First Glance: 10/10. Wow - that was...a little...blinding x.x It's amazing what people can do when they actually work towards something, isn't it? Anyways, the blend
{{if that's what it is}} is very amazing. Well, considering that I can't do blends at all, it's truly amazing! Great job!
Spelling/Grammar: 3/10. I spotted a
LOT of mistakes. I wonder how you guys are doing in your English class in high school....considering that you ARE seniors! And grammatical errors - oh, those nasty grammatical errors! In your FAQ, I spotted several spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. Make
sure that you check the page over before you publish it! I would suggest copying-and-pasting the entire TEXT part into a word document, and have spell check help you out there. But remember: Spell Check doesn't always work! That's what a dictionary is for! And your site's name - it irks me. GraphX. When people use "creative" spellings for the word
G R A P H I C S, it makes me want to scream. I know that it is
your site's name, and I have no say in what you name it, but I'm just telling you - the way people spell graphics sometimes ticks me off.
Neatness: 8/10. I was looking through your lookups, and noticed that they are all out of order!
-.- I really dislike it when things aren't in order; it makes the entire page look messy! Why don't you arrange the lookups by series - you know, DN Angel stuff grouped together, FMA stuff grouped together, Vampire Knight grouped together, Nartuo...ect... Right now, it's hard to find the stuff that I would like when the lookups are just randomly splattered onto the page! Have some organization! You have it on your icon page, but not on your main page? That's a little upsetting. But other than that, it's a nicely organized site. Sort of. The scrolling marquee-updates get a little old. It's a little slow for me. Besides, I like to read at my own speed!
Colors: 9/10. Everything seems to go very well together....except for the FAQ section! It's blue and yellow, while the rest of the stuff around it is pink and yellow! Change the blue to pink, then it might match!
Music: 10/10. Your site is nice enough without the music, but I think it might do better with some! Of course, I like listening to music from random animes/video games, so it could just be my opinion....*sighs* I'm really bored right now, if you can't tell. That's why I decided to do your review today instead of doing my homework - I don't want to do math right now!
Age of Site: 10/10. You've been up for quite a while, and it seems as if you've gotten a LOT of hits since March - over ten thousand, to be exact. Which makes me swoon. I wish my graphics site would get that many hits! But, don't forget to put the date that the site opened somewhere! Either I'm just tired, or you don't have that
I M P O R T A N T date on there!!
Quality: 10/10. No arguments here. I agreed with all of my personalities that this site has amazing graphics, although one thing ticks me off a little - you reuse some of the images from your lookups for your icons. Don't get me wrong; that's fine! They're pretty ^.^
Those are the ones that I really like - of course, the only manga I read is VK and FMA, so maybe that tells you something!
Updated List: 7/10. Like I mentioned before, your scrolling updates a little hard to read {{LOTS OF TEXT!}}, but the marquee also scrolls VERY slow. Why not simply put them into a scrollbox? If you
scroll partway down my page, I've mentioned SCROLLBOXES to lots of other people. You'll find the code somewhere, if you don't know it already! Also, there are a lot of misspelled words in your updates - come on, Seniors! Pick it up! Pay attention in English Class!
Other Problems: Your spelling. It's atrocious!
{{Sorry, but I'm a reviewer; I'm supposed to grade it how it is!}}. Use a spell-checker, or use a dictionary! Misspelled words really turn me off, as many people know. Also, try to fix the scrolling marquee updates box....a scrollbox would be MUCH better. Oh, and organize the lookups! That's a big thing! And the colors...the colors on the FAQ don't match the rest of the page. You should probably fix that.
Overall Score: 67/80. That's an
83%. Good job. Fix the spelling errors, and the other things that I noticed, and you might move up to an A!
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AnimeIke
First Glance: 9/10. It looks like it's a nice site, but I think it would work a lot better if the entire layout was in the middle of the page. You know, centered? It's just my opinion, but I think that the type of layout you have would work MUCH better if you had a centered layout!
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10. I saw nothing, and I go over these pages with a microscope, so you know that I'm actually checking them! Great job ^.^
Neatness: 9/10. Like I said two sections ago, I think the page would look better if it were centered. But again, that's just my opinion! Also, make the scrollbars a slightly darker color. For a few minutes, I tried to scroll on the normal scrollbar - you know, the one all the way at the left side of the screen? Then I realized,
Oh, wait. There are two other scrollbars!. So, that's either something to fix, or it's an example of my stupidity. I can't really figure out which one!
Colors: 10/10. Everything fits nicely together, and I really like the layout! Although, {{and I won't take any points off for this}} make the scrollbars darker!
Music: 9/10. It seems like a great song at first, and if I'm not mistaken, I believe it's in Japanese, isn't it? If it's not...then I can't understand the words! But I'm pretty sure it's in another language. The thing is, it gets a little repetitive after listening to it while trying to review it...*heh* But I must say, the song seems to go with the layout!
Age of Site: 7/10. Your counter seems to have been up since your site was started....*refresh* EEEEK! My site just appeared! *claps* Yaaay! *heh heh* I was randomly refreshing the page beause a few icons wouldn't show up, and low and behold, my button appeared! Yay! Also, since you took some of your icons off of photobucket, I had to take off a few points, because it's easy to copy-and-paste icons from photobucket. It literally takes a few seconds.
Quality: 5/10. I felt really bad giving you this score, but it's really the only one that I could give you! Sorry! Here's why:
You don't have that many icons made by you...only about...3/4 were made by you...1/4 seems to have been taken off of photobucket. If I were to go by more exact measure, I would say that 2.5/4 were made by you, and 1.5/4 were taken off of photobucket. I don't really like photobucket-attackers, but you gave credit and such.... And here are the photobucket ones I really like:
But if you can make icons like
the following, why do you need to take stuff from photobucket at all?:
I'm just wondering. Those icons are great! But you have a lot of stuff from photobucket, so that's why I had to give you the score I did. I'm sorry....
