. The sentence under your counter needs a period, and at should be on. In your second rule, after read, you should put "the rules," and the second and third bullets would be better off consolidated into one line. Also, only one of your rules has ending punctuation; they all need it. "Do not take orders from other people" doesn't really make sense; it seems like you're trying to say, "Don't take other people's requests." Rather than saying you would take out the code, it'd be clearer to say that you'd remove the code. And visible shouldn't be plural. In your waiting list, waiting is misspelled. In your portfolio, I would recommend using "are" instead of "stays," "made" instead of "did," and "since" instead of "from," and that sentence needs ending punctuation. Affies needs an E, and I would recommend writing out affiliates--it makes your site seem more professional. In the sentence under affies, only the first word needs to be capitalized. Under link back, button shouldn't be capitalized. In your credits, I would recommend writing out and instead of using an ampersand, and the S2S2S2 after your last credit seems out of place. I would recommend stating somewhere on your site that you are from Brazil so that people can understand why your English isn't perfect.

Usefulness
{8/10}
I would strongly recommend placing a link to Neomail you in the requests section; it would make it far easier for people to request. Also, you shouldn't have a (br) tag in your request form: it won't create a link break in a Neomail, and it might give people an error message, since there are anti-HTML filters in Neomails.

Other
{9/10}
You don't link to me as required by my rules. Finally, my last recommendation is that you move more of the buttons in your pick up to your portfolio. It's fine if you want to wait until people have claimed your buttons, but I checked the pages that I could find the link to and Rowlier's Guide and Oh! Directory have claimed theirs.

Total: 88/100

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Annabelle Graphics

First Impression
{8/10}
The box with your sushi image is more the size and proportions I would expect your main text box to be; I would suggest switching the sizes--though not the positions--of the two boxes. As it is now, it looks like the sushi graphic is more important than your site's content. I'm really not a fan of second-person introductions to sites, but as they go, yours isn't too bad--I'd just suggest using (p) instead of (br) between the two paragraphs so that they're a little more separated. Also, I would recommend not downsizing the sushi pixel in your welcome, as it looks blurry.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
The black "pets, games, hompages, chat..." bar is both at the top left of your layout and about half your scrollbar is cut off. Also, there are blank bullets in your first two updates.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Besides what I mentioned in first impression, the background on your layout is really too bright to look nice. It's a color that would look good in moderation, but across the whole background, it's almost painful. I would strongly suggest toning it down a bit, perhaps using a lighter pink or even a patterned background. The corners on your boxes seem a little rough, and the blotches of color on the sushi image to the left make it look like it has a fever.

Content
{17/25}
Your first two backgrounds are rough-edged images that have little to do with each other against a solid color that's even less related. Then you get slightly more detail and coherency, but the rough edges on the images are still distracting, and on your third and fourth backgrounds the effects could use some work--on the third one, it doesn't look very good when it goes over the items; on the fourth one, the yellow and purple don't go together very well and I'm not sure what "SS" is supposed to mean. Your first striped background is positively blinding and painful to view, but your other striped backgrounds are fairly nice. On your last background with images of items (the blue one), there are lighter-colored squares around the items. Your banners are considerably better, but you still need to work on getting the white off of the edges of images you use, and on your second banner, the little white spots look more like a mistake than an attractive effect. On your third banner, the images are blurry, the background is plain, and the animation is jerky and doesn't effect the entire letter--there are a few pixels around the edges that remain dark blue. On your icons, most of the animations jerky and rather annoying, particularly on ones that glitter, like the Fyora icon. Although the diagonal line effects look good, and there are some nice icons, others are plain: try using some effects besides lines, glitter, and animation. On your muffin icon, the image is blurry, and on your Faeries icon, the Air Faerie image cuts off part of the "Faeries" text.

Grammar
{16/20}
In your welcome, Oriental should be capitalized and "sulking" should be "stepping"--to sulk is be silent, morose, and bad-tempered, so there's really no way that you can sulk back and hear something crunch under your feet. The comma after "you read the fortune" should either be a period or a semicolon; the comma after "no sticky paws please" would also be better off as a semicolon. In your latest two updates, new doesn't have to be capitalized. In your third banner, neither artists nor writers needs an apostrophe--they're plural, not possessive. In your section on your sister site, the second "Tiger_Graphix" needs to be possessive, since you're talking about her site, and you need a period after "requests." Also, awesome and examples don't need to be capitalized. In your sitely section, "me," "at," and "pixel" don't need to be capitalized--actually, the "me" and "at" could be capitalized if you were making them full titles (which I wouldn't really recommend), but then you'd have to capitalize back and to, as well.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I would recommend moving your sister site to your sitely section and shortening the description. In its place, I would like to see a section on requests. It would be helpful to have more information about requests than just that you take them and where to send them. Are they open? Can anyone use them, or are they just for the person who requested them? All of your banners and one of your icons look like requests, but without any labeling or a separate pickup/portfolio section, it's hard to guess whether you permit anyone to use them. Do you have size limits on banners you'll make? Any image requirements? A form would make requesting easier and ensure that you have all of the information you need to complete the request.

Other
{8/10}
When linking the graphics back to your site, you don't have to include the whole "http://www.neopets.com"--just putting "/~Chooomb" will link back to your site as if you'd put the whole URL and it saves characters for users who are trying to put your graphics in places where there's a limit, such as userlookups. I would suggest getting more buttons, preferably requesting them from others to give viewers a variety of options--the buttons you have now really aren't the highest quality; the text on the first one is so small that it's difficult to read. Also, I'd recommend adding border="0" to the image codes for the buttons of Sweet Dreams, CorelX Guide/Tutorial, Cyn's Art (or you could just remove this one, as it's now a default petpage), Lightning Directory, and Lily Pad Reviews. Finally, the credit included in your backgrounds--"background by Annabelle"--gives the impression that your name is Annabelle, although you said in your welcome that it's Brittany; I think you need to add a "Graphics" in there.

Total: 79/100

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Android Directory

First Impression
{7/10}
Your layout is pretty, but your homepage seems a little messy. I would suggest separating different elements with (p) instead of (br); this will spread them out more. The line of asterisks doesn't seem like a very good divider, and I would suggest using low-level headers (2 or 3, if you have it) for titles like "Get listed?" and "Updates." As it is, the wall of content is slightly imposing. It seems a bit unnecessary to have "Android" on the layout and a banner with your site name, and removing the banner would make the homepage look less cluttered (I think it would also prevent the sidescrolling). Also, your "Link back?" link seems to link to a blank page, and I would strongly suggest getting a higher-quality counter image.

Layout part 1
{12/15}
The text on your counter is very difficult to read, and your homepage sidescrolls. Also, on my computer, everything after "Review Sites" in the navigation is cut off, not just the sitely and extras pages.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
The primary thing I dislike about your layout is that I have to scroll down so far to get the whole text box in view. This could be remedied by shortening the text box. I believe that your layout could use a more unified color scheme--the colors of your headers and formatting don't really match the image; the purple is not seen anywhere in the image, although it does tie to the navigation, and the green is a very different shade from the green in the image. I feel that your duller background and brighter formatting don't really fit together. Also, I would suggest specifying more formatting for the italics and links to make them stand out.

Content
{19/25}
I only checked your links through guides, but at a glance: a couple sites, like The Air Raid and For All, are missing the dashes that you've used as bullets. You don't have the takes request symbol beside several pixel sites that take requests, like Pixel Reign and Fallen Petals--if you're going to forgo it because most pixel sites take requests, you should note that in the category. The site you have listed as "Adoption Agency" is actually called "The Witch's Brew." Spencer's Art and Fabulous link to the Neopets hompage. Dreamer and Giant need to be separated by a break. The subcategory "Directories Like Mine" would be better called "Link Directories": it's more clear and professional. Galleries Galore is not a pet directory; if you don't want to create another subcategory for it, it would be more accurately categorized under link directories, since it does have links and they're not to pets. I'm pretty sure that Annabelle's Graphics is actually Annabelle Graphics: the owner's name is Brittany and the pet's name is Chooomb, so it's unlikely to be possessive. Hug is on hiatus, but you haven't marked it. "Livy's Banners and Custom Pics!" appears to have closed. The guide you have listed as "Brushed/Fixes" is now a graphics site with a different name. Morphing Potions has been relocated.

Grammar
{16/20}
You have several unnecessary colons, such as the one in the sentence directing people to your sitely and extras pages. Also, the second sentence in that paragraph is redundant; the paragraph would be better off reading, "Here are links to the Sitely and Extras pages, in case you can't see them in the navigation." The following words should be capitalized: Android, Neopia, Disney World, New York, English, Portuguese, Eastcoastbabe (as it is a name and part of the title of a site), and all of the major words in titles of sites (a major word is something that it not a connecting word like and, is, or, but, to, etc.). The following words should not be capitalized: kidding, glitter customs, coding, and by. Smiley and Portuguese are misspelled. Under hiatus should be on hiatus, and 100's would be better off written out as hundreds. There should be a comma after welcome in your welcome and after of course in your credits. You have several problems with spacing: in your credits, there needs to be a space between Caro's Banners and the colon, and when you use parenthesis to explain further about a site, you need to put a space between the opening parenthesis and word before it. However, I would strongly recommend using the spacing "(+ graphics)" when noting that a site has something extra. There are several unfinished sentences on your site--you need to use a period to end a sentence even when you use a smiley after it--and I would strongly recommend writing out "and" and "at" in your credits. Finally, you should follow the site owner's capitalization on iCloset: the name is meant to resemble Apple's products, and the resemblance is damaged by the way you've capitalized it.

Usefulness
{8/10}
Rather than having the same sentence and link in every section of listers, you should put the key to your symbols on your homepage. If you're worried about people being able to find the listing form on the homepage, I would recommend making it easier to find instead of having a second copy in extras.

Other
{6/10}
I'd suggest removing the button placeholders from your affiliates section, as it emphasizes your low number of affiliates and makes your site look a bit unfinished. Also, the things placed in the bottom of your sitely section belong elsewhere: "Additional coding by me" should go under credits, the date your site opened would be better off mentioned in your welcome paragraph, at the top of your updates, or under extra, and I would put a section for your other site under affiliates. You should also compress your button section by putting multiple buttons on the same line or putting your buttons in a scrollbox, and I would suggest ordering your sitely section differently: buttons first, then affiliates, then credits. Your SOTM buttons might be better off in sitely or extras--or just move the ones that aren't voting, like Giant, there. This will also help your homepage look less cluttered. It's not really necessary to link to your lookup and link to the Neomail form: people only need one link (I would suggest keeping the lookup link, since that way people don't have to copy your username, which will overwrite the form). Your android pixel would be better off as a decoration in another section, perhaps your welcome or updates. Under extras, I would suggest putting a line break between each item in your key: it makes it easier to read.

Total: 76/100

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Campaign Against Abandoning

First Impression
{4/10}
At a glance, your site looks extremely unprofessional. Rather than having a concise, interesting welcome to bring people into your site, you overload the viewer with blurry, moving images, bright colors, and huge bold text.

Layout part 1
{6/10}
Your "Join the Campaign" image is slightly blurry, and the rest of your site simply looks too plain. The background doesn't go with the rest of the layout and you have a very bright blue against pastel colors, which doesn't look very good. You have next to no formatting and I would suggest using a simpler font, like Arial or Verdana. Your layout completely lacks a color scheme or theme that would tie it together: as it is, it's simply a bunch of random elements.

Layout part 2
{14/15}
Everything is readable, but it's unlikely that many people are going to go to the effort of using your buttons when you don't put codes for them and have users code them themselves.

Content
{15/25}
First, you can do your readers a huge favor by getting rid of the random images that have nothing to do with your site. They make your site look extremely messy. Your argument is also weak and scattered. You basically make three points: Neopets are for life, TNT disapproves of abandonment, and abandoning a Neopet brings it closer to death. The third point is completely invalidated by the simple fact that Neopets cannot die. Your first point is simply dogmatic and would fail to convince anyone who does abandon their Neopet, as by doing so they have shown that they do not believe that Neopets are for life (and how many people play Neopets all their lives, anyway? Is it crueler to leave a pet to starve on an abandoned account or to put it in the Pound to find a new owner?). Your second point also fails to convince anyone: the counter-argument is simply that if TNT truly wished to keep people from abandoning their pets, they would remove the abandonment feature. If you're going to make a campaign, you really need to come up with a stronger argument capable of converting people to your cause rather than bleating about how wonderful Neopets are and how they deserve to be loved. Another tip: insulting your opponents--by saying that anyone who would abandon a Neopet has a "cold barren wasteland where you [sic] heart should be"--is not going to help convince them that your point of view is superior, it's just going to annoy them, make then defensive, and close their minds to your point of view.

Grammar
{16/20}
Your site really needs a lot of proofreading. The first sentence of your argument should read, "Hello, [visitor's username], I am Jessi G and I'm here to raise awareness of an issue close to my heart: abandoning Neopets." You have many more issues with comma placement. When you begin to quote something, you need a comma after "saying" or "says." More than one exclamation point is not necessary to convey how emotional you are. You also have problems with apostrophes and other punctuation. "If your just going to leave it" makes no sense; you're trying to say "If you're just going to leave it." There are a couple more spots in your argument where you have sentence fragments that should be part of other sentences.

Usefulness
{6/10}
As I said under content, your argument simply is not capable of converting people to your cause. If you want to have a campaign to truly help abandoned Neopets, you need to be able to keep people from abandoning their Neopets rather than just making people who already wouldn't nod along with you, and you aren't doing that. Also, if your goal is to help Neopets, I would strongly suggest linking to adoption agencies where people with unwanted Neopets can get rid of them without putting them in the Pound, and encouraging people to adopt pets from the Pound rather than creating then. Reading up on techniques of persuasion would probably help you better structure your argument--try a search engine. Alternately, you might want to give your support to another Neopet welfare association, like Neopians for the Ethical Treatment of Neopets, rather than starting your own campaign.

Other
{7/10}
Your sidebar is very messy. You can improve it by--as with your content area--removing the images that have nothing to do with your site (i.e. bear and ragdoll) and using one- or two-word headers to categorize links rather than introducing links with sentences. It would also help to downsize and unbold the text in your sidebar and use text links instead of buttons to link to sites when you credit them. "Layout by me" should be under credits in the sidebar, and the Pitty's Glitters and Teetot credits should also be in the sidebar.

Total: 68/100

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Belly Buttons

First Impression
{8/10}
The Mynci pixel in your welcome contrasts unpleasantly with your layout, in that the layout and everything else I can see on the home page is very nicely-made but the pixel isn't. Also, the page scrolls unnecessarily--the layout fits on the page without scrolling but it scrolls anyway.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Your update box looks a little incongruous because it's square were the rest of the layout is rounded; I would recommend rounding it, too. I'd also prefer for your site's name to be capitalized, particularly since "Updates" is capitalized. And I think it'd be nice if the Kazeiru's face wasn't cut off.

Content
{20/25}
I'm not very fond of animations or effects, like glow, text glow, and flash, that make the text hard to read, however briefly; I also don't like the the font used on the Ciao button, and for this reason I would suggest giving requesters a choice of fonts. In your pick up, it looks like you've made a mistake with a textarea code, since where the code for Callie's button should be there's the button image instead. In some of your older buttons, the outline is too light, so the button's text is difficult to read. Although the shading on your pixels is pretty nice, the outlines on some are rather rough, and you should try making the outline a darker shade of the color it outlines--try reading the tutorials at The Pixel Field and Pixelling 101 for some tips. It also seems a little odd that when I look in your portfolio, I see repeatedly-used (and very nice) borders that aren't listed as an option in your request section, particularly the castle-shaped one. Finally, I'd like to point out that the sides of your oval border look a little ragged, particularly on buttons where that border is darker.

Grammar
{18/20}
There are multiple places where you're missing a space after punctuation, particularly in your credits. Also, many of your statements are missing ending punctuation. There are several places where you have a comma that isn't really necessary; for example, your second rule doesn't need a comma. There are also a couple spots in your site where there's awkward phrasing that I would suggest reworking, such as the second sentence in your welcome. In your credits, layout is not a proper noun and so does not need to be capitalized, and in your sitely section, under Guide for Cellblock, buttons starts off a sentence and needs to be capitalized. In your pixels section, you refer to them as resources; resources are typically envelopes, counters, and other site-related material, so this description doesn't really fit. The amount of bolding, underlining, and/or italic text in some areas of your site is rather daunting, particularly in your site history, where I would suggest only using one kind of formatting for emphasis and emphasizing a lot less. Under your description of Belly Buttons's first layout, the smiley should be after the period for the second sentence, not before it.

Usefulness
{9/10}
The primary thing I feel would add to your site's usefulness is editing the code for your pixels to link the image back to your site. This is the most common way that people credit pixels on Neopets, and the method that most people are comfortable with.

Other
{10/10}
In your request area, the switch to font size="2" where you ask people to read the rules doesn't work very well because the bolded and linked text stays the normal size. It makes the change in size to the unformatted text look more like a coding glitch than an attempt at emphasis.

Total: 88/100

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Trash Collector Program

First Impression
{9/10}
Your site doesn't really make much a first impression. The main thing I notice is that you've put the majority of your content in the sidebar, which is annoying and makes your site look lopsided.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
The scrollbox with your link back scrolls sideways, and squishing the letters on your headers together makes it slightly uncomfortable to read in some places--cleaning looks like deaning.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
As I stated in first impression, putting so much content in the sidebar makes your site look lopsided. I would suggest putting everything below updates in the main area, except perhaps tips, and putting "contact us" and your sitely information in the sidebar. Finally, I would prefer a header image that wasn't quite as high, but it isn't too bad.

Content
{20/25}
In your sidebar, you should separate items considered junk and users who wish for junk with a header. If you have a rule that is flatly "no begging for items," then there's really no need to specify that people may not beg for items using the site or guild name. Also, looking at your trades, I would suggest putting only one item in each trade rather than three: the items in your Trash Collector trades are basically junk even if they aren't on your official junk list, which I would suggest expanding to include more useless 1 NP items, even if they don't seem like junk--like Golden Moon Comb, Mallard Balloon, Greedy Kadoatie Piggy Bank, and Lucky Bone Necklace, just to name a few that are currently rotting in my shop. To return to the point about the trades, giving people three more junk items doesn't help them clean out their inventories that much. For people trying to get rid of their junk, trades with only one item are much more appealing.

Grammar
{17/20}
In your second paragraph, "the" doesn't need to be capitalized. I would strongly suggest capitalizing usernames when they begin sentences, although it would be even better to use a nickname and link to the user's lookup. The first sentence in your tips section is pretty awkward; I would suggest rewording it to something like, "You can easily help by using the Shop Wizard..." Contractions such as "it's" and "that's" need apostrophes. For your rules, I would suggest formatting the numbers as "1." instead of "1-," and you don't really need to number your requirement when there's only one. Also, official is misspelled in your requirement. Your sentence declaring your compliance with TNT's rules has an extra "to" and "the": it should read "We agree with all the rules TNT has set." Under your second warning, you need to put "be" in front of told and asked; the way you have it now, if you put the actions with the subject, it would read "You will told..." and "You will asked..." In your third warning, "you're" should be your. The sentence above the form for getting listed as a person who collects a certain item is very awkward; something like "Listing junk collectors: open" or just "We are now listing junk collectors" would read better.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I'm not really sure how to qualify the usefulness of your site. I would suggest referring to the Project: Clean Up Neopia! guild a little less; it's just slightly off-putting to a non-member for your site to be so closely intertwined with a guild. I'm not saying that you shouldn't be involved with the guild, but perhaps put one small section about it on the sidebar rather than referring to it in almost every section of your site? (And I agree with the statement in your updates that a guild based on your site may not work: it's not that the idea is faulty, but your site is already involved with the Project: Clean Up Neopia! guild, so another one isn't really necessary.)

