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Third Impression

Welcome

Hello and welcome to Third Impression, a review site run by Borealis. Third Impression was initially called Immortal Tree Reviews (ITR), my first site, which opened on June 12, 2009. However, by June 2011, I was bored with reviewing, so I placed ITR on hiatus. It re-opened as Third Impression on June 30, 2011. As well as three styles of reviews, Third Impression offers proofreading and link-checking, which you can read about on their pages. Just so you know, I review in Firefox 11.

Updates

5/26/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/25/12: One new affiliate.

5/24/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/23/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/22/12: Listed in one new directory.

5/21/12: Started on a review.

5/20/12: Changed the button for an affiliate who changed their name.

5/19/12: Removed three directories. Updated my achievements.

5/18/12: Finished a review.

5/17/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/16/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/15/12: Received two review requests. Reviews are now closed. Continued to work on a review.

5/14/12: Listed in one new directory.

5/13/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/12/12: One new button, a cool gift from Katie at Meow Buttons!

5/11/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/10/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/9/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/8/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/7/12: Continued to work on a review. Received one review request.

5/6/12: Started on a review.

5/5/12: Proofread one site.

5/4/12: Removed two affiliates. Updated my achievements.

5/3/12: Completed a review. Received one proofreading request.

5/2/12: Continued to work on a review.

5/1/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/30/12: I didn't get to work on a review today: I was exhausted when I came home, and then I had to go to an event.

4/29/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/28/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/27/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/26/12: Continued to work on a review. Removed one directory.

4/25/12: Updated my achievements. Continued to work on a review.

4/24/12: Started on a review. Removed the option to check for borders during a link check because neither of my browsers show borders. From now on, directories can request to have one category of their listings link-checked.

4/23/12: I'm back from vacation. Review requests are now open. Received one review request. Completed one proofreading request.

4/18/12: Completed a review. I'm not going to open requests yet because I'm going to be on vacation without Internet access for the next four days. I'll be back on Monday, and that's when I'll open requests.

4/17/12: I've removed Pretentious and Pixel Reign from My Other Sites in sitely. I'm not really interested in or capable of making graphics anymore, so I wouldn't reopen them even if I had the petpages. Received one proofreading request.

4/16/12: Updated my achievements. Continued to work on a review.

4/15/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/14/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/13/12: I apologize, but I got a bit caught up in the new avatar frenzy tonight (spent two hours and more than 20k buying Usukis for the new Lawyerbot avatar) and wasn't able to work on a review. If only my main hadn't been frozen; I used to have an Usuki gallery, so I'm sure that I would have had more than 50 Usukis there without having to buy any.

4/12/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/11/12: I had family over tonight, so I didn't have time to work on a review.

4/10/12: Started on a review.

4/9/12: Received and completed one link-checking request. One new affiliate.

4/8/12: Updated my achievements. Removed one site from the waiting list: they came back from a long hiatus and no longer have my button up, so I assume that they no longer wish to be reviewed. I also made a change to the rules: from now on, if I go to review a site and they do not have my button up, I will remove them from the waiting list.

4/7/12: Removed two affiliates.

4/6/12: Completed one review.

4/5/12: Received one review request. Reviews are now closed. Removed one site from the waiting list. Continued to work on a review.

4/4/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/3/12: Third Impression has great new button from Legend. Received one review request.

4/2/12: Continued to work on a review.

4/1/12: I'm back from vacation and ready to resume operation of my sites. Firelordjoshua, if you see this, please empty your inbox; I need to Neomail you about your review request. Updated my achievements. Listed in one new directory.

3/27/12: Continued to work on a review. I'm going on vacation, so I put up a notice about that.

3/26/12: Listed in one new directory. Changed the link for an affiliate who moved.

3/25/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/24/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/23/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/22/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/21/12: From now on, I will be reviewing in Firefox 11. Started on a review.

3/20/12: Listed in one new directory. I have a seven-hour event after school, so I won't be working on any reviews today.

3/19/12: I'm afraid I'm simply too tired to start on a review today as I had to stay after school for two extra hours. I probably won't be able to start tomorrow either, for reasons that I'll explain tomorrow.

3/18/12: Updated my achievements.

3/17/12: Finished a review. Reviews are now open.

3/16/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/15/12: I'm afraid I spent most of my time today playing Super Hasee Bounce… and then saw my bonus hopes horribly sunk when I accidentally sent a third low score (I could've sworn that I'd only sent one). I hate that game. I just hope I haven't damaged my computer by slapping it in frustration. I know I scared my cat half to death. Please forgive me for slowing down a bit on reviews; I've been rather preoccupied with Daily Dare.

3/14/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/13/12: The archives are finally up! Their new page is here. It's not pretty, but it's functional.

3/12/12: I spent an excessive amount of time working on the archives today, but due to technical difficulties they're not up yet.

3/11/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/10/12: Continued to work on a review. I'm sorry that the archive page isn't up yet, but it might take a while, as I'm pretty busy at the moment and it's not really my top priority.

3/9/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/8/12: Continued to work on a review.

3/7/12: Continued to work on a review. I believe I will have the archives page up tomorrow or Friday; I don't really have time today.

3/6/12: I have a new main, Bibliovoric, where I'd prefer that you contact me from now on. I've changed the Neomail links to reflect this.

3/5/12: Started on a review.

3/4/12: Received one review request. Reviews are now closed.

3/3/12: Third Impression got four votes at Hollywood Stars' Oscar Special. Thank you to anyone who voted for Third Impression and congratulations to The Lodge, the winner.

3/2/12: Completed a review. Opened review requests.

3/1/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/29/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/28/12: Received two review requests. Closed review requests. Continued to work on a review.

2/27/12: Put an archived review up by request of the recipient. Continued to work on a review.

2/26/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/25/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/24/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/23/12: Started on a review.

2/22/12: Removed two affiliates. Updated my achievements. I'm going to have to temporarily remove Third Impression's archives for technical reasons; see the archives page for more information.

2/21/12: Completed a review.

2/20/12: Received one review request. Listed in one new directory. Continued to work on a review.

2/19/12: Listed in one new directory.

2/18/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/17/12: Continued to work on a review. Received one review request.

2/16/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/15/12: Started on a review.

2/14/12: Happy Valentine's Day! Updated my achievements.

2/13/12: Completed a review.

2/12/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/11/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/10/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/9/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/8/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/7/12: Received one review request. Started on a review.

2/6/12: Completed one review.

2/5/12: One new affiliate. Received one review request. Continued to work on a review.

2/4/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/3/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/2/12: Continued to work on a review.

2/1/12: Started on a review.

1/31/12: Updated my achievements.

1/30/12: Received one review request. Completed a review. Edited the description of the First Impression review.

1/29/12: Continued to work on a review.

1/28/12: Continued to work on a review.

1/27/12: Started on a review.

1/26/12: Received one review request. Completed a review.

1/25/12: Continued to work on a review.

1/24/12: Updated my achievements. Received one review request. Continued to work on a review.

1/23/12: Started on a review.

1/22/12: Received one review request.

1/21/12: Removed three affiliates and four directories. Updated my achievements.

1/20/12: Completed a review. Switched the criteria for the First and Second Impression reviews: the score-only review is now Second Impression and the pro and con review is now First Impression. Also, the former Second Impression, now First Impression review is now unscored.

1/19/12: Completed a review.

1/18/12: Continued to work on a review.

1/17/12: Continued to work on a review.

1/16/12: Listed in one new directory. Continued to work on a review.

1/15/12: Continued to work on a review.

1/14/12: Started on a review.

1/13/12: Finished proofreading a site.

1/12/12: Updated my achievements. Continued to work on a proofreading.

1/11/12: One site on the waiting list will now be skipped because they are revamping. Continued to work on a proofreading.

1/10/12: Received one review request.

1/9/12: Completed a review.

1/8/12: Continued to work on proofreading a site and on a review. Due to the amount of text on the site that has requested a proofreading, I will probably wait to finish the two reviews ahead of it on the waiting list before completing it, to be fair to the users who requested first.

1/7/12: Received one review request. Started proofreading a site (normally I wouldn't have two things in progress at the same time, but the proofreading is taking a lot longer than I expected).

1/6/12: Received one proofreading request. Continued to work on a review.

1/5/12: Continued to work on a review.

1/4/12: Started on a review.

1/3/12: Received one review request.

1/2/12: Completed one review.

1/1/12: Listed in one new directory; removed one directory. Continued to work on a review. Third Impression is now ranked fifth at The Lunch Box!

12/31/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/30/11: Received and completed one proofreading request.

12/29/11: One new affiliate. Listed in one new directory. Started on a review.

12/28/11: Completed a review.

12/27/11: Received and completed one link-checking request.

12/26/11: One new affiliate. Completed a review. Reviews are now open.

12/25/11: I think I will be reviewing in a different browser from now on. I'm still trying to get used to it, so it might take a little longer to complete reviews.

12/24/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/23/11: Started on a review.

12/22/11: Received a great new button from Bouquet. Edited the description of the First Impression review style. Completed one review.

12/21/11: Updated my achievements. Started on a review.

12/20/11: Updated my version of Firefox and my achievements. Made some small changes to the sitely section--a few things were linked to the wrong page. I also now have a new policy for affiliates: I will be removing affiliates who have been inactive for a year or more and are no longer up to my standards. Removed one affiliate.

12/19/11: Completed one review.

12/18/11: Updated my achievements.

12/17/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/16/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/15/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/14/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/13/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/12/11: One new affiliate. Updated my achievements.

12/11/11: Updated my achievements. One new affiliate. Continued to work on a review.

12/10/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/9/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/8/11: Continued to work on a review.

12/7/11: Removed one directory. Listed in one new directory. Started on a review.

