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Secret Obsession

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site: Secret Obsession
owner: Amal
reviewed: February 22nd, 2009

screen shot


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first impression

This is another simple layout on the internet, however, it looks precisely designed and isn't as simple on a second glance.

I don't understand why the URL is c-chic.net, when on the form that Amal sent in, the site name was "Secret Obsession."

Another thing I don't understand is why only Amal was on the form, not Amal and Kawthar.

graphic

I love the font used for C-Chic.net. I don't like color orbs often, but this one looks nice and adds some color to the graphic.

There's a built in place for a welcome message, a tag line, and an image map.

It's all orderly and looks nice together.

I don't really enjoy how it's just a rectangle against a pattern background. Perhaps if the graphic had faded into the background or had the same background, it would look nicer.

coding

The CSS matches the graphic's colors, different fonts are used, everything is readable; it's well done.

Different headers are used between the main div and the sidebar, which is more interesting than all of them being the same color.

I don't really enjoy the links in the "the best" section. I think it's because I feel that the grey background is too light.

The arrows standing in place for bullets on the graphics page don't match at all.

content

Visitor content includes blends, colorisations, retouches, icon bases, icon textures, 100 x 100 icons, wallpapers, textures, brushes, color scripts, various pixel things, patterns and backgrounds, and stocks.

blends & colorisations & retouches;
So, are these not for visitor use? They're not in the visitor section - so are these just parts of portfolios?

If these aren't part of actual visitor content, I'd prefer not to review them.

In America...
color
colorization

In Britain...
colour
colourisation

No One...?
colorisation

Either you have ou in "colour" and then use an s, or you have just an o in "color" and you use a z. No "colorisation."

icon bases;
Not linked yet...

icon textures;
Not linked yet...

100 x 100 icons;
Not linked yet...

wallpapers;
Yay, they have previews!

And, what sizes are these...?

The grey side of the Christina layout is very cool, but I don't like how it just stops and this brown bag like stock appears.

Aw, the Chuck and Blair wallpaper is very cute and blended nicely.

I think these wallpapers are well done! I would just like to know what resolution they are, and posisbly see other resolutions added.

textures;
VERY NICE! I love those light textures, very cool looking.

The "misc" textures aren't nearly as nice.

The grunge textures seem very usable, too.

brushes;
Decent size previews, and an ABR download for one. The rest are missing links. Also, image packs are nice...

color scripts;
Not linked yet...

pixel text, bullets, and dividers;
Not linked yet...

patterns and backgrounds;
These seem pretty, but some of them may look like too much if repeated as a background image across the whole screen.

stock PSDs and various objects;
Not linked yet...

navigation

The navigation is an image map up in the header, consisting of: main, graphics, visitor, and site.

The site page leads to an empty page.


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The credits page, linked under the disclaimer section of the sidebar, leads to nothing.


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Which, is a serious problem, because then Amal (and Kawthar, though their name wasn't on the form) aren't crediting their resources.

overall

Secret Obsession is a nice site with useful, helpful, well made content.

I don't understand the site name verus the URL, why Kawthwar wasn't listed as an owner (perhaps they joined after Amal applied?), and why there are so many pages on the visitor page that aren't linked yet. Get those links up, so people can view more content!

The site page and the credits page should be fixed and added, respectively.

comments

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

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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