Friday, February 4th
- Just to let you all know, Speculation and Abstract are NOT on a hiatus. I am just trying to get the sites back in order!
- Yay, textareas will be coming back, don't know what we would do without them!
- Thanks much to Morgen, she will be helping with my sites coding and get them back up and running. If you could recommend Abstract at Soroptimist, that would mean a lot to me, Thanks! (:

Wednesday, February 2nd
- These permanent coding filters are giving me a really hard time. I am horrible with coding and Abstract is pretty much fine besides the nav and text areas of course. But I am in major need of help on Speculations coding, if anyone could help me it would mean a lot. Thanks!

Monday, January 31st
- As you can tell, there are a lot of coding problems going on. I am trying my best to fix Abstract first, then try to move onto Speculations coding. Wish me luck!

Sunday, January 30th
- Will try and clear the waiting list very soon!
- If you could maybe recommend Abstract to be ranked at Soroptimist that would mean a lot to me!

Wednesday, January 27th
- I want to thank a lot of you that neomailed me about the gimp update yesterday, it really means a lot. If you would still like to neomail me, please do! (:
- If you could maybe recommend Abstract to be ranked at Soroptimist that would mean a lot to me!
- Might start another review today!

Wednesday, January 26th
- Probably going to get one review finished today!
- If you could maybe recommend Abstract to be ranked at Soroptimist that would mean a lot to me!
- I really want to open a graphic site for neo but don't know if I should download gimp. I have heard it can cause viruses. If you could give me feed back on this it would be appreciated! Thanks!
+ 1 finished review!

Tuesday, January 25th
- New Layout! Hope you guys like it, I do! Still working on some things that need to be fixed though.
- Cleared Updates.
- I will try and start on a review today!

date reviewed | Browser | Site Owner

First Impression & Layout; 0/20: When I enter your site, What is my impression? Is it welcoming or dull? Is everything scattered or neat? Is the banner fuzzy or bright, or nice and high quality? Is it a premade banner, if so did you edit it or leave it the same way it was?

Quality & Content; 0/30: Is your content high quality? How long has your site been open, do you have an estimate amount of content sense your site opened? Do you have stolen content?

Originality; 0/15: Is your site new and original? Or something that people have seen before? Does your site content look like other content from another site? Are your ideas on your site new and original?

Organization & Grammar; 0/15: Are things scattered on not aligned. Are things neat and organized? Or messy? Are things spelled correctly throughout your site, or it there a lot of spelling or grammer mistakes?

Link Back; 0/5: Do you have a good amount of quality link back buttons? Are they neat buttons or a little messy?

Sitely; 0/10: Do you have a good amount of quality affies or not so quality affies? Are you listed at a good amount of quality or not so quality directories? Are there dead links? Do you keep your fans updated on the newest things going on at your site?

Revisit; 0/5: Does your site make people want to come back and visit? Or does it make people want to leave?

Bonus Point's: Here if there is something extra I like about your site I may or may not give you some bonus points.

Other Comment's: If there is anything else I need to say about your site I will list it here!

Final Score: 0/100

date reviewed | Browser | Site Owner

For this review I will list a few things good and bad about your neopet site. Also just like the other criteria I will list what I like about your site and what needs to be improved! I will give you a score out of a hundred based on what I think you would earn!

Final Score: 0/100

01/26/11 | Google Chrome | Natalie

First Impression & Layout; 18/20: The first thing I see when I come upon your site, is the banner. Its looks squished in that tiny box more then cropped nicely to fit there. It looks like the someone tried to fit the whole image instead of cropping it. I think you should maybe crop it the right size that box is and then see how that goes! (: Also, I don't really like how some sites have the site title at the bottom of the page, you don't really look toward the bottom because most the site content is in the middle of the layout. So if you decide to fix the banner, I also suggest making a really nice font banner on your site, add maybe some nice brushes and what not to make it look nice and professional. Though all your colors match together, for a link directory the content box is not to small or big, and your links or nice and don't looks cluttered. Other then that, I think your layout if really nice considering you made it yourself. Though like I already said, I would recommend requesting or cropping a banner that way it doesn't looked squished, and maybe add a banner, or just move the site name to the top of your layout!
~ -1 point for squished banner, -1 point for site title at bottom of layout.

