Name | Prophecy (Long) | Score (?/10) | Date | Browser
At a Glance:
What do I first see? A nice banner? A friendly welcome? I'll write about my first impression. This means, if the page is anchored, what do I see on the first page.

Layout:
What do I think when I first see the page? Do the colors and layout help your site and theme? Is it organized looking? Or is it just a jumbled mess? This also includes coding styling (headers and special text effects). Lastly, this may include how your site is organized, depending on your site.

Content:
Are there high quality graphics? Are there a lot of sites is it's a directory? Is it easy to find stuff? Again, is it organized? Is it original? Is there stolen work without credit? (If I find stolen content, I will do something about it, so don't steal.) Any major spelling/grammar errors will also be mentioned here. Lastly, this may include how your site is organized, depending on your site.

Sitely:
Content, but not the main stuff. Added extra stuff; affies, listers... Do you keep up with your updates? Are your link back buttons of good quality and relate to your theme? Are they easy to read? (Some fonts used are difficult to read, rendering themselves, in the opinion of many, useless.

Bonus Points:
You'd get bonus points for creativity, originality, or anything else of my choice. This gets a separate score which is added to the average of the other four. It'll be organized as follows:

1. What you got it for: why you got it. (+ #points)
2. What you got it for: why you got it. (+ #points)

Number of "Whats" varies. You may not get any!

Final Say:
Any last comments will also be written here.

Site Name | Palm Reading (Short) | Date | Browser

First Impression:
What do I first see? A nice banner? A friendly welcome? I'll write about my first impression. (So if the page is anchored, what do I see on the first page.) Seeing as the first thing one notices is usually the related to, or is, the layout. So the First Impression section will be a concise combination of the At a Glance and Layout sections seen in a Prophecy.

Content:
Are there high quality graphics? Are there a lot of sites is it's a directory? Is it easy to find stuff? Again, is it organized? Is it original and creative? Any major spelling/grammar errors will also be mentioned here. How do you make the site uniquely yours?

Sitely:
Content, but not the main stuff. Added extra stuff; affies, listers... Do you keep up with your updates? Are your link back buttons of good quality and relate to your theme? Are they easy to read? (Some fonts used are difficult to read, rendering themselves, in the opinion of many, useless.

Final Say:
Any last comments will also be written here.

Recommended: A simple yes/no. Would I recommend your site to others and would I come back if I needed what you have to offer.

Site Name | Crystal Ball (Advice) | Date | Browser

Question:
Some details of what I think. Suggestions for this main point will also be listed.

Question:
Some details of what I think. Suggestions for this main point will also be listed.

Question:
Some details of what I think. Suggestions for this main point will also be listed.

Other comments:
I'll probably have some extra comments/suggestions about other things relating to your site. You don't have to read it if you don't want.

Name | Prophecy (Long) | Score (?/10) | Date | Browser
At a Glance:
What do I first see? A nice banner? A friendly welcome? I'll write about my first impression. This means, if the page is anchored, what do I see on the first page.

Layout:
What do I think when I first see the page? Do the colors and layout help your site and theme? Is it organized looking? Or is it just a jumbled mess? This also includes coding styling (headers and special text effects). Lastly, this may include how your site is organized, depending on your site.

Content:
Are there high quality graphics? Are there a lot of sites is it's a directory? Is it easy to find stuff? Again, is it organized? Is it original? Is there stolen work without credit? (If I find stolen content, I will do something about it, so don't steal.) Any major spelling/grammar errors will also be mentioned here. Lastly, this may include how your site is organized, depending on your site.

Sitely:
Content, but not the main stuff. Added extra stuff; affies, listers... Do you keep up with your updates? Are your link back buttons of good quality and relate to your theme? Are they easy to read? (Some fonts used are difficult to read, rendering themselves, in the opinion of many, useless.

Bonus Points:
You'd get bonus points for creativity, originality, or anything else of my choice. This gets a separate score which is added to the average of the other four. It'll be organized as follows:

1. What you got it for: why you got it. (+ #points)
2. What you got it for: why you got it. (+ #points)

Number of "Whats" varies. You may not get any!