12/6/11: Received two review requests. Review requests are now closed.

12/5/11: Completed a review. Reviews are now open. Small change to the rules.

12/4/11: Continued to work on a review. Third Impression is now ranked fifth in review sites at Ginger Glaze!

12/3/11: One new affiliate. Third Impression is now ranked fourth in review sites at The Lodge! Started on a review.

12/2/11: Third Impression is now ranked fourth in review sites at Hollywood Stars! Completed one review. Made a small change to the layout.

12/1/11: One site on the waiting list has moved. Updated my achievements. Continued to work on a review.

11/30/11: Continued to work on a review.

11/29/11: Continued to work on a review.

11/28/11: I didn't have enough time on Neopets today to work on a review, sorry.

11/27/11: Started on a review.

11/26/11: Received three review requests. Requests are now closed, sorry.

11/25/11: Completed one review. Reviews are now open.

11/24/11: Continued to work on a review.

11/23/11: Third Impression is now ranked at DigiHear? Continued to work on a review.

11/22/11: Removed one directory. Updated my achievements. Started on a review.

11/21/11: Completed one review. Proofread one site.

11/20/11: Listed in one new directory. One new affiliate. Third Impression is now ranked at Silver Directory! Received one proofreading request. Proofread one site. Continued to work on a review.

11/19/11: Third Impression is now recommended at Affinity! Received a beautiful button from Whirligig. Continued to work on a review. Received one proofreading request.

11/18/11: Continued to work on a review.

11/17/11: Continued to work on a review.

11/16/11: One new affiliate. Continued to work on a review.

11/15/11: Continued to work on a review.

11/14/11: Continued to work on a review.

11/13/11: Third Impression has moved to /~Screnost to stay open while my main is frozen. When or if my main is unfrozen, it will move back to /~jasminejasmine311. Received and completed one proofreading request.

11/12/11: My main was frozen (wrongfully) today, so Third Impression is down for the foreseeable future.

11/11/11: Some minor editing. Continued to work on a review.

11/10/11: Due to its unpopularity, the current First Impression review style has been replaced with a score-only review, still called First Impression. I'm hoping that this will make less work for me and add more variety to the site. Continued to work on a review.

11/9/11: Received one review request. Review requests are now closed; however, proofreading and link checks are still open. Also made some minor changes to the requests page. Continued to work on a review.

11/8/11: Updated my version of Firefox. New layout! I'm particularly happy with the archival navigation on this layout. Progress on the current review decreased today because their layout changed; continued to work on a review.

11/7/11: Continued to work on the potential new layout, which might be up soon.

11/6/11: Changed the link for a lister who moved.

11/5/11: Received one review request.

11/4/11: Continued to work on a review. Received one review request.

11/3/11: Third Impression is now ranked fourth in review sites at Echelon and third at Soroptimist Directory! Continued to work on a review.

11/2/11: Received one review request. Started on a review.

11/1/11: Removed one directory and updated my achievements.

10/31/11: Happy Halloween! Listed in one new directory.

10/30/11: Received one review request.

10/29/11: Completed one link check.

10/28/11: Received one link-checking request. Third Impression is now ranked sixth at Click!

10/27/11: Continued to work on the new layout. I'm mostly done with it but, due to some other concerns, it may not be up until next week.

10/26/11: I'm working on a possible new layout for Third Impression.

10/25/11: Completed one proofreading.

10/24/11: Completed one review.

10/23/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/22/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/21/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/20/11: Edited the rules a little. Started on a review. Received one proofreading request.

10/19/11: Completed one proofreading request and one review. One site was removed from the waiting list at the owner's request.

10/18/11: Received one proofreading request.

10/17/11: Completed one review. Review requests are now open.

10/16/11: Made some small changes to the layout. Continued to work on a review.

10/15/11: Third Impression is now ranked at Bijou! Continued to work on a review. Reorganized my achievements slightly.

10/14/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/13/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/12/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/11/11: Listed in one new directory. Continued to work on a review.

10/10/11: Received and completed one link check request. Third Impression is now ranked fourth at Soroptimist Directory! Continued to work on a review.

10/9/11: I was unable to work on a review (or answer Neomails) today because the weather knocked out my Internet connection.

10/8/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/7/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/6/11: Continued to work on a review.

10/5/11: Started to work on a review.

10/4/11: I spent some time looking for a new layout today, but, unfortunately, I did not find one that I preferred to the current layout. Did some slight editing: the "Accolades" section is now in a scrollbox.

10/3/11: Updated my achievements.

10/2/11: Third Impression is now ranked at Echelon! Completed one review.

10/1/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/30/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/29/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/28/11: One site on the waiting list is no longer skipped. Continued to work on a review.

9/27/11: Continued to work on a review. Update my version of Firefox.

9/26/11: Third Impression is now ranked third at Cloud Fourteen! Continued to work on a review.

9/25/11: Marked one site on the waiting list as skipped, at the owner's request.

9/24/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/23/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/22/11: Continued to work on a review (the progress meter didn't change today because I think I made a mathematical error in calculating yesterday's progress).

9/21/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/20/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/19/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/18/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/17/11: Continued to work on a review. Fixed a couple typos in an old review.

9/16/11: My progress on the current review actually decreased today because of a huge change in the site being reviewed, so I've added a note to the third impression style of review (the only one where this is really an issue) asking that requesters not make major changes to their site while their review is in progress.

9/15/11: Received one review request. Closed reviews--requests for proofreading and link checks are still open, though.

9/14/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/13/11: Changed the style of a review.

9/12/11: Continued to work on a review.

9/11/11: Updated my achievements. Started on a review.

9/10/11: Removed an outdated note from the awards section.

9/9/11: Proofread one site.

9/8/11: Received one review request and one proofreading request.

9/7/11: Updated my version of Firefox. Fixed a typo in an old review.

9/6/11: Removed two affiliates. Updated my achievements.

9/5/11: Received one review request. Completed one review.

9/4/11: Removed one directory. Continued to work on a review; updated my progress meter.

9/3/11: One new affiliate.

9/2/11: Continued to work on a review; updated my progress meter.

9/1/11: Added a little to the description of the third impression review. Continued to work on a review; updated my progress meter. Fixed a typo in an old proofreading (is it just me, or is that a little ironic?). Updated my version of Firefox.

8/31/11: Received one review request. Continued to work on a review; updated my progress meter.

8/30/11: Received one review request. Listed in one new directory. Removed one directory. Continued to work on a review; updated my progress meter.

8/29/11: Started a review.

8/28/11: Third Impression is now recommended at Soroptimist Directory! Fixed a typo in an old review.

8/27/11: Third Impression is now recommended at Dragon's Lair!

8/26/11: Listed in one new directory. Completed one review. Updated my version of Firefox.

8/25/11: Fixed a typo in an old review. Still working on a review; updated the progress meter.

8/24/11: Third Impression has moved up to third in The Bookshelf's review rankings! Continued to work on a review; updated my progress meter. (I apologize for very slow progress, I'm pretty busy at the moment.)

8/23/11: Removed one directory. Continued to work on a review; updated my progress meter.

8/22/11: Received one review request. Continued to work on a review. Did some small editing. I also added a progress meter to the waiting list to show that I am actually making progress on reviews that take me several days.

8/21/11: One new affiliate. Continued to work on a review.

8/20/11: Edited the waiting list at the site owner's request. Started on a review. Also slightly edited the criteria of the third impression review--no changes to the point values or sections; I just clarified the descriptions. Fixed a typo in an old review.

8/19/11: Listed in one new directory. Third Impression is now recommended at Rosette. Received one review request.

8/18/11: I removed the "when will my review be done?" paragraph because I suspected that either the length of the paragraph or the length of the wait time was preventing people from requesting reviews. I also removed the request speed signs from proofreading and link-checks.

8/17/11: Third Impression is now recommended at Affinity. Seeking review requests: now would be a great time to request a review!

8/16/11: Third Impression is now ranked fifth in review sites at The Bookshelf!

8/15/11: Added speed indicators for proofreading and link-checks.

8/14/11: Edited the first impression review style. Some other small edits.

8/13/11: Updated my schedule. Reordered my affiliates.

8/12/11: Listed in one new directory. Completed one review. Added a note on when you can expect reviews to be finished.

8/11/11: Continued working on a review. School has started, so I have less time on Neopets, and reviews may take longer.

8/10/11: Removed one directory and updated my achievements. Started on a review.

8/9/11: One new affiliate.

8/8/11: Completed one review (I didn't have the energy for a third impression review today so I completed the one second impression review on the waiting list).

8/7/11: Did some minor editing. Completed one review.

8/6/11: Third Impression is one of the nominees for best review site at TLB Golden Sandwich Awards! Started on a review.

8/5/11: Removed one affiliate.

8/4/11: Changed a button for a directory that changed its name. Received two review requests. Completed one review.

8/3/11: Received one review request. Started on a review; as it isn't complete, it isn't up yet.

8/2/11: I won't be able to do a review today, but I did make some minor changes to the site.

8/1/11: Received one review request.

7/31/11: Removed one directory. Third Impression is now recommended at Brave Directory.

7/30/11: Completed one review. Did a little other editing.

7/29/11: Completed one review.

7/28/11: Received one review request. I started on Zebra Stripes' review but, unfortunately, didn't finish it, so it's not up yet.

7/27/11: Received one review request.

7/26/11: Removed one directory. Still looking for review requests; reviews are very fast right now.

7/25/11: Some minor editing.

7/24/11: Made all the navigation float instead of just the back to top link.

7/23/11: Listed in one new directory. One new affiliate.

7/22/11: Completed one review.

7/21/11: Completed one review. Adjusted second impression award scores.