Other
{7/10}
The scrollbox for your link backs sidescrolls, and as a review site owner and a directory owner, I find the way you've put reviews and directories in the same category annoying. They're very different things and you really shouldn't lump them together. Also, I see in your reviews and listers section at least two directories that I know are closed (Dictionary and Meepits Are Love). Finally, one of the main purposes of updates is to show people how often you work on your site so that they can get an idea of how soon they can expect a response on anything they send you, so updates without dates are fairly useless.

Total: 84/100

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Rowlier's Guide to Neopia

First Impression
{8/10}
Just at a glance, there is way too much all-caps text on your site. Capitalized links work for some sites, but not for sites that have a lot of links, like yours. Also, it seems odd that your font varies from section to section. I would suggest picking one font (preferably the one in your main area) and sticking with it throughout the site.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
Your navigation, with bright pink on dark grey, is very painful on the eyes. Also, the avatars link doesn't lead anywhere, and you don't actually seem to have an avatar section.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
A three-column layout is not the best choice for a long dailies page. I would suggest instead having a scrolling main area and a sidebar with navigation, or one column and a floating sidebar with navigation--something so that people have constant access to the navigation. Also, your layout seems unbalanced because the left sidebar is longer than the main area or the right sidebar.

Content
{21/25}
Trying to stuff every link in Neopia onto one page just makes your page cluttered and difficult to use. There's an entire Neopets.com website for that. I would strongly suggest instead focusing on important and useful links. This means you should remove the "Worlds" section because most of those links are ones that people rarely use. I would suggest keeping some of the more useful links, like the Hidden Tower and the Neggery, in their own section. The Boards and Contests sections of your site are also very unnecessary because TNT has provided us with pages that list all of these links in one place. You seem to have stuffed links in random places in some instances--the Remember When? link is just in the sidebar with no explanation, and the "Protected by the Neopets Police" button doesn't really belong under counter. I would also recommend removing the button here placeholders from your directory, as they just make your site look unfinished, and getting rid of the letters that there are no sites for: there is no site category starting with X, so you are never going to have sites there. Since the Advent Calendar is a seasonal daily, I would suggest removing its link from the main dailies section and instead moving it to the Advent section on the sidebar. Many of your links are also ambiguous; for example, putting "help" under plot makes me assume that you're linking to a guide that will actually help, not TNT's FAQ. Also, you have two Altadorian Archives links and one of them isn't actually a link.

Grammar
{11/20}
Your grammar needs a lot of work. There are too many mistakes for me to list here, so I'll just point out some rules that you appear to have ignored: possessives (like Rowlier's) need to have an apostrophe before the S; contractions, like it's and what's, also require apostrophes. The first letters of sentences need to be capitalized, and sentences need to end with punctuation marks. You need to have spaces after commas. Proper nouns, like Altador, need to be capitalized, but non-proper nouns in the middle of sentences, like ticket, don't. Acronyms for currencies should be capitalized (i.e. NP, NC) and set off from the amount of the currency with a space. (K is an exception to this since it's not a currency; it can be written like 1k.) Headers like "Avatar info" are not sentences and so do not need ending punctuation. "Newbieguide" and "Berrybash" should be two words, and Neovia only has one N in it.

Usefulness
{8/10}
As I stated earlier, your page is rather cluttered. Stuffing so much content into small sidebars (in the case of your left sidebar, in apparently random order) makes it rather difficult to use. Sidebars are better used to contain navigation and sitely information, not your entire directory.

Other
{8/10}
I would suggest adding a form to get listed in your directory, as this makes it easier for people to get listed, and linking to your lookup where you state your username. You also don't have my button anywhere.

Total: 77/100

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The Express

First Impression
{8/10}
Well, first, I can tell that your site is still under construction because the banner is clearly part of the premade petpage. Your site seems a little... minimal. There isn't much information; your rules link leads to a 404 error, and your welcome is very brief.

Layout part 1
{12/15}
None of your navigation works. Your first header is very hard on the eyes, as it is light blue against white, and your text areas are also impossible and positively painful to read.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
I've never been very fond of one-column layouts, but I particularly don't like yours because it's so pastel and colorless. It's very drab. I would suggest adding floating navigation on one side of the page so that users don't have to scroll all the way to the top of they want to use the navigation. It also seems a little odd that some of your links (the "Vibe" link in your credits and your last two navigation links) are a different font from the others.

Content
{21/25}
You have some pretty nice pets up for adoption--I particularly like Nubhia's name. It seems to me that you could use some more information on the pets, though: do they have deadlines? Do the pets who aren't owned by you have separate rules pages? Then I'd suggest linking to them. Also, if Nymhle is on hold for someone, I would suggest removing him from the list of pets up for adoption. I would suggest organizing your pets somehow: I would suggest by species, but you can also try by color or by name. This will make it a lot easier for people who already have an idea of what kind of pet they want to find them. And under contact, instead of stating the owner's name and then putting a Neomail envelope, why don't you just link the owner's name to their Neomail?

Grammar
{17/20}
A forum is an exchange of ideas; I think you want people to fill out forms and Neomail them. I don't think that the pets have addresses or phone numbers, so I wouldn't say that a link to Neomail their owners is under their "contact info"; I think it's just info. When offering to put UFA pets on your page, I would suggest using the word "list" instead of "host." Link, back, button, closed, listers, and added are not proper nouns, and so they don't need to be capitalized in your updates. Your updates also should have ending punctuation. In your credits, pixel doesn't need to be capitalized and I would strongly suggest writing out "and" instead of using an ampersand.

Usefulness
{9/10}
Your welcome leaves me unsure whether you would permit people to apply with a petpage application, or if I could list pets here if I accept petpage applications, since you only say to send Neomail applications. This would probably be something to clarify in a rules section, but you don't seem to have one, although you have a malfunctioning navigation link to it.

Other
{7/10}
I would suggest removing the button here templates from your sitely section; they make your site look unfinished (not as much as the template banner, though). Also, I'd recommend putting your navigation in the same order that the sections are on the page (i.e. Pets UFA, Adopted, Sitely); it makes more sense that way. Also, you don't have my button anywhere.

Total: 82/100

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Very Berry

First Impression
{9/10}
To be honest... I tend to associate this template with lower-quality sites because I see such sites using it a lot. I don't like it very much.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Your counter isn't working, but I'm going to assume it's a problem with the counter site since mine isn't either. Bangalore is not the most legible or attractive font to use for your options, at least in my opinion.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Well, first is something that you can probably predict if you've read some of my previous reviews: I wish the entire layout fit onto the page without having to scroll. Anyway, the background of your layout is beautifully customized--I particularly like how well the text stands out. However, I would suggest using a slightly larger font for the "buttons by Christine" text so that the red background doesn't seem to be overwhelming the white text. Also, I'm not very fond of the scrolling navigation, and the centered header two doesn't appeal to me--have you tried right-aligning it?

Content
{22/25}
Well, I've already said that I don't like Bangalore, but you also have some nice fonts that I find more legible. I would suggest making the boxes in Sidebar a little larger, so that the "sidebar" area is as tall as the rest of the button, and in Dashed make the dashes closer to the edge of the image--more like the Show Biz special border. Also, I think I would prefer your Bump Up/Down animation if it were a little slower. Beyond that, in some of the gradient-bordered text (like your Elephante Extravaganza and Simple Shields) the white text against the lighter end of the gradient is a little uncomfortable to read, and I find the Delia's Designs button a little hard to read--not sure whether that's because of the font or because of the color of the border.

Grammar
{17/20}
Under "December Site Spotlight," coming needs to be capitalized, and preferably should be ended with a period, as should the statement in your coming soon section. In your rules, I would strongly suggest using bolding or italics for emphasis instead of capital letters. "Use your manners" needs ending punctuation, and thank you is not a proper noun and so does not need to be capitalized. It's unnecessary to bold something and surround it with asterisks, as asterisks are usually taken to mean bolding. In the sentence describing options for the Shooting Star special border, you should use either also or instead--not both. Borders is not a proper noun and so does not need to be capitalized when you talk about the special ones. Dashes are usually used to express "to" or "through" with numbers, so I would suggest saying "oldest to newest" in your portfolio. Coding base is not a proper noun and so does not need to be capitalized, but the names of the sites where you found images are, so they do need to be capitalized. Only one question mark is needed to convey your curiosity about what the "coming soon" section could be meant to contain (and you may have given it away by mentioning that you make "buttons and banners" in your rules... or maybe not, but either way it seems like it should only be buttons).

Usefulness
{8/10}
Your first rule seems to imply to me that you put some kind of credit on graphics in the pick up, but looking at the codes of the buttons that are there, I see no such thing. I would suggest rewording that rule to something more like, "Credit me for the button." Also, I would recommend moving the options into the request section so that people can look at them while they fill out their form--having to go back and forth just isn't fun.

Other
{9/10}
In my opinion, your updates would look nicer if you wrote them "Pixel, date, info," instead of "Date, pixel, info." Or if you're going to put the same pixel for every update, you could just put one in the upper left corner of the updates box. In your welcome, your counter looks odd because the rest of the welcome is shifted to the side by the Feepit image but it isn't--I'd recommend either removing the image or putting the counter on the same line as the Club Sugarlet button.

Total: 87/100

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Lunascope

First Impression
{9/10}
I love the glow in the background of your layout, it's beautiful and fits very well with your layout. However, I would suggest moving your layout up some so that the user doesn't have to scroll down to view the navigation.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
The colored text in your "Me" section is very difficult to read, particularly your favorite foods, where you were born, and where you live now. Your italic text is also a little uncomfortable to read--it's too close to the background color--and your go back signs are too bright for comfort; the white text is hard to read against the bright blue outline.

Layout part 2
{10/10}
The only comment that I have here is that I would suggest using a different font for your navigation--Times New Roman doesn't really seem to fit your layout (if your navigation is actually not Times New Roman, it means that I don't have the font you use, and I would still suggest using a different font, though not as urgently). Oh, and I'm not fond of the fact that when you hover over links they look exactly the same as normal text.

Content
{21/25}
Your animations are jerky: Six is too fast, Three is too slow, and they're all just a little headache-inducing. I would suggest eliminating the slow and medium speeds for animations, as fast is the only one that looks somewhat smooth, and getting rid of the flashier animations, or at least Five. In my opinion, Technology and Pixelpoiiz are very difficult to read, and I would not recommend using them. One of the images in your portfolio--one of your resources--is broken, and in my opinion it isn't necessary to put your best viewed in buttons in your portfolio, as they're elsewhere on your site. I would suggest using a darker green in your green resources; the color you have is so bright that it's hard to read the text on the buttons. I like your border nine but I think I would like it even more if the spikes didn't dig quite as far into the button. In your pick up, the white-on-light-green of the first button's animation is painful and impossible to read.

Grammar
{18/20}
You need punctuation to end sentences even when you use smileys after them. In your "Me" section, I would strongly suggest separating your likes and dislikes--preferably putting them in vertical lists, or even in a table. The way you currently have them listed is simply painful. When you talk about how talented Josephine is, I would suggest using "highly" or "very" instead of heartily.

Usefulness
{8/10}
I would suggest putting your "Me" section under Extras and giving your resources your own section in the navigation: the way you currently have it set up, people have to go through basically every link in your site to even find out that you have resources. "You must use the button I make for you" is a fairly unenforceable rule, and not a very smart one. What are you going to do if they stop, never make a button for them again? If their site closes or changes its name are you going to insist that they continue to use an outdated button? Having to view your portfolio on another page is a little annoying.

Other
{9/10}
I find it somewhat interesting that you won't make buttons for other button request sites, but the majority of your buttons are made by other sites. It's not really necessary to both link buttons for credit and list button credits in your credits section, but I'm not about to scold you for giving credit. I am, however, unsure of the significance of the arrows in your headers. They look like they're intended to be back buttons, but they don't link anywhere. If they're just there for random decoration, I would suggest using a less confusing adornment.

Total: 88/100

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Dixiefied

First Impression
{9/10}
I would strongly suggest shortening your layout and bringing it to the top of the page. It's fairly annoying to have to scroll down to see the text and then scroll through the text.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
I don't think your "people online_ counter works, since I'm on your site and it says "0 people online_ " Also, part of the "You've just been Dixiefied" text on your layout is difficult to read because it's white on bright blue, and in some sections I can see the start of the next section at the bottom of the page.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Besides what I mentioned in First Impression, I would recommend that you change the font used for your navigation--and perhaps the style of your navigation--as it is both a little hard to read and doesn't look good. Also, you may want to change the font of your underlined text, as most users consider Comic Sans to be unprofessional.

Content
{19/25}
Your banners are very nice, but your buttons need a lot of work. Most of them are the wrong size--most sites now only use 88x31 buttons, but all but one of your buttons are other sizes. You also need to work on the text--try using fonts that are better suited to buttons, like Redensek, and using smoother, subtler animations. In your "Spooky Halloween" lookup, some of the titles of the sections are hard to read against the patterns in the background, and when I preview it on my lookup, all of my user info is bolded. The Pet Central drop-down menu shows up behind the "Newest" avatar, and the size of the scrollbox for the trophies is ridiculously small, especially considering that you have a much larger box allotted for them. In your Quiet Fall lookup, the font used for the titles, while pretty, is a little difficult to read: "About me" looks like "Efbout me," and "Shop & Gallery" is just hard to make out--being vertical can't help with that. Also, when I preview it on my own lookup, its appearance varies from your screenie in two ways: the navigation is higher--almost sticking out of the box you've allotted for it; the navigation is a little high on all of your lookups when I preview them--and all of the user info is italic. When I hover over the navigation, the drop down menus drop behind the about me text, making it impossible to click on the "Redeem Code" link. My pets look kind of squished over to the right side of that box, and again you have the trophies squeezed into an extremely tiny scrollbox. In your Beautiful Asia lookup, the underlined text is a little hard to read, and I would suggest saying "Layout and coding by /~Gwaiyn" or "Layout and coding by [your username]" so that if someone removes the credit from the lookup, people can find you to tell you--Dixiefied is not something they can search. Your word pins are a little plain, and it seems like they should be white instead of grey, but your image pins are very nice--the main comment I'd have is that on the first one I would suggest moving the "I" closer to the "lyke kokonuttz" and preferably make it the same size as the "lyke," so that it looks like part of the text instead of a random line. Your shields seem a little rough; the white dots on the edges really detract from them, and on the Earth shield, I can't tell whether you intended for there to be leafy tendrils or if you just accidentally clicked while drawing something green, leaving random spots above the shield--and honestly, it looks more like the latter.

Grammar
{17/20}
Graphics is not a proper noun and so does not need to be capitalized. You don't need more than one exclamation point to show excitement, either. In your rules three to six, you need a space between the number and the rule, and in rule two you need a space between "requests" and the opening parenthesis. In rule one, you need a comma before "huh." "Hate mail is not appreciated" isn't really a rule, as rules are orders that one is meant to follow (this makes "Follow all the rules" an extremely redundant rule as well). This is just a statement. A rule would be "Don't send hate mail." In pins, there should be a space between "Text:" and the opening parenthesis, and in Shields there should be a space after the colon after link.

Usefulness
{7/10}
Providing images without codes makes them inaccessible for the majority of the Neopian public--people who either cannot code or would rather not and so will go use someone else's graphics. The coding for the pins may be fairly basic, but I honestly don't know how to code a shield. Also, the description of your art leaves me unsure whether or not you want the general public to use it. The fact that it's on your graphics site where almost everything else is for others' use seems to imply that it is, but the "mine and mine alone" part of your description makes me doubt it. Personally, I find it a little ridiculous to ask people to Neomail you whenever they change your coding--does that mean that I have to send you a message if I decide to change it to accommodate the fact that my side account doesn't have a shop? As a last suggestion, you may want to put your request forms in textareas so that people can copy them more easily.

Other
{7/10}
In your sitely section, I can't tell whether you're crediting Nienkju's Premades for resources, or are just recommending it for resources. I'd also suggest that you get more and nicer link back buttons, especially as the ones you have are 88x33 pixels and 86x29 pixels instead of standard size. And I'd recommend that you link to your lookup somewhere on your site, preferably where you introduce yourself. Also, you don't link to me anywhere, as required by my rules..

Total: 80/100
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Rejects

First Impression
{9/10}
I'm not that fond of the abundance of rather bright yellow in your background, and I have another concern about your layout that I'll address in a moment.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable, but for some reason your link to Stormed showed up as blue before I clicked on it.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
I wish you'd gone without the image under your text box, or at least made it smaller, as it adds a scrollbar that's a little annoying. If you don't want to modify your image, you could also fix this by moving your content areas closer to the top of the page, which would also keep the page from jumping down whenever one uses a navigation link.

Content
{21/25}
Normally I only mention things that need fixing in my reviews, but I'm impressed by the way you'd spliced together not-very-related images in your banner bases so that it looks like they could be one image (e.g., that giant orange Chia whose name escapes me and the Darigan Acara look like they're actually reacting to each others' actions, the Alien Aisha seems to be fleeing the space fungus). On a couple, though, the textures seem too bright and obvious for my tastes--namely, the Faerie Bubbles, Roo Island, and sailor Neopets banner bases. While brightened images and heavy textures look good on smaller icons or buttons, on full-sized banners I find them a little overwhelming. A couple of the textures used on your button bases make the images look low-quality: specifically on the one with the Green Wocky and the one with the Usuki Usul. Your ninth button here placeholder is a little hard to read, and I'm really not fond of the square effect used on the first two banners in your pick up.

Grammar
{19/20}
You're missing periods after a couple sentences in your sitely section, and I would recommend reworking your first sentence to read "a site started by Erica on 10.10.2010." I spotted a couple more mistakes in your updates, but all in all your grammar is excellent--although I would suggest using some kind of formatting instead of asterisks for emphasis when you explain the order of your affiliates.

Usefulness
{9/10}
Your site would be much easier to navigate if you would label the navigation links with the name of the area they lead to instead of with a number. Also, I would like to see a more complete set of guidelines about what you do and don't want people doing with your graphics. Are you okay with people using your bases for banners and icons they will redistribute, or do you just want them to use them to make graphics for their personal use? Since you don't specify these things, I probably wouldn't be comfortable making premade icons out of your bases, even if you mean them for that use. On the other hand, if you don't mean them for that use, many people probably would see nothing wrong with making and redistributing premades from your bases because you don't say not to.

Other
{10/10}
Although it's not a necessity, I would suggest linking to your lookup somewhere on your site--if not in your welcome where you introduce yourself, then perhaps in your credits where you say "Layout by me," or in both places.

Total: 92/100 Congratulations! You've been deemed a palm tree. Come pick up your award!

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Elle's Help Guide

First Impression
{9/10}
Nice banner! I don't, however, like having to scroll down to see the entire text box. That's a pet peeve of mine with anchored layouts or layouts with scrolling divs.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
Your bold, all-caps links might be okay if you owned a CSS or graphics site, but in a directory with lots of links, they're eye-burning. I'm also not very fond of the light-purple-against-light-blue combination of your headers, and I would suggest not using your third header in the sitely section because it's so small--it doesn't really look like a title.

Content
{20/25}
I didn't look through all your links, but Vanilla PB Adoptables is now a default petpage; the page you have labeled "Adopt a Usual" actually seems to call itself "Adopt an Usul"; you're missing a break between your guides for the Attack of the Slorgs and the Buzzer Game; your first shield site is "Fresh Unique Shields"; the site you have labeled "Kutekreations" is, according to its banner, "Krazy Kute Kreations"; the directory after Laundry List is "Lemon vs. Lime," not "Lemon vs. Lemon"; and you link to Celeluna's adoptables twice. I would suggest putting makeables in a separate subcategory from adoptables, and avatar lending pages in a separate subcategory from pages that tell you how to get avatars. It's pretty unnecessary to call a site "Pixel Wave Premades" or "Gume Premades" in the premades section, so unless that's part of the site name (which, looking at the sites, it doesn't seem to be) I'd suggest dropping it. You also might want to try adding bullets beside the site names so that it's more apparent when a name takes two lines that the second line is part of the previous site name instead of another site. BC guides really do not belong under "Clothing" because, despite its name, the Beauty Contest is about art, not clothes. I would suggest dividing pet directories into directories that list pets by color and directories that list pets by species.

