FIRST GLANCE 9/10 While entering Soroptimist Directory, the layout made by Shingie gives me a warm feeling, especially with the use of the greens and subtle yellows in the banner. Although my eyes go to one particular part of the banner; the lettering. Even though the textures on the banner give a minimal orange glow, the banner maker should have used a color such as #F7ED3C, and darker versions of the color as well -- the orange just looks a bit out of place. Also, there is a very beautiful color scheme around the site, yet the first thing that is noticeable in your Introduction to the Experience section, your bold is plain black. Maybe try spicing it up a bit by using this as the bold coding;

Your bold would then look like this:

-1 for mismatched colors/dullness

LAYOUT 29/30 The layout Soroptimist is currently using is a custom-made layout from Shingie, and many visitors may value that, although there is no matter whether it is a premade or a custom. The layout is functional when navigating throughout the site because 1. the sidebar with all navigation links are anchored to quickly find what you are looking for, and 2. when looking for a specific site, you can use ctrl+f and it still works; well-done. The navigation bar to the left is also partially color-coded which helps the visitor in different browsers since you can either hover over Soroptimist, or click the orange links below. One thing I must point out is that yes, you mentioned the layout is not functional in Internet Explorer, but Internet Explorer is one of the most used Website Browsers world-wide, so just keep in mind to try to make it functional in that browser as well. Also, viewing in Google Chrome, everything is normal and fine, but one thing you can fix for Internet Explorer users is editing the Welcoming Booth/Getting Listed box's height in pixels because there is unnecessary scrolling going up and down -- I suggest expanding the height by 15-20 px from 228px to at least 243px or more so the scroll bar to the right is gone.

-1 for issues in different browsers

CONTENT&QUALITY 18/20 The content you offer at Soroptimist Directory consists of links to sites, and your goal is to help people find what they need. Soroptimist meets that goal, definitely, but most of your links are dead and must be swept, or must be grey-linked because they are on hiatus such as Random in the Untaken Names section. Marking sites that are on hiatus or removing sites that are closed is a big component to directories because it may bring your listed site amount down, and your directory will not meet its full potential in giving your visitors many options in each category to choose from.
Also, you still have button place holders in sections that still need a few more to achieve the completed top 8 ranked sites. By finishing them, you would help your 'customer' make smart decisions in which site to check in on first if they get lost in all of the links below. I'd finish the ranking sections if I were you. The following sections are incompleted:

Adoptions&Trades
Coding&Design
Dailies&NP Guides
Link Directories
Miscellaneous
Neoboard Fonts
Premade Fonts
Requests

Other than those minor changes that need to be made, your content and the quality of your content is above average, and very-well made/thought out. Nicely done.

-1 for not updating links
-1 for incomplete rankings

ORGANIZATION 19/20 Overall, Soroptimist is very organized; your Getting Listed area is easily found, you have a symbol key to help your visitors understand what each marking means next to sites, and you separate sites into specific categories. Then you put them into columns and boxes as well to make sure Soroptimist does not have unnecessary scrolling up&down as well. Yet, there is only one suggestion; the Site Community should be near the top. Or at least the Sitely News. Being able to view the news at the top or near the top of the page would definitely be more convenient to the visitor so it is the first thing they see -- they'll be able to tell which sites have specials, which sites have revamped, or any site that currently has open requests right away. Just a thought! Other than that, your site is pretty spiffy when it comes to organization!

-1 for misplacement

CREATIVITY 6/7 Cass, you always come up with amazing surprises, invent crazy new ideas to add, and love entertaining your visitors with so many different original creations that Soroptimist holds. These sections are what make Soroptimist Directory stand out to others:

Getting Listed URL -- Most people may not notice this, but you really think about your visitor convenience when having others get listed; you put an address in the text area with all the text ready instead of a form like most sites which decreases the steps people have to take to neomail you.

Grey Links -- You made links grey to let your visitors know that the site they are looking at may be either a) filter afflicted or b) inactive/on hiatus.
Sitely News -- You let other sites post about what their site now has to offer and any changes they made to the site to let others know to stop by.