Quality & Content; 29/30: Considering your site opened January 16th of this year, 322 sites listed is a pretty good amount I suppose. Though I see you might list sites, and then don't inform them. For instant my sites, if you tell someone that you are adding their site, but they don't have to link back but you would appreciate it, they usually do link back. And when they link back, the more sites have your link back, which is how other people find your site. If you know what I mean! (: You can also go to the Help Board and advertise your site, saying anyone with I site, I can list it here at my directory. Directories are a lot of work! Keeping them up to date on closed sites, and trying your hardest to add new sites everyday. I recommend that you try to set a goal each day to list a number of sites to your directory, and by the end of the week you have the new goal you wanted. It would help you reach your goals faster and make your site more popular. Also neomail people and ask if you can list their site. It really helps to advertise where ever you can to make sure you have a good amount of sites listed!
~ -1 point for not neomailing people about being listed!

Originality; 14/15: I think your site is pretty original. The name is unique and your layout/theme is unique. Though the only extra you have to offer is your spotlight. To make your site more original and popular you have to think of unique and creative ideas that people will have to come to your site for. Though I also think the idea you used under the the request sites like reviews and requests how you say if reviews are open or closed. But with that you need to make sure you update them everyday! To make sure they are accurate and up to date! So keep adding things like extras and activities that a lot of other sites don't have. That way it gets more people to your site and makes it more original and unique.
~ -1 point for only one extra/special!

Organization & Grammar; 13/15: You site is pretty organized. The navigation is neat and not cluttered or squished. Though as I go through all the categories on your site, there is one thing that is a little overwhelming. Under the Guides category, there are many different lines and it makes things a little messy and confusing. I know you are trying to show the names of what each guide is for, but maybe just use regular text or maybe Italicized font or underlined or something. Same think with the Miscellaneous category, but you have like the h2 header instead of all the lines. But that is just as messy. So use the same advice I told you about for the guide category. There are also other categories where you have lines, they are not messy but sense you might consider changing them, you should change them in each section!
~ -2 points for messy sub headers in categories!

Link Back; 5/5: All your link back buttons are really nice! I would not get rid of or change any of them. They are all high quality, so nice job picking high quality button sites to request from. My favorite link back buttons at your site is probably the one I used for this review and the jubjub one. I really like the style of those buttons. They are unique and I like the white banner thing in the background!
~ -0 points, all buttons are high quality!

Sitely; 7/10: Oh no, only two affies, that is not good. Affies are an important part of the sitely section, they help people find your site and you help people find your affies sites as well! I definitely suggest getting more affies. You can do that by going to Soroptimist and submit a classified saying you are looking for high quality affies! Same thing with the listers, listers help people find your site, to get more listers simply just neomail directory owners and asked to be listed. Both those are really important to how people find your site!
~ -2 points for only 2 affies, -1 point for only 5 listers!

Revisit; 2/5: I would probably not revisit, maybe just to see if you get a new beautiful banner, extra, or list more sites. But probably not for anything else, sorry!

Bonus Point's: I will give you +1 bonus point for a nice layout and good amount of sites listed.

Other Comment's: Set a goal towards the amount of sites you want listed. Create a beautiful banner that doesn't looked so squished! (: Keep up the awesome work!

Final Score: 89/100

You can take the "I got reviewed at Abstract" award if you would like, but please make sure to link back to Abstract! Thanks! (:

So for more information on this extra, I would put the button of the site you are writing about at the top. And then you would just write about the great advice that I or another site gave you in a review. You could also talk about how better you think your site may be because of that review. Just little things like that! But try and be creative and detailed, just like reviewers are in their reviews! (:

Chewy

First Glance 5/10
When I cam upon your site, it was really messy and confusing. There are a bunch of different bright colors, someones eyes would not know where to focus. I really don't think the navigation at the top of the layout is needed, that is what the yellow and black bar at the top is for. The cursor is not needed either. It makes things more confusing because its a cloud unless you hover over a link then it changes. Witch it why you should just have a plane cursor. A lot of things also seem to me to be disorganized and cluttered, Which also distracts the eye. Overall I don't think someone would really want to stay around... Though if it was a lot cleaner and the colors where not so distracting then it would be better.

