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brain deadd

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site: Brain Deadd
owner: Ben
reviewed: September 14th, 2008

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first impression

In one word I can sum up the graphic and code: boring. There are no brushes, no effects, textures, light stocks, not one thing to embelish the picture!

Everything is blue. Blue, blue, blue... blue.

graphic

It's not ugly, it's just extremely plain. How much time did Ben spend on this? It looks like the picture was opened in a photo editor, a border was placed around it, and "braindeadd.info" was typed in the center.

Extremely boring.

coding

More blue... more boring. The same font has been used for everything, and everything is blue. Different headers are used for the main div and the sidebar, but they're both blue, uppercase, and the same size, just a different shade of blue.

content

Content includes reviews, bullets, icons, icon textures, photography, regular textures, hate comments, reviewing, tips for your website, website cliques, taking care of your hamster, and sleeping. I just type them as I see them.

bullets;
These are interesting, they vary in shape and color, some are animated; check them out.

icons;
Ahh yes, and we return to the boring. Most of these are just cropped pictures, some have text on them. The most advanced technique used is filtering.

icon textures;
These are nice, but I think people should make their own. They range from grunge, light stocks, and cardboard.

photography;
Has Ben even taken a photo class? Based on these pictures I would say no. I can't really see anyone using these. Some of the "Summer" pictures are cool, but, how would one go about using them in a layout or icon?

regular textures;
Alos known as textures, you don't need to have regular in there. These aren't that great, you can find a lot better ones out there.

hate comments;
This isn't site content; it's Ben rambling on about nonsense. He should be able to figure out that people pick on bad/horrible sites, not wonderful sites. You're picked on if your site is horrible or if you have a horrible attitude (or both.) This is basically Ben just thinking he's all high and mighty because his site was picked on.

reviewing;
This isn't site content either. It's misleading to have it in here.

tips for your website;
I suppose this could be considered visitor content... I wouldn't take advice from Ben though based on his site.

website cliques;
For the love of god: this is not site content, this is Ben rambling!

taking care of your hamster;
...I'm not even going to read this.

sleeping;
This is Ben rambling about sleep. I know that when I look around graphic sites I always look for the owner's special ramblings about sleeping.... oh, wait, no, I don't.

reviews;
These seem pretty fair, the rules aren't ridiculous. I wouldn't turn to Ben for a review based on his site though.

navigation

Navigaton is easy. Links in the left sidebar include blog, owner, domain, reviews, content, and sotm.

Off to look for credits... good, good, a nice list of credits off of the domain page.

overall

More creativity in the graphics and the code! Ben should leave his comfort zone, explore the world of brushes, use textures, take jumps.

There's an awful lot of pointless sections under the content page, I reccomend cleaning that up and moving some things out of there or deleting them.

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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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