Grammar
{16/20}
In directories, "pixels" is misspelled. You seem to have repeated problems with capitalization and punctuation: it is unnecessary to capitalize words in the middle of a sentence but they must always be capitalized if they are the first word in one, and, except when denoting the thousands or millions place in a number, you need spaces after commas and colons. There's no need for a comma in the header "Get Listed," and your first sentence is run-on; there should be a period and the beginning of a new sentence after "Elle." The first sentence in your credits is also run-on, and should stop and begin a new sentence after the date.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I would suggest adding notes beside the pages, like Lovely Plushie and Wonderland Lays, that are not in English. You seem to have these notes for some pages (Lumos, for example) but not others. Instead of adding a sentence with a link to your lookup at the end of your welcome, why don't you just have your name be a link to your lookup?

Other
{10/10}
I'd suggest setting icon-sized awards and button-sized awards off from each other with a line break.

Total: 86/100

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Katie's Help Page

First Impression
{8/10}
I am not very fond of all-pink, all-bold text, or the way your banner is animated.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Besides looking very ugly, the yellow-on-grey of your navigation is a little painful on the eyes.

Layout part 2
{6/10}
Between the large amount of grey in your layout and the fact that you only have one, narrow column and a small navigation box, your layout looks very drab and empty. The yellow-on-grey of your navigation box's links also looks really, really bad.

Content
{18/25}
I think your site's name is a bit of a misnomer. A help page is a guide that helps you do something; your site is a directory of pages that you think are helpful--and I would suggest explaining that in your welcome. In your links, there's a big difference between CSS and graphics, and Soroptimist, Little Black Book, and TNC are neither. I would strongly suggest just labeling your CSS tutorials section "CSS tutorials" instead of placing an entire paragraph in the header. In your CSS tutorials, it would also be a good idea to distinguish between pages, like Kitty's Coding Help, that have not updated for filter changes, which can make layouts created by following their advice completely unusable. Kaxian's HTML for Beginners is by its very name an HTML guide, so you shouldn't label it a CSS tutorial, and the last link in your CSS tutorials section is also an HTML guide. Most of the pages you have in "other" are guides, as the section is labeled in your navigation, but others aren't; I would strongly suggest separating it into "Other guides" and "Miscellaneous" or "Other sites." Precious Jewels, Radiance, your Typing Terror guide, the Packrat Hills, Spring Snow Fonts, Kelly's Fonts, ABC, Amber's Pixels and Impulse have closed. TNC tells people about NP wearables, not NC items and wearables. Rejects does not have welcome or "sorry, we're closed" banners, or at least I couldn't find them.

Grammar
{18/20}
Your site is full of fragments, like "If your rude or snobby"--for one thing, that should be you're--that should be part of the sentence before them. The first sentence of your welcome is run-on; it should end after "Page." Feedback is one word. Pages that teach people CSS are tutorials, not editorials, and you want to ask people for their patience, not patients, unless you want doctors to send you their visitors. The sentence under Gin's Dailies and Popular Links makes little sense; neither does the one under Kissmoto's 100k a day. The former should read more along the lines of "This guide also gives you the daily puzzle answer and tells you whether Tarla is here"; the latter should read "This site is used for earning easy and fast Neopoints; it is a daily guide and also has the game ratios." Job is not a proper noun, so it doesn't need to be capitalized; the things made by Foomanshu are also not proper nouns.

Usefulness
{8/10}
I don't find your site that useful. It's basically a difficult-to-move-through directory with few sites. You'd have some more usefulness if you filtered your sites to only list the best of the truly helpful sites, but you don't seem to have done that, since your page is full of inactive, closed, unhelpful--Quizmania, in addition to being inactive, is not particularly "helpful"--or just not very high-quality sites. Also, your "Add my site" field doesn't make it very apparent whether the form is to ask to be listed on your page or to ask to be affiliates. I eventually deduced that it was the former, but it should really be "Add your site," since you're asking your visitor to get their site listed.

Other
{7/10}
There are no links on several of your link back buttons, making them fairly useless; I'd also suggest reorganizing them into a neater format and moving the scattered credits into your credits section. Your "big thank you" would also do better in your credits section, and I have absolutely no idea why you have Scratch and Sniff under reviews. For one thing, it's closed, but what really puzzles me is that even when it was open it was not a review site in any way.

Total: 79/100

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Granger's Layouts

First Impression
{9/10}
The large "taking a break" image is pretty annoying. It's much larger than it needs to be and the animation is pretty unnecessary and distracting.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
The header in which you write "Granger's Layouts" is a little plain. Other than that, there are no problems with your layout.

Content
{17/25}
Most of your graphics look like you took an image made by someone else and slapped on text or scribbles in Paint. Your icons are grainy; the Koaloe icon's text is hard to read, and the scribbles behind the Baby Lupe are pointless and distracting. Your shields, again, look like you copied and pasted two images together in MS Paint, put on text, and used the fill tool to create a background. The Mew image is covered with random pink spots and there are white blotches around the text. The guild logo you created is too large for a guild logo--they are required to be 100x100 pixels, so the person using it would have to resize it. In the image for the guild layout, the Fire Faerie in the upper right hand corner is really, really messed up, as is the Dark Faerie beside the lower textbox. The fact that you credit another site for your guild layout and say that you just did "alterations" makes me strongly suspect that your guild layout is basically another site's code with your image--which is mostly copied-and-pasted Neopets images--put in.

Grammar
{17/20}
In the credit for your guild layout, your site seems to have changed its name from "Granger's Layouts" to "Granger Layouts." The people from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are called Oompa Loompas. You need a space between "T.V.," and "songs" in your description of quote icons. It would be a good idea to use "want to" instead of "wanna." The following things are not proper nouns and so do not need to be capitalized: form, songs, books, under construction, pink, white, look, and bright. In your rules, you need a space between the number of the rule and the rule itself.

Usefulness
{7/10}
Your site is not very clear about whether anyone may use the graphics on it. One of your icons is obviously a custom, and your shields are stated to be so; these would imply that only the requesters can use them. But you have the codes up, they aren't in any kind of pick up section, and you don't label them "for such-and-such," which would seem to imply that anyone can use them. Also, in the credits for your guild layout you need to link back to your site, and I would strongly suggest including some kind of credit in the codes for your shields--maybe just put "Shield by Granger's Layouts" outside the CSS.

Other
{7/10}
I would strongly suggest moving your link backs to the sidebar and introducing yourself as Granger at some point, preferably with a link to your lookup. It isn't really necessary to explain that you aren't paying your co-owner, or that your co-owner is a good friend--not many people would make a site with a complete stranger. Instead of doing that, I would suggest specifying each person's role. You also don't have my button anywhere.

Total: 81/100

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Hourglass CSS

First Impression
{9/10}
I would prefer to see a shorter banner and either a non-scrolling layout or a layout where you could see the entire text box without scrolling down.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Everything works, but your underlined text is difficult to read because of its color.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
As I said earlier, your banner seems kind of tall, and I don't like having to scroll down to see the whole textbox and then having to scroll through the textbox. Also, I would suggest changing your formatting so that bold and linked text doesn't look exactly the same, as that's confusing and at a glance makes it look like you have an offsite link in your credits.

Content
{21/25}
When I preview your Lollipop layout on a petpage, it lacks the orange, pink, and red squares displayed in your preview image. In your Peppermint Dreams layout, the title and the credit link are a little hard to read. In your Fairy Couture layout the italic text is hard to read. In your "The Glitter in Your Eyes" layout, I would suggest adding hover effects to the links to make it a little more clear that they are links once the user changes the text from "Link here" to whatever they want. In your Dull Afternoon layout, the navigation box scrolls, and all of the navigation links are on top of each other. In your Ice Cream Truck petpage layout, the "pages" are a few pixels too wide for the container div. Although I like some of your layouts, others really don't appeal to me: I'm not very fond of tiny textboxes and colorless backgrounds. Your Kat Von D icon also looks just a little bit pixelized.

Grammar
{20/20}
The third paragraph of your welcome doesn't need a comma after "(which was soon transformed into Hollywood CSS)." That was the only problem I found, though I didn't go through your updates.

Usefulness
{10/10}
You have no problems with usefulness.

Other
{8/10}
I find the random paragraph about how you dislike competitiveness in sites in your welcome rather off-putting... and I doubt you came back "last month" and started Hourglass, since your last update is from almost two months ago. I would also strongly suggest doing a sweep for closed affies and directories, particularly directories, as I see in your directory section at least three that I know have closed, and you have a broken image in each area.

Total: 90/100

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Named With Style

First Impression
{9/10}
Your banner is pretty, but it looks a bit like it's been stuffed into the rather narrow box--it seems like it could be larger. Also, the number of all-capital statements in your welcome is slightly daunting.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
Everything works, but your italic and bold text is hard to read, and the bold-on-light-pink that you use for the "User Names" headers is almost impossible to read.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
The only issue I have with your layout that if it was just a little bit shorter, you could eliminate the whole-page scrollbar, the presence of which is a bit of a pet peeve of mine on anchored or scrolling layouts.

Content
{20/25}
To be honest, I'm not very fond of many of your names. Some of them, like Decitt and Javeric, are really nice, but others are full of strange repeated letters (Ahhnu, Uuvilla), unpronounceable consonant combinations (Chzaria, Hxiexie), and simply awkward, tongue-twisting sounds (Doopleleonev, Erariah, Migligeh). I wouldn't ask you to remove these altogether, because they're still decent names, but I'd suggest categorizing these names as lower-quality or second-tier, in their own section, and focusing on coming up with more really nice names like Sellanio. I'd also suggest removing the pronunciations: if someone can't pronounce a name without help, I doubt they're going to want to use it, and people who do like a name are going to pronounce it the way they want. Also, in a couple cases, like that of Ebbiltast and Circumive, I'd find the actual name easier to pronounce than your pronunciation guide.

Grammar
{17/20}
Your grammar is mostly good, but I spotted a lot of missing spaces, and you seem to use caps for emphasis where italics or bolding would be easier on the eyes (assuming that you changed your italic and bold text to be legible). Also, I would strongly suggest writing out "and" instead of using an ampersand. It seems a little odd that you write "petnames" as one word under Helpers, when throughout the rest of the site you put it as two words. Under link backs, buttons should be capitalized, as it's the beginning of a sentence, and that sentence also needs to be ended. The same is true under reviews.

Usefulness
{7/10}
I find it rather strange that your naming guide, an important part of your site, is not linked to in the navigation--instead your have a completely superfluous "good-bye" link that's actually rather annoying, as newcomers to your site may click on it assuming that you have some kind of closing message when it actually removes them from your site. I checked the names in the first two sections, and I spotted a few that had been taken (Lelaaahh, Ailluh, Octics), but not too many. I'd suggest focusing on creating more names, as you don't really seem to have that many.

Other
{7/10}
I'd suggest removing the "User Name" header in sections where you don't have any usernames, as its presence is a tad confusing. The random white spaces in your sitely sections (between the lines of your link backs, under listed at, and under reviews) look strange. Also, try organizing your awards by size--the button-sized award first, then on a separate line the icon-sized awards, then on a separate line the banner sized award. I think that would help your award section look a lot neater.

Total: 82/100

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Turn Up the AC

First Impression
{9/10}
Your banner is a bit blurry and the Altador Cup icon in your background looks a little rough.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
I would find reading your site's text more comfortable if it were a little larger and/or a little darker. The text that seems to be used for your second header (as in "Cup Dos and Don'ts") is almost too small for me to read. Your "The Teams" section sidescrolls because the Haunted Woods banner is too large for the section. When I hit "Apply for staff," I can see the first few pixels of the sitely section; the same thing occurs when I go to "Ranks and Rewards" or "Updates": I can see the first few pixels of the next section.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Your sidebar scrolls for apparently no reason, and I would prefer your layout if it was just a little shorter--so that I didn't have to scroll down to see the full scrollbox.

Content
{18/25}
I think the second half of your first paragraph would do better in a section devoted to the AC's history, and this content doesn't seem to have been updated for the latest cup--you say that Brightvale sat out in the last cup, but they sat out two cups ago, in the ACIV. When you talk about settings for Yooyuball, you don't really explain what 1+3, 3+1, and 2+2 mean. In your section on teams, it's not very apparent whether you're really talking about the teams or the chatgroups associated with them. I would suggest including a picture of the team's logo and shortening the interviews, as having to scroll through that much text is just daunting. For example, in the Altador team description, the second two paragraphs are fairly superfluous, as they don't even talk about the team. I don't think your blurbs should be any longer than the Kreludor one, and maybe even shorter. "Don't make fun of them [other teams] if they lose or insult them if they win" and "Don't bash/flame other teams" kind of seem like the same things. Your section on superstitions also doesn't seem to be updated to include data from the ACV.

Grammar
{16/20}
You have repeated problems with capitalization and ending sentences, and you should really proofread your interviews before you put them up. Also, there is no need to use slashes for emphasis on a petpage where you can use formatting.

Usefulness
{8/10}
Your petpage would be useful during the Altador Cup, considerably less so throughout the rest of the year.

Other
{8/10}
The text in your games section varies from left-aligned to centered, seemingly randomly. I'd also strongly suggest rearranging your buttons so that viewers don't need to scroll through a long list of buttons.

Total: 80/100

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The Lightning Directory

First Impression
{9/10}
One of the things I notice at first is that your page looks honestly more "bumblebee" than "lightning." When I think of lightning I picture bright blue or yellow and black, not pastel yellow and grey.

Layout part 1
{12/15}
I would suggest making your text a bit darker--it's a little uncomfortable to try to read. Also, several of your sections, like Adoption Agencies and Directories, scroll both sideways and vertically when there's really no reason for them to scroll. Under "Customs," your first button request site is on top of the header for that subsection. Some of your subsections, like Listed At, have enough content to scroll but don't.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Apart from the thing I mentioned under First Impression, I would suggest adding hover effects to your links, both navigation and normal. Also, you may want to change the formatting for your bolded text--it looks just like your links, which is a little confusing.

Content
{16/25}
The "Button here" signs in your top five recommended sites make your site look rather unfinished, especially in categories where you have more than five sites (the large amounts of "Coming soon!" statements in your site also make it look unfinished). I'd suggest changing top five recommended sites to just top recommended sites and listing as many sites as you think should be top recommended. You don't have many sites listed, and the fact that you haven't updated in over two months makes me suspect that your directory has several broken links. Just at a glance, Apple Blossoms has closed, To the Past is gone, Insomniac has moved, Zoom Zoom is closed, your Capt Jack's Music listing just isn't linked... directories require a lot of updating and link-sweeping to keep a decent roster of sites, and you don't seem to have done that.

Grammar
{18/20}
You've misspelled "Sticky" when you credit Sticky's Goodies for the bullets, and bullet doesn't need to be capitalized. You only need one question mark to ask people to vote for you, and the caret there is also kind of unnecessary--I think most viewers are going to be able to figure out that you want them to vote at the SOTM. You need a space between Coruscation and (icons).

Usefulness
{6/10}
Your site needs more links and to update more often to be very useful.

Other
{10/10}
Since I spotted several on-hiatus sites when looking through your links, I'd suggest that you add a symbol or marker for sites that are on hiatus. It also seems a little odd that your affies, buttons, and reviews have interesting, weather-related names, but the directories you're listed at and your awards don't. I won't take points off for either of these, though.

Total: 80/100

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Frozen's Graphics

First Impression
{8/10}
For some reason there's a white line at the bottom of your site, as if your layout wants to put a sideways scrollbar there but doesn't have anywhere to scroll. The combination of dark red and black makes your layout seem kind of dark, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Something jumps out at me about your welcome, though: you say that every banner code has a banner attached... well, it'd have to, or it wouldn't be a banner code, would it? At first glance it seems like you mean it has a link attached, but then looking in more detail I realize that you have a link back button in your banner codes. I'll come back to that in the Usefulness section, but I'd suggest saying "button" instead of "banner" there, to avoid confusion.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
The weird white bar at the bottom of the screen makes me suspect that something's wrong with your coding.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
As I said earlier, your layout is rather dark. I'm not going to take issue with that, however. What I dislike is the random black line going across the screen under the banner--it just seems out of place. I'd also prefer your layout if it were shorter and I didn't have to scroll to see the entire scrollbox, and I'm not very fond of the dark pink on red navigation.

Content
{17/25}
I'd suggest experimenting a little more with effects in your banners--a lot of them look like you've taken pictures, put text on, maybe put in some lines or a random glowing area, and called it a banner. The text on a few of your banners, like the "Great 1,001 Neopoint Deals" one, also looks kind of rough. I think a lot of your Death Note icons would do better with borders. A couple of your shields have the same rough text as the banners, and the Cazar one's R is cut off. The "Friend," "Restocker," and "Evil Agent" shields seem a little rough and pixelly in places. In your adoptables, some of the darker colors have white outlines inside of the black outlines, which I'd suggest you get rid of (if you're using a program like Seashore that does it automatically, try upping the tolerance on your bucket tool... if you can find it). The outlines on your Gelert, Kougra, and Zafara adoptables are a little rough, and those adoptables don't seem to be shaded, which makes them look a good bit worse than your other adoptables.

Grammar
{17/20}
I spotted quite a few unnecessary commas. I also saw several places where you didn't end a sentence because you used a smiley after it. It's a little redundant to say "Send!" after putting an envelope and saying "Fill out the form and send it to me," and it seems strange that you say in the adoptables section that you don't have a tablet, but then in your news say that you closed adoptable requests because someone borrowed your tablet. In adoptables, scroll should be capitalized because it's the beginning of a sentence; the same applies to "they" in bored. Appreciated is misspelled in your icons section, and address has two D's, for your bored section. In shields I would suggest saying "where they are the requests" and "where they are just my premade ones" instead of what you have now.

Usefulness
{6/10}
I would suggest moving your graphic request form to a separate area rather than just leaving it at the bottom of your welcome, where people would not expect to see it and so might have trouble finding it. Putting requests at the top of your banner section tends to make people, or at least me, assume that you don't make premade banners; I'd move them to the bottom, where they would also be closer to instructions for finding banners in your image storage. Your icons have no codes, making them much harder to use--even impossible for the less coding-proficient. In your shields I would suggest separating them into completed requests and premades, since not many people are going to want a shield that says "Cazar" anyway, and the prospect of anyone being able to use the shield could prevent people who want a unique shield from requesting. The fact that your shields section starts off with two that are obviously requests also makes it look at a casual glance like you only make custom shields. Your screenies would be much easier to enjoy if they were displayed at full size, or if they're too large for your box at least as close to full size as you can get.

Other
{9/10}
I would suggest not displaying your link backs and awards on different lines, since having to scroll through a long column of them is a little annoying, and makes it seem like you have an excessive number of link backs when you really don't.

Total: 80/100

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Energy

First Impression
{8/10}
Wow! I really like your banner. But your updates seem rather oddly-placed--I'd suggest making them the full width of the div and perhaps giving them a border--and I have concerns about your layout as well, which I'll address in a moment.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{6/10}
Your layout seems quite plain, and having the navigation on the bottom really doesn't appeal to me--I don't like having to scroll down that far simply to see that your site has navigation. I'd vastly prefer to have the navigation in a sidebar on the right; the horizontal navigation isn't my favorite, either, and I'm not fond of the formatting on your navigation either. I especially don't like the hover effects. The border on the text boxes seems far too thick to me, and I would also prefer for it to be a color that stands out a little better from the background. Adding some formatting to your headers would also make your layout seem less plain. Also, the light purple color scheme doesn't seem to fit with the "snazzy and ... full of energy" theme you suggest in your welcome, or your site's name; "Energy" makes me picture more vibrant colors on black, or at the very least more vibrant colors.