Updated List: 8/10. *sighs* You sort of struck a raw nerve. Please tell me you're keeping all of your updates, and you're not deleting them if a few of them get too long! Because that would be a shame. Updates should always be kept, no exceptions. And you don't have a lot of updates, so I'm guessing that you haven't worked on your site in a while...Well, you did update it today, I suppose, so....That's why I didn't take off a lot of points ^.^
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned before: photobucket'd icons, updates list, and....um...I don't really know the rest...Read the review again to find out! *heh* I have a bad memory....
Overall Score: 67/80. That's an
83%. Great job! Keep working on your site, improving it, and maybe, eventually, you can even take off a few of the photobucket icons, replacing them with icons that are even more amazing! Keep going! I know you can do it!
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2 Starz Graphix
First Glance: 8/10. The main image is offcenter, which irks me, and it is also wider than your two-columned petpage. If the image were directly over the two columns, it wouldn't matter if it were centered or not, but since the image extends over the columns, that makes it look a little messy. And before I go any farther, I'm just going to say that I dislike it when people use the word "Graphix" instead of "Graphics". It's just one of my pet peeves.
Spelling/Grammar: 9/10. Like I said before, the "Graphix" instead of "Graphics" irks me. Extremely. But everything else on the page is spelled correctly. Except for "pics". Why not be grammatically correct and use the word "pictures" instead? Another one of my dislikes is when people are lazy and they don't feel like spelling words correctly. *sigh*
Neatness: 7/10. You don't have any navigation, which is extremely tiresome. I don't like having to scroll all the way through the page simply to get to something that I'd want to look at. Add a navigation bar. That should be number one on your "To-Do" list. Also, RESIZE THE PICTURE! I believe that I've mentioned this before. Having a picture extend past the last column is tacky, and makes for bad presentation. Also, some of your graphics are missing previews. The banners in particular.
Colors: 9/10. They seem to fit pretty well together, although I don't understand why you have a Candy Corn layout if your site's name is 2 Stars Graphix {{it pained me just to write that! *shudders*}}. Why don't you have a starry layout?
Music: 10/10. Good job acing this catagory. Most people do. No music. That's amazing. I personally find music distracting when I'm trying to browse a graphics page. Unless the music is something I really, really, REALLY like, then I normally close the page the second the music starts blaring. I don't like it when music that I dislike blares out my speakers. It's nerve wracking!
Age of Site: 8/10. You seem to have been up for a while, but no where on your site do you say which date the site was started, nor do you say when you started the counter, which makes me wonder when you really did start the site. Just a suggestion.
Quality: 8/10. Judging by the previews, most of your stuff looks pretty good, but I had to take a few points off because I didn't want to go and place each one of the banners somewhere, and then go back and delete them, then do another banner, then delete it, then do the next one...ect., and I also didn't want to copy the petpage layout and chunk it onto one of my petpages. I can't delete anything on my petpages, so I can't see what your petpage looks like. Your best bet: make previews!
Updated List: 3/10. You've struck another raw nerve. You have two updates. TWO. Where are all the rest of them? Did you only open the site two days ago? When did you open the site? How many updates have you had since then? When will you add more updates? Do you delete the updates you had to add new ones? That's an extremely bad idea. Always, always, ALWAYS keep your updates! How else are we to know when you add a new lookup, or banner, or icon, when you delete the updates??? Try putting them into a scrollbox. If you look through one of the previous reviews, I'm pretty sure you'll find the scrollbox code. Read the directions to put the scrollbox code into your updates section. That way, you can keep adding new updates at the top, while letting the old ones stay at the bottom. *takes a deep breath* Whew! I'm really on a tirade today! What's wrong with me?
Other Problems: What I mentioned before: No navigation, the missing-in-action updates, the non-previewable graphics, the over-sized main picture, no when-this-site-was-started date, no when-this-counter-was-started date, and...I think that's it. Fix these things!
Overall Score: 62/80. That would be a 75%. Your site has a lot of potiential; you just need to tap into it! Fix the numerous problems that I found, and maybe, maybe you could score higher next time! If you think this score is too low, you should be glad that I didn't mention my dislike of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, the Jonas Brothers, Camp Rock, or High School musical anywhere in the actual review.
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Jemz's Petpages
First Glance: 10/10. So...much...green! But it's a good sort of green. It's pretty. At least it's not so-neon-that-it-hurts-your-eyes green. That would be a bad thing. The layout also seems to be well laid-out, and it seems nice and neat. I like it ^.^
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10. I read through your entire page, and I found absolutely nothing. That's amazing! And I might even have to request a layout of my very own...this petpage could use some improvement! A picture of my lovely shoyru in her FFQ-Painted state {{pirate}}....*imagines* That would be amazing! It all depends on if I get around to filling out that form or not!
Neatness: 10/10. Like I said before, I went through your entire page. You page is nicely laid out. Everything is EASY to find, nothing's complicated, and it all looks simply AMAZING. Great job! You're certainly better at coding than I am! *dances*
Colors: 9/10. As I said on the "first glance" grading scale, there's a bit too much green. The lime Chia looks a tiny bit out of place, simply because it's a darker green than the rest of the page. But don't take my word for it! You have an amazing layout, and I love it!
Music: 10/10. You stated in your neomail No - I find it distracting, and I know many other people do too. You took the words straight out of my mouth. Now I have nothing to rant about in this grading scale!!! Eeeeek! So should I just ramble about nothing, or continue to the next section? Ramble...continue...ramble... continue. Let's proceed!
Age of Site: 10/10. I remember seeing you on the Neoboards one day {{also when I added you to my directory}} and I know it wasn't that long ago. September 1, to be exact. And you've already gotten over 1000 hits. That is simply amazing. Bravo.
Quality: 9/10. I looked at your premades {{dragging and dropping into the address bar}} and I found a few problems....