7/20/11: Received two review requests. Listed in one new directory.

7/19/11: Completed one review.

7/18/11: Received one review request.

7/17/11: Listed in one new directory. Third Impression is the current Sparkful Site!

7/16/11: Completed one review.

7/15/11: Listed in one new directory. Completed one review.

7/14/11: One new affiliate. Received two review requests.

7/13/11: Completed one review.

7/12/11: Received one review request.

7/11/11: Made a couple small changes to the site. Now would be a very good time to request a review, since the waiting list is empty (the one site on it has been so badly affected by the last round of filter changes that I feel it would be unfair to review it now).

7/10/11: Completed one review.

7/9/11: Listed in one new directory. One new affiliate. Completed one review.

7/8/11: One new button. Completed one review.

7/7/11: Received three review requests. Removed one affiliate and two directories. Completed two reviews.

7/6/11: Listed in one new directory. Received two review requests. Completed one review. One new button

7/5/11: Received one review request. Completed one review. Based on my first second impression review, I edited the second impression review style to make it more helpful.

7/4/11: Completed one review. Received one review request.

7/3/11: Completed one review.

7/2/11: Listed in one new directory.

7/1/11: Third Impression is the featured non-recommended site at The Status Center today. Listed in three new directories.

6/30/11: I was going to wait till tomorrow to open Third Impression, but I completed a review today, so I decided not to. Third Impression is now open! Listed in two new directories and recommended in one directory.

Rules

  1. Please keep in mind that the review is my opinion. If you think I'm wrong, feel free to ignore the review, but please don't send me nasty Neomails.
  2. Please link to Third Impression while on the waiting list; if I can't find a link back when I go to review you, I'll assume you no longer wish to be reviewed and remove your site from the waiting list without notice. After the review, feel free to remove the link if you don't want to display your review; however, if you find my suggestions helpful, I'd appreciate it if you left the button up.
  3. Since you're not allowed to give me offsite links, I'll only review sites on Neopets.
  4. I will not review the following varieties of pages: guild or chatgroup webbies, wishlists, other review sites, screenie pages, lablogs, music codes, or pages about pets.
  5. Stolen content or layout = no review. I consider taking and redistributing images off of an image hosting site without the owner's permission stealing, so please don't ask for a review if that's what your site offers.
  6. If your site closes while on the waiting list, I will remove it. If it moves, I will change the link if I can find it, remove it if I can't. If it's revamped, I will judge whether to remove it by whether you kept my button up. If it's on hiatus and the content is accessible, I'll still review it; if the content is inaccessible, I'll skip it.
  7. I will only review sites in English, since that's the only language I speak fluently.
  8. Please only request one review or service at a time. When that is finished, you may request another. You can get the same site reviewed multiple times, but if you are going to, please try to address most of the concerns I mentioned in the first review before requesting a new one.
  9. Please do not repost my reviews on your site or anywhere else. Your reviews will not be removed from this page, so if you want visitors to read them, simply direct them here.
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Criteria

Here you can find information about the three different types of reviews offered by Third Impression, and examples of what they'll look like.

First Impression

In this review, I will look through site and list pros and cons. This review is more superficial than the other styles. There is no score for this review.
Pros: These will be a list of short sentences. Here I'll put anything on your site that you do particularly well or that I especially like.

Cons: This will also be a list of short sentences. Here I'll put things I think you need to fix.

Suggestions: Here are things that you aren't problems with your site, but that I would recommend adding or changing to improve your site.

Second Impression

If all you really want out of a review is a score and perhaps an award to display on your site, this is the style for you. In this score-only review, I will go through your site and give you a score on each of the categories used in the Third Impression reviews below, but instead of giving a long explanation and advice as I do in the Third Impression review, I will simply list why points were subtracted. You may not want to request this review if you have trouble taking harsh criticism as it is basically an unsoftened list of your site's faults.
First Impression /10
- This category looks at your welcome and how you greet visitors when they first enter your site.

Layout part 1: Functionality /15
- This category appraises how well your layout works.

Layout part 2: Appearance /15
- In this category, I judge the quality and aesthetics of your layout.

Content /25
- This category evaluates whatever your site offers.

Grammar /15
- This category examines your grammar and spelling.

Usefulness /10
- This category assesses how easy your site is to use.

Other /10
- This category includes your sitely section and anything else that doesn't fit into the others.

Total: /100
I'll find your total by adding up your scores in each category.

Third Impression

This is an in-depth review that evaluates your site on several categories and gives you a score out of 100. In this review, I will mostly focus on things I believe you need to fix. As this review focuses on negative aspects of your site, it's best to request it only if you really want advice as to what you can change to improve your site. Note: if you are going to request this style of review, I would very much appreciate it if you did not make any major changes--mainly layout changes--while your review is in progress (indicated by a percentage by your site's name on the waiting list). While I don't want to give you a review that's unhelpful because you're about to revamp some of the features, it's much more difficult and takes much longer to complete a review if I have to redo portions because they no longer apply.
First Impression /10
What do I see when I first come into your site? What are my first thoughts? Does anything jump out at me? Here I will typically look at your welcome and anything else you have in the welcome section or first page of your site (e.g. updates, link backs, etc.).

Layout part 1: Functionality /15
This is where I look at whether your layout works. Does everything fit in the box? Do the anchors go where they're supposed to? It's also where I check to make sure that everything is readable.

Layout part 2: Appearance /15
Here I'll see whether your layout looks good. Note: I'm perfectly fine with premade layouts, unless your site offers premade petpages, in which case I believe you should make your own layout. In other cases, I would prefer that you use a nice premade instead of a messy homemade layout.

Content /25
This is the biggest part of the review because your content is your site's raison d'être (that's French for "reason to be"). It varies depending on what sort of site you have, but it boils down to quantity and quality, with the emphasis on the latter.

Grammar /15
This category is very important to me and covers spelling as well as grammar. I'm not going to demand that you write perfectly, but your site should be generally correct, easy to understand, and free of chat- or text-speak. If you know you have trouble with grammar and spelling and don't want it to drag down your score, you might want to request a proofreading before you ask for a review. I will typically proofread your site when I get to this section, but depending on how much energy I have when doing your review, I may not go into as much detail as I would in a proofreading.

Usefulness /10
In this category I'll address anything that makes your site difficult to use, such as unlabeled navigation or difficult-to-find forms.

Other /10
Here I'll mention anything that doesn't fit into the other categories. I'll also typically look at your sitely section in this category, and this is where you'll lose a point if you don't have a link to me.

Total: /100
I'll find your total by adding up your scores in each category.

Request a Review

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Waiting list

The abbreviation beside each site indicates the service they're waiting for. Percentages indicate my progress on the review.

Boxed Up Inside TI 35%
Lemon Drop SI
Vanity Set FI
Meow Buttons TI
Thunderstruck Lookups FI
Bliss TI

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Pick up

These are the latest three reviews completed at Third Impression. For older reviews, please see the archives. You can also use the archival navigation to go directly to the desired review.

Teleport

5/6/12 - 5/18/12

First Impression 4/10
First, your text is rather small, to the point where it's not comfortable to read. Your home page looks pretty empty and the envelope looks out of place--there's nothing in your welcome that particularly leads someone to Neomail you. You need to introduce yourself, preferably with a link to your lookup, in your welcome. If you're not going to put buttons under "Link Back" in your sidebar, you should remove it--the text areas are cut off anyway. Your featured site, Pandemonium, is closed. Your banner is nice, but it's also a fairly common image. And, of course, inactivity doesn't give a good first impression.

Layout part 1 12/15
On the Pickup page, you've left a link on the bottom that says "Next" and leads to "Review two"; it should be removed. In Extras, the little plus images by "Read more?" are cut off. Your last link back button is a broken image.

Layout part 2 10/15
In your banner, "buttons by Christine" is unpleasant to read due to the busy background behind it. The off-white color under your primary headers contrasts a bit unpleasantly with the rest of the layout. I think it either needs to be completely white or needs to stand out a little more from the white of the layout behind it. Your color scheme is very well-integrated, but most of your divs look really too wide and large--the content is drowning in empty space. Your link and bold colors are really a little too bright for reading comfort. In your sitely section, your affiliates and listers really aren't adequately separated--it looks like one long line of buttons.

Content 20/25
Looking at the buttons in your pickup, one of the first things I notice is that Deisha is hard to read (a combination of the font colors and animations) and none of the other buttons really stand out as excellent--all of them have somewhat annoying animations that obscure the text. This concern extends to your portfolio--a lot of the animations are annoying. I do, however, like the animations used in the buttons for Cheeky's Drawing Requests, Melody Shields, and The Secret Garden. However, I would definitely recommend trying to use non-pixel fonts more--it seems that's the current fashion in button-making, and most of the buttons where I see you using it, such as Mystify, Alaia, and your second link buttons, look great.. There are a few places where edges are rough and pixelly, such as the N in Neocity button, the G in the Galaxy button, and the border on the Altador Cup HQ button. The font used for the Coracao button is a bit hard to read, and the Typewriter button is very difficult to read because the text color is too similar to the color of the background.It would also be good to find images that you don't have to shrink so much--several of your buttons have images that have shrunk so far they're blurry. In some of the buttons, it's hard to tell what the image is, though this is more due to the interference of the text than to blurriness (Cheeky's Drawing Requests, Neopian News 9, the second Hiro's Warehouse button, VS&DM Adoptions, Listed at Oh So Sweet, Adorn Contests). All in all, your buttons are very nice, but they don't really stand out as truly excellent. With a little work, your site could certainly reach the upper echelon in its category.