Content
{23/25}
Your banners are really nice, but I did spot some concerns. Your third welcome banner seems just a little busy and jumbled. The Elephante on your third closed banner looks weird--I know it's an effect but I don't think it looks too good. On your old banners the fourth welcome banner's image looks rather squished (I won't take as many points off for old banners since, well, they're old). The text on your first old on hiatus banner is a little weird and hard to read, and the sub-text on the third banner in the same category is also hard to read. The first old coming soon banner's effect just makes it look weird... same thing on the second one, but not as bad. I don't like the effects on the "Spirited Dreams Shop Directory" banner in your portfolio, either, but that's where I figured that the rest of the banners in your portfolio were old enough that you'd improved hugely and I didn't need to criticize you on them--I know that I still have some old buttons in my button-making portfolio that really aren't very good.

Grammar
{19/20}
Your grammar is great; just a couple things. In your welcome's first paragraph, it's a little redundant to say that you'll "try your best to make them of high quality"--after all, you're not going to try to make them low-quality, are you? "Graphics contests" is not a proper noun and so needn't be capitalized; "snowy" isn't either, unless you mean the Snowager. And where you have "(width by height)" it either needs to be part of the previous sentence ("size must be in pixels (width by height)!") or its own sentence ("size must be in pixels! (Width by height.)"). I would recommend the former. It's a little confusing to say "not big, or small" (and the comma is unnecessary too) because what qualifies as "big" or "small" can vary from person to person; I'd suggest giving rough outlines as to how big or small you won't make a banner instead.

Usefulness
{7/10}
First, since the rules are the same for premades and requests you should make the hidden link the same for both of them: if someone has read one set of rules, they know them both and so should not have to read the same thing twice to access the different sections. Second, I'd suggest putting a credit link on your premade banners: it's unlikely but not impossible that someone who does not know how to make a link or doesn't understand the necessity of linking back for credit would use your banners. And I'd like to see larger previews of your banners--not full-size, but large enough to get a better idea of what the banner looks like.

Other
{9/10}
Perhaps get more link back buttons? Four isn't really much of a selection.

Bonus
{1}
Your layout could use some work but you're amazing at blends.

Total: 88/100

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GIMP Sensation

First Impression
{9/10}
The image is nice, but there's a bit too much glitter and too many effects--it's just overwhelming and a bit gaudy. I'll address my other layout concerns in the next two sections.

Layout part 1
{7/10}
The word sensation on your banner is hard to read, as are about the first five links of your navigation--I think you could fix that by making that div less transparent or moving it down so that they aren't on top of the patterned background. Your normal links are hard to read and a little painful on the eyes.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
As I've said, your layout image is a bit gaudy and overwhelming. It's also too tall: I don't like having to scroll down so far just to read your welcome. Other than that your layout is nice; the colors aren't my favorite but they aren't bad either. Your navigation section seems really long, though--it's longer than some of your tutorials! Perhaps you could find a way to condense some of your tutorials into one section to cut down on the long navigation? Just a suggestion; it's not bad, just long. A couple of your sections--image mapping, creating shadows, and mirrored text--sidescroll because they have wide images in them; I'd suggest downsizing the images and having people drag them to their address bar for full view.

Content
{22/25}
First, as a note: I do not use GIMP. I know nothing about using GIMP. So I'll be reviewing the ease of use of your tutorials, not the accuracy of your information. At a glance: it'd be nice if you explained a bit more of the reason for the steps instead of just "Do this, this, and this" so that if people want to do things differently they can figure out how. Maybe a vocabulary section explaining what "brushes," "stamps," and other words mean in relation to GIMP? You tell how to get a brush but not what a brush is actually used for or how to use it, which would be very useful to people who know nothing about GIMP. Yes, some people might be able to infer what you mean by "brush," but others won't, and after reading your tutorial I'm still not sure how to use it. I'd suggest putting "tips" at the top instead of the bottom, and I'll address your content more in the Usefulness section.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't spot any major problems... I'd just suggest using bolding or italics for emphasis instead of caps.

Usefulness
{7/10}
Your guide explains how to do a lot of things with GIMP but not how to actually use the program. I think it would be useful to people who already know the basics and want to know how to make cool effects, but not to anyone who just got GIMP and wants to know how to use it.

Other
{8/10}
I'd suggest having a record of your updates instead of just your last updates and getting higher quality link back buttons: I can recommend Fake Gasp, and you can find more button request sites at Soroptimist Directory.

Total: 86/100

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Over the Horizon

First Impression
{8/10}
Ah, bright colors! Your "protected by the Neopets police" banner is weird-looking because it's transparent and you can see the Neopets header through it. Your banner is nice but, in my opinion, could do without the random distracting brighter stretch.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
I would greatly prefer to see a layout that started higher on the page and had a thinner sidebar. Personally, I don't think the vibrant colors in your banner really match the pastel background and header color of your layout. Also, the two-line headers "CSS Templates and Pre-mades" and "Specific Themed Pages" don't look very good--I'd make them both one line, shortening it as needed.

Content
{16/25}
I spotted several broken images. "Literacy" means the ability to read and write; I believe the category you have labeled that should be "Literature." I find the "I don't want to insult anyone's artwork" excuse for not specifying top art sites invalid, since all graphics and coding really are a form of artwork--they're a creative endeavor that someone works hard on. Honestly, as your top sites include sites that (in my opinion, at least) aren't very good or haven't updated in over a month (which is particularly bad in the button sites, because no one really wants to wait a month for their button; their site might even be closed by then) but leave out, say, the top pixel site in Neopia, Amber's Pixels, I can't take them very seriously. Your categories are also ordered oddly, which makes it hard for visitors to find what they're looking for--if you aren't going to put your categories in alphabetical order, at least include navigation so that people know what you have upon entering your site; since you start with CSS, most people would assume that you don't list adoption agencies, which usually come before CSS. You also need to Neomail people when you list their sites, as you listed mine--even if you don't require a link back, it's common courtesy, as they may not want you to list them for whatever reason. If you are going to list sites with their button (not recommended, as it makes it difficult for people to use the browser's find feature to locate a site and just doesn't look that great) you should at least require that all buttons be standard size.

Grammar
{18/20}
Although nothing was so bad I couldn't read it, I spotted several small grammar problems, including: misspelling category, not putting spaces after punctuation, and at least one word in the middle of a sentence capitalized. There's also no need to you have the rules you don't have (you don't have a leave credit rule, you don't have a link back rule) in all caps, and the entire second sentence of your rules paragraph makes little sense, at least to me: you say that you Neomailed people after your "don't need to link back" concept, but I know that you must have listed my sites after that and didn't Neomail me (how do I know? Because if you had, I would have put your button on my sites). You also don't need to use three punctuation marks to end your "Why have affies" sentence: one will do.

Usefulness
{9/10}
As stated, your directory is not that useful because of the strange ordering of the categories and lack of navigation.

Other
{6/10}
I have no clue why you require a magic word to be listed or even have a rules section, since you do not seem to have any rules--yes, you have a paragraph under "Rules," but there are no rules in it. Directories do need affies, as affies help publicize your site, getting you more visitors. If you do not intend to ever get any affies, you should remove the affies section. If you do not know what month or day your counter started, you should say just "2010" (or "before May 2010"; since you have highlights from May, you must have gotten the counter before May 17th). You're also missing a {p} after your second 5/23/2010 update.

Total: 80/100

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Creative Customs

First Impression
{8/10}
The animated graphic you have when you first come in is distracting and moves irregularly--it's also a bit blurry, and the "banner by" text is too small to read. It's also too small to be a real banner, and pretty unnecessary since your site's name is at the top of the box anyway. Your "date" is nearly two months old.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Everything works, but the text on the "So... you wanna be affies" banner is illegible.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
While there's nothing really bad about your layout, it's pretty drab and uninteresting.

Content
{20/25}
You don't really have that much content, so I'm judging largely on the banners you've used to introduce each section. Most of your banners are really small. The text isn't all that great, and the effects and animations on many of the banners--particularly ones used on the "Make a Request" banner--don't look very good. Your FAQ and Rules buttons look stretched, and your main and "Its raining its pouring" button are blurry, as I said.

Grammar
{14/20}
You need to put spaces after periods and other punctuation marks. On the banner in your portfolio, "its" is possessive--unless you're talking about something belonging to the raining and the pouring, it should be "it's." The first sentence of your welcome should read "Welcome to Creative Customs, a custom banner making site!" When you say "Quick thank yous," you need to give more than one thank you--in that sentence you only give one. More than once, you capitalize words in the middle of a sentence or don't capitalize the first letter of a sentence, and at least one you run two words together (likethis). There is also a random "45" in your third rule. You also vary between capitalizing all the words in a secondary header, capitalizing a couple words, and capitalizing one of the words--be consistent! In the sentence "if there's something you don't want like animation, etc" you should cut out the "etc" (which as an abbreviation should end in a period).

Usefulness
{8/10}
Your site would be more useful if you had more examples of banners you've made for people.

Other
{6/10}
As your "Affies" section contains more than affies, you should label it "Sitely." You should date your updates, and you need to link to people when you credit them. You also don't have a link to me anywhere.

Total: 78/100

Pixelated

First Impression
{7/10}
While the Storm layout is nice, those layouts are extremely common--I actually see them more often than I see default petpages. Your counter would also look much better centered and with a transparent background. Also, I personally extremely dislike introductions that speak to the visitor in the second person, especially if they're as detailed as yours. Why? Because I read them and sit there and think, "I'd never say that, I'd never do that." Your long intro is also something that most visitors won't bother to read. Instead of insulting your visitor by assuming that everyone will react to the same situation the same way, just write an introduction from your point of view--i.e., take your dialogue from your current intro and remake it into an introduction, without assuming that every single person who visits your site will shout "Popcorn, here I come!" and head to the food booths.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Everything works but the text on your pixel navigation is not readable, which seriously affects your site. You need to either make a readable image for navigation or just use text links--your pretty little posters are useless if I have no idea what they lead to.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Besides being extremely common, your layout is too monochrome--it's all grey, except for the little bit of pink in the background. It's just way too drab.

Content
{18/25}
A few of your pixels, like the book one, appear to have black outlines instead of the halfway-shade outlines they'd look better with. Your pixel of the Negg Faerie looks rather misshapen, particularly around the face and hair, and that bottled faerie would never stand up--it's too round. Your sheep pixel is hard to see--white and light grey on a white background. Your cauldron of gold is also too round, and almost seems to have a bulge on one side. The gold in it is too light a color for real gold. Your "always open" side is hard to read, as is your second on hiatus note. As you don't honestly have that many pixels, I'd suggest bringing back some of the higher-quality "time travel" pixels, like the Mystery Capsules.

Grammar
{17/20}
Your grammar is okay--except when it comes to dialogue, and there's a lot of it on your site. When writing dialogue, every new person speaking should be a new paragraph. Also, when you end a quote with a punctuation mark beside a comma, you do not need a comma after the end of the quotations. You also need spaces after all punctuation--there are a couple places where you go straight from a period to the first letter of the next sentence, without a space between.

Usefulness
{6/10}
Your site isn't very useful for a couple reasons. One is the navigation. As I've said, your pixel navigation is difficult to read--but things like your sitely section are also hard to find when you label them with stuff like "Had fun?" And your rules should not be a "side show"--your rules should be placed before your pixels. You also don't need 8 different classes of rules. The only things there that really need to be site-wide rules are the "Credit/theft" rules, and they should be in your welcome, information, or pixels section. The rest of the stuff should go wherever your requesting section is. Next, there are no codes for any of your pixels! If you aren't going to put an individual code for each pixel, you at least need an explanation of how to code the image--not everyone knows how--and how to link back to your site. When someone has to code it all themselves they may decide not to bother.

Other
{6/10}
You need to link back to the sites that supplied the templates for the pixel clubs, both for credit and so that people who want to join can make them. And you really, really--oh, I cannot stress this enough--don't need to tell people what bolding, italics, links, and underlines look like. Don't insult your viewers' intelligence. If someone doesn't know what those are, which is extremely unlikely, they can find out elsewhere. Also, you list an "Extras" section in your side shows area, but there is no extras section. You seem to be missing a link to me, as well.

Total: 82/100

Simplicity CSS

First Impression
{9/10}
The "site" text in your layout seems kind of unnecessary--if someone doesn't know it's a site, the word probably doesn't mean enough to them to matter. The wood grain on the background also makes "Run by Megan" look a little weird, but it's nothing big... I'm actually not even sure what it is. I think the wood grain in general just looks a little weird.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
In my browser both the affies, listers, and reviews divs and the div with the layouts in it are cut off--so much that I cannot see the button for Imperfect Perfection, the text area for the Somewhere Over the Rainbow layout's coding, or the last two lines of affies. Also, the "welcome" and "buttons" headers are a little hard to read because their top halves are black on dark grey. Also, when I enlarge the requests text box so that I can type in it, it ends up behind the affies and listers boxes--perhaps because the welcome div is not set to scroll? I'm not sure, as I didn't look at your coding.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Although it fits your site's simple theme, your layout seems a little... dark, and I'm unsure whether to compliment you on your originality in the design of your layout or tell you that its unexpected structure may confuse people--I'm leaning towards the former, though; it doesn't take long to get used to it. The only other thing I'd like to comment on in this section is that your two link back buttons are in a large, prominent div that looks fairly empty. Perhaps you could put your requesting form over there as well?

Content
{21/25}
Your first petpage, Space Expedition, while looking extremely nice, has one huge flaw: when I place a lot of text in it, it fails to scroll and part of my text actually ends up outside of the darkened area clearly meant for text. Your second layout, Prairie Blues, does not have the same problem, but it does end up cut off at the end, which in my view hides the credit. I also think it might look better without the big empty white space to the right of the image; not sure, though. Perhaps you could try making it a slightly lighter or darker blue than the text box? Green Colour Shock does not have any problems. Somewhere Over the Rainbow lacks major problems, but has the backgrounds of the last two links really blend in with the background, and in my opinion might benefit from top and bottom borders as well as vertical borders. Not sure, though--maybe just a bottom border?

Grammar
{19/20}
The only grammar problems I spotted were slight. The comma in "and that too, was a layout site" is unnecessary, and you have no period in the sentence in your requests section. The only other things are a couple spots where I'm unsure why you used a certain word--you call Simplicity a "new CSS resource site," but I don't think it is, as resource sites usually contain generic things to use in your site, not layouts. Then you say "give you my 100% in effort for your layouts"--the layouts are really yours, though. Yes, they're used by others, but the layouts really belong to you, so it should say "my layouts." I'd also say "on" instead of "under" when identifying your frozen account.

Usefulness
{10/10}
No problems here!

Other
{7/10}
I'd suggest you get more link back buttons--you only have two, and of those two one has fairly unpleasant-looking text (if you're wondering, it's the top one). I'd also suggest having a link to your lookup as well as to Neomail you, just in case someone wants to reach your lookup for whatever reason. Also, you say there will be more information about requests later, but there really isn't--there's a form, but no real information, so I'd say either add some information or remove "More info on that later," unless you mean that you'll add more information on requests later. In that case you should say "I'll add more info on that later" instead of just "more info on that later," which in the context of a webpage implies that there will be more information at a further point on the page.

Total: 88/100

Chuck's Pixels

First Impression
{7/10}
Your layout is not hideous but not particularly nice either. The--seemingly random--brown Acara is slightly on top of your banner as well as sticking out of the div, not the nicest effect. I'll go into more about your layout in the next two sections, but your banner is extremely plain.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works and is readable, though the header text is a little small.

Layout part 2
{5/10}
The brown in your background would be nice in moderation but there's way too much of it. There's way too much brown on the page in general; it's monotonous. The layout is also pretty long--I'd suggest a two-column or overflow:hidden layout, or at least put a "back to top" link every so often--it'll help people get back to the navigation without scrolling all the way up. Your header is smaller than the text it's supposed to be titling and the right edge of each header seems to be covering the border, creating little gaps wherever you've used a header. The random brown Acara is just distracting and covers your site's name. There's also nearly an entire screen-height of empty space at the bottom of your page, for some reason.

Content
{18/25}
While your shading is, actually, better than mine, it could still use some work. Also, most of your outlines are black instead of a darker shade of the color in question--it looks better the latter way. Your Baby Kau pixel is also quite misshapen, and the trifle bowls are a little misshapen--they're not too bad, though. I would recommend making them more symmetric. Your cremes' tins or glasses or bowls or whatever look two-dimensional. The coffee cup on your banner's bottom edge is not distinct enough--it would look better if it was either just a cup with a rounded bottom or had a fully distinct edge. Your drinks' shading simply looks weird--probably because some have solid shading while others have lines--and the bottles' shapes look weird.

Grammar
{12/20}
You have persistent capitalization and punctuation problems. The pronoun "I" should always be capitalized. The first letter of a sentence should always be capitalized. Words in the middle of a sentence should not be capitalized unless they're proper nouns. Your headers should either all be capitalized--as they're titles--or none should be capitalized. Smileys should be outside of sentences--"Im also open for any suggestions, hate mail, fan mail or anything you would like to send me :)" should read "I'm also open for any suggestions, hate mail, fan mail, or anything else you would like to send me. :)" You should always have spaces after punctuation, except for opening parenthesis or brackets. Strawberry is not a proper noun.

Usefulness
{7/10}
I would suggest having a form for requests--so that you're sure you have all the information you need rather than having to trade several Neomails with the requester to ask what exactly they want, and also because some people, like me, are more comfortable requesting through a form. But it's not vital, I suppose. What is vital are rules for your pixels' use, stating that people must credit you and may not redistribute your pixels--without these people can steal them and just say, "Oh, they never told me not to." And that's really not okay.

Other
{7/10}
First, you don't have a link to me anywhere. Second, although you have four buttons, none of them are very good--one doesn't even have your site's name on it, all of them have fairly bad text, and the animated three are rather painful. Last, I'd suggest putting your link back buttons at least at the top of your "sitely" section, if not under your welcome. I actually find the way your "sitely" section is arranged rather odd--normally people put link backs first, then affies, then listers, then fanmail and previous layouts, as people are more likely to want to see your link backs and affies than your fanmail and previous layouts.

Total: 71/100

Spread the Joy

First Impression
{8/10}
Hmm...my first impression is kind of neutral. Nothing really pops out at me to criticize, except that your text would look better if it were a little bigger, in my opinion, and I don't really like the shade of purple used in your background--at least, I don't like that much of it on one page. It would look much better used in moderation.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable, though as stated above it isn't entirely comfortable.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
Besides the color of the background, the main thing I notice is that your layout seems unable to decide whether it wants to be a layout with a scrollbox for a main area or not. I say this because it's really too long to be a nice scrollbox layout--it's pretty annoying to have to scroll down to see the whole scrollbox and then...have to scroll through the scrollbox; you should be able to just scroll once. I think your layout would look much better if it were small enough to fit onto the page when you first enter the site, with all the scrolling in the layout's various scrollboxes instead of the entire page having to scroll. I think you could accomplish this by removing the updates from the sidebar and placing them in a scrollbox in the welcome or sitely section, or by moving the link backs to the sitely section and putting the updates where they are now. The text on the banner also looks odd.

Content
{17/25}
The "What's important is finding out what works for you" image on the Bulletin Board is very grainy and generally looks low-quality; you'd do much better to just put the quote as text. I'm also unsure why the other quote and the image over it are stuffed to one side. Your Happiness section sounds very corny--it sounds like what a therapist would have told me when I was five, and I doubt any users over that age will enjoy that. Your Laughter section isn't as bad but still veers slightly towards the corny--particularly when you repeatedly call laughter "the best medicine." The emphasis on "best" is unnecessary and rather annoying. The quote in that section is very good, though. Your "Tips" section also comes across as corny and childish. So, to boil it down, while your site's idea is very nice and you've found great quotes, many of the sections sound like you're speaking to a young child. I think your site would do better if instead of providing abstract ways to "be happy" that may not apply to everyone or be available to everyone you simply listed inspirational quotes and other things that can really make people happy, instead of "Oh, think positive!" which implies that it's the person's own fault they're unhappy and is not what anyone wants to hear. I'll say a bit more in the Usefulness section, but now on to Grammar.