With the Illusen (Earthy) one, LINK 3 is a different...style...than the other links. It's a simple text link, while the others are block links. Have you noticed that? Have you fixed that? If so, you should update your preview!
With the Dice-A-Roo one, LINK 4 is a different style, just like LINK 3 with the Illusen one. Check it out!
And, of course, with the Electric one, LINK 4 is a different style, just like the previous problems that I mentioned. Be sure to look at them!!
Updated List: 9/10. Here's where it gets a bit icky. You have a scrolling updates box. That would be fine if the updates were short...but....They aren't that short. Why not replace the marquee with a scrollbox? You know the scrollbox code; you use it for the "main" section of your site. Just keep adding the new updates at the top of the scrollbox, and keep the old ones at the end. That way, people will be able to tell what you did ^.^
Other Problems: Only what I mentioned before, actually. The scrolling marquee, the mismatched link buttons, and the seemingly-out-of-place Lime Chia. But the chia's not really a problem; the marquee'd updates are. Try to fix those ^.^
Overall Score: 77/80. That's a 96%! Amazing job! Just fix the few problems that I found, and you'll be well on your way to a 100%! I absolutely love your premades!!
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Faerie Compass
First Glance: 9/10. The black-and-white swirly background doesn't really go with the pink-and-white layout that you have. Why not get a white-and-pink swirly background instead? Otherwise, I absolutely LOVE the layout! It's adorable!
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10. I saw one little thing, but it was probably an unknown mistake, so I didn't count off for it. Underneath "Introduction", in the second paragraph, you put "The purpose is to help neopians like yourself to find it is that they need in a more easy and faster way."
Do you see what I italicized there? "More easy" sounds awkward. Put "easier" instead of "more easy", and you'll fix that problem right away!
Neatness: 10/10. I have yet to see a directory so nicely laid out like yours! Everything matches, and it's amazing! It is certainly far superior to this one. I know, it's a little harsh, but look at it! It's also a little better than my directory, Midnight Secrets. It's very nicely laid out, and everything's easy to find on your directory! Great job!
Colors: 9/10. Like I said before, everything works together nicely except for the background. The black-and-white clashes with the white-and-pink layout. If you were to replace the on the background with white, and the white on the background with the pink from your layout, it would look fantastic! Or better yet, just leave the background snow white if you can't get the background changed. It would look good either way.
Music: 10/10. Another acing in a category! Music on a Directory would be out of place, unless it was something simple. But your page is very nice, and music could ruin it!
Age of Site: 10/10. Going solely by your counter, you've reached over 500 page views in under twenty days. That's absolutely amazing! Of course, I'm going by the assumption that you opened your site on August 23, of course. That's really the only fair way to judge it. And you have so many links! Keep going!
Quality: 10/10. Since your site isn't a graphics site, I couldn't judge it in the traditional sense, but in another way. All of your button links are clear and easy to read, and your layout is nice. If you made it all by yourself, that's an amazing feat as well, but whoever made the layout certainly knew what they were doing!
Updated List: 10/10. You have updated almost every single day since your site was started, and you talk about your site and stuff. Some other directories I've seen don't have any updates...Which reminds me, I should probably add an updates section on my own directory!
Other Problems: Just what I previously mentioned - the background. That's the biggest problem you have right now!
Overall Score: 78/80. That's a 97%. I should make an award for you! Hang on....
*hammering noises commence*
Done! *does a happy dance* First award for someone with a 97% for their page! This award qualifies anyone with a 97-98% rating to get an award. BUT! This award is ONLY for SnowStar. If anyone else takes it, I'll be sure to punish them!
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Good and Broken Graphics
First Glance: 10/10. It's an extremely cute picture. The two characters in the lower-right corner really draw your eye, even though the rest of the page is blank. I like it! It's adorable!
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10. I didn't see anything, although a few of the colors that you chose for the font is a little hard for me to read - I'm talking about the light green and the blue. Try making it a bit darker, perhaps?
Neatness: 9/10. Your page is very nicely laid out, but the reason I took points off is because, well, you don't have any previews for your layouts! It's very easy to take a full-paged screenshot of your layout {{as it's on your lookup}}, then upload it onto photobucket. After you're done with that, simple do this:
You replace the # symbol with a number. Using 300x300 preview pictures are nice. You simply place a note saying "Drag and Drop into the address bar to see full-sized preview", and you're good to go! If you already know this, I'm sorry! I simply assume that if you don't have something, you don't know how to do it...so....*shrugs*
Colors: 9/10. Everything works very nicely together, but the yellow in the main picture looks...a little bit out of place. I don't know how to explain it...it just looks funny.
Music: 10/10. It seems to work really nice with your page. It sounds a little like a blend of Japanese-meets-American-Pop music. I've never heard of the person who sings it, but it sounds nice. I like it!
Age of Site: 7/10. It looks as if you've been up for a while, but there's only one update, there's no counter, and there's no little box proclaiming that you've been up since *insert date here* or anything. Judging by the number of layouts, you've probably been up for a while, but there's really nothing extra-special about the page. Make a counter! Boingdragon {{google it}} has some really good counters.
Quality: 6/10. I really struggled with this one. You see, you have no preview-layouts for your layouts section, and that ticks me off a little, so I subtracted one point. But your link-back buttons are nicely done, so I didn't take off anything for that. However, you state on your page...."She runs the icon section of G&B", when there are no icons to be found! There are only layouts on your page. I haven't looked at them {{I might later, but for right now, I like the userlookup layout I have}}, but your layouts sound pretty, just to go by the description of them. Try getting more graphics!
Updated List: 8/10. This is my pet peeve. You only have one update. Is that just one update since you started the site, or is that one update since you've cleared your updates? Never, ever, EVER clear your updates! Put them in a scroll box! If you look at one of the reviews below, I've already explained the code for a scrollbox somewhere. I'm being lazy because I don't want to post it again! *heh heh*
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned before: the updates list, the icons that are MIA {{Missing In Action}}, and....the font colors. That's basically it.