Layout, organization, structure 4/10
Honestly your layout is not that great at all. Its just 3 columns, nothing really exiting. The colors don't really match the banner if they were intended to. I recommend that if you request or make a new banner, you don't add effects to it. A lot of the time it doesn't look great at all. You can make it look beautiful just by adding a nice font and textures. If you request or make a new layout, I recommend a anchored petpage. If you don't know what that is, its like this layout, with the links you click that take you to a new part of your site. That way things are a lot more neater and organized. Your site is not very clean and organized, there are many scroll boxes and they looks all cluttered together... I would use with a p in the middle after each text box. That spaces things out more. I think the text on your site should be a normal color, like black... And the font is way to big. I would use the font like Verdana at size 11 maybe. In black letters. And use "border=0" at the end of images you have with links on them. That way it takes away the black border around in image. For the neomail section you have, I also would use br in between, after the text that way the envelopes are below the text and not every where.

Content 7/10
You have a pretty good amount of links, that are mostly the places people go to everyday. Let me rephrase that, you have the links that people go to most often. Though you could add a lot more. I think you should just use neopet items instead of the icons you made. They are really fuzzy and some are really hard to see. Using items with the text link below it makes things simple, pretty, and easy to understand. Also doing that won't take up as much space and you could have space for other things you could add to your site. So keep adding more links and and consider the images for your site.

Originality/Effort 7/10
Well I can tell you put a lot of effort into your site. Which is a good thing. But just like every other daily page, all you have is links. Adding extras to your site makes more people come to see what the commotion is all about. And that gives you more site viewers and fans.

Sitely/Grammar 2/5
There are a few things around your site that don't really make sense grammar wise. So like I do, try reading through new things that you add to your site and see if they make sense or not. That really helps. You need more affies and listers as well. That is how people find your site and if you don't have any your site will not be found! For your link back buttons... I would get rid of the first and second button. They are hard to read and not high quality.

Revisit 2/5
One question to ask. I would probably not revisit. Maybe just to see if you get a new layout or something, but that is about it. Sorry!

Total: 27/50

Chewy

Woah, lots of blue! But its not a bad thing because the colors are not to bright and overwhelming. Though it would be nice to see some other colors in there. It's interesting how you changed the color of the Shenkuu Aisha. Its not messy at all, which some people who try to attempt don't get it quite right. I like the font for the header and sub header. They aren't to big or to small and its not messy looking. At first I was just so excited to search through all the cute dressed neopets I didn't see the navigation. I was a little confused at first because I only saw six species of neopet, and thought that was all you had. Then I discovered the navigation with the other many species. I think it might be a good idea to move the navigation to the bottom of the layout because that is where your eyes focus as you are looking at the neopets. After finding the navigation it looks like you have a pretty good amount of pets listed. As I search through the neopets names from like k-z the images take a little while to load. I think this could be fixed. It looks like you have everything on your site on one petpage. Loading the pictures might not take as long if you split your site is half and put one half on another petpage. If you know what I mean. That way things load faster. I love looking through all the neopets though, some are really customized nicely and some are just silly! I might plan on adding a Maraquan Gelert if my adoption application is accepted! You also list other things besides neopets like the Must Have Wearable items, Customization tips, Pet of the Month, ect. Those make your site unique and sometimes is why people come to your site, for extra stuff besides the main content! Another good thing is your site is very organized. The neopets are listed in alphabetical order and things are in nice columns, that is always a good thing because sometimes when things are cluttered people get overwhelmed and leave, and no one wants that to happen! Now lets move on to the sitely section. You have a good amount of link back buttons but not all of them are high quality. I think you would be better off without button numbers three, four, five, and eight. My favorite buttons that are keepers would be button numbers two, seven, twelve, and thirteen! I also love how you have the best dressed banner things. Those are really cute! But for the 50x50 I recommend requesting a new one because the text is really small and squished together, so its difficult to read. You have a lot of reviews and I think its a neat idea that you list things they said about your site nest to the buttons. You have a pretty good amount of affies and listers, though you could use more because that is the main way people find your site. Well overall I think your site is really nice! I hope you add more and exciting customizations! I would definitely revisit to see new maraquan, glerert, or mutant customizations you have! Maybe even to add a neopet of my own to the list! Good luck and keep up the good work on Best Dressed! (:
Total: 42/50