Grammar
{18/20}
While there were no big problems, your apparent habit of randomly underlining, italicizing, or bolding words is rather annoying. Italics should be used--sparingly--for emphasis, and it's very unnecessary to underline and capitalize "Be yourself" in your Happiness section. In the same section, the Dr. Seuss quote should read "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened" instead of what you currently have. There's also the discrepancy that when used to name new sections you capitalize everything in your header twos, where when they're just used as subtitles you leave them all uncapitalized. Also, when you ask people "Please No Sticky Paws," only "Please" needs to begin with a capital letter.

Usefulness
{6/10}
As I mentioned earlier, your site's concept is great, as far as it goes. The problem is that if someone is truly depressed or sad, your site is unlikely to help them--particularly with tips such as "call a friend," when they may very well be depressed about not having any friends, or "eat something yummy" when they may be depressed because they feel they are overeating. As I said in the Content section, your site would better serve its purpose by providing inspirational quotes--more material like the quotes you have now, and the poem you wrote--instead of "tips on how to be happy" that probably will not work for everyone. Everyone is not the same; everyone does not find happiness the same way. Although I will add that I think it's unlikely a website--any website--could help anyone who is experiencing anything more serious than a ordinary frustration or down moment.

Other
{9/10}
I don't think the date your site and counter started need to be among your credits--they would do better in your welcome. Your "Rate my site" box at the bottom of the welcome section would also look much better if it were centered and/or had a border around it. I would suggest replacing all the "note" images with pixel envelopes. (You can find some at Amber's Pixels, Pixel Reign, which of course I'm mentioning because I own it, or at many other pixel sites.)

Total: 80/100

Promesse

First Impression
{9/10}
Nothing much jumps out at me to criticize...your banner is a little hard to read, though, and I'd prefer it if it wasn't as tall--I usually like to be able to see a lot of the site when I first step inside, so I prefer shorter banners.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Your underlined text hurts my eyes for some reason, maybe too bright. I also prefer legible textareas, but that seems to be a personal eccentricity.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
I prefer overflow:hidden layouts (or scrolling layouts in general) when you don't have to scroll to see the whole main box--I don't like scrolling that much--so I'd again suggest making your banner shorter. Also, I feel like the black background gives your entire site a kind of gloomy feel; perhaps try a purplish pattern like the colors of your navigation? Or some more blue.

Content
{23/25}
You say you did not make your resources; in my mind, that means you don't have a right to redistribute them and definitely shouldn't ask people to credit you. Besides that, the one criticism on your content that I have is: I think, based on the appearance of your other graphics, you could make the text on your first "Movies" icon better-looking.

Grammar
{17/20}
In your welcome paragraph, French needs to have a capital F, and your third sentence should probably read, "You'll find everything you need here: from icons to textures, it's all in one spot." In your latest blog entry (the only one I looked at), English needs to be capitalized, "Sounds good?" should be "Sound good?" and you need a comma after the name of the book you're recommending. You also don't end your last sentence in the blog entry. In your "Music Suggestions," the intro would read better as, "So I'm a big music fan and I think the music I listen to deserved more recognition." The Kooks' albums aren't a sentence on their own: you need to add them to the sentence that says "They have two albums out" with a comma or a colon. In the same paragraph, "everyday" should be "every day." ("Everyday" means ordinary or commonplace; to say "each day," you need to have a space between every and day.) Grammy needs to start with a capital letter, as it's a proper noun, and I'd recommend saying "They've been nominated for a Grammy" instead of "They are Grammy nominated." In the second sentence of your paragraph on Vampire Weekend, the comma is unnecessary. The third sentence of your paragraph on Cold War Kids would read better as, "I love their laid-back music, which has a little bit of soul." After the concert date in the same paragraph, the semicolon should probably be a comma. In the same paragraph, you misspelled suggestions. In your requests section, "quality" is not a proper noun and so should not be capitalized. You have an unfinished sentence in your latest update--like many other people, you don't seem to finish sentences when you use a smiley after them. In your FAQ, "Swiper" needs to be capitalized.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I'd strongly suggest adding border="0" to the image codes for your graphics; it'll get rid of the ugly blue border that shows up on linked images in IE. (If you're not sure where exactly to put the code, you could look at the codes of my last few link back buttons for examples.)

Other
{8/10}
In your navigation, you should have the "Home" link as an anchor in your welcome paragraph, not as a link back to the petpage itself: the current link reloads the page, which is annoying. You also don't have my button anywhere.

Total: 88/100

Casey's Premades

First Impression
{9/10}
The first thing I notice is that your background is pretty busy--distractingly so. Same with your banner...no, actually, your banner is almost painfully busy. You've got birds, you've got trees, you've got lines and dots and frames and flowers superimposed over them...in places it's hard to make out what's on it at all.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Everything works and is readable, but your background and banner almost hurt my head--although it was already getting there--probably because of the things mentioned above.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Your sidebar should be at least twice as wide as it is. As it is now, everything just looks squished. I'd also prefer to see the sidebar on the right side, but I think that's just personal preference.

Content
{25/25}
I'm not a font expert or even someone with good taste in fonts (I'm still using a mostly-default one I made three years ago), but I couldn't find anything wrong with any of you fonts. I would strongly suggest, though, adding a lot more.

Grammar
{18/20}
You don't have much text, but in the text you do have, you don't end sentences when you use a smiley after them. Your tip should be one sentence: "For an easier way to copy the codes, click in the text area..." Personally, I find the way in which you bold and italicize perfectly normal text kind of annoying...but that may just be me.

Usefulness
{7/10}
Your "Notes" should be labeled "Rules." You need a welcome paragraph to introduce visitors to your site and a clear section on requesting, preferably with guidelines and a form. People--or at least I--feel more comfortable making a request when there's a form to fill out, and pointing out what people need to tell you--and what you can't or won't make--will prevent a lot of confusion and unnecessary Neomails. Your "Neomail me HERE" link takes the user to the send a Neomail page--without your username in the "To" field. If you don't know how to do that, take a look at, say, the links used here at ITR, and replace my username with yours. When you don't have a working Neomail link and you don't even state your username anywhere on the page, the user has to look up your pet and Neomail you from there, and chances are they just won't bother.

Other
{6/10}
A "top of page" link at the top of the page is completely useless--there should be one under every section instead. You can and should remove the "Code" label from the codes for your buttons: we know what it is. You should also condense your buttons by putting the code on the same line as the button--if they won't fit, widen your sidebar--and single rather than double line breaks between the buttons. Your buttons should go above your affies, and you should probably center your affies and put them in a scrollbox. Your credits would do better at the bottom of your sidebar. I'd strongly suggest requiring that all of your affies have 88x31 buttons--it looks more professional, and the one that doesn't sticks out like a sore thumb. Oh, and it'd be nice to see a section logging your updates--these are always nice so that the visitor knows how long it's been since you've updated; there's an assumption that if you don't update often, any requests put to you will take a long time to be finished.

Total: 88/100

Rêveurs de Paix

First Impression
{9/10}
My first impression is fairly good, although your homepage seems a little empty--and I'll address that in a moment.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Your underlined text is a little too light to read. Sections of your layout also occasionally seem to not scroll all the way down, with just a fraction of the last line of text missing, but this is so tiny that I didn't take a point off for it.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Here's where I'll address your layout, as I promised to do earlier. It's a nice layout, with one problem: what seems to be your main content box, the one that originally holds your welcome and which most of your content shows up in...it's too small. I'd like to see it at least twice the size it is now--closer to the size of the zappers box. The only other note I have is that your "the Neopets Police" banner (on the zapping agency page) looks odd because it's transparent and I can see the Neopets header through it. The one on your adoption/trading agency looks better, so maybe use that one? I'd also recommend making the navigation links on both pages look the same--I prefer their appearance on the zapping page.

Content
{24/25}
You seem to have a very nice, well organized agency. One of the things I noticed is that your active zappers section makes it look like you have very few zappers, while you actually have quite a lot--but the majority are members of your guild. My suggestion is that you move the guild zappers to your active section--perhaps you could come up with a symbol that means they're in your guild?

Grammar
{18/20}
While on the whole your grammar's quite good, I spotted a number of punctuation problems: missing spaces before/after punctuation, no period at the end of sentences...in "Successes," you also need to put either one or three periods--not two. (One to end a sentence, three for an ellipses, or a pause/hesitation/trailing off.) In "Become a Zapper," you should put "Note:" instead of "*Note*".

Usefulness
{9/10}
My only suggestion is that in your list of suggested dream pets, you include a link to the lookup of the person who requested the pet. I think this would make it easier for your zappers to contact them.

Other
{8/10}
Your buttons are very nice, but I'd suggest requesting buttons from some sites like Neo~Nice, Amity, or Sparks of Magic, for variation. You should also introduce yourself--preferably with a link to your lookup--in your welcome paragraph. I also noticed that you say your current layout is V21.1--but the last layout was V1. That's either a counting mistake on your part or a misunderstanding of "Last Layout Version" on mine.

Total: 90/100

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Extravagant Layouts

First Impression
{8/10}
First, you should remove the "Extravagant Layouts" and "Sitely" headers or put something under them--those sections look empty. I'd suggest moving your introduction to "Extravagant Layouts".

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Your text is too small and too bright for easy reading.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Your background image is nice, but putting text on it is kind of pointless as it's covered up--it's just kind of distracting.

Content
{22/25}
For one thing, you don't have many layouts, and I understand that your site is new. In your Tiger layout, it sidescrolls enormously. Your other layout doesn't need to be stuffed into a tiny scrollbox--just make it not scroll. In both your layouts, the navigation doesn't really fit with the theme of the layout--particularly your Tiger one.

Grammar
{16/20}
Your grammar is pretty bad. You constantly randomly capitalize things, misplace your commas, and I spotted two major misspellings just by skimming your text: "liers" and "accually" should be "liars" and "actually".

Usefulness
{8/10}
Your Violin lookup doesn't seem to have a link back to your site. You should also mention your name somewhere, and you need a link to your lookup and/or one to Neomail you (preferably both).

Other
{3/10}
First, you should put your listers in a different section from your affies. Second, you need link back buttons--at least one or two. You should remove things from your to-do list once you've finished them. You say, "See, if people would accually follow the rules, I wouldn't even be saying anything about rules, which mean's that you'll follow them right? Then maybe I won't even need to put them up!" which makes absolutely no sense. First of all, if you didn't say anything about rules there wouldn't be any rules to follow. Then...then you just get off and stop making any sense at all. "If people would follow the rules, I wouldn't need rules, so you'll follow them, so I won't need them," almost makes sense, but only if you follow the original premise that people will follow nonexistent rules. "Always follow the rules" doesn't need to be a rule: it's completely redundant. You also have a random "Currently none" out in the middle of your page, and you don't have a link to me anywhere. You say twice that you don't take requests, but then you say that your requested layouts will be removed as soon as they're up and that requests are open.

Total: 80/100

Delicious Pie Directory

I'm still reviewing on Internet Explorer.

First Impression
{8/10}
Your site loaded oddly, but that's probably just this browser. The first things I notice: your main area is cut off and the boxes on the side are really, really small.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Your counter is hard or impossible to read.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
While your background image and banner are beautiful, there are a number of problems with your layout. Your main area is long enough to hold everything, so why does it have a scrollbar? Either make it short enough to fit on the screen--recommended--or get rid of the scrollbar. Also, your "Sister Site", "Affies", etc. boxes are really, really small--it would be nice if they were at least twice as wide. The end of your headers is cut off by your redundant scrollbar, and once you make to the end of your page, the main area sidescrolls. Your Updates box is also sticking out of the tiny space allotted to it.

Content
{20/25}
When you don't have any links in a category, instead of just putting "links", you should put something like, "None yet." You should also take the pixel resources to another page--they don't belong on a site that is otherwise completely focused on being a directory, especially when they're stuffed into a tiny box like an afterthought. If every site that isn't awesome is "nice", you don't even need to state their niceness; it can be assumed. I only checked your links to halfway through Graphics, but I found the following errors: Aura Pixels links to Adopt-A-Celebrity. Forever Dailies, Sarang, and City Lights all link to default petpages. Your Mad Tea Party listing links to the middle of the page--confusing. Rave is a competition site, not a link directory. Pets is really a link directory, as it has links to pet directories. Burning is closed.

Grammar
{18/20}
In your welcome, "neopet" needs to be capitalized and also refers to one Neopet; the entire site is Neopets. You don't have very much text and I didn't read your updates, but you have at least one I that needs to be capitalized, and your smileys need to be separated from "Nice sites" and "Awesome sites" by a space. Only one exclamation point is required to direct people to your sister site. All of your site's name should be capitalized.

Usefulness
{8/10}
Your navigation is missing a link to Pet Directories. You also need a link to Neomail you, preferrably in your welcome or by your forms (if you do have this somewhere, then I'm afraid it's not idiotproof enough: I couldn't find it).

Other
{8/10}
It might seem redundant, but your welcome paragraph should say something like, "This is Delicious Pie Directory, where you can find sites." Also, your counter seems out of place in your updates, as does the SOTM button; I'd move them to your welcome or something. And you don't have my button anywhere--although I didn't take off a point for that because my site's rules technically allow your listing of ITR to count as the link back.

Total: 83/100

Beautiful Lie Fonts

Note: I'm reviewing in Internet Explorer today, and it apparently hates me. Or layouts in general. So your layout may appear different than it would in Safari, and my review may not be quite as in-depth as it normally would be.

First Impression
{9/10}
Your layout is a bit colorless and dark.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Except for what I mentioned in the first impression...well, there's the fact that a skull and crossbones seems out of place. But besides that, nothing jumps out at me.

Content
{23/25}
Your Death Note-themed Fyora font is a little hard to read because of all the fancy lettering, as is your Death Note-themed Dark Nova font. Other than that, I quite like your fonts--I would like to see more of them, though.

Grammar
{16/20}
You rarely end your sentences, usually allowing them to run into smileys. You have a random "(I)" in your welcome, which makes little sense. "Since I started playing on neopets, I've always liked making fonts and since I figured out that Font pages existed I said to myself: Why not?" should read something more like, "Since I started playing on Neopets, I've always liked making fonts, and when I figured out that font pages existed I said to myself, 'why not start one?'" "Don't say you did them" should be, "Don't say you made them". "Is easier to request one instead of stealing" isn't a complete sentence: it should read more like, "It's easier to request one than steal".

Usefulness
{9/10}
When you say, "there are other font sites you can request from if you want symbols in your font", you should probably link to some of them.

Other
{8/10}
In your credits, you should identify which site made which button. Also, your link back section is a little long: I'd suggest putting the textarea on the same line as the button if possible, or moving all but a couple link backs to your sitely section.

Total: 89/100

Saranghae

First Impression
{9/10}
Wow. Your layout looks great. The only thing that jumps out at me is that your layout is a little colorless and your semi-transparent navigation looks a little odd on top of the banner, particularly "Other". Oh, and you've messed up a visitor code: your welcome says "Hello, cyndikins".

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
As I mentioned, your layout seems a little colorless. Also, you've got a lot of empty space on the right--maybe you could use a little more of it? Also, while I love your navigation and think the transparency is great in a "How did she do that?" way, it would probably look better if it was opaque, particularly when I scroll down and it's on top of text.

Content
{23/25}
I noticed that in your first style of CSS lookups, some of the text on the Neopets footer is bright purple, which looks a little odd. On your styles five and six, the text is a little small and hard to read. While your Taelia lookup is, like your navigation, an awesome CSS trick, it's kind of impractical and annoying, in my opinion. Your Meepit layout's stats sidescroll ever so slightly. The text in your Poogle-in-an-air-balloon other layout is a little too small for reading comfort, and the stats sidescroll (I really dislike sidescrolling). Your Harris other layout also has pretty small text. The text is also rather small in your miscellaneous layout. Mostly, though, your layouts are very nice--I particularly like the images in your Neopets layouts.

Grammar
{20/20}
You need to capitalize Korean, as it's a proper noun. This was your only grammar problem, though, and it's very minor.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I'd like to see previews that you can drag to your address bar for full size--I had to preview your layouts on my own lookup to get a good look at them. Also, I would suggest adding an alternate, four-pets-compatible style two CSS lookup just in case there are users out there who are so coding-illiterate that they have trouble even changing the width of a div (or are too lazy to).

Other
{10/10}
I'll only mention that your "you'll feel bad if you steal it" comments in your welcome are rather unnecessary and probably won't make an impression on the kind of people who steal coding. They also seem kind of out of place--they'd probably do better below your rules.

Total: 94/100

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Aerofusion

First Impression
{8/10}
Your banner seems oddly narrow--I'd much prefer to see one that's the same width as your welcome box--and you don't mention your name anywhere in your welcome, or even on your site (I checked).

Layout part 1
{13/15}
The links and header ones are a little too light for reading comfort, and the text in your textareas is too small to be legible. (I like legible textareas, particularly on a button request site, where I usually put my request together in the textarea so that I can look at the options as I fill it out). Also, the open pixel you use is a little too small for easy reading.

Layout part 2
{10/10}
Hmm...it would be nice to see some navigation, and the orange on the header one seems out of place when the rest of the layout is green. But these are very minor things--all in all, your layout looks good. Except for the too-narrow banner, but I covered that in first impression.

Content
{24/25}
The only thing I'd mention is that your animation two may be a little fast. And I can't read half your fonts, especially the "Heinz Heinrich" or whatever one...in my opinion, that one isn't really a font anyone would want on a button. The paint on border 23 looks rather odd--I'm not sure why--and I'd recommend brighter colors for the text on your own second link back button, to make it stand out more. Oh, and your Island Lutari button base looks kind of pixelated.

Grammar
{20/20}
In your pickup, the comma should be before the so, not after it. In your welcome, "We have been open for over half a year now, and pleasing customers ever since," should be something more like, "and we've been pleasing customers the whole time"--you would use since if you specified a time at which you started, but you spoke of how long you've been open. In button bases, paste doesn't need to be capitalized.

Usefulness
{10/10}
Definitely no problem here.

Other
{9/10}
In your button competition, you say that entrants can't vote, but you accepted my vote and I'm entered...I might suggest getting rid of that rule--it'll get you more votes, as the people who are most likely to vote are those who have a direct stake in the outcome. I might suggest having a more expansive link back selection--maybe the five you have now under your welcome and then more in your sitely section. You might want to look into finding a new title for the "Updates & Coming Soon & Support" section...it just seems a little long and unnecessary, when you can clearly see the headers proclaiming each section's name.

Bonus
{1}
I especially like your fourth link back button, and your button bases are--except for the one noted earlier--very good, particularly the ones made by you.

Total: 95/100

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Aerofusion

Once again, I will try to ignore my previous visits to this site.

First Impression
{8/10}
First, right off I know that there's something wrong with your coding because your updates are floating in the upper right corner of the homepage. Check on that? And I would recommend putting "button requests" or something similar under Aerofusion so that people know what the site is when they first come in.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
The only problem is the updates.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Very nice color scheme, but the "rules" column is disproportionately long. I'm afraid that I don't have any advice for that; I have the same problem on my art page.

Content
{24/25}
Your buttons are very nice, but the "music" in "Rita's music" is slightly hard to read. I would have made that a brighter color.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't see any problems.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I would say that looking at all the border options on a different page is slightly annoying. If you're going to do that, I would advise that you at least have them horizontally instead of vertically; all that scrolling is kind of annoying. Perhaps just put them horizontally with spaces between them?

Other
{9/10}
You say that your waiting list is going to be in the second section, but it's not. Perhaps you could put the link to the border options (or maybe the border options themselves) in the main box or with the font options (just title it "options"?) and have the waiting list in the left column.

Bonus
{2}
I love your link back buttons, and the buttons that you made for me.

Total: 95/100

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The Explanation Box

First Impression
{9/10}
First impression's mostly good, but your link back looks really out of place. I'd strongly suggest moving it to your sidebar.

Layout part 1
{12/15}
Your main content box is sidescrolling (a phenomenon I really hate), and your links might be a little too light. The yellow--I can't tell if it's underline or italic, but it's used in your welcome paragraph for "FIVE"--is also too bright for comfort. Your navigation doesn't work.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Your credits seem kind of out of place, maybe because they're wide than the entire content box? I'd suggest putting them in the sidebar.