Some features I do miss though are the Featured Site section and the Advertising section that used to be there. I suggest to should bring those parts back because many people used to love them; they would know what sites you currently liked and what sites should be getting some recognition, and also, the free site advertising may be like the Sitely News, but what is truly different is when advertising, you mention everything about your site that makes you unique and what you have to offer, and when posting on the Sitely News, you just letting others know what you have to offer that very minute.

-1 for removing originality/lacking creativity

SPELLCHECK 4/5 Any grammar/spelling/punctuation mistakes will be marked here that need to be changed; there will be the version on your site, the corrected version which it should look like, and the reason why it should be changed.

Soroptimist Directory is a simple and hopefully convenient directory of petpages and NT articles, run by Cass.

Soroptimist Directory is a simple, and hopefully convenient, directory of petpages and Neopian Times articles run by Cass.

You can even find out what's going on around the community with the sitely news!

Corrected Version:

You can even find out what's going on around the community with the Sitely News!

Reason: Remember to capitalize proper nouns! Sitely News is a section of your site that is labeled uniquely, so since it has a name, it should be capitalized.

Banner textures from Nienke's Premades and innocense

Corrected Version:

Banner textures from Nienke's Premades and Innocense

Reason: Innocense is a proper noun and a website, so it should also be capitalized.

-1 for a total of 3 errors

SITELY 6/8 The first section that will be looked at is Soroptimist Directory's linkback buttons. Most of your buttons are high-quality which is good, except for a couple.

This button has a few minor problems. First off, the text color could have been chosen differently; the button creator have gone for a darker grey such as #818080 because although the grey used in the button above is average and okay, when the 'flash' comes on, the grey is almost barely readable. Speaking of the 'flash,' it is too harsh for the eyes. It is almost as if it is flickering on and off rather than fading in and out like this one:

Button above created by Nostalgia

The second button that could definitely look better would be this one:

Two things; the border is one of them. Now, yes, the border is good quality and looks fine, but it seems almost as if the border is unfinished:

As you can see, there are two dots (in red) missing from the border which make it look rushed and sloppy as if the creator was running out of time to finish it and forgot to add the last two 'finishing touches.' Also, one other thing about the button is the animation. The color of it is too close to the letter border's color for most people's taste. Instead of #a45b8e, the color of the animation should have been #dba1c9 to distinguish the animation from the lettering border.

Next is your affiliates. Best Dressed has not been updated since the site has taken a vacation from August 5th to August 11th. Also, Drifting Designs has closed. Lastly, Peach Pit has not updated since October 2nd.

Finally would be your listers, but since Soroptimist Directory lists its listers with the rest of the directories, they are updated frequently and there are no closed directories.

-1 for 2 low-quality buttons
-1 for 3 closed/inactive affiliates

FINAL COMMENTS Cass, Soroptimist Directory is a wonderful directory, and one of the best, most constantly updated, and longest-living directories out there in Neopia, and this is very true. With just a few alterations and fixes to Soroptimist, it can be the most perfect site overall as well. Congratulations on your review, and well done. I have decided to give Soroptimist Directory a 91/100 with a total of 9 deducted points. Great job so far! You may request a re-review if you'd like on January 29th, 2012 as long as you make a few more changes to your site. Thank you very much for requesting a review; care to linkback?

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PROS

ORGANIZATION -- Your layout is very organized and you can tell where everything is and where everything goes.

COLOR SCHEME -- Overall, the color scheme of your site is pretty much spot-on, but I do have a few suggestions in the cons section.

LAYOUT -- Again, the layout is great, but I have a couple tips for you when editing, etc. Great job though!

SIDE NOTE -- Just to inform you, I believe that having more cons than pros is actually better for you because having cons does not just mean you have faults or mistakes in your site; it means that there are open suggestions and opportunities to make your site better so it can live up to its full potential. Please do not be offended if there are more cons -- they are only there to help you improve on your doings, not to bring you down (just a reminder!) :)

CONS

NAVIGATION -- Your site navigation should be centered on your layout because it seems like it is aligned to the left. To center it, use this code:

Copy that code and paste it by replacing it with the code that looks similar to it; the code that needs to be replaced is after the hover coding for the navigation. Also, the navigation colors could be changed to make it stand out more and not just plain black, white, and shades of grey. I suggest using colors you see in your layout such as #438B8E (dark teal), #FFC166 (brighter orange), or #F35F44 (soft red/pink). You can play around and experiment with the different combinations of the hex codes, but I recommend this:

Place that code where the previous similar coding is to try it out. Feel free to edit it from there; that is just a suggestion.