Total Score: 69/80. That's an 86%. Good job at scoring so high on your first review! All you have to do is fix the few things that I mentioned before....
I was scrolling through your lookups when I saw a FullMetal Alchemist based one. I have to check that one out someday! I absolutely LOVE Edward Elric, and even though it says that it features Winry, I'll block her out {{because she must DIE}} and just focus on Ed ^.^ Also, if your username is Zelda, and your petpage seems to be named after Nayru, I suggest you make a few Zelda lookups. Of course, this is just a guess. I assumed that since you seem to like Zelda, you might...Ah, nevermind. I'm babbling again! Gaaahhhh!!
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Siddey's String ReReview
First Glance: 8/10. Wow. Your site's a CSS help site {{mostly}} but it wouldn't hurt to have a picture or two at the top ^.^ It's a very nice, neat layout, however. I like it!
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10. I looked at everything - nothing escapes my eagle eyes! - and didn't find a thing. Which is good, because if you had had a misspelling on a mostly-text site, well...I think that's self-explanatory.
Neatness: 9/10. Everything is well laid out, except you have one simple thing: you didn't put a (br) or (br)(br) Between your last affiliate and the "Note to Affiliates" thing. I'm picky about this sort of stuff!
Colors: 10/10. Everything fits nicely together, and there are no color clashes! Well, except for the awards {{particularly the Pink JubJub Award}}, but you can't help that. It's great that you got an award! Keep up the good work!
Music: 10/10. Another acing in a catagory! Congratulations!! Great job!
Age of Site: 10/10. You have a lot of stuff, and you've only been up for a little less than a month. Keep going, and I'm sure you can expand it even more!
Quality: 10/10. All of your CSS seems to be nice, neat, and simple. I tried one of your gallery layouts the other day, and was nearly blinded, though! Try putting "black" as the color instead of red. That hurt my eyes!
Updated List: 8/10. Having things scrolling up into a marquee isn't the neatest of things. Try putting the marquee into a scrollbox! That'll make things easy! {{But with the newest updates at the top of the scrollbox, of course!}}. Marquees are really for short, simple, sweet updates, not for a whole honking blob of text! *Honk!*
Of course, you may already know this....
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned before. The brightness of the gallery layout {{heh}} and the scrolling marquee updates.
Overall Score: 75/80. That's a 93%! Great job!! Keep working on your site, and improving it, and you can soar all the way to the top!!
{{as a side note, I noticed you were reviewed by Hey My Reviews!, so I decided to check it out. We both got 90%'s there...good job!}}
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Faerilis's Graphics
First Glance: 3/10. I am going to be honest here. Well, as honest as someone with three personalities can be....It's a lot of text. Tiny text. Really tiny text. No pictures...no nothing. A lot of words. Words are boring. Isn't this a graphics site? If so, where are the graphics? Bring them up! Put some at the top of the page, as in a welcome banner! Be creative! Have fun!!!
Spelling/Grammar: 9/10. My....eyes.... Wow. That was a loooot of text to go through. I got bored halfway through. You sort of ramble....and ramble...and ramble. Seriously. Rambling is fine during a play, but people tend to get bored with it very quickly. So please, don't ramble. You did have a few spelling mistakes, such as "lotta", "di'nit" and some other things. I don't know if these were on purpose or not, but.....it makes the page look unprofessional.
Neatness: 9/10. Some of the graphics aren't aligned properly. Proper alignment is necessary for the success of the page.....Wow. That probably sounded weird. Anyways, some of the images aren't above their specific , and in all honesty, the "Back to the Top" buttons look out of place....They are aligned to the side, while everything else is aligned to the middle. They just look out of place.
Colors: 9/10. It's a lot of pink/white/other pinks. It kind of makes you want to tear out your eyes. Or maybe that's just me. I don't really like pinks....*shrugs* But it's your site.
Music: 10/10. The first catagory you aced ^.^ Music on a graphics site is normally a no-no, but in your case, if you wanted to add a simple song, such as a classical music piece {{NO Hannah Montana songs!}} or something....I think that would match. As long as it won't blare out of the speakers. Have a warning banner if you put music on your page.
Age of Site: 8/10. You've been up since July 19, and you started the counter two days later. *nods head* That's good. I started mine about two weeks after I started my graphics site! But, anyways, you don't seem to have had a lot of hits. Try putting the link to your graphics site in your NeoSignature or something. I, for one, cannot resist clicking Siggy Links. It's a bit of a weakness! You'll get more hits in no time!
Quality: 7/10. This is one that I really struggled with. You have Hannah Montana graphics, which I hate, but I tried to not be biased and give you a bad score simply because of those graphics. But....I've seen a few of your graphics on other graphics sites that have been up longer than you have. Such as these:
Also, these icons look a little....distorted? Hard to see? How do I describe it....? Okay, they're a little "off". That's how I desribe everything.
Umm....that's it. I think. Well, um...Yeah. At least everything's from the same photobucket album. That'd be a shame if they weren't.
This column's getting longer and longer, but I just want you to know that even though I strongly dislike the subject of this blend, I can't say that it's an awful blend:
It features Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus, which I strongly dislike because I think she can't sing, but the blending quality is incredible. Good job.
Updated List: 1/10. You only keep three updates at a time. I absolutely hate it when people do that!! You should always, always, ALWAYS keep your updates! How else will people know what's been added to your site??!! But anyways, here are the codes for a scrollbox....To keep all your future updates in {{newest updates on to}}:
And that will allow you to keep all of your updates from now on ^.^ Isn't that great??!! You will no longer have to delete them! Deleting updates makes for confused reviewers, which in turn makes for angry review-ees. Keep. Your. Updates.
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned before. No welcome banner, lots of text, the weird-looking icons, the un-aligned icons and s, and the updates box. That's all.
