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Built by Robots

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site: Built by Robots
owner: Brooke
reviewed: December 21st, 2008

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first impression

The layout looks crisp, clean, original, though simple, and yet still well made and appropriate.

graphic

The site layout's graphic doesn't feature a celebrity or model, instead it is a yellow bar, a fading pattern, two or three unique brushes, and a cool font which I've never seen before, used to write the site name clearly across the middle of the page.

The graphic continues to extend on the x-axis, which looks professional. Also, it's great how the pattern on the bottom half fades into the background color!

coding

The CSS of this layout matches wonderfully! Appropriate colors are used: grey, black, yellow, pale tan. It looks great.

The same font is used over and over though... which is the one thing that could have made it more exciting, however, it doesn't seem necessary.

Everything can be read and seen easily. Perhaps the main div headers are too light for some people, but I can see them well enough.

content

Visitor content on Built by Robots includes brushes, bullet points, colour "pallets," free layouts, fonts, icons bases, PSDS, smilies, stock, banners, icons, wallpapers, and tutorials.

brushes;
There is only one brush set, which is not too creative, though it does appear to be of high quality.

It's not available for downloading, only an image pack, which I find to be lazy. Might as well offer both!

bullet points;
Bullet points are available in three categories: cross, square and triangle.

They seem well made, though I don't browse sites looking for bullet points.

I think the square bullet points are the nicest-looking.

colour pallets;
pallets should be palettes.

Four categories: brigt, cool, pastel, and warm.

These all seem to be nicely thought out color combinations; however, I don't think it's necessary to put grey and/or white and/or black in every palette.

free layouts;
Free layouts are categorized into one column and two column for celebrity layouts, and a section of two column layouts for non-celebrities.

These layouts are not nearly as nice as the layout featured on Brooke's site, which is understandable to a point, but these really look like a whole different person, who idolized her style, tried to make layouts.

fonts;
It is utterly ridiculous when people do this. Brooke did not make these fonts, nor does she bother to link us to their rightful owners. She states that she hasn't made them, however, at least linking us to their rightful owners would be... considerate.

icons bases;
icons should be icons.

These are split up into actresses which should be actress to go along in the same format as the other titles, actors, singers/bands, and models.

These are high quality pictures, however, they are just cropped pictures of the same picture of a person over and over...

People can do that by themselves.

PSDS;
The last s doesn't have to be uppercase.

These are nice! They're seperated into categories and seem to be cut out really well!

It's horrible when people offer poorly cut out PSDs.

smilies;
These are definitely cute, however, it is just the same set in three different color variations.

stock;
Though I don't think they're all very useful, they are crisp images and available in two sizes.

banners;
Banners feature Delta Goodrem, Mary Kate & Ashley Olsen, The Veronicas, Azaria, Penn Badgley, Hanna(h) Beth, and Harry Potter.

Previews are shown, the size, when it was made, and by whom it was requested.

The images are crisp and of high quality. They're interesting to look at, nice color combinations are used, and though some seem a little small, I can see them being used.

icons;
Three categories: celebrities, models, and misc.

Some of them seem a little too plain for my liking.

wallpapers;
Wallpapers feature Kristen Bell, Delta Goodrem, The Veronicas, and Paramore.

The available sizes change sometimes, which is a little odd. Also, her previous site url is stamped instead of her current.

navigation

The five navigation links are along the top of the graphic: home, content, tutorials, online, and exits.

Credits can be found off of the exits page, and the list is fairly long, which is great; Brooke keeps track of her resources!

overall

Built by Robots is a nice, well made, highly organized, creative & original site.

The site layout sets the bar high for her content quality, though some of the content seems a little too basic (such as the icon bases.) However, everything appears to be well made and of high quality.

I would suggest fixing the pallet versus palette typo and the "icons" bases to icon bases, of course, and perhaps just nixing though all together, since they are not all that special and are just cropped images zoomed in at different percents.

The site is easy to navigate and Brooke keeps a great list of her resources. nixing the

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This cbox is for visitors to comment about the sites that have been reviewed. It is not for visitors' complaints, defending of friends, telling me how to review sites, or for juding my site. If you want to do one of those listed above, feel free to e-mail me at skylineillusions@yahoo.com which is the site e-mail that I check frequently; I don't feel as if there is a need for any one to e-mail me over these reviews, though. I check this cbox about once every two weeks, usually only if one of my friends says "Go look at that cbox!"



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