Grammar 12/15
In your latest update, the word "update" between asterisks should be changed to "edit" for clarity. After "Holy cow," "it's" needs an apostrophe. I would recommend combining your first two sentences into "Welcome to Teleport, a button request site"--right now, the second sentence is very bland and takes away from the energetic impression given by your first sentence. In your first rule, the comma in the second sentence is unnecessary. In the pickup, "credit" should not be capitalized. In extras, under the "Frequently Asked Questions" header, "comments" should not be capitalized. The statement under "Reviews" in sitely needs ending punctuation. In your credits, the period before "edited" should be a comma (with "edited" no longer capitalized, of course), and "envelope" and "button placeholder" should not be capitalized.

Usefulness 9/10
In your rules, you mention making shields for people, but then in your FAQ you say you only make buttons, so it's unclear whether you actually make shields or not.

Other 7/10
The bullets on the Requests page don't look great because they're really below the line of text instead of at it--they look like they're halfway between their line and the line below it. I would strongly recommend that you get listed in more directories--not many people are going to find you through only three sites, two of which are inactive. I would recommend putting affiliates on their own line and then having listers and reviews share a line, as affiliates are typically considered more important than listers or reviews. Alternately, you could try putting affiliates and link backs on one line and listers and reviews on the next. Right now, your sitely section could use better organization as there's a lot of empty space in the Reviews and Credits sections. It's also not really clear why you have a review pending from a graphics site--Oriental doesn't seem to offer reviews.

Total: 74/100

Short & Sweet

4/24/12 - 5/3/12

First Impression 7/10
- 1 point: names checked "by Chelsea" would make a lot more sense than "by flu84123"; most people entering your site aren't going to know who that is.
- 1 point: you would be better off saving the board info to a document on your computer or perhaps another petpage; it just looks cluttering and out of place in your welcome.
- 1 point: the "Write down all the names you like" text box is so far down that a) it's not easy to notice and b) it would be inconvenient to use; it'd be better off on the side.

Layout part 1 14/15
- 1 point: in the petpet names section, an "a name" tab has not been closed, so all of the text displays the hover effect.

Layout part 2 9/15
- 1 point: the patterned background behind the text is a bit distracting; it's a good idea, but make it more transparent?
- 1 point: the writing paper background in the notepad is a cool idea, but because it doesn't line up with the text, it's really just a little annoying by making the text unpleasant to read.
- 1 point: there's no need to confine your affiliates and listers to tiny boxes; they should be at least the width of the page.
- 1 point: the navigation headers under the Names and Extras look odd and empty--it would be better to use some sort of image or formatting that didn't have a bottom-border.
- 1 point: the Names navigation is cumbersome; as the main feature of your site, it should be much more accessible--you could at least put "Back to names navigation" on each page of names so that the user doesn't have to go through the rules over and over again.
- 1 point: the two-line header on the "Create a Pet" page looks bad because there's a bottom border on both lines.

Content 19/25
- 1 point: in stuck pets, it's unpleasant to have to scroll through all the species with "none" under them; why not just remove the headers for species without pets?
- 1 point: several four-letter names are unpleasant and unpronounceable; I understand that it's really hard to find pronounceable four-letters but some of them are just excessive, such as "Lmds"--a bunch of consonants is not a name--and many of the names that end in a consonant and J.
- 1 point: some pronunciations are pretty doubtful: e.g. Eplod would make more sense as "Eh-plod" than "Eh-plode," and pronouncing Rirst as Worst doesn't really make any sense.
- 3 points: taking half of the Longer Names section as a sample on 4/29, many names are taken: Aderella, Zolain, Alosandra, Artalia, Avulyn, Bevria, Bolssa, Cathoryn, Chirelle, Coalbi, Colivia, Desminia, Detane, Dirnin, Draizah, Ebeney, Edebella, Edebeth, Ellonora, Emuline, Eurius, Evrolyn, Frudie, Garthus, Gartos, Giovunni, Hastro, Hircie, Ilavina, Irvella, Imirus, Issibel, Izubella, Jaminnia, Josulyn, Kameus, Kandass, Kasudie and Krastina. (I know you've checked this now, but you hadn't when I was at this point in the review, and it's here to evaluate how up-to-date your names are.)

Grammar 11/15
- 1 point: a few words are needlessly capitalized, including "real name" in names for Bikas, "drop" in custom-baked requests, and "pet" in Stuck.
- 1 point: in a couple places, there is a comma where there should be a semicolon.
- 1 point: "Button by" sentences in your extras need ending punctuation.
- 1 point: your credits need ending punctuation and should use "at" instead of the symbol; there's also a mistake in the create-a-pet banner credit: it says "CaroGlow" instead of "Caro at Glow".

Usefulness 7/10
- 3 points: it's so cumbersome to navigate past your rules every time I want to go to a different category of names that I would be more likely to try and find a better-organized site than to use yours.

Other 5/10
- 1 point: in request, since the process is pretty much the same for every type, why not place that on the Requests page rather than repeat it on each individual page?
- 1 point: the "Name of the Year" competition listed under the Name Game links to a closed site.
- 1 point: removing taken names from the Name Game makes it look like people didn't follow the rules; I'd recommend italicizing them or striking through them instead.
- 1 point: you current organization of listers makes it look like you have very few; I'd combine "listed at" and "recommended at" and make the sites you're recommended at say so when you hover over them.
- 1 point: I would recommend referring to yourself as Chelsea (in places such as Affiliates, Rules, etc.) and simply linking to your lookup--constantly referring to yourself by your username makes it difficult for your name to make an impression.

Total: 72/100

Short & Sweet

1/14/12 - 1/19/12

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

Identity

4/10/12 - 4/18/12

First impression 6/10
Your site's text is incredibly small. It's almost difficult for me to read without zooming in. In addition, your home page looks very empty, with a lot of space under the updates, and rather plain. Perhaps you could add some examples of your latest buttons to add some color and liveliness to the page? I would recommend putting your second paragraph before your first paragraph: first discuss the broad concept, then narrow it down to apply to your site. You really need to skip a line between the two paragraphs to make them actually look like paragraphs.

Layout part 1 14/15
In the Requests section, the "Submit your form" graphic looks a bit cut off. It's still clickable, but there's clearly some problem there.

Layout part 2 9/15
One of the first things I notice about your layout, after the tiny text, is that if it were just a bit shorter, it would all fit on the page without scrolling, which would be nice. It also looks a bit strange because it's so far to the right, leaving lots of empty space on the left. The layout itself is just a bit bland. The title image is blurry and just not very interesting: it could use some more effects to make it stand out. Your color scheme is nicely put-together, but except for the bold, the text formatting doesn't stand out because it's the same color as the text. I definitely wouldn't recommend making the links turn white when hovered over: why make it impossible for viewers to read a link just because they happen to have their mouse on it? Having the page headers on top of the image is a cool innovation, but in the requests and portfolio sections, the text is on top of the image as well, and that just looks messy—as it does when I scroll down and there's text and/or images on top of the header. Your sitely section also looks very messy. I would recommend uncentering the text (not the buttons or headers), using a large header to separate sections instead of your tiny bold text, and putting the elements in better order. I'd recommend link backs, sister site, affiliates, listers, reviews (no need to have a separate section for pending reviews, just put "Pending" as hover text on the button in your reviews section), and then credits. I'd also recommend uncentering the text in your pick up.

Content 20/25
First, it would be a better idea to list your buttons newest to oldest so that users' first impression of your portfolio isn't the lower-quality, older buttons—this could actually keep users from requesting, as they glance at your portfolio for examples and see low-quality buttons. A few buttons are difficult or unpleasant to read, such as the Senche button—the text moves too fast and is in a hard-to-read font. To be honest, I find the disappearing text animation rather annoying as it forces me to wait to read what the button's text is—the button's text should really be more accessible than that, as the main purpose of the button is to convey where you'll get by clicking on it. I would also recommend that the squarish font most recently used for Rumor and Graylist be retired: it doesn't really look good. In many of your buttons you've left the borders off the text (such as in Ascendio, two of the Scrapbook buttons, the JSP button, the Cosmic Reviews button, and the Another Chance Adoptions buttons). In the Another Chance Adoptions buttons, it works fine, but in the others, it's a mistake. Most of them just look messy (though Ascendio's font could have something to do with that), but I can see this easily leading to illegibility. There are a couple other text-border issues: the border on the first Boxed Up Inside button is too heavy, and the border on the Zodiac button is fuzzy and unpleasant. Additionally, several of the Hunger Games buttons are unpleasant to read because the text inside the border is the same color as the background and there isn't enough contrast. Moving on to the borders on the entire button, the upper left corner of the second Boxed Up Inside button's border is cut off. I'd also recommend trying to avoid buttons with a small image on one side and a solid-color background, as most of the images I see used in this kind of button are blurry or have issues removing the white background. You probably already know this, but the backgrounds section is a great place to find images for buttons. Back when I made buttons, I could often find images here that I barely had to shrink—I would just have to focus on a small portion of the image. You might consider adding more effects on the images themselves to really make your buttons pop. I learned one method from Create Impressions, though I was never very good at it.

Grammar 11/15
Since the name of your site is simply Identity, not Identity Buttons, I would recommend changing "Identity Buttons" in the welcome to "Identity's buttons"—this will prevent confusion about your site's name. In your updates "affie" should not be capitalized, and the 4/6 update is missing "make" between "cannot" and "any." In your second rule, the comma should be a semicolon. I would recommend combining the "Make sure it's on-site" rule with the "It doesn't have to be open" rule, as they both deal with the state of the requester's page. As it is now, your third rule basically conveys that people can go ahead and request when requests are closed, you just won't get to their request until they're open—I'd recommend changing that; what's the point in stating that requests are closed if you'll accept requests anyway? It's a bit redundant to tell people not to request when requests are closed, so that rule could be removed altogether. Under Requests, "chose" should be "choose." In the Pickup, "make sure" would be better than "guarantee"—normally you give a guarantee to someone; it's not really the word for when you're checking to be sure that they got their button. In your portfolio, oldest and newest should not be capitalized (button and count don't really need to be either, but they're not truly incorrect, as that can be counted as a title). In your credits, me, button, and image should not be capitalized, and there should not be a comma before "by The Lunch Box." Also, the sentences in your credits need ending punctuation. This isn't necessary, but I would recommend replacing most of the exclamation points in your description of your sister site with periods. I understand that you want to convey how much you love this site, but using an exclamation point for every sentence just comes across as excessive and even a little forced.