Overall Score: 56/80. That's an 70%. Good job, for your first review. If you want, fix the problems that I mentioned above, and you can re-submit for a rereview in about two weeks. If you resubmit right away, I know that you didn't make any MAJOR changes to your site, and it might very well look like it did when I first reviewed it....So, in closing, be sure to fix the problems and continue making your site the best it can be!!
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Soroptimist Directory
Note: It took me a while to get to your site because my page was badly messed up. Apparently, I cannot put the word on this page, and "but" and "it" next to each other. TNT sees them as a combination of "bad words". As long as I don't use them in the coding, it's fine. Now, on to the review!!
First Glance: 8/10. Honestly, you have an itty-bitty banner up at the top of the page. I would suggest getting a bigger banner. But it's a nice, neat, simple petpage layout. I really, really like it ^.^
Spelling/Grammar: 9/10. You have a few grammatical mistakes now and then, and you have a few mispellings, such as "ya". That would be fine on the Neoboards, but this is a professional directory, and should be treated as such.
Neatness: 8/10. You have a few buttons that I think are "misplaced". The Links section seems to be out of place....I think it should be up in the Guides section of your page. And in some of the sections, the buttons have a (br) between them, and in others, they are just neatly placed in rows. I prefer the row-ed ones. Try making all of them like that. Of course, if the button isn't an 88x31 {{you really should make that an absolute requirement so your site doesn't end up looking like This one. That would be an utter tragedy!! If they don't have an 88x31 button, you can either refer them to Me or you can offer to make them one. 88x31 buttons are professional looking!
Colors: 10/10. They all seem to go very well together. That's absolutely fantastic! Or as you like to say... "fantabulous"!
Music: 10/10. Music is a no-no on directory pages! Great job keeping your music-free!
Age of Site: 10/10. You only got the site up a few days ago, but you seem to be doing really well! You have already recruited LOTS people to be on your site {{I'll add your button...eventually!}} and it's a very well organized site! Amazing!
Quality: 9/10. Like I mentioned before, Make sure all the buttons are the same size!!. This is the biggest problem I see on Directories nowadays {{if they use buttons}}. They are all haphazardly strewn about. {{Example}} That's a really big no-no! Make sure all the buttons are the same size. Refer people to a graphics maker, or offer to make them an 88x31 button yourself! I like the one you made me ^.^
Updated List: 10/10. You have updated every day since you made the site, and you really go into detail. You even have it in a scroll box! That's great!! Keep up the good work!!
Other Problems: I've said it before and I'll say it again....Make sure all the buttons are the same size! Offer to make buttons for them if they don't have an 88x31 button, or ask that they make one. The only way a button-based directory will succeed is if all the buttons are the exact same size. Make sure that you do this!! {{I'll continue with this until you do it...*heehee*}}
Overall Score: 74/80. That is a 92%. Very good! That's a great score, considering that this is only your first review! Keep up the good work and work on improving your site!! I'm hoping to see more of it in the future!!
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Tips 4 Success
First Glance: 4/10. Honestly, the background doesn't fit very well with the two images you have; the Turmac one and the Illusen one. Why do you have
two banners anyways? Pick one and stick with it...I guess. Um....what else? Oh, a lot of text. Text makes me dizzy.
That's a loooot of text!
Spelling/Grammar: 9/10
My eyes... Anyways, I didn't see anything. I read about half your page {{I would have died if I read the rest of it}} and there were no spelling mistakes good job. Except there were a few times you used "i" instead of "I". But I didn't take off that many points for it....
Neatness: 10/10. I looked at the page in FireFox, after going through the entire thing in Internet Explorer, and I found all of my mistakes. *shrugs* Your site looks fantastic in FireFox. Good job!
Colors: 9/10 Some of them don't match very well. The blue patterned background with the brown and green banner at the top? Not working very good for me.
Music: 10/10 No music. That's a good thing. People don't like to be bothered with music while searching for tips to help them in Neopia. Good Job!
Age of Site: 7/10 It seems as if you've been open for a while, but you have no counter
{{Good way to remedy this: google Boingdragon Counters. Those are the only counters I know of that will work with Neopets}}, and your updates box is kind of small. *shrugs* But that's just me.
Quality: 9/10. This was a very hard catagory to rate, honestly. Your site isn't a graphics site, so I can't rate it how I normally would, but I have to figure out how to rate it fairly. The really big thing that stood out to me is that you don't have a way to explain how to make s. You just say, and I quote,
Tip #6: It's always good to provide a code for your link button or whatever because then it makes it much easier for people to just grab it and go. Now, if I were a first time visitor and a newbie to HTML, I wouldn't know how to make a . If you would want, I can make you a simple graphic from my
Graphics Site that can show how to make the without actually creating it on the page. It's not that hard.
Also, underneath the "Pages" section, you talk about counters. You may want to give them a hint to go to
Boingdragon, which is the best place for counters that I know of. At least, I think so. It's really up to you.
Updated List: 9/10. You seem to update frequently, and your updates are very long. The reason I gave you a 9 is because you don't see the updates when you first open up the page. They're tucked away in the left sidebar. Move them up a little. Actually, a lot. All the way to the top of the left sidebar. That's the best place for them to be. Also, get a counter, instead of relying on the Neopets' counter. That's actually not very accurate. I've had people say that 100 hits {{by TNT's counter}} is actually only 10 hits. That discouraged me, but they are the facts of life. Try getting a counter from Boingdragon, and saying the date that you started it.
Other Problems: Basically what I've mentioned before...:
1. Put your updates box at the top of the left column.
2. Get a counter for your page. This makes the hit number more accurate.
3. And, just a suggestion, you should add more links underneath each section. Browse through my affiliates {{if you wish}} on my
Graphics Page and see if there are any "helpful links" there that you can add underneath any of your tips.