HEADERS -- Your headers, especially your header threes, do not match the colors your layout provides. I suggest this for your header three:

With all the changes made so far, this is how your site would look:

The last header I'd suggest changing would be your header twos; I would change the color of the words to #43A2A4 and add a light blue underlining (#ADD7D8) so your headers would look like this:

Like the change? Here's the code:

REQUEST SECTION -- Okay, looking at your request section, the first thing you should change would be the rules and non-rules. The non-rules are unnecessary because although they're not actually 'rules,' they could possibly fall under the rules section. Remove the non-rules section, and re-write the rules like so:

You should also get rid of the divider because it is un-needed since each section is already divided by headers; the headers are also underlined which gives more emphasis to distinguish each part distinctively. Oh, and one more note would be to make the header FORM lowercase because capitalizing it looks unprofessional compared to the rest of the headers.

The next thing I notice in your request section is that when a visitor would go to request, there is a box with the form, not an actual 'textarea.' Add this code in your style tags and change the box coding where the form is to regular textarea tags:

Lastly, with the linkback section, instead of making each button and textarea a pair by adding br's and p's after one another, you should have all three buttons in the same row, then use a br to have all three textareas in the same row underneath the correct button by using this code:

Your setup would then look like this:

Just remember then to change the brackets [ ] to the carrot brackets!

LINKS AND ITALICS -- Finally, these last to aspects of the site look good, but to make them even better, change the hover color for the links to #F8964A because the current orange visitors see when hovering is a 'dirty' orange color. With the italics, make them a bit darker than the blue it is right now by using #3CBCBE.

FINAL COMMENTS Rollover is an extremely well-made site with lots of potential, and I'm sure over time, it will become one of the best button request sites in Neopia. I do have a few tips for your buttons, so if you'd like, you could request another review on February 7th, 2012 to have me focus on your buttons by requesting the Icicle review. Thank you very much for requesting a review; care to linkback?

I have owned a previous review site. Because of this, I know the proper way to review, and how to deduct points.

First requester? Your review will be completed in less than two days. I understand what it is like to wait for a review, and my previous review site was more of a practice one for Ayuda. It was trial and error, and what I didn't think about was how long the person at the end had to wait. If you are the fourth person on the waiting list, you will wait no longer than five days for your finished review.

I can view sites from a visitor point of view. While reviewing your site as a professional reviewer, I also take into consideration how a visitor looking at your site would feel about being there as well, and also, surprisingly, I try my hardest to be in your shoes while re-reading this review, and make sure my responses one, make sense to the site owner by explaining as thoroughly as possibly, and two, trying to be helpful and give constructive criticism without hurting feelings or being offensive. If I fail to do so, I apologize in advance; that was not my intention.

My reviews can benefit specific categories. Not only have I owned a review site, but I have also owned a directory, and a button request site, so my advice to those types of sites is more helpful as opposed to other categories which is sadly limited. I know how to give good advice to definitely improve sites, but sometimes some types of sites may receive more help than other types just because I am unaware and unsure of how to run a few different themes.

My knowledge of grammar mechanics and spelling is large. Getting straight A's throughout grammar school and mostly high-school is very helpful when reviewing for any grammar/spelling/punctuation errors in a site, especially because Google Chrome has a built in spell-check like a Microsoft Word document, so it has those pretty red lines underneath words for me to correct!

What's more fun to pop; popcorn, bubble wrap, or balloons? Bubble wrap ^3^

If you were a dog, what kind would you be? Pomeranian~! :3

Eat m&m's one at a time, or by the handful? By the handful, of course!

Ultimate part of the cake; cake, frosting, or filling? Frosting... mmmm... :P

Dancing or listening to music? Listen to music, for sure!!

I wish I could be paid to... breathe; haha x)

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Would you rather be a cat and wash yourself, or a dog and get a bath? A dog and get a bath, because you never know if you fully clean yourself as a cat... o___o

Open your mouth to put on mascara? Haha, yeah; is that weird? ..... x_x

Do toothpaste worms in the sink bug you? Sometimes, but whenever they're mine, I don't always wash them out :O