Usefulness 7/10
It would be nice if you numbered your rules instead of using bullets for them—this would simply make the page look cleaner. Additionally, I would recommend changing your form: where it now says "Specifications" it would be better to put "Image," "Border," and "Other" as separate fields. This will prevent people from forgetting to tell you what image or border they want and generally make your form look better. It would also be a good idea to specify somewhere what "etc." you allow people to include. Some button sites do not allow people to pick their own animation or font and instead choose whatever goes with the button; is this how you operate? That would definitely be a good thing to know before requesting. It would be a nice feature for you to link images in your portfolio to the page they were requested for so that if a user looking through your portfolio is interested in one of the sites they see, they can visit it.

Other 7/10
Under your affiliates, the word "Neomail" should be linked to your lookup instead of "today." Also, in your border examples, blocks #2 comes before blocks #1 and dashes #2 is before dashed, which just seems odd. Additionally, the bottom of the layered border seems a lot closer to the border below it than any of the other borders in that row are to the borders below them, giving the impression that it's larger. When I zoomed in to get a closer look at this, I noticed a lot of small issues with your border examples—corners not completely filled in, black spots in a few. These aren't easily noticeable, but they're definitely not going to help you in the long run.

Total: 74/100



Proofreading

As well as reviews, Third Impression offers proofreading, a service where I check your site's text for errors in grammar, usage, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Some proofreading is normally included in the third impression style of review, but I don't always check as thoroughly when doing a review. Proofreading does not come with a score.

Proofreading is: open

Proofread Sites

Asylum

5/5/12

In the welcome header, the #visitor code is messed up--it greets me as Trophy99. "A Black Pteri" needs ending punctuation. Rather than saying welcome twice in the first two sentences of your introduction, I would recommend saying "Welcome, stranger, to Asylum…" "We opened" would sound much better than "we were open." In the next sentence, there should be a comma after "however." In the sentence after that, "and keep it open" is rather redundant--if you hadn't kept it open, no one would be reading the introduction, would they? In your May 2 update, "open" and "away" should not be capitalized, and your updates need ending punctuation. In your second bulleted statement in the pickup, "buttons" should not be capitalized. In the note in your portfolio, the period should go before the smiley (it looks much cleaner that way) and "count" does not need to be capitalized. In the updates for the button request rankings, "out of rankings" is redundant and the link on the fourth statement should end after Opaque--right now the entire statement is a link. Almost all of the update statements in your rankings need ending punctuation, the "none yet" statements should be capitalized and have ending punctuation, and it would make a lot more sense to use a colon after "Updates" rather than a semicolon. The description for featured sites isn't well worded and has subject-verb disagreement--to fix the latter, all you need to do is change the last word to "sites," since you're talking about multiple sites, but it would be better to reword it as "I will feature sites that…" and then your description of the kind of site you feature. In the description for your featured site, "cute" should not be capitalized. The credit statement you provide in Resources needs ending punctuation. You should really write out the word "and" instead of using a plus in "My Past and Present." There's a line break missing after your first achievement, and your statements of your achievements need ending punctuation. Under your affiliates, "requests" and the types of sites you're looking for should not be capitalized. In the credit for The Lunch Box, the comma should be removed and "signs" should not be capitalized. Your first three credits need ending punctuation, as does your statement on when your counter started.

Somniphobic

4/23/12

I'm going to assume that the lack of capitalization of your site name is intentional. In the second sentence of your introduction, the semicolon should be a colon. In the fifth sentence, "just" needs to be capitalized, and the comma should be removed. In your credit, CSS should be all-caps, as it is an abbreviation, and the period after Leaf should be a comma (with "edited" no longer capitalized). It should say "Background by Rebecca," not "Background from Rebecca." In your 4-21 update, "new" should not be capitalized, and in your 4-15 update, "layout" should not be capitalized. I would strongly recommend typing out "and" instead of using an ampersand. In the banners, "women actresses" and "men actors" should be changed to "female" and "male," and it's a bit redundant, as "actresses" and "actors" indicate the genders of the people referred to. There shouldn't be a space in "actors/ musicians." You should also be consistent in how you capitalize headers. In the sentence under requests, "too" should be "to." In your form, there needs to be spaces between the word before a set of parenthesis and the opening parenthesis (e.g. it should be "Text (what do you… )"). In your pickup, there needs to be a space between the colon and "Rebecca." "Apply on the requests page" is not a question and so should not end with a question mark.

The Lodge

1/7/12 - 1/13/12

There should be commas around the #visitor code in your welcome: "Welcome, USERNAME, to…" The comma in the last sentence of the first paragraph in your welcome should be a semicolon. Strictly, "Neomail" should be capitalized. (Also, I'd note that Internet Explorer isn't everyone's basic browser; it isn't the default for Mac users.) In the description for First Impression in the Mountain Lodge review, "sites" needs to be possessive. In the same review, in the Content description, there needs to be a comma after "if your site is a directory" and "subjects" needs to be possessive. In the same review, in the description for Originality "necessarily" is misspelled. The abbreviation "i.e." should be punctuated with periods after both letters, and there should be a period after "etc." In Sitely, I would strongly recommend adding "are" before "of a quality." In Links, I would strongly recommend changing "Is it 88x31px?" to "Are they 88x31px?" since you've referred to the links as plural everywhere else in this section. In Overall, the last comma should be a colon. In the title "Beginners Lodge," it seems like "beginners" should be plural. In the "Layout and organization" section of this review, "it's" should be "its." The "Scenic Suite" review refers to itself within its description as a "White Weekend." In the sentence "The White Weekend is meant to be a starter…" the comma should be removed. In the last sentence in this section and "Single Suite," the last comma should be a semicolon, "have opt" should be "have opted," and "sites" needs to be possessive. The "Single Suite" review refers to itself as "Day at the Snow," and "one-on-one" should be hyphenated. Throughout your site, "however" should almost always be preceded by a semicolon, not a comma.

In the review for Mo's Fonts, "and due to your linked text image" doesn't really make sense in context; it seems like it should be "due to your linked text image" if you're saying that that's why the large space around the header doesn't draw users in. There should be a comma after "Now that this has been dealt with." In "Clearly states your sites name," "sites" should be "site's"; in "perfect and clearly defines it's position," "it's" should be "its." In the sentence about Viridian, "your" should be "yours" or "your layout." In "the text slips of the right side of the header background," the first "of" should be "off." In the sentence "This is such a creative thing to do…" I would strongly recommend adding "and" after "do." In the next paragraph, the comma after "fantastic" should be a semicolon. In the originality section, there should be a comma after "FAQ" (though it would be a better idea to remove the "as well" and make a simple list of "things not frequently offered." In "Your extras page has it's own navigation," "it's" should be "its." In your recommended rewording of the site's introduction, "font" should be "Fonts": that's the site's name. In "You update nice and frequently," "nice" should be "nicely." The sentence "One small thing that can be noted" shouldn't end in a question mark: there's no question there. In "the last fornight's update have been cleaned," "fornight's" should be "fortnight's," "update" should be "updates," and I would recommend changing "cleaned" to "cleared." In "change the line of buttons, simply…" the comma should be a semicolon. In the next sentence, "which doesn't" should be "that don't." "Tweaks" and "work" are misspelled in the Overall section.

In the first sentence of the review for Cib's Premades, "effect" is misused: it's not an adjective. Do you mean "effective"? There needs to be a comma after "Without looking around." In the sentence listing the site's professional elements, "maintains" should be "maintain," since you're talking about multiple elements. In "From your sites name it is not clear," "sites" should be "site's" and there should be a comma before "so again." In "might increase it's appeal," "it's" should be "its." In "It might be a good idea to play around fonts," there should be a "with" between "around" and "fonts." In "the content you offer is original in it's own way," "it's" should be "its." "Altador Cup" should be capitalized. In Organisation, "viewers" should be "viewer's." After "at this time of the year," the comma should be a semicolon, and there should be a comma after "December 17th." In "Try to at least…" "you" should be "your." In "You probably don't so many affiliates," a verb is missing; it seems "need" should be there.

In the review for Spoofed!, in First Impression, "viewers" should be "viewer's." In "When your visitors enters your site," you should either change "visitors" to "visitor" or "enters" to "enter," and in the same sentence, "is to" should be "they should" or "they want to." In the next sentence, "i.e." should be "e.g." In the next sentence, the second "is" should be "are." In the sentence after, "be" should be "been." When you talk about the title on the layout, "sites name" should be "site's name" in two instances. In "The colours used for the inside of this doesn't match," "doesn't" should be "don't." In the next sentence, the last "so" would be better off as "that." The sentence "You want your content box to blend with the background or be a couple of shades off the content box itself" doesn't really make sense: the content box should be a couple shades off the content box? It seems like the second "content box" should be something else, maybe "background." In the third sentence of the Content section, "you" should be "your." In the next sentence, "not" should be "note." In the next paragraph, "critic" should be "critique." In "in your first and last button there is no distinct border," I would recommend changing "button" to "buttons" and "is" to "are." In "the font outline is the wrong colour, it is far too light" the comma should be a semicolon. In the next-to-last sentence of this paragraph, "then" should be "the." In the parenthesis in the next paragraph, "i.e." should be "e.g." ("e.g." indicates an example whereas "i.e." is used to clarify the idea) and "Moonlight Adoptions" should be capitalized. In "the Moonlight Adoption's layout," "Adoption's" should be "Adoptions." In the next paragraph, "so it looks as a whole" leaves me wondering: Looks what as a whole? Also, "it" should be "they," since you're talking about "outlines" plural. In "recognise them, then they'll," the comma should be a semicolon. In the sentence "In your affies section…" there should be another verb (perhaps "have") before "a link to apply": otherwise you're saying "it would be good to know a link to apply." In the second sentence of the Link Backs section, I would strongly recommend removing the second "but." In the second sentence of Overall, "others" needs to be "others'".