Overall Score: 67/80. That's an
83%. Great job! You did really well! I struggled with my scoring of your site, but you did a fantastic job overall. There are just a few little quirks that you have to work out with it. Overall, though, it's an awesome site, and I'm proud to have reviewed it. Keep up the good work! And it looks messed up in internet explorer, so you should probably put a sign somewhere that says "Looks best in Mozilla FireFox".
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Kandy Crush Graphics
First Glance: 9/10 The picture is pretty good, but all of it is really all sort of random {{yet yummy!}} candies. They all kind of clash, but I can't argue with the chocolate one, so I'll leave it at that. But the real question is....did you make them? I know that you have....5 staff members, so that's a good thing. Maybe you all collaberated. *shrugs*
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10 None of my multiple personalities saw anything. And you explained in your "blog" thing that you can't do capital letters....so that's why you get all the points for this. ^.^ But maybe you should try to figure out what code is blocking the capitals and fix it. That's just my opinion. I know it's the style of petpage, so I'll shut up now.
Neatness: 8/10 Well, if I were a first time visitor to this site {{which I am}} I would want to know who the graphics makers were, and the "Taxi" to be above the graphics. That's just my opinion. Oh, and your layout looks weird. The left color-bar is all the way to the left, but the right one is sort of inbetween the middle and the right-side. That just looks off to me.
Colors: 9/10 Everything is nicely laid out, and none of the colors clash that badly. But for the scrollbars, don't make them transparent. Make sure that you have some sort of scrollbar on there so that people can see where they are. It's confusing if you can't see how long the page is...
Music: 8/10 Personally, I don't really care for the music. It's not my style. I prefer listening to soundtracks of my video games. But since you told me that you had music, I reluctantly turned off iTunes to listen to yours. It doesn't actually match the mood of your petpage, if you get what I mean. And you should probably have some kind of warning. Sometimes people don't like being blasted out of their chairs by random songs. I know that I don't.
Age of Site: 8/10 Well, if I were to go only by the counter on your page, you've been up since August 10, 2008. I would put, above the counter, the date that you started the site. Unless you started the site on the same day as the counter, of course!
Quality: 0/10 You didn't make any of them. After I had already rated your site, you replied and said that you got all of them "off of photobucket or Iconator", which means I'll have to take 9 points off your final score, because you got a 9 in this catagory as well. Either way, I still like these {{but did you know that since you aren't giving credit to people, these are ALL STOLEN GRAPHICS? You have to ask people before you use their graphics.}}:
Updated List: 7/10 I only saw two updates, and one of them didn't have a date!! Just saying what new things you put on there. That's a bad habit! Make sure to always put a date on your updates! That's why they're called updates!
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned previously. The bars on the side, the stolen graphics, and {{almost}} the music. Some people don't like music on graphics sites.
Overall Score: 61/80. That's an 73%. I suggest that you learn how to actually make graphics before putting up a graphics site. Everything is in order except for the graphics.
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Twiztid Shrooms: A Shroomy Guide
This looks like it's going to be fun...
First Glance: 9/10 The mushroom is great! Although the rest of it is just text. You should put some more mushroom pictures at the top!!! Mushroom, mushroom!
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10 I saw nothing. That's amazing. You have a lot of text, and it took me a long time to go through, but I didn't find anything. Congratulations!
Neatness: 10/10 Everything is nicely laid out, you have pictures of every single mushroom, and nothing is wonky. Good job! This must have taken you an extremely long time.
Colours: 10/10 The background goes great with the layout. Shroomy shrooms!! Everything looks great together as well. The purple background combined with the shroomy black background is awesome. I love it!!
Music: 10/10 We {{my multiple personalities and I}} would have been a little confused if there was music here. Music on a shroomy page would be fine is the music is mushroom-y, but I don't know of any mushroom-y music out there, so you aced this catagory.
Age of Site: 10/10 You have been open for a very long time, and I finally found your counter all the way at the bottom (helpful hint: put the counter at the top so people can see how many hits you've gotten!) Good job. You've obviously done your research. It must have taken a long time to track down all the shrooms!
Quality: 10/10 There is no fuzziness, and although a few of your affiliates' buttons were those weird 'x'-ed out ones, I didn't take off because you can't help that. The pictures are great!
Updated List: 10/10 I see that you keep all of your old updates. I should do that for my graphics site. That might help a lot if I did. And would keep people from murdering me on their reviews.
Other Problems: None that I saw. Well, except for the fact that some of the mushrooms don't have prices, but I'm assuming that that's because they're very hard to find.
Overall Score: 79/80 Another 99%! Wow! I'm absolutely stunned! You had a great directory, and I haven't seen any other sites that have copied a shroom guide or anything even remotely related to mushrooms. You are amazing! Keep up the good work!!
Award: This award is only for the owner of Twiztied Shrooms. If you take this award without my permission, you will be punished. Severely. Anyways, enjoy, Oxide.
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Siddey's String
First Glance: 9/10 It's a little better than what you had before...... it's a little stretched and weird. I like the picture, but I think your old layout was a little easier to understand and look at.
Spelling/Grammar: 9/10 I didn't see a lot, but there are a few things that you could fix. I suggest go back over it and look carefully.
Neatness: 6/10 It's not all that neat. The boxes are waaaaay off of the place that they are supposed to be. That's not good at all. Fix it.
Colours: 8/10 It's pretty good but they don't really match the layout of your site.
Music: 10/10 You don't have any music, which is great. Who can concentrate when they're looking at a confusing CSS site and listening to music? Besides the wonderful and magical Kefka!!.... ... Err...sorry about that. I'm a little off the wire today. -.-
Age of Site: 6/10 There's no counter, and there's no way that I can know when you set up your site. Your homepage says "one week old", but I don't know how old one week it.
Quality: 7/10 I haven't used your CSS, but by looking at your previous site layout, they seemed to be amazing. But now your site layout isn't very good, it's confusing, and some of your glitters are a little "off". I don't know exactly how to explain it.
