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party-with-us

Reviewed while owning previous site: Altered-Fate.

introduction

site: Party-With-Us
owner: Sandy
reviewed: July 31st, 2008

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first impression

Ohhh, this site looks lovely! It has a light airy feel to it due to the current layout, which is a little simple upon first glance, but is still very nice.

The repeating background looks like it could have been paid more attention to, though. if you click here you can see my comments on the background. Sorry, photobucket has resized the photo. That's a lot smaller than my actual screen size and Sandy's actual layout.

graphic

Loving the birds and the rainbow! The clouds are a nice touch to, along with the very faded sunburst and texture used.

The graphic makes the site look very orderly, really.

The rainbow leaves Sandy to use other colors than blue and white in the code, allowing her to use reddish orange and a gold-like color.

coding

The coding goes nicely with the graphic; colors match and it's a little laid back.

The headers in the main section are different from the sidebar, which is something I smile upon :).

The main text is a little too spaced out for me. I usually don't letter space the main text, I think it makes blogs/updates look weird.

The reddish orange, gold, and blues from the graphic have been used, and it really looks nice.

The links are a little hard to see, but not terribly hard.

content

Let's see, let's see. Visitor content includes myspace... contact buttons, and comment boxes. Myspace/website... blends, icons, name graphics, scribbles, quotes, and old quotes. Downloadable... brushes, fonts, and icon textures. Site related graphics, meaning... backgrounds, back/forward/home signs, blank buttons, color palettes, icon backgrounds, signs, and smilies. And paint shop pro, icon, and html tutorials.

This is a lot of content for visitors, which is great!

Myspace Contact Buttons;
These are cute, some are a little plain, but they all look good on my computer except for the swirl-background ones, they look a little pixalated. How do visitors get the codes for these? Where do they put the codes? Maybe Sandy could put that somehwere on the page.

Myspace Comment Boxes;
These are cute. On this page, Sandy tells visitors how do get the code!

Blends;
Nice! Some are a little plain, but not all. The icons are distorted (Sandy even tells us so along the top of the page.), but maybe instead of posting a notice, she could make new icons?

Icons;
I love the page where you select what type of icon you want! It's so well organized, has blurbs about the types of icons, and an example. There are several different categories, and some are just beautiful.

Name Graphics;
While these are nice, I don't really see the point of using these. I guess if you're a myspacer that doesn't do any sort of design...?

Scribbles;
Nothing personal, but I really think scribbles like this are a waste of time and look bad on any site.

Quotes;
Not the most inspiring quotes in the world... and maybe a waste of Sandy's time.

Old Quotes;
Eh. Not much to say; same as Quotes.

Brushes;
Not too appealing. I don't go for the 3D brushes, which most of these are. The Magazines brush set looks pretty cool. It would be nice if visitors could download thie brushes instead of using image packs.

Fonts;
I don't like it when sites offer fonts that they haven't made. If you aboslutely must offer the font, I think you should link visitors to the page on dafont or whatever site you found it on and let them download the font from there. Sandy says that she hasn't made these fonts, but she doesn't say where she has found them.

Icon Textures;
Some are cool, not much to say, I'm not a big fan of icon textures. I think if someone is going to make icons, they should be able to make the backgrounds.

Backgrounds;
What a good idea! I know from surfing the web that a lot of people have problems with repeating backgrounds, and most of these look like they would repeat easily and look good. Some look a little on the bad side to me but that's just my opinion.

Back/Home/Forward Signs;
Some are really nice, but if someone has a site I don't really see why they would use these.

Blank Buttons;
Some of these are really nice and I really like them! But, once again, I don't see why someone with a graphic site would use these, I think they should be able to make their own linkback buttons. Maybe they're for people whom have sites, but not graphic sites?

Color Palettes;
Looking good, maybe a little dull.

Icon Backgrounds;
Refer above to the Icon Textures section of the review.

Signs;
The previews are too pixalated, again, I suggest making new previews with a different method. Personally, I think using signs from a different site is silly, but some of tehse are really nice.

Smilies;
Very cute and look nice!

Paint Shop Pro Tutorials;
I'm not going to look and read through every single one. From what I can see, they're fairly easy to follow, though, and show pictures along the way for easy follow-along steps.

HTML Tutorials;
Easy to follow.

navigation

Subpages include main, freebies, info, and staff. Easy to navigate. Not really sure where the resources or affiliates are. Hold on, I will look around...

Ahhh...

info / credits (for resources.)

The top affiliates are listed under "top affies" but I don't know where the rest of them are...

overall

Party-With-Us is a great site! The owner, Sandy, has some serious talent.

Suggestions would be spending more time on the more useful site content, making new previes, more directions for the myspace content... and linking, somewhere highly visible, her whole list of affiliates.

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