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Xittopia

background information

site: Xittopia
owner: Chilli
reviewed: February 4th, 2008

screen shot

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first impression

Though a photo editor was obviously used, it doesn't appear that there was much knowledge of how to use it? I'm not really sure what the plan for this graphic is... was, rather.

graphic

Cluster! Cluster! This is a mob of flowers, a total mob. The "polaroids" on the left are pixelated, the edges of some flowers are grainy, some are blurred out, there's a hideous "noise" filter line where the flower mob meets the dark grey of the div... and the site name, though it's in a cool font, is surrounded by more "noise." What is going on here?

Is that supposed to be an image map along the side? It's not working.

coding

The CSS is bland, though the colors that are used are from the graphic! Pinks and reds would have brightened up the coding.

Using the same headers for the main div and the sidebar gets a little boring.

content

Visitor content includes nature inspired backgrounds, collages, masks, icons, blank button bases, layouts/blends, backgrounds, complete layouts, affiliate buttons, wallpaper, mini blends, banners, colour palettes, all content by me signs, brushes, back and forward signs, coded layouts, photoshop actions, and various tutorials.

nature inspired backgrounds;
Haha. Why wouldn't you just add these to the "backgrounds" section, but create a subcategory?

The page is sort of messed up. The div of the "nature inspired backgrounds" is pushed down too far and takes over.

here you may see what I'm talking about -- keep in mind I zoomed out so you can view the whole screen.

I don't see why this backgrounds were made, I can't think of a single person that would use them.

collages;
Leads to textures link, though the page is not found.

masks;
I rarely see these, and just started making my own, actually. I think they're really cool, however, these are all broken image links.

icons;
Cropped pictures that have absolutely no time or energy put into them. Why do they extend all the way down? That is really annoying.

blank buttons;
The page is not found.

layouts/blends;
The page is not found.

The page is not found.

complete layouts;
I would assume this means graphic + code of a layout.

Broken links.

affiliate buttons;
Waste of space and pointless; half of them are broken links anyway.

wallpapers;
The page is not found.

miniblends;
The page is not found.

banners;
The page is not found.

colour palettes;
Most are just shades of one color, which is not a palette.

all content by me signs;
It is sort of ridiculous that someone would make these, or use them. If they use it, it is sort of hypocritical, for if they couldn't even make their own "everything by me" sign, then maybe they didn't make everything in the first place.

The page is not found.

brushes;
These are sort of nice, though most of them look alike.

back and forward signs;

Dear lord. If there is no preview, that's too bad. I'm not downloading these sets.

coded layouts;
Previews are broken links.

actions;
The page is not found.

tutorials;
Decent variety, nice. Drop shadow text, inverting colours, saving, glussain blur effect... a lot of these are pointless!

harry potter;
None of these pages work.

navigation

The navigation links under "navigation" include blog., owner, xittopia, graphics, downloads, tutorials, harry potter, and fun.

I still don't understand the faux image map along the right.

Credits can be found off of the Xittopia page, though it's short. It says Oh-Sassy is her host, though her URL is at rewindd.

overall

Xittopia is in need of a make over! New site layout, useful content, fixing of pages, and taking off the useless/superfluous content.

Graphic skills should improve, less clutter, please!

comments

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