Updated List: 8/10 You seem to update frequently, but you only have two updates on your list. Hrm. That's interesting....
Other Problems: What I mentioned before: the layout, the glitters, and the other stuff. I can't go over it all. Reread the review to find out what I didn't like.
Overall Score: 63/80. That's a 78%. A C+. Wow. This is the very first site that I re-reviewed, and I am dissapointed to learn that the rereview scored lower than it did before. That's not good at all. But your site seems to be very good, I just don't really like the layout. If you can fix everything that's wrong with the layout, maybe it'll look better and get a better review. Honestly, it's not very good right now. Your old layout looked great; I was surprised to find that you changed it.
Anyways, fix the problems and I'll check it out again. In two weeks. If you want me to. Ciao!
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Disney Animations and More
First Glance: 10/10 That's a very pretty picture at the top. The Sleeping Beauty picture stands out a bit though. Otherwise, it's very, very, good. If you made it, that's outstanding!
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10 It's amazing. I went over your site especially well. I like keeping tabs on my affies. I saw absolutely nothing. Great job!
Neatness: 10/10 Everything is well laid out, and you have an easy-to-find navigation bar. You have both Disney and Non-Disney animations. Everything is great!
Colours: 10/10 Everything matches. And I mean everything. The background's a little odd, but the background matches, so I won't take any points off.
Music: 9/10 It's nice, but actually, it doesn't really match out with the site. Unless it's from a Disney movie I haven't seen yet....Which is very well could be. There are about ten or eleven I haven't seen yet. But I've seen all the classics, and most of the new ones!
Age of Site: 10/10 If that counter's to be believed...that's absolutely amazing! Over 6000 hits in about four months! That's incredible! And of course, the number of animations is stunning! But I still have to know...Did you start the counter on the day you started the site or a little while afterwards?
Quality: 10/10 Everything is absolutely AMAZING. And I repeat, amazing!!!! I love it! Every single image works, and everything is lovely! Sure, a few are from movies I haven't seen yet, but that's no reason to count off. Everything is perfect!!
Updated List: 10/10 You are the first site I've seen that includes the animations that you added on the day that you updated! Did that make sense? I hope it did, because that's the only way I know how to explain it.
Other Problems: Absolutely not! Well, except add more animations! Yours are amazing. I would LOVE to see more. MORE!!!
Overall Score: 79/80 99% You have the absolute highest rating so far. And after arguing with my mulitple personalities, I have decided to figure out some way to make awards for people. They have to be good, though. Better than my graphics. Anyways, I'll neomail you when I have completed it. Unless, of course, I get in the way of myself. Because the angry one didn't want me to waste my time. But I'll do it!!
Award: After arguing and nearly throwing myself off my roof, I've completed your award. It took a while. I was totally for it. But I was totally against that, and I understood both of their arguements. But anyways...Oh, and if you're not Interl, and you take this award.........Punishment like you'd never believe awaits you. And your friends.
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Siddey's Changeable CSS
First Glance: 7/10 It's all words. I know that the site is a CSS site, but that doesn't mean it has to be boring! Spice it up a little with some random pictures! You have colour, so that's good. Just get some pictures! Or make some yourself. With MS Paint. Or request one from a graphics site.
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10 I saw absolutely nothing. And that's good, considering that most of your page is text. Yay. You aced the catagory. Talking to myself: Where's my usual enthusiasm?
Neatness: 10/10 Everything is easy to find, and nothing's hidden behind anything. Although, if the page gets longer, you'll have to add a navigation bar. I like navigation bars. And since you own a CSS site, the bar should be pretty!
Colours: 6/10 Honestly. I know it might hurt. It's really just a bunch of blue and orange. They are complimentary colours, so they look good together, but let's be honest. It's a CSS site. You should know how to make backgrounds! Or at least try to. Heh. And spice it up a little! I know you can do more!
Music: 10/10 There's no music. And there shouldn't be. Who wants to listen to music while trying to learn CSS? I mean, it's hard enough without listening to music, don't you think? Don't answer that.
Age of Site: 8/10 You seem to be doing quite well, considering you put up the site about a week ago. You should get a counter. Counters are fun. Talking to myself: I should get a counter for this site as well...
Quality: 10/10 I haven't used your codes, but telling by the way you set up your petpage and your lookup, they're obviously very good.
Updated List: 9/10 I can see your updates reaaaaaaly well. That's great! But you should probably update more. You've only updated once (that I can see) since your page was started. Why not get a blog as well? Or not. It's your choice. I'm starting to talk to myself again....oh crud.
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned earlier. Seriously. That's all.
Overall Score: 70/80 An 87%. Good job ^.^ I wasn't an 87% when I got my first review. I was a 75. And that was only because the person who reviewed my site didn't like gray. Or video games. Which really isn't fair. And I'm talking to myself again...
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Nyponte's Adoptables
First Glance: 10/10 The top "banner" is very, very cute. I like it. Extremely cute. Adorable. Amazing. You get the picture.
Moving on...
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10 I didn't see anything. I went over it with a microscope.....Well, not really. But I didn't see anything. At all. Yaaaay! ^.^
Neatness: 10/10 Everything is neatly laid out and is easy to find.
But, if you ever put anything more on there, make sure that you have them in seperate scroll boxes. Scrolling through Gelerts to get to Acaras isn't very....
appealing to me. Heh.
Colours: 9/10 There's a lot of blue. But at least the adoptables are another colour other than blue! It's a pretty blue. Pretty pretty!
Music: 8/10 You're the first page I've come across that has music on it. Hm. Well, while it's very...tinkly, and it comes from Pokemon, it doesn't exactly match the
feel of your page. And it gets repetitive after a while. Thanks to you, I'll have it stuck in my head all night. Whoop-de-doo.
Age of Site: 7/10 You should have an updates section, and put the date that you founded the site, as well as the date that you put up the counter. It doesn't look like you've been open too long, though, considering the number of hits you've gotten.
