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Site Name: Exotic Pink
Owner: Blake
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 1st August 2009
Site Name
It’s easy to remember. I don’t really like the use of colours in a website name, because I continually get the impression of that colour.
Coding and Validation
Your HTML has 9 errors and 4 warnings.
You have the basic structure of an HTML document, but you are missing the fundamentals. Firstly, a doctype is needed to declare your document as an HTML document. This doctype, HTML 4.01 Transitional, which best suits your coding, should go at the very beginning of your document, before <html>:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
You also need a character encoding in the head section, to clarify the character set of your text:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
You are also missing </body> and </html> at the end of your coding, which is vital.
From your coding it also appears that you are neglecting to close five div elements with </div>.
The following is also causing an error, because you are missing the attribute target:
<a href="http://exoticpink.co.cc/hosting.php" ="_blank">Want to be hosted?</a>
This is also the case with a few more links in your sidebar. Be sure to add the target attribute.
Your CSS has 1 error where you have placed the following:
<div style="position: relative; float: right:900px; width:225px;">
float: right:900px; should be float: right;.
Your coding needs to be improved. Firstly, along with those errors, you should have an external stylesheet as it loads faster and is easier to work with.
Many elements, such as the div I mentioned above, need to be styled with CSS instead, by providing the div with an id.
#divname { position: relative; float: right; width: 225px; }To write with HTML:
<div id="divname"> Content </div>
More information on classes and ids can be found here.
Attempt to use <strong> instead of <b> and <em> instead of <i> from now on, for semantic – more meaningful – purposes. This gives more meaning rather than the traditional physical attributes, and is particularly useful for screen readers for the blind.
Browser Compatibility & Usability
According to Browsershots.org your site looks the same in most browsers.
The navigation is very clear and easy to see. The font size is fine, but line-height should be increased for the text as it appears rather squashed.
Layout
I like the simplicity of the layout. It really suits the site name. The content div is a bit too far from the top of the page. It should be at the same point where the sidebar begins.
While the colour scheme is nice, the layout would be more interesting with other shades of pink as well.
Content
Visitor
On the SOTM page, the following needs to be rephrased:
The 1st place winner will recieve your site up on my sidebar on each page for the month of August.
This would be correctly expressed as:
The 1st place winner will receive their site up on my sidebar on each page for the month of August.
I don’t understand the “one word” page. Is it a competition? Does the word have to be an existing word, or can it be made up?
The reviews page can be organised a bit better. The headings should be spaced out like your sidebar. There is a field on the form named “The” – I’m sure that’s a typing mistake.
Portfolio
Don’t include the writings “Coming soon” on this page if they aren’t here yet. It makes your website look unfinished.
Some of the blends have what appears to be your old URL on them. You should not be using celebrity images unless you have direct permission from the photographer of the images. Otherwise, you are using other people’s images and editing them, which is breaking copyright law.
The blends are not very well made. A lot of them are pixelated and the colours you’ve used in the background don’t match with the images. The quality is very low, and some of the effects used are not very good. Try saving in PNG format or in optimised JPEG. You need to work on the aesthetics; use simple but creative effects without being too harsh.
The same goes for the icons. They are of very low quality. The animated ones don’t look very good at all; they look rather tacky. A lot of these icons look like they’ve just been cropped without using any appropriate effects.
Hosting
You mention that you don’t accept Piczo or “blogging”. Does this mean you don’t allow blogs at all? You don’t allow people to create a blog with their updates or with the happenings in their life, when you clearly have one? If this isn’t the case, you should restate this rule so that it is clearer, because this is the impression I get.
Other than that, you have fair rules. Perhaps you should mention the process in the case of rejection.. whether you reply to the email, or ignore it altogether.
Domain
This section would be better named as “website”; not everyone is familiar with the term “domain”.
On the “about me” page there are a few errors:
whom is unborn should be who is unborn
moms should be mom’s
dads should be dad’s
Unfortunatley should be Unfortunately
too much should be too many
awhile should be a while.
On the link buttons page, you should be displaying code with <code> and not <textarea>. Textarea is intended for user input in elements such as forms, and not for displaying code. In converting to code you must convert your code.
On the credits page you need to add your image hosts.
Originality & Creativity
I didn’t find your website very creative or original. The layout stood out to me, but you had a lot of generic content – the blends and the competitions.
You should add more original content that no one else has.
Organisation & Errors
Fairly well organised; not many errors.
Overall Comment
You’ve got a nice small website, but there isn’t much on there at the moment. You can definitely add more content and work on your coding.
Work on your graphic skill as well, in particular optimising graphics and using subtle but nice effects. Good luck.
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Deena
1st August 2009 at 4:17 pm
Ermm, nice stuff.
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