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Site Name: Kisschase
Owner: Erika
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 14th August 2009

Site Name

It’s cute and easy to remember. Personally reminds me of the band Kisschasy (who I like).

Coding and Validation

Your coding has 4 errors and 1 warning.

In your affiliates table:

</tr></td>

should be

</td></tr>

You also need a character encoding to determine the character set of your webpage. This should go in the head section.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Your CSS is valid but has 108 warnings.

To fix several warnings, you need to set width for anything that is a floated element. You also need to sort out a few colours that you’re using multiple times.

You’re using a theme from Vicky as a base; good to see you have left the credit on.

Browser Compatibility & Usability

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

The text is fine and I have no problems reading it.

The navigation is clear and easy to see.

Layout

I really like the combination of dark brown and teal/blue; it always works well. I especially like how you have broken the layout up with the light grey, creating some nice contrast.

I love the header image. It’s simple and the use of the dropshadow on the text makes it stand out rather than blend in.

There’s no flaws I can really see in the layout, and the CSS is nice and neat, spiced up with various fonts and good use of colour. This layout is more impressive than your previous one with the bird.

Content

About

On this page you have a few mistakes:
absolutley should be absolutely
many other should be a lot of other
out, I should be out; I
which I use, I should be which I use; I
but thats should be but that’s
Ok should be Okay
kisschase should be Kisschase
reminissing should be reminiscing
now either apply should be now apply.

It irks me a bit, but there should be more space between the headers and the paragraphs of text. It will look more spaced out that way. At the moment it looks a little bit squished.

On the “about me” page, who it is, somehow should be who it is; somehow.

Ask

This is well set out but the text should be bigger and integrated more with your CSS. I have a tutorial on installing Bellabuzz if you need help.

Resources

This page is well set out. You used to have the preview for the page and they link to the page and I didn’t like like the inconsistency with the styling of the blurbs – so it’s good that you have removed that and opted for simple links.

The brushes are great; the stars look the best. Very detailed and have “depth”. The splatters lack depth; they just look like arrays of dots, so maybe some texture or more detail added to them would be nice.

I’m not a fan of the premade layout as the pink is just too bright and striking. Softer colours to balance this out, and maybe more white added, would make it look better.

The smilies are very cute. A preview with more smilies would be better though. “13×12″ should have “pixels” written at the end so it isn’t so confusing.

On the wallpapers page, write “Swimchick” instead of “here”. It’s better to note the site name. This wallpaper looks great. I like how you have a widescreen version as well; not many website account for those. However this widescreen one looks a bit pixelated. It appears to me that you have just resized the smaller one – to avoid this slightly off quality, start with a very large canvas and then resize it to a smaller size, which is always a better option and better than resizing to a bigger size.

The scribbles are very cute!

The code converter needs some text on the page with an explanation!

Tutorials

Miscellaenous should be Miscellaneous.

The butterfly header (for Photoshop) is a simple but relatively nice tutorial. Perhaps you could show more screenshots of the steps in between to make things as clear as possible.

I notice you are using quite a few subpages here. Instead of having so many subpages, list each tutorial individually on the main tutorial page under a heading.

The advanced image tutorial is very good; I love the effect. I think the purple is a bit bright though.

On the Paint duplicating image tutorial, For im should be For example, I’m. The tutorial is simple and just has the same result as copying and pasting (Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V), so I don’t really see this tutorial as very useful.

The Tweetdeck tutorial is also pretty self explanatory. Maybe you can elaborate and write more about the program and its features, and how to use it. For example, the icons that you can use to shorten URLs and such.

Portfolio

Tips to should be Tips for
Celebritys should be Celebrities.

On the tips article:
sucessful should be successful
your a should be you’re a
your alive should be you’re alive
its via should be it’s via
Dosn’t should be Doesn’t.

On the “things that piss me off online” article:
idiocy, fighting should be idiocy; fighting
more then likely should be more than likely
someone elses’ should be someone else’s
whats the point should be what’s the point
thats not there should be that’s not there
havn’t got should be haven’t got.

On the Miley Cyrus article, christaned should be christened, and other then should be other than.

Originality & Creativity

You’ve got a lot of unique content here. There isn’t a lot of content, generally, but you have things here that you have created and that are unique.

Organisation & Errors

Well organised. A bit too many subpages in some places though.

You mostly had grammar/spelling mistakes.

Overall Comment

You’ve done a great job on your website, Erika. The content you have is excellent so far, but seeing more from you would be great.

You have a variety of content and you’ve done well on all of them, be it graphics, tutorials or articles, but you definitely should add more. The articles can be a bit more convincing and ones like the Miley Cyrus one can be elaborated on.

Also, more additions to your portfolio would look special. Keep up the good work.

Rating

(out of 5)