In the Help Desk, I would strongly recommend changing "site improving features" to "site improvements." In the VIP Guest List, the header "buttons requests" should be "button requests." In the Hall of Fame's blurb for the Teahouse, in the second sentence, "it's" should be "its" and "you're" should be "your." In the last sentence of this blurb, "topped" is misspelled. (It also might be worth noting that the Teahouse actually has reopened temporarily, here). If Velvet and Restricted are closed pixel sites, you really need to link to either the petpages where they were hosted or the owners' lookups for credit: what you have right now doesn't tell me much about who actually made the pixels. The sentence "Started 4th March 2010" needs ending punctuation.

Destruct-O-Match Strategy Guide

12/30/11

Your first sentence is run-on; there should be a period or semi-color after "(Alex)." "Without" is one word. In the second paragraph (not counting "Practice makes perfect"), "I" needs to be capitalized in the second sentence, and the third sentence needs ending punctuation. I would recommend rewording "if you don't know the instructions, read them" to "if you don't know the basics, read the instructions." In the sentence describing zen mode, the first comma should be the semicolon. In the sentence describing double trouble extreme mode, the first "its" should be "it" and the first comma should be a colon. The sentences describing classic mode, double trouble, and double trouble extreme need ending punctuation, as does the sentence that begins "So before we break any bricks…" and the end of tips two and five. In tip one, "always" should be capitalized; in tip three, "they" should be capitalized. Since "The walk-through" appears to be the title of the next section of your guide, I would recommend capitalizing it. In the third sentence of the paragraph that begins "So this is what level one looks like," "I" needs to be capitalized. In the paragraph after that, "gray" should not be capitalized. In the paragraph under the next image, "effect" should be "affect" and the second sentence needs ending punctuation. After the next image, I would recommend not capitalizing "is," and there needs to be a space between "group" and "(◘)." The same applies to the parenthesis after the next image; in the last set of parenthesis, "hope" should be capitalized, "gray" shouldn't, and ending punctuation is needed. In this paragraph, I would recommend not capitalizing "has" (regarding "#3" as the first word in the sentence) and "and" should be "an." In the paragraph above, "leftover" is one word. In the first paragraph under the next image, it seems like "blacks" should be "blocks"; if you do mean to refer to the black numbers, perhaps reword it to be clearer? In the next paragraph, there should be a space between "black" and "#1," it looks like "we" needs to be added in front of "got," and the comma should be a semicolon, with a comma after "however." In the next paragraph, the first "it" needs to be capitalized. In the next paragraph, I would strongly recommend removing "so for," the comma, and "it" from the first sentence to make it read: "Black #3 will take away the combo that allows us to get the power up." In the next paragraph, the second comma (after "green") should be a semicolon. In the next paragraph, there needs to be a space between "orange" and the opening parenthesis, and the last sentence isn't very well worded: I would recommend removing "which" and changing the comma to a colon. In the third paragraph after the next picture, there needs to be a space between "top" and the opening parenthesis, and the period after "group" needs to be changed to a comma. In the second paragraph under the next picture, the second comma should be a semicolon. Under the next picture, the second comma should be a semicolon. Under the next picture, in the third sentence, the comma should be a colon. Under the "level complete" picture, "for" needs to be capitalized, since it's the start of a sentence. "The timer" in bold appears to be a title, so I would strongly recommend capitalizing "timer." Under the first two pictures in the timer section, "however" needs to be capitalized, and there needs to be a space after the comma after "the second picture." In "you don't care about the blocks above that you can," "that" should be "so." In the last paragraph before "Additional power ups," "in" and "here" need to be capitalized. In the paragraph about the morph block, "in" needs to be capitalized. In the paragraph about the volcano block, the first "it" needs to be capitalized, and "your" should be "you're." In the first paragraph about the X3 icon, the first "it" should be "is." In the next paragraph, the comma should be a semicolon. In the paragraph about having the X3 block in a minority, "ave" should be "save," and the last comma should be a colon. In the sentence that starts "This is the finished product…" the comma should be a semicolon. In the sentence that starts "This game didn't go…" the comma should be a semicolon or colon. In the last paragraph before "The Eliminator Block," "I" needs to be capitalized, and the last sentence needs ending punctuation. In the paragraph after "The Eliminator Block," "but" should not be capitalized, the comma after "affected" should be a semicolon, and there should be a space between "yellow" and the opening parenthesis. In the next paragraph, there needs to be a space between the block after "Know when to quit!" and spaces before and after the opening and closing parenthesis, respectively; "they" at the beginning of the last sentence should be "the." In the "Use the mix up icon" paragraph, the first comma should be a semicolon. In the paragraph after that, "keep" should be capitalized, "pair" should not be capitalized, and there needs to be a space between the closing parenthesis and "if." In the "Don't always go for the X3" paragraph, there needs to be a space between "close" and the opening parenthesis. In the "Judge when to use The Elminator Block" paragraph, the first comma should be a semicolon, and the period before "so" should be a comma. In the next paragraph, the third "the" needs to be capitalized. In the last paragraph, most of the sentences need ending punctuation (it's necessary even when you use a smiley; the most readable format is "word. :D"), the first "I" needs to be capitalized, and if "but" is meant to be the first word of a sentence, it needs to be capitalized.

Ready? Set? Don't Start.

11/21/11

In the first sentence of your disclaimer, the comma should be a semicolon. In your first update, "started" should not be capitalized. In the sidebar section linked to in your welcome, "character," "avatar," "art," and "dictionaries" should not be capitalized. In the "Empathy vs. Sympathy" sidebar, the colons are unnecessary, and in the explanatory paragraph, the period should be a comma. In the explanation under the link to "Empathy vs. Sympathy," "pour" should be "pour out." "Cannot" is one word. In the penultimate paragraph in the basics, I would recommend placing the comma after "inside" after the parenthesis, not before (i.e. "cringe inside (change them ... ), and make"). In the first paragraph of the balance section, "change" should be "changed." "Extraordinary" is one word. In the description of "The Blond/'Cutie,'" there should be three periods in the elipsis after "like," not two. In the sidebar that explains the body covering, build, and other attributes, you should either capitalize all the possibilities for the attributes or make them all lowercase instead of having some capitalized and some lowercase. Same thing with the punctuation used to separate the different possibilities: either use commas for every attribute or dashes for all of them. It seems like there should be a comma after "walking," not a period. Also, I suspect that "Aaural" may be a misspelling; it may be a term that I don't recognize, but it certainly doesn't show up in my dictionary and isn't recognized as a valid spelling by a search engine, so if it is a specialized term, you might want to explain it. "Comon" should be "come on" and should also be capitalized because it's the first word in a sentence. In strength, "weigh" should be "weight." In several of the balanced abilities score areas, you use second-person pronouns such as "you" when you should use third-person pronouns such as "them": you're referring to the character's abilities, not the abilities of the writer reading your guide. In agility, "does dodging" would be be better off as simply "dodges," "aerobatics" should be "does aerobatics," "yourself" should be "themselves," and midair should be one word. "Every time" should be two words. In intelligence, character needs to be possessive. In wisdom, the semicolon should be a comma. In your navigation, storytelling should be one word, and this link leads to the Neopets home page--so does the style link. Under art, "whomever" should be one word. In the first sentence, "have" should be "had" (since you seem to be referring to your actions in the past) and "do" should be "does." The plural of wolf is "wolves," not "wolfs." "Focus into" should be "focus on." Photoshop should be capitalized--it's a proper noun. In the first sentence of the third paragraph, the comma should be a semicolon. "Infinite" is misspelled. In the fourth paragraph, "outline" should not be capitalized. "Inexistant" should be "nonexistent." In the penultimate paragraph, the attribute you list after pose shows up as a disallowed word and I suspect it's eaten most of your information on color. (The word for the look on someone's face is disallowed for some unfathomable reason.) You seem to be missing the information on "the harmony of color" and shading (unless the shading was also removed by the disallowed word) that you said you'd include. In the last paragraph, the first sentence is very oddly worded; I would recommend simply removing "and for an art section." I would recommend capitalizing the acronym LOL (I recognize that you wouldn't use it this way in conversation, but it's marginally more professional, and a site is a more formal setting). In your summary, the second item needs ending punctuation. In your credits, "offsite" should be capitalized--since it's after the period in the credit, it's technically the start of a new sentence. Also, The Feather Art's credit needs ending punctuation. In the last sentence, I would recommend removing the "a".