Content
{23/25}
Your answers are mostly good, but I saw a couple where it seemed like you didn't know and were just throwing a guide at them in the hope that it would help. I also saw one question where you all answered saying basically the same thing, which made two-thirds of that text redundant. Perhaps you could put up one answer and then by the others' answers say, "Since these answers were extremely similar, we've decided not to show them".

Grammar
{18/20}
I spotted a few misspelled words and a couple problems with capitalization and grammar. It's also unnecessary to bold "A LOT" and capitalize it. A bit overkill, if you ask me. I'd also suggest saying "Try [link]" instead of "Try this site: [link]" when recommending a guide to someone.

Usefulness
{9/10}
Personally, I would not use your site or recommend it to others. This is mostly because I find your site a bit redundant. There is an entire board, with many, many users, dedicated to this purpose. It's more likely that the person with a question will get a good answer among the many HC'ers than from you five, and they'll get it faster, too. I would suggest adding a section for common questions, which you can find by watching the HC and seeing what people ask. Examples would include: "How do I complete a Brain Tree quest?", "Why does the Rainbow Fountain never work?", "How do I get rid of the line in my siggy?", etc.

Other
{7/10}
Your forms really don't need to be in a scrollbox. You should have separate sections for affies, directories, and reviews, instead of putting them all in one box. You need to link to whoever "Adrienne" is when you credit her, and you should get more and higher-quality buttons.

Total: 87/100

Exhilarating*

First Impression
{9/10}
Hmm...it seems kind of odd that on your front page you have two "link back" sections. Since you have a link back section built into your sidebar, the one on your homepage is kind of redundant.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works, but the white on light blue of the links can be a little hard to read--just a little bit, though, and only if my screen's at a certain angle, so I didn't take away any points.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
The only things I'd mention are that Pick-ups section seems really empty--I'd suggest combining it and the portfolio.

Content
{24/25}
I really like your buttons, but looking at your portfolio makes my eyes hurt. Why? Animations. Lots of them, and fast-moving ones. I definitely think the animations on your "Ruby Pier" and "I.C.U" buttons move too fast, as well as the first "Amber's Pixels" button--mainly just the flashing on the word "pixels". I'd suggest slowing down your animations a little--although it may be partially because there are a whole lot of buttons there and they're all moving, making it a little overwhelming.

Grammar
{19/20}
In your credits, I'd suggest changing "except the overflow code was from Kill the Lights" to "except the overflow code, which was from Kill the Lights". You should take the first comma out of "Note that some of the sites, aren't considered button request sites, but they do have the button request feature at their site." (I'd also suggest noting that the Top 20 is your opinion--I know it's obvious, but at least to me, its introductory statement sounds rather dogmatic.) "Three-four days" should read either "three to four" or "3-4". To convey that you will only make two buttons for a site, your fourth rule should say that, not "at least". Your last rule would probably read better as "Make a creative sentence that uses the words 'happiness' and 'the dump' together". In your welcome, "and they seem pretty boring, and ask professionals for advice" would be better off as, "and they seemed pretty boring, so I asked professionals for advice". "You know what I decided to take on transparency" should have a comma after "you know what".

Usefulness
{10/10}
It seems kind of confusing at first that you don't offer border options, and though I'm fine with it, some people might dislike that...but I don't know, so I won't take off points. I personally, though, would have liked to see something like, "I don't offer border options for such and such reason".

Other
{8/10}
One minor thing: on your homepage, the link back on your sidebar ends with a question mark, while everywhere else, it isn't punctuated. Also, "Don't beg" and "use the form" seem like two separate rules.

Bonus
{1}
I love how you have the dot next to the page you're on in the navigation. Particularly as I have absolutely no clue how you did it.

Total: 95/100

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Lost in the Shadows

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Your layout's nice, but it's drab and really nothing spectacular. Yes, the black and grey theme fits your site's name, but my eyes are starving for hue and saturation here! The pink italics and bolding just don't do the trick.

Content
{20/25}
Mostly, your graphics are great, but there are a few things I need to point out. One, some of your Neo-related blogs' images are blurry, and the text on all your blogs looks kind of like you slapped it on with Paint, which can make it hard to read. Also, three of your four text options for buttons are illegible and/or ugly, and the remaining one is really, really small. Also, you don't have that many icons or blogs--I'd suggest you make some more. And in your "Lost?" blog, the text is orange on orange--really hard to read.

Grammar
{17/20}
Your welcome paragraph is the longest piece of text you have (beyond your updates, which I didn't look at too much), and its grammar is pretty bad: it should read something like, "Hello, this is Lost in the Shadows, a graphics site named after one of my favorite movies, 'The Lost Boys'. I'm Techno, or Tallie. I no longer have time to do button requests all the time, so I've decided to offer premade graphics for people to use, although from time to time I will still open requests for anyone who wants one." You also randomly capitalize things. Also, redo doesn't really require a hyphen.

Usefulness
{9/10}
In your blogs, instead of making your users construct some kind of credit on their own, you should put something like "Blog from Lost in the Shadows" (with a link, of course) or a button from your site in the blog along with the text you have now so that the credit's already there and people can't forget (or claim they did).

Other
{9/10}
I'd suggest requesting a button (a great button request site is here) or making one with a different font for people who find your Font One painfully small (like me). You also really don't need to put the things you do in all caps; it's kind of annoying.

Total: 88/100

Anna's Dailies

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Almost everything works and is readable, but the text in the blog that you have your updates in is a little difficult to read against the background. Just a little bit, so I didn't take any points off.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
I'm kind of neutral on your layout--don't love it, don't hate it--but I do think it could be organized better. In fact, I'd strongly suggest instead using a layout with a scrolling main area beside your sidebar so that users can access the navigation even when they're halfway down the page. I'd also kind of prefer it if your sitely stuff was more separated from your navigation, since your navigation is pretty long.

Content
{22/25}
Everything looks pretty good until I come to your games section. You say that the Wheel of Slime and Adver Video will earn you 100 and 600NP respectively. They're really random, so I'd strongly suggest putting "Random NP between 500-800" (or whatever the range is). I'd also really love it if you'd put in what each column of the tables you have there is supposed to be; I thought the third column was the total NP for that game and started thinking that you weren't doing too well with math. When reading your guide, "Dailies" seems a bit like a misnomer: you've really got a guide for everything, which is great, but might upset some poor guy just looking for a link to Jhudora's Cloud. But I won't take off for that. Might I suggest that you include links to guides for the dailies you list, or maybe just add a section on guides (avatar guides, daily guides, guides to calculating which Neopet just ruined your chances of getting a Paint Brush at the Fruit Machine)? Just in case someone has trouble finding what they need. Also, it seems kind of odd that in all your quests you detail how to begin the quest, and then when you come to the Brain Tree you say how to end it. It'd be nice if you had a price range for the quests, as well.

Grammar
{19/20}
In your welcome paragraph, "There are many sections of this page, divided for your convenience, from those regular dailies to avatars to site themes, Anna's Dailies has what you are looking for" is a run on sentence. I'd suggest stopping after "convenience" for a breather and creating a new sentence there. The sentence "and I wanted to create a new dailies page, with all of the links Neopians need, that is guaranteed to update daily" reads kind of oddly; I'd remove the "with all of the links Neopians need". When stating that you've seen dailies pages stop updating, those dailies aren't possessive and so don't need to end with an apostrophe. Your button credit gets kind of repetitive, and if your buttons are linked for credit it's also unnecessary. The only other thing I note is that your pet's nickname, Star, is a proper noun and so should be capitalized. While I understand that you're excited about how many scores we get to spend this month, only one exclamation point is really needed there; excesses are just a bit annoying.

Usefulness
{10/10}
Your guide is useful in many, many ways! I have one more suggestion, though: I'd love to see a "my picks" section of some sort, detailing your favorite dailies, instead of or along with just stating every daily there is.

Other
{8/10}
The position of your about me paragraph is kind of odd: I'd much rather see it right after your welcome than after heaps of daily-only information. Also, your welcome should really be the first thing on your site, before special events, so that people just entering the site know who you are and what your site is.

Bonus
{2}
You have a very in-depth site with lots of information.

Total: 94/100

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Lemonade Fonts

Layout part 1
{12/15}
Yellow on white is very hard to read and just doesn't look good. I took two points off for this because almost all of your text is in yellow. Also, on your banner, "Fonts" looks like it says, "Ponta", and the cursive-ish text below your site's name is hard to read.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
It seems kind of strange that your main area has a black border while your sidebar has none at all. I'd really prefer your banner if the citrus slices didn't blink. Also, because your sidebar is on the left and pretty wide, it can be kind of confusing--I just expect the main content to be on the left, and the size of the sidebar makes me sort of assume that it's the main content area for a moment.

Content
{24/25}
Mostly, your fonts look great. The only thing I would point out is that I don't think it's really necessary for every letter in your top word to be accented or otherwise abnormal. It can get a little overkill, especially where you're randomly putting accent marks over vowels.

Grammar
{19/20}
The name of your pet turtle is a proper noun and so should be capitalized. Neopets should also be capitalized when crediting your background to this site. Other than these small problems, your grammar is fine.

Usefulness
{9/10}
Since you've kept up the codes for the fonts you're redoing, I'd suggest keeping up the preview as well and just putting a note that you're redoing it. If you don't want anyone to see the preview, you probably shouldn't be letting people use the fonts.

Other
{7/10}
You don't have a link to me anywhere, one of your updates isn't separated from the one after it, and you need to link to Amber's CSS when you credit her. Also, you ask people to Neomail you with questions that aren't listed on the FAQ, but you don't have an FAQ.

Total: 87/100

Candy Shop Premades

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
I just don't find your layout attractive. Something about it seems to imply to me that you have a subpar site, which probably isn't true (I haven't looked past the layout yet). Maybe it's because you don't have different colors for your bold, italic, and underlined text, or because black, purple, and white don't really go together, or because it's a one column layout.

Content
{17/25}
First thing I noticed is that when I preview your iPhone layout on a petpage, the text is black on a black background, making it fairly impossible to read. The images in a lot of your layouts also seem really, really large--I, at least, always find it rather annoying when you have to scroll down to view the full layout and then have to scroll within the layout. I think that your Macbook laptop would be improved if you removed the dock from the image; it just looks strange, floating around where it seems like there should be text. I find the header in your Treats layouts painful on the eyes and don't like the font it's in much either. The only one of your layouts in which the Save Changes button is visible when using on a petpage is the Macbook one.

Grammar
{19/20}
You should really write out the word "and" instead of using a plus sign in your description of your treats. You only need one question mark when asking people to "please" vote for you in SOTMs. Other than these tiny problems, you grammar is great.

Usefulness
{7/10}
First, while I love your candy shop pretense, I wouldn't extend it to the rules. It would be too easy for someone to, intentionally or accidentally, misunderstand your rules and steal your layouts. They could claim that they weren't "serving the candy at another store" because there was no candy and they don't have a store. Second, and I took two points off for this because it's so incredibly important, you need to include a clickable link of credit in all of your layouts. I can't stress how important this is. Yes, all of your layouts say, "Layout by Candy Shop Premades", but how is anyone going to find your site without the URL? It's best to add a "Credits" section to the text area of the layout and put, "Layout by Candy Shop Premades." Be sure to put a link.

Other
{9/10}
Honestly, I don't really like your link back buttons. While the last one is nicely pixeled, it blinks painfully fast and isn't standard size, and the others just aren't that great. I'm mainly mentioning this because it gives a bad impression of your site right from the start and may cause people not to want to be affies with you. If you want, I can suggest some awesome button request sites where you can get amazing buttons.

Total: 84/100

Hush

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Trying to read your italic text is a tad painful, and I find the text on your banner really hard to read. "Hush" looks like it says, "Hurh", and even that's hard to make out.

Layout part 2
{10/10}
Other than not liking your banner, which I also find too dark to really fit the site, your layout looks great.

Content
{24/25}
Mostly, I love your guide. The only thing that I'd point out is that you say "TDMBGPoP also plays a part in being able to chat on the Jelly World boards" and don't explain how it does so. Also, your avatar section seems extremely short, but as I can't think of any other information to put there (unless you feel like teaching someone what an avatar is and how to select one for use, which I doubt you do), I probably shouldn't even mention it.

Grammar
{19/20}
One thing that I barely want to point out is that in "such a long name...", "Such" should probably be capitalized. I would also suggest that in "I want to give out a huge thanks for everyone that has submitted something to Hush", "that" should be "who", as you're referring to people instead of objects. (Don't ask. My grammar-check still hates me for writing about mice who do things instead of mice that do things.) Also, "Ironically, nope" is missing a period at its conclusion. And in "Have a Comment, Suggestion, or Concern about Hush?" it's really unnecessary to capitalize comment, suggestion, and concern. These are all small problems, though.

Usefulness
{9/10}
The only small thing I'd point out here are that the link to Neomail you is kind of hard to find--I'd suggest making the entire "click here to Neomail me" a link instead of just the here, and/or linking "Please tell me!" to a Neomail.

Other
{9/10}
The only thing I'd point out here are a couple consistancy things: in the "What happens if I visit it?" section, I don't think the explanation for the last option should be bolded, as you don't bold any of the other explanations, and I think that in the items section you should either put the "Back to top" link below the Z box instead of in it or put "Back to top" links in the boxes for every letter.

Total: 94/100

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Mimi's Graphics

Layout part 1
{13/15}
Everything is readable, but your navigation and counter are overstepping their boundaries, and the end of your button request form is cut off.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
As I said before, your layout is a strange combination of colorful and colorless. Your title area is purple to the point of being painful, but except for rare flashes of color in your formatted text, the rest of the layout is completely colorless and drab.

Content
{15/25}
First, at least some of your button borders are from the Goodie Box, which is against their rules. Yes, you credit the site (without linking to it, by the way, so that no one can find it), but it specifically says on that site not to use its borders. Right here. In your Desserts guild layout, all of the images have fuzzy white borders around them, which is a bit distracting. In your Bleach guild layout, many of the images are grainy. The things you call pixels are not pixels: they're painfully fast-moving animations. In your button requests, you need to put up examples of buttons you've previously made, and your borders are atrociously grainy. Your Userlookups area contains no actual userlookups.

Grammar
{5/20}
I'm sorry, your lack of grammar and spelling is simply painful. If I were to go into it all here, It'd be longer than the rest of the review. So let me just give you a few tips: when using I as a pronoun, it should always be capitalized. So should the beginning of sentences. Always. The things in your third tab are called "shields". Animation, Stuff, and Pixels are not proper nouns and so don't need to be randomly capitalized in the middle of a sentence. Basically, I strongly recommend a spelling and grammar check. If you have a word processing program, you can just copy and paste your text into it to spell check it. Oh, and in your FAQ, "How old are?" seems to be missing a "you".

Usefulness
{6/10}
You have shields without codes, so you might as well have none at all. In your guild layouts, for credit, you really need to put a link back to your site in the textboxes--otherwise, no one will be able to find it. It'd be a lot easier to use your button requests if you put a link to Neomail you. Your "Request Status" is also bunched up against your welcome. Oh, and your Userlookups page is nothing but random text, as I pointed out earlier.

Other
{6/10}
When you credit a site that is on Neopets, you need to link to it so that people can actually find it. I'm going to assume that "Michgnchik3", the username on your graphics, is you, but you might want to mention that somewhere--a link to your lookup would be helpful, as would one to Neomail you. You also might want to add a waiting list so that people can see just how "very backed up" you are. You also don't have my button anywhere.

Total: 60/100

Race Trak

Layout part 1
{15/15}
No problems here.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
The only problem I spot is the thing I mentioned before--some areas look empty because the content in the sidebar is so much longer than the content in the main area, creating a bunch of blank space.

Content
{19/25}
Your shop layout doesn't work with the new filters, or at least it didn't when I tried it. In your Tropius and Dragoninte lookups, I think there's too many all-caps things among the stats because all of the links are set that way. In the All You Need is Love lookup, the stats box sidescrolls, as does the "Games and Trophies" area in the Pirate Usul layout--a layout whose bold text, links, underlines and italics I find painful to read. The Mutant Ona layout's trophies are cut off if you have more than four on a line, and I also think that all-capitals are used too much. In the Ogrin lookup, text over the Ogrin's mouth and nose can be hard to read. In the Red CSS, the first three letters of "Welcome, amicaverbi" are outside of the area that seems to have been assigned to that line; in the Turquiose CSS, it's only the W. The Across the Universe lookup's text box sidescrolls; so does the Scorchio lookup's stat area, because the Neohome box sticks out some. In the Rainbow Pop lookup, all of the modules on the right stick out just a little into the black background. In the Turtle lookup, the trophies sidescroll and my longer-named pets seem to be shoving their siblings' stats into corners to make room for their names--my Usul has claimed twice the space her picture would require. You may want to note, though, that I only saw these things when I previewed all of your layouts because I couldn't find anything to take points off for. (Yes, I'm horrible, I should have just left it, etc.) Oh, and I didn't check to see that your lookups or petpages work with the filter changes. Also, your graphics are pretty great, it's just that I'm a mean horrible person who likes to check every nook and cranny she can find for flaws.

Grammar
{19/20}
In your credit for petpages, you need a comma between the two phrases, so that the sentence reads, "Layout from Race Trak Designs, click to get your own", and I noticed small problems in the credits for several of your lookups (noticed at the time, but don't remember enough to quote, because I previewed a lot of lookups). I spotted a couple other small mistakes.

Usefulness
{9/10}
The only suggestion I'd make it to make the previews larger when you drag them to your address bar.

Other
{9/10}
You seem to be missing the name of the review site that gave you an 86/100, and your navigation varies from page to page, which can be distracting.

Total: 88/100

Serendipity Pixels

Layout part 1
{14/15}
The only problem I'd note here is that the text on your goodie bag banner is very hard to read. It looks like it says, "Click fosi info SP coodie bac hunt", and it's especially difficult to make out because it's at an angle.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
When I tilt my screen a certain way, the background is a different color than the top image, but it doesn't look bad exactly, just a little strange.

Content
{23/25}
Some of your pixels look a little odd--the candy corn one is kind of round, the spider one isn't anatomically correct (all four pairs of a spider's legs sprout from its abdomen, not its thorax; yes, I'm a nerd), and your Ghostkerchief sword's crossguard is as long as the sword itself. It's hard to read the text on a couple of the lighter-colored welcome beads and I'm not really sure why the ends of the pencils are grey (real pencils are brown or tan). But most of your pixels are great.

Grammar
{19/20}
The only definite thing I can point is that in your navigation, "MSpaint" should be "MS Paint". I would also strongly suggest writing out "and" instead of using "&", but that may just be personal preference.

Usefulness
{10/10}
No problems here!

Other
{9/10}
I'm unsure why you have a pixel saying "SP News" next to your credits. Wouldn't it make more sense to have it by your updates?

Bonus
{2}
I love your Codestone pixels.

Total: 95/100

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Bouton

Layout part 1
{13/15}
The layout works, but the text in your textareas is too small to read and your italic text is too light to read.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
The bold color is a little too bright for comfort, your header fonts are kind of small--particularly the header two, it doesn't really draw my attention--and the background seems to flicker when I scroll.

Content
{23/25}
Most of your buttons were awesome, but there were a couple that seemed unintentionally blurry and one that was hard to read. Also, in a couple buttons you have white pixels around an object where it's clear that you've filled in the background around it.

Grammar
{18/20}
You use "there" instead of "they're" and "your" instead of "you're" repeatedly, and you're missing periods and spaces in spots. You also have a few sentences that don't make sense because you seem to have dropped the word "are". "I will only make maximum 2 buttons" should read, "I will only make a maximum of two buttons". Your first sentence under "Sister Site" is run-on and repetitive. "The name? Why the name is simply button is french. I love learning languages and I really loved it, so I decided to rename Glacial Buttons, into the wonderful Bouton!" should read "The name? Why, the name is simply 'button' in French. I love learning languages and I really loved the word, so I decided to rename Glacial Buttons 'Bouton'". Under Reviews, "scored" should be "score".

