writing-and-poetry

First Impression: Well I'm afraid to say that my first impression isn't very good. The layout seems to have poor quality and it just reminds me of piczo which is unfortunately not a compliment. Please don't take this review too badly, i'm not trying to be mean although I am trying to help you make your website.

Content: First thing I see which I think needs fixing here is it says tutorials animation shop and then under it says animation shop[[example]]. What I think you should do instead is just say "make example" or something like that instead of repeating animation shop. This also goes for MS paint tutorials. Then I went to the icons page and I find most of these of poor quality and I see at the begining you say that some are old. I want you to remember that you can take out some content that you think is too old and not very good because I can see some really good icons there, so I think that you have the skills but just need to clean it out a bit.I went to look at the rest of the content and it's really good. I really didn't expect content like that so good job!

Layout/Coding: This is unfortunately where I personally think you went wrong and that affects whether someone is going to stay on your site or not. Let's start with the layout, what I first think when I see it is that the quality isn't that great meaning that it's a bit blurry as though when you saved you didn't save it to be the best quality. It's also a very simple layout that just in my opinion isn't very artistic and proffesional but I think this will come as you make more. First I want to say that in someplaces your text is a very light pink and I think you should really change this to a darker color so it's easier to read. I also see that you strike text out a lot but I don't see why, aren't you supposed to do it when the piece of text no longer applies? For instance you say that "This site is copyrighted. But why did you strike out copyrighted? One other thing is that the positioning of all the text on the pages is different to that of the homepage. The last thing for this section and a very important point is that I think you should be using i-frames, or are you using them? Because if not then I think you should, cause changing the layout on every page takes forever. I also think that you could try css if you don't already use it. That would be very useful for you in terms of keeping your website nice looking and easy to update.

Updates/Blog: I see that you blog quite often and update often too so good job on that. Keep on going like this because it's always good to update and blog often and you can always be better.

Conclusion: I think you have a pretty cool site here and I honestly think that your graphic making skills are quite good and if you could match your coding and layout skills to graphic making skills then that would be awesome. Some of my main points are to change to I-frames and css if you haven't already. Try to raise the quality on some of your graphics and take some off of your site because they just leave a bad impression. Don't strike out text unless it's nessecary. So those were some of my main points although I think it would be great if you take all of my points into consideration. Remember to never give up and keep doing what you're doing :)

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Reviewed on Friday, April 5th, 2008