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Promise

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site: Promise
owner: Pauline
reviewed: February 13th, 2009

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first impression

first impression from the e-mail;
Super obnoxious to send in the site name in all caps, thanks.

Now that I'm on the site, I see that it's really plain. No graphic skills are visible; no blending or use of resources. Dull brushes and text only.

Uber bland.

graphic

It's just so boring!

For someone that knows how to use a design program properly, this would take literally less than five minutes.

No skill, no talent, nothing inspiring. I don't even like the font that was used, it looks too kid-like.

Light purple and white, ooooh, what an eye for color.

At least the site name (sort of, it's really the URL) is able to be read.

coding

Purple, white, and black. That striking eye for color shines through again! It does match the graphic though...

The CSS is very plain, as well.

content

Content includes creations (blends, icons, PNG's she's made), tutorials (tutorials showing you things you don't know), downloads (download music, programs, etc.), and video tutorials (watch how to do stuff!).

creations;
What's the point of making the homepage split off onto content, which splits off onto a sub category, which splits off onto a sub-sub category. How annoying!

blends;
The previews are so small that one cannot possibly see what's "going on" in them. Honestly, the previews are blurry and I don't think the blends are going to be nice or impressing at all.

The previous graphic layout that was used on promise.co.nr is really nice! The ones with Hudgens and Efron. It's well made, clustered but not too much, and has nice brush and scan touches.

The others vary from too plain to too clustered and too blurry.

icons;
Blurry, washed out, and too much contrast.

"PNG's" / PNGs / PSDs
On the content page, it's PNG's, but now it's "PNGs." PNGs is correct.

Oh geez. It splits off into yet another sub page. Celebrity and anime/manga pages.

The previews are sooo freaking small.

The celebrity "PNG's" are cut out in... a very choppy, sloppy fashion. Who would use those like that?

tutorials;
Adding scripts, finding colour code, adding a page (on freewebs), custom freebars (freewebs), uploading (freewebs), uploading videos (youtube.)

The freewebs and youtube tutorials are too simple. No one in their right mind would need a tutorial for that.

These are really simple tutorials... I'm not sure if any of these are necessary.

Align the text to the left - it looks so sloppy!

downloads;
False advertisement!!! On the main content page it says "music, programs, etc." but on the sub-page, you can only see a music link.

Well, this is interesting. It's illegal, the same way it was with napster, which is why that lawsuit was a big thing. However, using celebrity images is just as illegal, well maybe "less." This is most definitely illegal though. RAR folders are a pain. Everyone can unzip and use a zip folder. Being user friendly is appropriate.

video tutorials;
Why aren't these just with tutorials. They are, in fact, tutorials - are they not?

How to download something from a website is not a tutorial!

navigation

The navigation inclues site, her, content, and clear, in very simple text links.

I see no credits or resources page anywhere.

Crediting sites for a version one layout doesn't cover the current version or the sites that were used to make the other site content.

overall

This site appears very bland and quickly thrown together.

The splitting off into that many subpages is a nuisance. Rather, it would be easier (for a designer and a visitor) if the content page just had different headers in it that stated the different categories with the links to each of the pages to the sub-sub categories below.

The blends previews are way too small; larger previews that aren't blurry! The "PNG's" previews are even worse.

"PNG's" is not correct, typo! Speaking of the "PNG's" - they're too sloppily done.

The tutorials are just a waste of time and space - delete them and make ones that will be more popular.

"Music, programs, etc." is a lie! Et cetera isn't hard to type out. I don't understand why a little graphics/resource site has illegal music downlodas anyway.

Why is nothing on this site aligned to the left? It looks so sloppy.

IF ONE DOES NOT CREDIT, ONE IS A STEALER.

comments

if you leave a comment... then refer to the name of the site. This review was for Promise

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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