Oodles of Doodles

11/20/11

The name "Fely" should be capitalized. There should be a comma after "October 19." I would recommend changing "becoming" to "being" as it sounds like the site was a portfolio as soon as you made it, not like you intended it to gradually turn into a portfolio, in which case "becoming" would apply. There should be a comma after "enough," and I would recommend combining the two sentences in the second paragraph: "I realized ... my fellow Neopians and eventually, Oodles of Doodles ..." I would recommend changing "full-fledged" to "fully-fledged." Technically, Neomail should be capitalized. Under Rules, I'd change "through" to "with a." In the last rule, "and" should be "or"--the current sentence says that it's fine for users to redistribute or claim your art as long as they don't do both at the same time. Under request pick-up, "within that time" is rather unnecessary and sounds a bit odd; I'd recommend removing it. In the answer to the fourth question in your FAQ, there should not be a colon between "website" and the period. In the answer to the penultimate question, "layer be" should be "layer will be." Under listers, I would recommend replacing "where" with "if." Under affiliates, apply should be capitalized, and under credits, just about all of the site names should be capitalized (basically, the text-transform: lowercase; on your links makes your grammar look bad).

Virbrissae

11/13/11

In the link back section on the side, "more" doesn't need to be capitalized. In your last update, "add" should be "ad" ("ad" is short for advertisement; "add" refers to the mathematical operation). In the 11/11/2011 update, the first sentence lacks ending punctuation, which I would recommend placing before the smiley. The second rule is a little unclear; I would recommend saying "your own button" instead of "custom button that was made for you." As it is now, it's not completely clear whether you're telling people to use buttons only made specifically for them or if you're asking them to make sure they use the buttons they request. Technically, "Neomail" should be capitalized. In the text button credit you provide for others, there should be a space between the colon and "Vibrissae," and "credit" should not be capitalized. In the pick-up, "below" should only have one L ("bellow" is to yell loudly). In your full portfolio, "requests in" should be "requests for" (though the only pages I looked at in your full portfolio were the homepage and the button page). On your about page, the last sentence in the first paragraph lacks ending punctuation. On the sitely page, ASAP should be all-caps, as it is an acronym. I would recommend either removing the colon from "Listed at" or putting a colon after all of your headers in the section, with the former vastly preferable. In your credits, "skills" should not be capitalized, and it's not necessary to capitalize "here," either.

ZAPT

10/25/11

In the third sentence of the first paragraph of your introduction, I would recommend adding "where they are" before "awaiting a great new owner" (as it is, it sounds like the Pound is awaiting a great new owner). I would add "and applications" after offers (or perhaps change "offers" to something like "interest") since you list pets that are up for adoption as well as trade. In the next paragraph, "receive" and "receiving" are misspelled. Also, in the same sentence, I would recommend rewording "they have a good chance at recieving [sic] it" to express that users' wished-for pets are distributed through Make a Wish rather than through ZAPT; the current wording makes it unclear what exactly Make a Wish does. On the ZAPT pets page, I'd recommend adding something such as "Adopted" after "Pounded" for pets that are currently in the Pound; the current formation makes it seem like these pets are still in the Pound, but the ones I looked up were not (I know that painted pets go fairly quickly in the Pound, so users can't really expect to find painted pets currently in the Pound on a petpage, but this would be much clearer). Also, "zapped" should only be capitalized at the beginning of a line, not after a semicolon, and "waiting" should not be capitalized. In your FAQ, it looks like the third question hasn't been updated because it says that you're just "thinking of" putting pets with clothes up for adoption when your homepage says you already do this. Your fourth button does not seem to link anywhere--it just links to "/". In your credits, "pixels" is misspelled; in the button credits, "credits" does not need to be capitalized.

Make a Wish

10/19/11

Though it's not strictly necessary, I would recommend replacing "It first came about from running my other site" in the second paragraph of your welcome with something along the lines of "I came up with the idea for Make a Wish while working on my other site"; it reads better. I'd also recommend changing "people can wish for a pet" to "someone can wish for a pet" or "people can wish for pets" (it doesn't make sense for multiple people to wish for one pet). In your second rule, it's not really clear what "it" is--it could be responding to a Neomail, zapping, transferring a pet... I would recommend replacing the first "it" with the action or process that takes time. The fifth rule seems like it could be improved by rewording it to something along the lines of "Make a Wish's zappers and I are not required to give you the pet if it is zapped, especially if we feel that you have treated us poorly." Under Felsong's wishes, Darigan is misspelled. In the "Granted Wishes" section, I'd recommend changing "Not any" to "None" and adding ending punctuation to the button credit. Under credits, dividers should not be capitalized and the divider credit needs ending punctuation; also, I'd strongly recommend separating the divider credit from the Neopets copyright information with a line break: as it is, most people will assume it's part of the Neopets copyright and skip over it, so it's sort of camouflaged.

Eminence

9/9/11

There should be a space between the colon and the number of visitors in the visitor counter on your home page. The sentence "Remember to credit back with a button or name link" doesn't read very well; I would recommend changing "back" to "me" and "name" to "text"--"credit back" doesn't really make sense (links go somewhere; though credit usually contains a link, as a statement that something was made by someone else, it doesn't actually go anywhere) and "name link" is an unusual term that could leave readers unsure exactly what you meant. I would recommend the same thing in your first rule in the request section: change "name link" to "text link." In your third rule, "replied" is misspelled. All but two (the first and eighth) of the sentences under credits need ending punctuation. Also, button should not be capitalized in your credits. Strictly, Neomail should be capitalized throughout the site. In the form for requests, there should be a space between "Positions:" and "Text Color:" and the text after them. In the suggestion form, there should be a space between "Image positioning:" and "(optional)." In the form for editing, there should be a space between "(your name here)" and "and." In all of your forms, it's unnecessary to put a colon after a question mark.

While it's not strictly proofreading, I would recommend that to improve the appearance of your request section, you put the titles of the forms, the request statuses, and the forms themselves in a table rather than using dashes to create space between them. (Table mechanics are explained here.)

Rowlier's Guide to Neopia

4/21/11

There needs to be a space between the comma after welcome and the #visitor code, and there should really be a comma after the visitor code as well. You seem to be missing more periods than you have: every sentence needs to be ended with one (or another punctuation mark), even ones where you use smilies at the end of the sentence or when they're the last one in a paragraph. In the second paragraph in your welcome, you repeat yourself: it should be, "If you have any comments, feedback, questions, etc. please don't hesitate to mail me. In your third paragraph, Rowliers needs to be possessive, and the first so is really unnecessary. In your fourth paragraph, in the second pair of parenthesis, you should either say that you run the guide "along with Rowlier" or "with the help of Rowlier," Rowlier needs to be capitalized, there shouldn't be a space between Rowlier and the closing parenthesis, and after the closing parenthesis is one of the places where you need a period. Neopian should be capitalized. In your next paragraph, I would suggest adding "when I started this site" (or whenever you're referring to) after "I had zero coding knowledge" or after "I had quite the challenge ahead of me." The only one of your updates that I checked was the latest, April 18th, but there lately was misspelled, the contraction for "I am" needs to be capitalized and have an apostrophe between its letters, haven't is missing its apostrophe, and the whole update is a giant run-on sentence. There should be the start of a new sentence at the smiley and probably another one at "I should be able..." Also, I would recommend putting an "is" in "all going well," but it's not strictly necessary.

In your featured site, "Todays" needs an apostrophe, and there needs to be a space after the first comma. Under Dailies, however, there doesn't need to be a period after "Slorg," Expellibox is misspelled, and Healing Springs should be plural--and capitalized, as it's a proper name. In fact, most of the second words in your titles are part of proper names and should be capitalized. I believe that your abbreviation for the Discarded Magical Blue Grundo Plushie of Prosperity is missing a D. NP needs to be capitalized everywhere that you use it, and you should either treat all of your descriptions as sentences--capitalize them and end them with periods--or none of them, so don't capitalize any and don't put any periods. Under "Dailies for Some," there should be a space between Cl. and Chamber. Under Daily Avatar Clicks, questions--"Can you beat the count" and "can you find the treasure"--need to end with question marks, and the word "Petpet" seems to be missing from the description of the Symol Hole. Under Lottery, ticket doesn't need to be capitalized.

In Games, I would strongly suggest putting a colon after "Score for 1k." There should be a space between "D." and "Trainer" and another one between "P." and "Dash." Berry Bash is two words. In your sentences at the end of the page, there should be a comma after "thank you" and another one after your visitor code.

In your navigation, Rainbow Fountain is two words. Once you reach Krawk Island you switch from the British spelling of coloring to the American spelling; then you switch back under the Ice Caves. Most of the second words in the navigation links should be capitalized, particularly "Kadoatery." Under link back, want should be capitalized, and the link doesn't work (this isn't a review, but I thought you might want to know).

Under your recommended sites, the first sentence is hard to understand; I would rewording the part after Neopia (which needs to be capitalized) to read: "the sites below are my recommendations." In the site categories, there are many sentences that need for the first word to be capitalized; I'll just list the words, in order: in, keep, what, side, then, or, check, looking, these, do, theses (which should be "these"), ventureing (which is misspelled: "venturing" is correct), these. In Avatars guides, in the third sentence, "the" should be "there." Under Account Info, don't is missing an apostrophe. The plural of agency is agencies, not agencys. Under Button Requests, "there" should be "their" and won't is missing an apostrophe. In CSS guides, the two S's should be capitalized, can't is missing an apostrophe, and helpful is misspelled--it only has one L. In Premade Petpages, don't needs an apostrphe. In Pet Trading, the T on the end of great is missing. Under Reviews, could is misspelled. In screenies, "your" should be you're. In your last heading, coming is misspelled, and you should have either one or three periods, not five.