Usefulness
{8/10}
I wouldn't personally use your site because you don't give the requester much choice--you choose the border and you choose the animation--and yet you want them to give you the exact URL of the image they want. What are they supposed to do when they want an image that isn't on Neopets? I would also suggest that you provide a form and options for people who want to pick their own border. You could put something like, "I may tweak your request to make it look better".

Other
{8/10}
You need to link to Amber's site when you credit her, and your "Awards" section uses the same header you do when announcing the name of your site, which is kind of strange.

Total: 83/100

Haengbok

Layout part 1
{15/15}
No problems here.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
I would suggest making your navigation a little more obvious--the first time I viewed your site, it took me a while to find it. It also seems a little strange that it says "Caught in the Headlights" on your banner, but I didn't take points off for that because I understand that that's for credit.

Content
{22/25}
Your lookups don't display trophies, which I think they're supposed to. In your "Girls' Generation" lookup, you seem to have a randomly floating blue bar under the stats, and it doesn't look to great. In your "honey-sempai" lookup, there's a white square up near the top of the screen, just to the right of your image--it seems to be shaking hands with the ugly Nickelodian bar. In your "Faerie Xweetok" lookup, the links seem to be sticking out of the nice neat box-looking part of the graphic.

Grammar
{18/20}
You don't have periods at the end of sentences where you use smileys. "I moved when I was 2 to the US" doesn't really read well; it should read "When I was two, I moved to the US". "Forgived" in your about me paragraph should be "forgiven". Also, you need a period after "etc" wherever you use it, as it's an abbreviation.

Usefulness
{8/10}
Your Faerie Xweetok lookup preview doesn't contain the textbox that the layout has when I preview it on my lookup, and in some of your other previews you should put "YOUR TEXT WILL BE HERE" so that people can tell. Also, your Girls' Generation lookup preview is extremely small.

Other
{8/10}
Your credits and updates aren't the same on every page, and you have a bunch of rainbow pixels on your graphics page, which is kind of weird because I sort of expect the sidebar to be the same on each page.

Bonus
{1}
Kudos to you for having layouts that still work!

Total: 90/100
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Best Dressed

First Impression
{10/10}
Oh, wow. Very nice layout. Before even reading any of your text, I like your site.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Your layout is absolutely beautiful. It's a little blue, though.

Content
{24/25}
I didn't look at every single pet in your directory, but there were a few who weren't following your requirements--they weren't wearing backgrounds.

Grammar
{18/20}
I would suggest that you write out "at" in the links back button. Also, in "This page is best view with a screen larger than 1024 x 768", view should be "viewed". In your notices, "I remove your pet" should be "I will remove your pet".

Usefulness
{10/10}
No problems here!

Other
{9/10}
I'm not sure that your counter really goes with your layout...but that's just my initial opinion, you don't need to go by that. Also, you list how many pets in a species you have listed in some sections, but not in others.

Total: 95/100

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Plum Graphics

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
My only problems are your banner--hurts my eyes for some reason, and doesn't really match the rest of the color scheme--and that your "affies" and "listed at" sections are kind of long. I would suggest widening them or making them scroll.

Content
{23/25}
Most of your graphics are great, but the text on a few of the banners is hard to read, and the fonts on your buttons are kind of large.

Grammar
{17/20}
In general, your grammar is good except for a few mistakes, but several of your sentences don't read well or make sense. You're missing periods in some sentences that you use smileys after, and in others you put the period after the smiley, which I don't recommend--I would suggest putting the period and then the smiley. "Oh" and "Requests" have been capitalized unnecessarily in your updates, and "Sentence" in your rules. The sentence "Suggestions are open right now, and I hope to get a few shortly, but I have decided to keep requests closed, to try to get more content" seems kind of run-on, and part of it doesn't read well; I would rewrite it as "Suggestions are open right now, but I've decided to keep request closed. I hope to get a few suggestions and more content soon" or something along those lines. In the sentence "I'm really sorry that requests are still closed, but they are", "but they are" is rather redundant; if they weren't, you wouldn't be apologizing. Instead of saying "you can't take my banners to a Graphic Program", which is kind of hard to understand, you should just say something like, "Don't edit my banners". "Please use the link above to get the code as it makes the page stuff up when I put it here" doesn't really make sense; I think you mean "mess" instead of "stuff"?

Usefulness
{9/10}
Some of your previews seem to be cut off and not show the whole layout.

Other
{9/10}
You say you accept suggestions, but you don't mention who to Neomail them to.

Total: 90/100

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Aberrant Rune Graphics

Hey, I actually recognize some of these people!

First Impression
{8/10}
Your banner is very nice, but the text on it is a bit too light to read. Also, your color scheme in general is kind of light and beige for my taste.

Layout part 1
{8/10}
Everything works, but the font for your second header is incredibly hard to read, as is your italic text.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
As I mentioned before, your lookup is a little too light and beige for my taste--there's not enough contrast; it all feels kind of washed out. Also, there's something about the color of your text against the color of the background that I don't like. I would also suggest making the navigation more obvious.

Content
{22/25}
A few problems: your "guild layouts" links to a page that contains nothing more than a fairly creepy image. In your "Rukia and Ichigo" blog, the text is misaligned. The title "Tokyo Mew Mew" in the similarly named blog is hard to read, and the image looks grainy or pixelized. Other than that, though, your graphics look quite nice. The title in the "Dark and Light" blog is also hard to read.

Grammar
{19/20}
In "Instructions:To use my lookups", you need a space between the colon and the "to". You have similar problems all throughout your FAQ. The sentence "Are you done my *insert request here* yet?" in the FAQ is missing the word "with".

Usefulness
{9/10}
I would have preferred that you have the name of each blog in text over the blog, and then the code under it, as the blogs' titles aren't always too obvious.

Other
{7/10}
I would suggest putting your link back buttons in the column with your navigation, if you can; it would be easier to access. Also, the page you link for "guild layouts" may have users changing their secret words in fear of CGs, as it has nothing to do with guild layouts at all.

Total: 86/100

The Screen Savers

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Your layout works, but your text is a bit too small to read without straining my eyes.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Your layout is very nice, except for the things mentioned earlier. Also, the columns seem very uneven; I would suggest moving "review awards" to the left column.

Content
{22/25}
I didn't check all the screenies, but the following users' screenies were no longer up: Brazilianprince, Kinalima, Kiss_The_Cow, Kitten_Luv9. Funcky_Monkey14's screenies had moved. Also, I would recommend that you organize screenies by the type of screenies they contain, not by the username. For example, some pages have only pound screenies, some pages have only board screenies, and some people prefer pound screenies while others prefer board screenies.

Grammar
{17/20}
You need a space after every colon you use after "user" and "pet". "The Screen Savers' I know such a awesome name right?" should read something like "'The Screen Savers'--I know, such an awesome name, right?" Dead link and at least are both two words. In "welcome to The Screen Savers, we're a directory of screenie pages", the comma should be replaced with either a period or a semicolon. "Again it is a requirement of being part of the directory to link back to this page, you can do this by posting our link back button (located on left sidebar) or by posting a text link, on your screenie page" should probably read something like: "Again, you must link back to be part of this directory. You can do this by posting our link back button (located on the left sidebar) or a text link on your screenie page.".

Usefulness
{8/10}
The way you list your screenies is kind of confusing. I would suggest listing the person's username as a link to their screenies, or listing them "username linking to lookup - screenies" and have the "screenies" go to their screenies.

Other
{8/10}
It's kind of strange that you have a random dancing Kougra by your welcome paragraph. I would suggest getting a wider selection of link back buttons, and one of your link back buttons doesn't have your site's name on it.

Total: 85/100

Sun City Designs

Layout part 1
{5/15}
Your layout is really messed up. You've got weird grey lines that on second glance appear to be the headers of some other sections behind your layout, and then your layout dies and you've got stuff all over the place in no particular order. Some of your stuff is behind your layout.

Layout part 1
{6/10}
Even if your layout worked, I wouldn't like it much, as it's pretty much completely colorless. Also, there's really no reason to have your welcome, "now playing" and blog scroll. The blog, yes; the other stuff, no.

Content
{13/25}
First of all, I almost didn't find your content at all. You really need to make your navigation more obvious. Second, the layout on your content page is also messed up, so much of the content is hard to access. Third, your userlookups appear to be just the default Neopets userlookup, plus an image. Fourth, while it's tolerable with backgrounds and icons, I can't help but feel that taking pixels from an image hosting site borders on stealing. At the very least, it's pretty rude; those pixels were not made by you, so you really have no right to redistribute them, and if any of the people who made them have a Neopets site, they can report you for graphics theft.

Grammar
{7/20}
You don't capitalize anything, and I spotted several mistakes in Chase's about me box: the first sentence was run-on, there was a random ":d" in the middle of a sentence without a space separating it from a word...etc.

Usefulness
{4/10}
Your content is hard to access and the stuff that you took off of a image hosting site could be found elsewhere.

Other
{8/10}
It's kind of weird that you say "don't be on my wall of shame", when people really have no choice: if you decide that they belong on your wall of shame, they go on your wall of shame. They can decide whether to follow the rules, but the end decision whether to put them on your wall of shame is up to you. It would make more sense to say "don't break the rules". Also, some of the images you classify as pixels are really more icons or smileys.

Total: 59/100

Cotton Island

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Everything works, but the color of your bold text is a little too bright and/or light to read. I can read it, it's just hard and hurts my eyes a little.

Layout part 2
{10/10}
Your layout is very pretty. I couldn't find anything to critcize about it, except for the bold text, and I covered that in the last section.

Content
{25/25}
Your buttons are very nice. Some of them I find hard to read, but that's because I don't like one of the fonts you use, and that's not your fault; it's my personal likes and dislikes and the choice of the requester. If your requests were open at the moment, I would request a button.

Grammar
{20/20}
In my opinion, it's unnecessary to hyphenate "button-request-site" in your welcome, but I didn't take off for that since hyphens don't like me and vice versa. Other than that, I spotted no problems.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I find the font you used on the buttons that show what each border looks like a bit hard to read.

Other
{8/10}
You have strangely few link back buttons for a button request site. Also, it seems odd that you don't want to be affies with sites with a lot of affies, as that generally directs more traffic to them, and from them to you.

Total: 96/100

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Lorna's Petpage Directory

First Impression
{8/10}
Your banner is wonderful. However, your right column seems a little too wide, and I find the pink and green color scheme fairly unappealing.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
The color of your links hurts my eyes, and they're particularly hard to read in your navigation table, with green on green.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
In addition to what I mentioned before (overlarge column, unappealing color scheme, painful, hard-to-read links), your navigation table would look a lot better if it was centered. I would in fact recommend making the table itself invisible and just displaying the text. Also, I don't know if this is just me, but I I've always found the font you're using for your headers childish.

Content
{23/25}
I didn't look at many pages, but I found at least one that was now closed. Also, you have several spots where multiple pages are labeled the same thing, which is rather confusing. It looks like you've attempted to create a name that sums up the page instead of taking the owner's name for it, which is a pretty bad idea.

Grammar
{17/20}
The main thing that jumps out at me is that you have a period after each of your titles, which is unnecessary, as they're not sentences. Like a lot of people, you don't seem to finish sentences after which you use smilies. The first sentence of your welcome paragraph is a bit run-on; I would suggest separting it into "There are so many useful petpages in Neopia." and "why not have a place which contains links to these guides, graphics and adoption agencies?!

Usefulness
{9/10}
I would suggest adding rules and guidelines for anyone who gets listed.

Other
{8/10}
I would suggest moving your credits to the right column. Also, the section you have labeled "Blog" is actually your updates--to be a blog it would need to discuss each update and/or other things in your life in depth. The section you have labeled "Updates" should be called counters or statistics.

Total: 86/100

Anime Awesome

Layout part 1
{14/15}
Nothing's broken, but your text is a bit too small to read.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
The right column is incredibly long compared with the really short left one. I would recommend taking maybe half the stuff from the right column and moving it to the left until they're roughly even.

Content
{21/25}
None of what you have is bad, but I took some points off because you didn't make all of your icons. I would also recommend taking screenies of your layouts and putting them, reduced in size, over your lookups/guild layouts (as is done here) so that people can see what they'll look like before they use them.

Grammar
{10/20}
You have quite a lot of problems with grammar. One, it is rather annoying when you end your sentences with three to six exclamation points. One or two at the most convey your excitement just as well. Two, capitalizing the word "I" is not an option; nor is using apostrophes in contractions or putting a space after the end of a sentence. "Confuseing" should be spelled "confusing". Periods need to be used even when you have a smiley after the sentence. You need to write "august,12" as "August 12" or, better yet, "August 12th"; "iTouch..So sorry," should be something along the lines of "iTouch... So sorry." Unless you mean the blinkie saying "bye" to be the next word in the sentence; in that case you should probably put it on the same line as "So sorry". "Iv" (capitalized by me) is the Roman numeral for four. I think you mean "I've". "Scummies lookup tutorual(all" should be written "Scummie's Lookup Tutorial (all". Using bucketloads of so's fails to increase how very sorry you are and is just irritating. You also need to capitalize the first word in a couple sentences and spell "makeing" as "making". Also, "LINK ME?!?!?" is not a question and, even if it was one, would only require one question mark. "Neomail me?!?!" requires only a single question mark.

Usefulness
{8/10}
I took some points off because you didn't make all of the icons, so people could have found them elsewhere.

Other
{6/10}
Your paragraph telling people if requests are open is messy and hard to read, and doesn't mention whether "Your Name In Glitter Text!" is open. You should also create a form for requesting "Your Name In Glitter Text!" I would also extremely strongly recommend moving the past updates back to the site and putting them in a scrollbox.

Total: 75/100

Nia's Untaken Names

Layout part 1
{12/15}
Everything's readable, but half of your scrollbar is cut off. Also, the navigation to the different letters doesn't work for me, though the navigation to the welcome-Iryllie works fine.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
In general I like your layout, but I have a lot of problems with it. One, the main text area is too small. I'd suggest making the banner and navigation shorter so that your body text can be taller. To me, it just seems like your body text should be much taller than your banner. Two, the scrolling sidebar--I would suggest making the entire layout taller so that the sidebar doesn't have to scroll. Perhaps you could just remove the scrolling and height constraints and let both your sections be as long as they need to be? Three, I'd suggest that you center your scrollboxes.

Content
{25/25}
I'm going to be honest here: I didn't read very many of your names. Why? Because you have an incredible amount. That alone impresses me, because it increases the chances that someone will find a name they like.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't find anything major.

Usefulness
{10/10}
No problems here!

Other
{7/10}
One, the rules for your affies seem a little excessive. Rules two and four are standard knowledge, there's a code you can use to set the subject of the message if you want to, and then there's the whole appropriate greeting/farewell thing. I understand that you're trying to provide something that will prove they read the rules, but you really just need to put one thing, possibly something like, "Include the word 'Hawaii' somewhere in your form so that I know you read the rules." Also, I dislike the name of the site because it implies that you came up with all of the names, which you didn't.

Total: 89/100

Rose Graphics

Layout part 1
{15/15}
No problem here.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
Besides the overlarge welcome image, you have your updates in a textbox--they should be in an actual scrollbox. If you don't know how to do that, you can learn here. Also, your textboxes--like the one for your form--are really too wide for your right column.

Content
{17/25}
One, you say "photos from photobucket", which means that you didn't make some of them--I can't really give you that much credit for copying and pasting some codes. Second, you don't have that many graphics. And third, the pink Lutari glitter looks odd--I would suggest only making the dark pink and perhaps the black glitter.

Grammar
{18/20}
In one of your poems, "tuff" should be "tough". Also, in your updates, I suggest you use a colon instead of a hyphen--for example, "7/23/09-I fix the navagation!" should be "7/23/09: I fix the navagation!".

Usefulness
{8/10}
I took points off because the pictures were from Photobucket and not made by you, so people could have found them elsewhere.

Other
{8/10}
First of all, your graphics section contains headers for "other" and "requests", but you haven't labelled your icons. Also, your "Reviews: Open" status doesn't make sense because in almost all sites, you have to request a review; reviewers don't run up to you screaming, "Can I review your site?

Total: 80/100

William's Realistic Page

First Impression
{6/10}
Your page makes a very unfavorable first impression. The banner is blurry and unprofessional. There seems to be a broken image hovering over a ghost Hissi. And the random swirls background really doesn't work for me.

Layout part 1
{13/15}
Your layout works, but the white headers are hard to read against the white swirls.

Layout part 2
{6/10}
You don't really have a layout, just a dislikable background.

Content
{10/25}
You barely have any content, and I'm fairly unimpressed by what you do have.

Grammar
{18/20}
You barely have any text, and in that you do have, "This Picture is of my Art Apron!^^" should read, "This picture is of my art apron! ^^" or preferrably just "This is a picture of my art apron." You also need a space between the exclamation point and smiley in the caption of your third image.

Usefulness
{7/10}
Your site doesn't really seem to have a purpose--or if it does, I can't find it. Perhaps a welcome paragraph would help viewers do so?

Other
{9/10}
I would suggest getting a link back button that actually relates to your site.

Total: 69/100

For You

First Impression
{8/10}
I'd suggest that you make your site's name more glaringly obvious for people like me who sleep too much. Also, at first I thought your site was a directory of tutorials.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything seems to work and is readable.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
Your layout is nice, but it's extremely long. It would be really nice if you would shorten it and just have more content scroll. Also, it kind of bothers me that there's a little box at the bottom right that says "Neopets" but is empty except for a weird white spot. In addition, your navigation just isn't obvious enough for me. Refer to above comment about sleeping too much. You also have larger text on "for_you_tutorials#something" sections than on sections that are on other pages.

Content
{24/25}
Your tutorials were informative, but I did spot a few problems. In the "Being Polite" section, I'm afraid that you were incorrect on your assessment of the word "n00b" and spamming. First of all, "n00b" does not refer to an inexperienced player--that's a newbie. A n00b is someone who is purposefully annoying. More on that on this page. Secondly, spamming is not posting things to bump up a board or talking a lot. Spamming is creating boards that have nothing to do with the topic of the area, for example screaming "HI OMG IM MILY CYRUS" in the middle of the Help Chat. That's I think all I have for correction, although you may want to note that I'm mostly CSS-clueless. I would also suggest that in each section you link to other guides for that topic in case someone still has unanswered questions.

Grammar
{18/20}
I did spot a lot of small errors, but I can't remember pretty much any of them because you have tons of text. I also didn't take off many points because, again, you have tons of text.

Usefulness
{10/10}
Your site has tutorials on almost everything I can think of. Well, not really, but I think of weird things that no one in their right mind would need to know. Like how to rob chickens.

Other
{9/10}
I would suggest that you put your updates in a scrollbox.

Bonus
{2}
You get two bonus points for the enormous amount of content you have.

Total: 93/100

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Flare

First Impression
{10/10}
Nothing jumps out at me to criticize...I actually like your banner; it fits well.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{7/10}
I would prefer the scrollboxes to be taller, and you've got plenty of space off to the right side for a second column, perhaps containing link backs, affies, and other sitely information.

Content
{24/25}
Your site has an extremely unique concept, and frankly, there isn't exactly anything to compare it with. It can probably be named the best noticeboard site in Neopia, because I'm pretty sure it's, well, the only noticeboard site in Neopia. Enjoy that title; I predict that as Flare's popularity increases, imitations will follow. However, I did take one point off because all the posts are centered except the thread "Cute New Pixels", which is kind of strange.

Grammar
{17/20}
I didn't proofread the posts themselves because they were not written by you. In "thinking one day; why", the semicolon should be a colon. In "Read Flares appraisal", Flare needs to be possessive: Flare's. You seem to not finish sentences when you use smilies after them. "People have posted, the newest topics" should read "people have post. The newest topics..." There were several places in "My Noticeboard" where you had not capitalized an I. There were a few other small problems.

