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Site Name: Rawr-Love
Owner: Ellie, Cassie and Lauren
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 7th September 2009

Site Name

It’s easy to remember. “Rawr” is a commonly used part of a site name though.

Coding and Validation

Your coding has 58 errors. You customised a template, so it’s no guarantee that after editing it, you could have errors.

You have <br> in your sidebar instead of <br />.

Also, since you are coding in XHTML, you must be writing all tags in lowercase. The following is not:

<em>URL:</EM> www.rawr-love.net

Attempt to use <strong> instead of <b> and <em> instead of <i> from now on, for semantic – more meaningful – purposes. This means that emphasis can be given on text when read by a screen reader.

You should not use <center> as it is deprecated and no longer considered valid. You should be using a class to center things:

.center {
text-align: center;
}

And use the following piece of HTML, or whatever element you choose:

<p class="center">Text here</p>

The coding needs some attention – there are little things that need to be fixed. Also, not all your pages are valid, so you should look into validating them as it decreases the chances of problems across multiple browsers and operating systems.

Your CSS has 1 error. colour: #F0E4CD should be color: #F0E4CD (American spelling).

Most of your coding is fine; make sure you keep it consistent and validate your pages.

Browser Compatibility & Usability

Your site looks the same in most browsers, and it is navigable and functions in Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Safari.

The font is quite nice – I actually haven’t seen a font used this way, in a “softer” manner. It’s definitely legible. The navigation could be a bit bolder though. Even the headings are larger!

The regular links are hard to pick out as well. They should be a different colour from the default text.

Layout

The warm colours are unusual and the whole simple look of the layout with the detailed background looks quite nice. I’d prefer the background fixed, but it’s not a big deal.

Not much I can say about the layout. It’s simple and it’s easy on the eyes.

Content

In your sidebar, this could be edited:

We are hosted by Parade Hosting and owned by Cassie, Lauren and Ellie. We supply many graphics and have some fun games for the end of your visit.

It would be better phrased as:

This website is owned by Cassie, Lauren and Ellie, and we are hosted by Parade [Parade Hosting]. We supply many graphics and have some fun games for your visit.

In the sidebar Affliates should be Affiliates and Augast should be August.

About

Under the credits, pallettes,layout background and ecetera should be palettes, layout background/s, etc..

Visitor

On the characters page dont re distribute should be don’t redistribute.

On the pixels page, who is “me”? Seeing as there are three of you.

On the icons page dont re distribute should be don’t redistribute. I notice you used a stock image of mine; please credit.

On the icon gradients page dont re distribute should be don’t redistribute.

On the striped bars page dont re distribute should be don’t redistribute.

You don’t have much content here but you’ve definitely got a variety, and they’re all unique. I have seen icons around, and similar “bars” and pixels, but you’re off to a good start.

Owners

On Cassie’s page picked to do should be chose to do and abig should be a big.

On Ellie’s page:
french should be French
Ive should be I’ve
like immature idiot should be like an immature idiot
Ive ad should be I’ve had
Freewebs and Piczo should be capitalised as well. There are also question marks on this page where some apostrophes should be.

On Lauren’s page:
jack who i think closley should be Jack, who I think closely
thats should be that’s
lots, I should be lots; I
i opend should be I opened
i should be I
them crazy glitter site should be those crazy glitter sites
i meet ellie on hoilday in france should be I met Ellie on holiday in France
html, graphics and css so igot should be HTML, graphics and CSS, so I got
done good should be went well
bordem took me back should be boredom brought me back
igot should be I got
feb should be Feburary…

I really have trouble reading this:

igot into it and then made simply-swirls which done good then i got bored so left it a while bordem took me back later on in 2008 so i made unique-graphix but then igot bored so i went again i came back around feb 09 and made sunkissed-smiles in june in july i read a artice about piczo from retrorawr tellin me about the piczo trap so soon after i moved to freewebs called clickes then i relized i wanted to improve so made vintage-cherrys and then again wanted my own site with noone else so i now have http://wild-rawr.webs.com which i run when im not helping with this site so vist soon

Where is the punctuation, the grammar, the spelling? Nonexistent. Maybe Lauren wrote this herself but seeing this – it’s hard to read because it’s barely paragraphed, and at least some effort should have been made to make it readable. It looks messy and not very professional.

Additionally, the navigation is confusing in this section – it would be better if there was a menu on the “owners” page to each owner.

Originality & Creativity

Relatively original and creative. I guess overall the website could be a bit more interesting, and naturally, as you add more content your website will show through more.

Organisation & Errors

Fairly well organised. The owners section could be improved; otherwise things were looking well done.

Quite a number of grammatical errors were spotted; fixing these shouldn’t be much of a problem and will make these pages look neater and cleaner.

Overall Comment

You have done an overall good job on the website but it seems rather new and more things need to be added. Since there are three of you owning the website I expected to see more content.

You’re off to a great start though. Add more content – maybe some more blogs or articles about yourselves. With three friends running a website people might be curious to know you more. Fix up the errors in the coding and on the pages – you’re definitely on the right track.

Rating

(out of 5)