In Contests, some of your information is incorrect: the Beauty Contest does not award Neopoints, and the Neopian Times only gives out prizes--items, not Neopoints--in special issues. Also, for the Pet and Petpet Spotlights, you need to submit a picture along with a story. Your descriptions (the small blue text) should either all start with capital letters or none of them should start with capital letters. Under Training and Battle, Battledome should be capitalized and pirates needs to be possessive. In your navigation and coming soon section, coming is misspelled. In your Extras, petpages should be one word, screenies is misspelled, and don't is missing its apostrophe--also, coming is misspelled again. In Sitely, under Forms and Feedback, all of the sentences should have their first words capitalized, and "Do you have suggestions" is missing a question mark. I didn't look at more than the first couple lines of the forms, but in the first one Rowlier's needs to be possessive and in the last one there should be a space after the comma. All of your titles should be capitalized, including Listed At and Thank You Gifts.

The contact me link in your site's navigation doesn't work.

The Help Chat

11/27/10

In the second sentence of the welcome, "each labeled with their own neoboard," should be "each labeled with its own neoboard," as each door is only one object. Strictly, Neoboard should be capitalized. Where it says, "for they are all emitting quite a racket," all should be both, as you've only mentioned two doors to walk past. I doubt that "Help Chat" is lacquered in gold letters on the doorway, since that would mean that someone's managed to write in the empty space within the door frame. It's more likely that it's written on the door itself.

I wouldn't say that all of the Help Chat's inhabitants are friendly--while the majority of the players are there to help and try to get through their Neopian lives without drama, there are trolls and spammers who like to make the boards a bad experience for everyone. And honestly, I wouldn't make the sweeping generalization that all we want is "to keep spam boards to a minimum, and help other people's inquiries as best as you can." I'm one of the board's inhabitants and I don't ask people to help others' inquiries to the best of their ability.

Neopets is a proper noun and so should be capitalized. In your screenies, the first letters in sentences should be capitalized. In the first sentence of the "Slang" section, appreciations seems like it should be "abbreviations"--appreciation makes very little sense in that context. At the end of this section, you need ending punctuation in the sentence where you direct people to the Chatspeak Dictionary. In your credits, I would strongly suggest using the word "and" instead of an ampersand, and coding base is not a proper noun and so does not need to be capitalized. Also, the sentences under credits need ending punctuation.

Monsters Inc.

10/30/10

You have the rule "Please credit me. I put effort into the buttons and dislike having people steal them" twice. This may be for emphasis, but if it is, I would suggest changing the wording of the rule or doing something to show that you didn't just make a mistake and put it twice, because that's what it looks like. In the last sentence of your last rule, it looks like you left out two words--"the button"--after using. In your pick up, it looks like you've forgotten to end your header; if you did intend for "Here's where you pick up your request" to be part of the header, you need to set it off from "Pick up" some how--either with a break, a dash, or a semicolon. In your description of Buttonful in Fear Fest, I would recommend using italics or bolding for emphasis instead of caps, and "Unique styles in buttons" is not a clause, so you can't make a compound or complex sentence with it. It looks like it should be "They have unique styles in buttons and the pixels are so cute!" It seems kind of odd that you have a colon in your "Listed At" header but not in any other header; I would suggest removing it.

Cat's Banners

10/28/10

You don't need stars around "Cat's Banners" in the navigation, and even if you want to put them for some reason, the apostrophe should be inside the stars. "Do not complain. Or I will set my attack Kougra on you" should be one sentence, with a comma instead of a period. There should be a space between 2.0 and the smiley, and probably a period as well. In your updates, got does not need to be capitalized after "also," and there should be a period and a space between "server" and the smiley face. There should be spaces between the numbers of your rules and the rules themselves, and between items on your to do list and whether you've completed them. "Me" and "now" are not proper nouns and don't need to be capitalized. There doesn't need to be a "the" in your first rule. In your form, there need to be spaces between the words before parenthesis and the parenthesis. Myself isn't a proper noun, so it doesn't need to be capitalized. If "smiley central" is the name of a site, it needs to be capitalized. There needs to be a space between the comma and "open." "Back," "button," and "by" do not need to be capitalized. Strictly, open, closed, and me don't need to be capitalized, but those can be excused by claiming that they're part of the title of the resource.

Save the Magic

10/8/10

You need to end sentences even when you use smileys after them, and except in the subtitles of your site (i.e. "a premades site brought to you by...") you should write out "and" instead of using an ampersand. In your premade button section, you say to leave the credit on, but I don't see any credit in the codes. In your button section's navigation, you misspelled "portfolio"--it's missing the T.

In the welcome of your layouts page, CSS should be all-caps because it's an abbreviation (it stands for "Cascading Style Sheets"). Also, I think the second sentence in your welcome is missing a few words at the end: it says "for your userlookup or Please read all rules." It seems like it should say "for your userlookup or petpages. Please read all rules." I spotted a slight inconsistency in your pages section, in which "type" is lowercase for the first two types but uppercase when you label the third type.

In the welcome of your fonts section, the second sentence should either read "This is a branch of our premades site and it is full of wonderful fonts for you to use!" or "This branch of our premades site is full of wonderful fonts for you to use." In your "To War" font, "its" should be "it's" (I know that the font filters eat apostrophes, but if you use the key next to the 1 key, they'll go through). You have the same problem in a couple other fonts. Under requests, "Please fill out this form as detailed as possible" should be "Please fill out this form with as many details as possible." In your portfolio, I would strongly suggest changing the first comma into a period and starting a new sentence there.

Sieltra

10/2/10

In your first couple sentences, the meaning of "they" is a little unclear. The way you have it, it almost sounds like you're asking if the people who say that you can't trust a snake are really to blame. The usage of part in the same paragraph also seems a little odd. I would suggest writing it either as "she is one of the cold-blooded" or "she is cold-blooded." In the third paragraph, "conscience" should be "conscious." A conscience is a sense of right and wrong, whereas you seem to mean conscious, or intentional. In your fifth paragraph, realizes should be past-tense.

If the guards are giving themselves a glance, they're looking down at their own bodies--I think you mean that they give each other a glance. In sentences like "Sieltra slithered to the rock door, sudden fear ran through her veins" you should be using a semicolon instead of a comma; if you're going to use a comma to make a compound sentence you need to use a conjunction like and or but.

The past tense of seek is sought, not seeked, and you should say that Koyi is one of your permanent pets: he is not two pets. Just comparing him to Sieltra does not make Sieltra part of the sentence's subject: you'd have to say "He and Sieltra will be two of my permanent pets." Casings usually apply to robot pets, so I'd suggest saying that the Halloween clothes will go to Sieltra, and Halloween should really be capitalized as it is a proper noun--the name of a holiday.

I find several things wrong with the sentence "I have a really hard time drawing Hissis, But! I gave it a shot as you can see by the picture upright." First, the "but" should not be capitalized; it is not a part of a noun or the start of a new sentence. Second, the usage of an exclamation point in the middle of a sentence, while acceptable in earlier eras, is no longer common, and most people glancing at that sentence would assume it to be incorrect--and honestly I think it would be in this day and age. Finally, "upright" means vertical; I think you mean above and to the right, or at top right.

You need to end sentences even when you use smileys after them. "Neopian" and "Neopets" are proper nouns and should be capitalized.

Your second about me paragraph doesn't make much sense. The first two sentences are fine, but then you come to "But if there was at least something to describe me is that I'm a good listener. I'm patient when there is nothing bothering myself, and I even tend to learn better if someone says it rather than shows me." The beginning of the first sentence just doesn't really make sense: it sounds like it should be "If there's one thing that would describe me it is that I'm a good listener." In the second sentence, myself should be me, and since the definition of impatience is (more or less) being bothered by things not happening quickly, everyone is patient when nothing's bothering them. Also, almost everyone learns better when people explain things to them rather than just doing it and then saying "Okay, now you should be able to figure out how I did it," so the second part is a little unnecessary.

The second sentence of your third about me should start out "My favorite part of Neopets is," and in your section about your pets, the semicolon should be a colon.

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4/9/12

Affiliates: Sparkling Reviews does not list you as an affiliate.

Listers: Excessively Directory has moved. Enchanted is closed. Autoxy directory appears to be closed—its page merely instructs people to remove its button. Vertigo is closed.

Other: In the SOTM, Excessively Directory has moved. There is no link on the Blackbird Fly button on the homepage.

Insert

12/27/11

Affiliates: Although it's difficult for me to be sure, Asylum seems to link to you only as a competition and a lister, not as an affiliate.

Listers: No problems found.

Other: No problems found.

Useful

10/29/11

Affiliates: Ginger Glaze does not appear to list you as an affiliate.

Listers: Elle's Help Guide, while currently up, is closing. Jenessa's Directory is now a guild club page.

Other: I don't know if you really care to update this, but under Poll, "Desolate Storm" links to the webbie of a guild called "Sandstørm." In the "Other" category of your directory, the "Other" subcategory header links to the guild "The Neopian Press." Belly Buttons, the site linked to as credit for your third button, is closed; while the site is still up and it's not strictly necessary, you might want to change the credit to the owner's lookup so that the credit is still accurate even if the page is taken down or the pet changes owners. The site credited for your seventh button, Dreams are Reality, is also closed, and the owner asks that credit now be linked to her lookup.

Borders: Under affiliates, the buttons for HallowPointSmile and Crazy Coconuts have borders.

Ginger Glaze

10/10/11

Listers: No problems.

Affiliates: No problems.

Other: No problems.

Since this is the first link-checking request I've received, I've decided to check the guilds in your directory as well.

Directory: The guild "♔ Girls Rule 24/7 ♔" appears to be called "The Beach Club." "Xant!" is private and so cannot be accessed through your link. "Neopets Escape!" seems to actually call itself "~Neopets Escape~" and, based on its page, Neopian Enterprises' listing seems to be missing a ™ at the end of its name. (I've only mentioned missing symbols if they are included in the way the guild's members seem to refer to it on the webbie and/or home page, not if they were included in the name on the top of the guild page.)

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