Usefulness
{10/10}
Your site would certainly be useful for getting a message out, and I in fact intend to post about another of my sites when I finish this review.

Other
{9/10}
Just as a note, your link to A Stick in the Mud from the award continues into the beginning of your "comment" section.

Total: 92/100

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Asparagus Anonymous

First Impression
{8/10}
Your banner seems kind of large, and it's strange that two of the images (the two right after Adam) have different colored backgrounds while the rest are all the same.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
It's nice, but I would say to use a different font, and the unevenly-ending small columns just seem wrong to me.

Content
{20/25}
Your content is interesting, but it all seems to be a bit lacking in detail. There's another problem: you claim to be helping people break their addictions to asparagus, yet you praise and flaunt asparagus all over the page. I can't help that think that's a bit wrongheaded. You tell people how to stay away from asparagus, then detail how to keep it from aging; you say "Definitely DON'T wear green", but that's the color of your layout.

Grammar
{15/20}
You have a lot of small problems: capital letters in the middle of sentences ("yes is the answer, Then you've", "let me know, Just give", etc.), missing spaces after periods ("2.Set", every name on the list of addicts), uncapitalized first letters of sentences ("or you could simply", "not bad for first"), and more. Also, "A question you ask yourself repeatedly?" is not a question or a sentence; it should read, "Is this a question you ask yourself repeatedly?" And you misspelled "spiffie"; it should read "spiffy".

Usefulness
{8/10}
Your site is nice, but I think you could add a lot more detail.

Other
{9/10}
For some small suggestions: you should make your counter out of an image of asparagus instead of a muffin and resize all your awards to the same size.

Total: 83/100

Kira's Blinkies

First Impression
{9/10}
Your banner is a little hard to read, so it's hard to figure out the site name.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable, except for the banner; "blinkies" can be slightly hard to read.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Nice layout, but the right column seems kind of short and the link back buttons are up pretty high.

Content
{23/25}
Nice images, but most of them are kind of pixelly--not pixelized exactly, but irregular, not smooth. Also, some of them are hard to read, and so is the "new" sign.

Grammar
{19/20}
You're missing a period after every sentence where you used a smiley, and in some of the rules. In the phrase "I do not make lookups or banner, sorry", banner needs to be plural.

Usefulness
{10/10}
You have plenty of quite nice blinkies.

Other
{10/10}
I like how you have a "Coming Soon" section.

Total: 94/100

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Legend of the Seeker Directory

First Impression
{5/10}
Your site seems unfinished--you've still got headers that say "subtitle" and areas that just say, "text here".

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout Part 2
{7/10}
It's nice, but slightly simplistic, and the banner looks unattractively pixelized and sketchy.

Content
{17/25}
You really need to add more categories and require that all buttons be the same size--probably 88x31. Also, you need to separate "guides" and "directories" and "buttons" and "music", as they're very different things.

Grammar
{20/20}
You barely have any text.

Usefulness
{8/10}
You have no rules, form to get listed, or link to Neomail you, which would make it quite difficult to get listed.

Other
{6/10}
You're missing my link and the links to other of my pages that affied with you. Also, you need more link back buttons.

Total: 79/100

Hopeless Thoughts

First Impression
{8/10}
Your welcome image is a bit large, I think, and it also doesn't tell you what the site provides. Maybe you could put a line on it that says "a graphics site" or something?

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout Part 2
{8/10}
Please, please, please make the scrollboxes with graphics in them wider. You've got loads of empty space under your headers; there's no need to make your visitor scroll horizontally. In fact, I don't think it'd be a problem if you removed the scrollboxes completely.

Content
{23/25}
I'm not a fan of any of these people, but I'll try not to judge based on that. The text on several of the blends looks extremely out of place and one of them is slightly pixelized.

Grammar
{15/20}
You have large and consistant problems with punctuation. You need to put spaces after your exclamation points, colons, commas, and periods, and apostrophes in your contractions. You also misspelled "dawn" and capitalized "welcome", "me here", and "edited" unnecessarily.

Usefulness
{8/10}
You need to make your graphics link back to your page. Also, your "Neomail me here" link directs the user to send a Neomail--with the "To" field blank.

Other
{7/10}
You need to shrink your awards so that the column doesn't have to stretch and remove the marquee from your affies; it doesn't give people time to click on them.

Total: 84/100

Quizmania

First Impression
{9/10}
It's very blue. Perhaps a little too blue.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works fine.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
I decided not to take off points for the incredible blueness because it's okay once you look at it for a while. It's just overwhelming when you first come in. It is slightly simple-looking, though. That may be a good thing...

Content
{25/25}
All of your links lead to what they're supposed to.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't see any problems.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I would suggest organizing the quizzes by category--perhaps non-Neopet related quizzes would be in one category, "Which ____ are you?" quizzes in another, and personality/other quizzes in a third?

Other
{8/10}
You didn't have the link I require anywhere. Also, I would suggest titling the "Quiz of the..." section "Selected Quizzes". And the blue star, a graphic, doesn't really belong in a site that's otherwise completely focused on quizzes.

Total: 95/100

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Elements

First Impression
{10/10}
Wow! Very nice layout. Before I even begin to read your site, I like your layout.

Layout part 1
{14/15}
The only problem is that the layout is that there's a little tiny sliver cut off on the right side. It's about a quarter, maybe less, of the scrollbar, or half of the L in Carl.

Layout part 2
{9/10}
Wow! I love your layout. But...(there's always a catch) I would advise making it shorter (vertically) so that the visitor only has to scroll within the box. Also, the flowers on the right side end abruptly. Perhaps make it wider?

Content
{24/25}
Very nice graphics! But...(again with the catch) there don't seem to be very many of them, especially the backgrounds. Also, in some of the glitters it takes a while to figure out what's glittering.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't spot any problems.

Usefulness
{10/10}
I considered taking a point off because of their quantity, but I decided not to. You have a lot of completed requests and not that many general items.

Other
{9/10}
I would advise having more than one link back button, for variety.

Bonus
{3}
I love your smilies, the detail with which you update your site, and how you comment on your reviews.

Total: 99/100

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Netiquette

I'm going to try to ignore the fact that I don't like to be kind.

First Impression
{8/10}
At first impression, your site doesn't repulse me, but it doesn't interest me too much.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works fine.

Layout part 2
{10/10}
Very nice layout. I like the background.

Content
{25/25}
At first I thought your site would be a drag to read, telling me "OMG don't flame that poor person their mom might be dying of cancer!" But it wasn't. It was actually quite interesting. It seems to end a little soon, though...but since I can't really think up anything else to put in there, I won't take off for that.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't find any major problems.

Usefulness
{10/10}
I think your guide would be useful for someone, probably new, looking for a guide on how to act.

Other
{9/10}
I didn't see my button anywhere.

Total: 97/100

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Colours of the Wind

First Impression
{9/10}
Something seems missing or slightly off. I can't say what; it may just be me.

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works fine and is readable.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
In general I like your layout, but it bothers me that your signs and blogs sections must scroll sideways. Perhaps you could either shrink the images to fit (saying "drag to your address bar for a full-sized preview") or widen your center column? Also, I don't really like that your left and right columns end unevenly. Maybe you could lengthen the right one or move some stuff from the left one into the right?

Content
{23/25}
Most of your content is good, but your blogs seem pixellized/stretched and your "Closed" banner is grainy.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't spot any problems. I would put a second curlique at the end of "a Disney graphics site by Marie", though, and capitalize the A.

Usefulness
{10/10}
You have a lot of content and a lot of variety. Very nice!

Other
{10/10}
I didn't spot any other problems.

Bonus
{1}
I like how you have a section on what's coming soon.

Total: 96/100

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The Pound Surfing Guide

First Impression
{7/10}
Your layout seems kind of strange--I don't think the color scheme fits with the page--and I don't think it's really suited to your purpose.

Layout part 1
{12/15}
Your "Navigation" and "Introduction and Welcome" boxes are up on the header, and your images are too wide for your layout. Also, the bolded text is slightly hard to read.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
It's a nice layout, but I don't think it's suited to your purpose. Also, the big empty grey space off to the right just seems weird.

Content
{22/25}
Your guide isn't very detailed. Also, in "How to Pound Surf", all you do is show people where various components of the pound are; you don't explain at all how to pound surf. Also, on that image, some of the bright colors are hard to read.

Grammar
{13/20}
You have that annoying habit of capitalizing all the words in a sentence/random words in a sentence. Remember, only titles, names/proper nouns, and the first word of a sentence needs to be capitalized. You also have spelling and punctuation problems in several places.

Usefulness
{7/10}
As I said before, your guide isn't very detailed and doesn't really explain how you're supposed to "search for great named pets or painted pets in the pound".

Other
{8/10}
The fact that the images are too wide for the boxes they're in really bothers me. And you don't link back to me anywhere.

Total: 77/100

HC-crets

Layout part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout part 2
{8/10}
Your layout is very minimalistic...I'm not sure if that's a good or a bad thing.

Content
{25/25}
Your content is very...interesting. Some were funny, some were sad.

Grammar
{18/20}
There were a few small problems in both the text and images.

Usefulness
{10/10}
Though exactly how this site would be useful is kind of hard to determine, it fulfils its purpose, which is to show secrets of Neopets users anonymously.

Other
{9/10}
I would suggest getting more link back buttons. Perhaps something with the HC symbol on it?

Total: 92/100

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Secret Observer

First Impression
{9/10}
Very nice, but is seems to be kind of missing something. I can't say what.

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
Everything works and is readable.

Layout Part 2
{9/10}
In general, I like your layout, it just seems to be missing something--perhaps it's a little simplistic?

Content
{25/25}
You have a lot of sites, and all of the ones I looked at were still up (as opposed to now being a default petpage).

Grammar
{17/20}
I did spot a couple things: "directory site, that has everything you need" should either read "directory site, which has everything you need" or "directory site that has everything you need". Also, "Kill the Lights, is inspired by" should be "Kill the Lights is inspired by". And "choose which contact header are you going to use?" is not a question, nor is "Affiliares, or are you Getting Listed??" a sentence. And you misspelled affiliates.

Usefulness
{10/10}
You have plenty of links, and as far as I saw all of them work.

Other
{9/10}
Your counter (the one that shows total views, not the one that shows how many people are currently on the site) is hard to read.

Bonus
{1}
Very interesting introductory paragraph.

Total: 95/100

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SWEET Graphics

First Impression
{8/10}
The skull icon at the left contrasts incredibly with the pink layout. Also, the light pink on white/dark pink is hard to read.

Layout Part 1
{13/15}
Your layout works, but as I've mentioned it's hard to read the pink text (links, I think, and text in textboxes).

Layout Part 2
{9/10}
Your layout is nice, but nothing special.

Content
{24/25}
Most of your graphics were good (I laughed at the icons even though I'm not a Twilight fan) but a couple were slightly pixelized.

Grammar
{15/20}
Though you don't have much text, the text you do have has pretty bad grammar. You're missing apostrophes in all your contractions and you don't put spaces after your punctuation.

Usefulness
{8/10}
You have plenty of graphics, but you only include the image address and not the code to make it work. That would make it hard for people who don't know HTML to use them.

Other
{9/10}
Some of your icons are repeated.

Total: 86/100

SongBird Names

First Impressions
{7/10}
My first impression of your page wasn't good or bad. I wasn't repulsed, but I wasn't interested either.

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works fine and is readable.

Layout Part 2
{7/10}
Like with your first impression, I don't find your layout particularly good or bad, just there.

Content
{23/25}
Your names were very unique, but some were unpronouncable. Also, I would remove the male/female distinction, because when you say/look at them, they're really mostly gender-neutral.

Grammar
{19/20}
I would put a space in "main account(power_peanut)" between account and (power_peanut). There were a couple other minor punctuation issues.

Usefulness
{10/10}
Although I didn't check to make sure that all of your names were untaken, I see from your updates that you have. People looking for names would have a collection to browse here.

Other
{9/10}
I would suggest getting some more 88x31 link back buttons, since you only have one.

Total: 89/100

Retrospect

First Impression
{9/10}
Gorgeous image, but it seems a little strange because when I first come in I have no clue what the site provides. Perhaps you could put a banner somewhere that says something like, "Lookups, layouts, palettes, and music codes"?

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works fine and is perfectly readable.

Layout Part 2
{9/10}
Generally, I really like your layout, I would just comment that one thing looks kind of strange: you have your column with navigation, contact, and link back before your welcome paragraph, which can be slightly confusing.

Content
{25/25}
Very nice layouts/lookups, and you have loads of variety.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't see anything major.

Usefulness
{10/10}
No problem here!

Other
{9/10}
I didn't see a link to me anywhere, but I'll let that slide since you said you'd get it as soon as you got back on your main and for all I know you might not have. However, one part is not clear: where you have "apply & reqs", you don't say what you'd be applying for. At first I assumed that those were rules for requesting a layout or something. I had to click on "apply" to discover that it was for affies.

Bonus
{1}
I love your last six link back buttons.

Total: 98/100

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Aki Ame's Icons & Images

First Impression
{8/10}
Your welcome image is cute (Sakura Cardcaptor, I think?) but it leaves me kind of wondering what the site is because it's so tall. Also, the big, white, empty space to the side seems kind of strange.

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works fine.

Layout Part 2
{7/10}
Cute image, but it's a little plain. Also, there's a conspicuous lack of any information about your site. Even, "Hi, welcome to my graphics site!" would suffice. I would also suggest making the boxes wider so that your visitor doesn't have to scroll horizontally--you've got plenty of space, so you might as well use it.

Content
{21/25}
Your images are gorgeous, but several are broken or wouldn't load, and there was inappropriate language in one of the icons.

Grammar
{19/20}
You barely have any text, but you're missing a space in "byPrettychicky15" and I don't think "Angel" should be capitalized in your top image.

Usefulness
{9/10}
I took a point off here because several of your images were broken or wouldn't load.

Other
{9/10}
You didn't have the link I require anywhere.

Total: 89/100

Final Destination Designs

First Impression
{9/10}
Whoa. This utterly confused me for a moment; I had no clue where to look. I kind of still don't.

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
As far as I can tell, the layouts on all three pages work fine.

Layout Part 2
{9/10}
My only complaint is that it's slightly confusing when you first come to the site. My eyes tend to just kind of zone out resting on the animation. Perhaps you could have another part of the animation that says "Look here!" and has a big arrow pointing to one of the boxes? I don't know. It's a wonderful animation and I would hate for you to make it less so on my advice, but it seems kind of strange for everything to be in the corners when you first come in.

Content
{25/25}
As far as I can tell, your userlookups are great and you have a load of them. Your content is great.

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't find any mistakes.

Usefulness
{10/10}
Your animation promises quality userlookups. I think you definitely provide them.

Other
{10/10}
Everything in this site was great!

Bonus
{3}
I love all of the artsy flourishes in your animation and your header font. Great site!

Total: 101/100

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Rosie's Randoms

I'll keep in mind that this site is still under construction.

First Impression
{7/10)
I don't like your banner for a couple of reasons: while the swirls look professional, the green and blue part looks like you slapped it onto another image in Paint. Also, I would make it wide enough to cover the whole page, as long as you've got all of that empty space.

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works fine.

Layout Part 2
{7/10}
Your layout is very basic. I don't really like it or hate it. It's neither pretty nor ugly--just kind of there.

Content
{15/25}
If your site wasn't under construction, I would take even more points off since you only have one banner. I don't find that banner especially good--it looks like you took a bunch of Twilight icons, stuck them in paint on a red background, and then scibbled on them. They're barely legible.

Grammar
{17/20}
You have slight problems in punctuation and capitalization in places. Also, I would recommend that in " if I think you have totally Random & Icy graphics I'll give this award to you" you write "random and icy" instead of what you have.

Other
{0/10}
You have about your site under a header that says about me. All of your navigation links to the site where you got your music code because you haven't closed that link tag. Also, your graphics link back to a non-Neopets site, which is against the rules. You need to have them link back to your page, not to their own URLs.

Total: 71/100

Inu-Graphics

I'll try to review fairly even though I'm not especially an InuYasha fan (I used to be XD).

First Impression
{7/10}
Hmm. I don't know about the banner image. I think it's a little tall--I'd like to be able to see at least the beginning of the welcome without scrolling down.

Layout Part 1
{13/15}
It looks like the text is sticking slightly out of the boxes in Welcome, Wall of Shame, and Affies. Also, the font/color you used to title your sections is hard to read.

Layout Part 2
{6/10}
Besides the banner, which I've already mentioned, I would create a seperate section for link back buttons and make the Banners box wider so that it doesn't have to scroll horizontally. Also, the two different shades of pink are slightly distracting--I would suggest that you make the background the same shade as the layout.

Content
{25/25}
Even though I'm not a fan of the mangas, your graphics are great. Especially the second banner. It made me laugh a lot.

Grammar
{19/20}
I did find a couple things: in "So Thanks to Kona and Maya for helping me with my graphics site", thanks shouldn't be capitalized; the same with and in "TNT (the neopets team) And you even might".

Usefulness
{10/10}
Your site would be very useful to people looking for InuYasha graphics. (Or graphics from the other manga that I'm not familiar with. Bleach?)

Other
{8/10}
Under Banners and in your link back buttons, your graphics and textboxes aren't clearly seperated; it can be hard to tell which textbox matches which button/banner.

Total: 89/100

Twisted Shrooms

Layout Part 1
{15/15}
Your layout works and is readable. No problems here.

Layout Part 2
{9/10}
I would make the main body (under the banner) scroll and put your updates, affies, and navigation in boxes off to the side. Other than that, your layout looks good. The colors are nice and I like the background.

Content
{25/25}
Wow! Very in-depth. It certainly seems to me that your content is complete. I think I heard somewhere that there were more Shrooms with effects, but since for all I know that just popped randomly into my head, I probably shouldn't even mention it.

Grammar
{18/20}
I spotted a couple of small mistakes, most notably "In the game keyquest those little blue spotted things, that almost look like muffins, They also resemble a mushroom, fungus or maybe even a toadstool. Besides , ...". I would rewrite that to read "In the game Keyquest there are little blue spotted things that almost look like muffins. They also resemble a mushroom, fungus, or maybe even a toadstool. Besides, ..." Also, I feel that in "A shroomy Guide" on the banner, you should either capitalize all of the words or only the A.

Usefulness
{10/10}
I like how you provide the estimated price and links to find the item! Were I collecting mushroom-related items, I would definitely find your guide extremely useful!

Other
{10/10}
I like the way you've displayed the items and the colors you used for your updates scroll box.

Total: 97/100

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Riverdance Pixels

First Impression
{8/10}
Mostly good, but the banner at the top hurts my eyes. Maybe make the green a little less bright?

Layout Part 1
{14/15}
Your layout works fine in Safari! I will mention that the header text is a little hard to read--"Wall of Shame" looks like "Wall op Sbame"--and the main body text is a little small.

Layout Part 2
{8/10}
I like it in general, but for the issues I've already mentioned. Also, if I stare at the background long enough I'll faint. I see scribbles when I look at it. Like, light-trail scribbles. I would like it if it didn't keep attacking my eyes. It does fit with your theme, though.

Content
{21/25}
Michela's alphabet pixels are a little large and some look slightly sloppy--the K, L, U, H, and D spring to mind. Maybe if you made them all the same size they wouldn't look so oversized? Love the Slorgs and jelly pixels. And the mice. But the origami dogs scare me. They look faintly demonic. Also, the tongue smilies look like Kirby kicking someone. Not sure if that's a good or a bad thing. You have wonderful variety, though. May I suggest making the giraffe-with-an-afro adoptable?

Grammar
{20/20}
I didn't see anything major, but I would not have a space between "gum/" and "gumballs" under Pixels by Kolibri.

Usefulness
{10/10}
You're a pixel site with plenty of pixels. No problems with usefulness!

Other
{9/10}
I have to mention that though your counter's colors match your theme well, the box shape doesn't do it for me. Perhaps centering it would make it look better?

Bonus
{5}
I know how much the owner has put into this site for a long time. And I love the mice.

Total: 95/100

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