Quality: 10/10 I can only imagine how long it takes for you to draw something like this. For you people reading this review (I'm talking you
YOU!, here's an example:
Isn't this simply amazing? It's great! I love it! But you should also try making some mini-adoptables as well. This one is quite big.
Updated List: Erm. 5/10. You said that the site is "unfinished", but I still have to take points away.
Get some updates! Or at least an update section. That would be fine as well. Yayyyyyy!
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned previously. Oh, and you should have the "what's playing" somewhere at the top of the page ^.^
Overall Score: 69/80. Don't be sad! It's only an 86%! That's better than the score I got in my Algebra class last year! Be happy! Improve on the site! Have fun! Oh, and advertise. Advertising is
good
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Tina's Graphics and More
First Glance: 10/10 It's very
colourful. It's amazing. I didn't take off any points, but you might think about centering the page. It's an awesome layout, and I think it would look even
better if it were centered.
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10 I didn't see any. And that's saying something. Most of my friends (and my mom, heehee) call me the Grammatical Freak. I don't mind. It's better than the stupid nickname the "others" have given me.
Neatness: 9/10 I had to scroll down through everything, and it's very neat. But to make it even neater and less messy (kind of), why not add a navigation bar?
Colours: 9/10 I did not see anything that looked out of place, but the weird yellow colour for the Neopets Navigation on the side doesn't really....fit in. Understand?
Music: 10/10 Wow. Everyone aces this catagory! Either no music or music that only I like (that most sane people have never heard of) are the only stuff that I like.
Age of Site: 10/10 Considering that you've only been open for about a month, you have a stunning amount of graphics. I would put the date that the counter was started above the counter, though, so people don't think that your site's only gotten 6 views in an entire month ^.^
Quality: 10/10 Oh gosh, where do I start? Everything look absolutely amazing, particularly these:
Banner by Tina(DarkenedSoul91)
and this one:
Banner by Tina(DarkenedSoul91)
Your graphics are stunning! And I particularly like this one:
Avatar By Tina(DarkenedSoul91)
I'm a Final Fantasy nut!
Updated List: 9/10 It looks as though you update a lot, but don't keep EVERYTHING in the marquee. Just keep up to like....5 or less in the marquee at a time, and then put more "extended" updates in a blog or something. You make blogs, you should have a blog!
Other Problems: Just get a navigation bar. That should be your main priority. And if you can manage it, try to center your entire layout. It just looks a little weird off to the side like that.
Overall Score: 77/80 An
amazing 96%! That's nearly an A+! Good job!! You've gotten the highest score so far. That's great! Keep up the good work! I'm looking forward to seeing more from you!
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Precious Dreams
First Glance: 9/10 I see a picture of Taylor Swift under "new stuff", and then I See that you've crossed out your "Gabby's Graphics" sign on your welcome banner. That's neat. I haven't seen anyone else do that. But you should probably work on creating a beautiful new banner that says "Precious Dreams" on it. ^.^
Spelling/Grammar: 10/10 I didn't see any. That's an amazing accomplishment, considering that I'm worse than the Grammar Police...
Neatness: 8/10 The layout is very nice, and you have a navigation bar and everything, so I can't complain about that. But sometimes I would try to scroll down through the page itself (without the nav. bar) and I began scrolling through the graphics. Try spacing out the columns a little. That should solve that problem! Also, for "Other Graphics", there's no header!
Colours: 8/10 Green! So much green! Try finding a good colour that goes GREAT with your new name!
Music: 10/10 Everyone aces this catagory! Music is always somewhat of an annoyance to me. Unless it's good music. Meaning stuff that I like. That most sane people have never heard of.
Age of Site: 10/10 For the number of graphics you have, you've obviously been open a long time. And you have a lot of page views as well.
Quality: 8/10 You can tell that some of the icons are made in MS Paint.
Normally, that would be a good thing that you made them in Paint, but these are a little....off-kilter? Is that how one says it?
Updated List: 10/10 Wow. You keep ALL of your updates on there! That's a good thing!! Yaaaaay!
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned previously.
Overall Score: 72/80 A 90%! That's very good. It's an A in my book. Or in most people's books -shifty eyes- Just fix what I mentioned previously and you could rise higher and higher on the scale!
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Stormie Graphics
First Glance: 9/10 If that is a repeating background, it sort of covers up the Navigation Links. It is lovely.
Spelling/Grammar: 9/10 I saw a few misspelled words. You spelled "yes" wrong somewhere.
Neatness: 8/10 All of the graphics are aligned to the left. I think it would look a lot better if you would center everything. Also, try to get a navigation bar. That would be easier than everyone trolling through your graphics to find what they want.
Colours: 9/10 Most everything's colourful, but the background leaves a little to be desired.
Music: 10/10 There is nothing. Thankfully.
Age of Site: 8/10 It looks like you've been open for a while, but there's no counter or updates or anything. Try adding a marquee, or a counter. Boingdragon (google it) has good counters.
Quality: 4/10 Sorry, but most of the things that have images on them are extremely blurry (take the Jonas Brothers banner), and you didn't make half of what's on your page. The rest of them are stolen off of photobucket, which is bordering on Copyright infringment. I suggest that you get either GIMP or another graphics program and learn how to do the images yourself instead of taking them from other people. Unless you have their permission, you shouldn't redistribute. And if you use MS Paint, be sure to save all of your files as .pngs. That will keep them from getting blurry.
Updated: 2/10 Where's the update box? For all I know, you have abandoned the site from the first day you put the updates up. That's not good. Not good at all.
Other Problems: Just what I mentioned above. The graphic-stealing from photobucket and the update box. There's no update box!
Overall Score: 59/80 73%. C-. Fix the problems that I stated above and you could get an A or higher!
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, because I've seen it in several other layouts that I'm positive that YOU didn't make. NEVER put things on your graphics site that you did not make!! That's stealing!
