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viola

Reviewed while owning previous site: Altered-Fate.

background information

site: Viola
owner: Nicki
reviewed: July 28th, 2008

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first impression

No photoshop/psp/whatever she uses experience? Does Nicki know what a brush is? Or a pattern, background, stock image, or a scan?

The graphic is extremely plain.

The coding is better than the graphic.

Can she not use capital letters? Has the shift key broken on her keyboard? It makes the blurbs in the sidebars look crappy, let alone her updates. Speaking of poor looking text... maybe she can learn how to align text to the left.

Oh jeez. The automatic starting music is really a nuisance. I'm already listening to music that I like, on my computer, none of which I am shoving down my visitor's ears, a little insensitive there.

graphic

The graphic: oh so plain, oh so boring. Plain and boring immediately... I have to keep looking at it during the rest of this review.

Who's in the layout? It looks like one of the random photos you can find on myspace of a narcissistic girl that continues to take picture after picture of herself. Yes, I realize you can apply to be a site model (top right div/table for info on it.), but really...

The site name, Viola, is on the graphic. But the font that Nicki's used makes it look like vioea instead.

coding

Better than the graphic, but nothing looks that great.

At least the colors match the blue and green in the graphic. The text can be read easily, I like how the main text is grey and not black.

The headers look nice. The sidebar headers versus the main section's headers vary, which is a nice touch.

content

Visitor content includes layouts, comment boxes, blends, and icons.

Oh my, this is the first time I've hovered on the sidebar links... the hover color is the pale lime green... which is hard on your eyes against the white background.

Layouts;
(Again, Nicki's music has started playing, thwarting my good music.)

These are pretty plain, from what I can actually see. None of the "Style One" layouts load, they're just a normal myspace.

The "Style Two" layouts load, and some are a bit too bright on the eyes.

Comment Boxes;
...very plain.

Blends;
Blends don't deserve previews on her site?

Wow, the Joe Jonas blend is well done, it looks very nice, more intricate than her site layout.

Icons;
These have some thought put into them, pretty cute, too. My favorites are the let the music take you away ivon and the world is a scary place without you.

Interesting, really... I don't feel like most sites put thought or much time into icons, but Nicki has.

navigation

A little weird to navigate. Some links are on the far left, some are on the right sidebar, but it's al still relatively easy to navigate.

Subpages include the homepage, credits, contact, love my site, layouts, comment boxes, blends, icons, send me a fansign, myspace directory, test your html, website help, and an affiliate application.

Good, good, glad to see her resources are listed. Although, she's spelled by site name as altered fat under the reviews section, when, in reality, my site name is Altered-Fate.

The "Love My Site" page... is queer (queer does not mean gay, everyone who reads this, so don't correct me.) I don't really see the point of this page, it makes Nicki look a little conceited. In the form you include your name, email, why you love her siet, and a gift. How pretentious.

overall

Well... Nicki could learn how to use photoshop/psp/something. On top of that, she could nix the annoying automatic starting music, why can't it just be there, and a visitor can click play if they want to listen to it?

What else... capital letters, aligning text to the left, proof reading.

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