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Amour Chaleur

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site: Amour Chaleur
owner: Dayna
reviewed: June 23rd, 2009

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first impression

This layout is cute, well planned, and functional. I personally wouldn't enjoy having a site layout this "cute" but that's only a matter of preference, and I feel that this layout looks very nice and orderly.

graphic

The continuous graphic expands horizontally, as if looks at the horizon behind a green hill with a house, pathway, a few adornments, and a little panda.

I'm not quite sure how the layout was created - is it a painting that Dayna created and scanned and played with in a photo editing program? Are these all stock images? I'd like to know, because I've never seen a layout like this and I think it's mighty cool.

coding

The coding of the site layout works really well, using mostly beige hues that match the graphic. In headers in the code, little flowers have been used to relate back to the graphic, which are cute, orderly, and look nice.

I'm not saying that the current CSS doesn't look nice, because it most definitely does. However, maybe using another color besides beiges/browns and the little bit of pinkish beige for the links would have been a good idea.

content

"The Visitors" page consists of a plugboard, a review application, Q*Bee freebies, premade layouts, downloads, wallpapers, avatars, and various tutorials.

plugboard;
You know... there isn't much to say about a plugboard... if anyone's looking for, stop by here!

reviews;
Again, not much to really say. Reviews.

Q*Bee freebies;
I was wondering what these would be. They're little emoticons and small signs for a site. They're cute, well made, not pixelated... nice job.

premade layouts;
There's only one layout and it's a bit boring (sorry to say), but it's orderly and colors match.

downloads;
Within downloads there are icons, smilies, and Photoshop brushes. icons;
These are cute and really nice. I'm always looking for little icons to put on my site, and I just might use these.

smilies;
ADORABLE!

photoshop brushes;
My favorite set is the heart scribbles. The floral sets don't do mmuch for me, though.

wallpapers;
So many sizes are offered it's great. Very considerate.

avatars;
These are cute... this is a very cutesy site.

tutorials;
Tutorials are offered for validating your website XHTML, WordPress plugins tips & tricks, WordPress help desk, customizing WordPress themes, and a graphic tutorial on "the butterfly effect."

The tutorials seem easy to follow with simple step by step procedures.

navigation

It's wonderfully easy to navigate this site. The rollover links are loacted horizontally right below the image, but above the content area. Home (journal), spirit (about me), essence (domain), inspiration (portfolio), thoughts (writings), and visitors (for you.)

An organized list of credits and resources can be found off of the essence page.

overall

Amour Chaleur is a highly organized site with a lot of cute, useful content that Dayna has put her time in to making. Everything is organized and easy to read and understand, navigating the site is easy as pie (I don't know why that's a saying), and it's easy to find what you want.

I would reccomend more emoticons/smilies/icons, because they're simply adorable and she's a master at making them. Also, maybe sprucing up the premade layout section with some new layouts that have a bit more flair to them.


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