Review: Chloe @ Enchanté

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Site Name: Enchanté
Owner: Chloe
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 10th December 2009

Site Name

It’s quite nice and unique – that’s all I really have to say.

Coding and Validation

Your coding has 67 errors and your CSS is valid, but you didn’t even create this layout yourself.

I suggest you make your own layout; read some tutorials and start something from scratch. You’ve had your site around for a while and used premades but I think you should be able to venture off and try something yourself.

Browser Compatibility & Usability

Your site is navigable and functions in Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer.

The website is easy to navigate but the “Quick Links” and the links in the top right corner are confusing. I can’t tell which is the main navigation. “Quick Links” gives me the impression that these aren’t that important, but they are larger. “Blog” would be better as “home”.

Layout

You’ve used a template for this layout from YayThemes, so I can’t really review this because you didn’t create it yourself.

Content

In the sidebar, Je-mappelle should be Je m’appelle. The “more” link is also broken.

Girl

On this page best selling should be best-selling, and infront should be in front.

Site

On this page:
Me, a computer fanatic should be I, a computer fanatic
immediatly should be immediately
affilate should be affiliate
A big should be Big
sencerily should be sincerely.

Exits

Affilates should be Affiliates.

I’ve noticed that the quick links link to totally different pages. It would be desirable if they were all linked in one spot, rather than small links at the top and larger links in the sidebar.

Advice Column

Some mistakes:
experiance should be experience
annonymous should be anonymous.

I don’t mean to shoot you down in any way, but you should be wary that some people have problems you might not be able to solve; perhaps on more mature topics? This is a good idea for people your age but if there happened to be older people visiting your site and asking you questions, would you be comfortable with the topics they might bring up?

Also, when I open up the categories and pages, the sidebars don’t appear in your layout.

Contact

Self explanatory.

Credits

“Google images” is not a source for your image. Google is a search engine that indexes files and pages on the internet. Links to other websites are provided. You should be crediting FlipKart.com because according to the direct link of your book image, it is hosted there. You should never give credit to a search engine. You should credit the actual website you got image from.

Journals

When I open up the individual pages, they display with the layout but without the sidebars, like the advice pages. You might want to fix that.

On the page about smiley overuse, depresssed should be depressed. This is a pretty good article. It’s fine to use smilies but some people use them too much.

About your piece on cliques, instead of saying “normal idea”, I would refer to it as being stereotypical. You should quote “populars” too.
(them meaning should be (“them” meaning.

In your piece about makeup, some of your apostrophes are appearing as question marks. I assume you typed this in a word processor, which usually turns quotes into “smart quotes” or “curly quotes”. Simply retype them in the web editor and I believe it will be okay.

I also believe that in this article, you should mention that you’re talking about schoolgirls with makeup and wearing it to school. I was thinking of my mum working in cosmetics and my friends at university when I read this. As you get older you want to look a little more presentable when you go out. Though I agree that schoolgirls don’t really need to wear makeup when they’re just going to school.

As for the article about weekends in relation to school, you should not be calling teachers ‘naive’. Teachers are not naive. They are experienced and by no means naive. I think you could really brush up this article. What you mentioned at the end is pretty much the equivalent of studying, and as you get older I guarantee you, you can get a lot more than what you’re getting now. I’m a student, maybe at university level, but even I have sleepless nights and weekends of homework.

Plugboard

once.s should be once.

Originality & Creativity

Apart from the layout and coding not being by you, I think you’ve done a good job keeping your website personal and having original and personal content on it.

Organisation & Errors

Pretty well organised; I spotted one or two broken links and some mistakes so make sure you fix those.

Overall Comment

I didn’t find your site very interesting – your articles were nice to see from your point of view but a few of them could be added to and improved.

I also think that since you have had your site for quite some time it would be safe to try and create your own layout.

I like that your site contains your writings and such, and that this is original, but there isn’t much of it and I didn’t find your site overly interesting. You could definitely add some more and perhaps work on a layout too.

Rating

(out of 5)