Final Say:
Any last comments will also be written here.

Oodles of Doodles | Palm Reading (Short) | 12/17/11 | FireFox

First Impression:
I first notice the the Krawk banner. It's nicely cropped and edited, though the effect seems better fitted for a comic/screenie page. The next thing I notice simplicity of the layout. That's great because it helps put the focus on the art, which is the most important part.

You've done a good job with the absolute navigation positioning, but it might look cooler if there was a 10-20px gap between the red bar and the top of the page. (If you need help on that, the Soroptimist has a lot of great guides listed.)

Also about the layout is the color. Like the layout itself, it is nice and simply and followed through upon with the banner. I like how you use the same exact shade of red throughout, it really ties the piece together nicely. The header fonts also remain the same, or at least similar in style, throughout which further helps. You may consider using the same style for the main headers as for the nav. A solid red background with beige text. Lastly, the headers are nice because they are descending in terms of font size.

Content:
The intro looks good and is nicely sprinkled with special text styling. Special text, as I like to call it, makes a chunk of otherwise boring looking text more interesting to read. A lot of people overdo it, but you've got it just right. The updates box could be a lot bigger (height-wise). Reading small text crammed into a tiny box is no fun at all.

The request section looks good. In in the fourth rule, I'd change it to, "I'll only draw you one picture at a time a per month..." Drawing someone one picture at a time for each month doesn't really make much sense.

The Form & Waiting List section could use some re-organizing. First, the form is tiny and illegible. Yes, people copy and paste into a Neomail, but many like to fill out the form there and then and then copy and paste. The background is good because it stands out and doesn't look like a div box of the update box style, but the text must be legible, meaning bigger and a more contrasting color, perhaps that nice beige color. Second, the first status sign really does not match the tone of the site at all. It's sort of bubbly whereas the vibe I get from your site is tranquil, professional, and sort of modern (due to the font choice). The Lunch Box has a lot of options to choose from or you could make your own, which I'm sure you're quite capable of. As to the organization of the section, I'd recommend the status signs on the upper left, as they are, with the waiting list below. On the right side of the section would be an enlarged textarea form that is the almost the same height as everything combined on the left (slightly shorter) and put a link to send it to you below the form.

All the Extras look good, but maybe give them the same colored background as the updates so people can tell where the actual div box is. I think it also looks a bit neater. I didn't see any specific problems here; good work.

The graphics themselves are amazing. The smooth curves, the choice of color, the

Sitely:
This section is nicely organized. The link buttons are all high quality, thought the fourth one doesn't really match the site. My only comment would be about the reviews and accomplishments: in the hover title, include the date. Dates make progress evident and who doesn't want to show off progress? Everything else looks good.

Final Say:
Overall, a very solid site. A few little tweaks here and there, I think, and you'll be pretty close to perfect. Upon reflection, you could make the font size a size bigger; as it is, it's rather small and the line-spacing makes it look even more condensed. You should either increase line spacing or increase text size by one. Or both, but I think doing one would be fine.

Recommended: Yes

A lot of site owners nowadays center every single body of text. While some people think it looks cool or that it's a neat trick, a lot more people do not think so highly of it, myself included, of course. When used incorrectly, it looks messy and unprofessional. This being in the case of long, wordy body paragraphs. Centered text is harder to read because the start of each line changes, which forces the reader to search for the beginning of the next line. Though it may not seem like much work, it can quickly become quite tedious. This also means that centering bulleted lists is generally not a good idea.

However, centered text is not always bad. For instance, centering is often used on for formal occasions, such as invitations or greeting cards. In such cases, it can look very elegant and tidy. Why? Usually, only short phrases or single words are centered. If multiple lines are centered, they are generally formatted so that each line is about the same length, making it easy for readers to locate the beginning of the next line. So in the site-making community of Neopets, that generally means headers.

Which looks better?

• Doesn't
• this
• look
• nice?

• Do
• you
• think
• this
• looks
• messier?

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