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Site Name: TSF
Owner: Isi
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 21st July 2009

Previous reviews:

The Studio Fairy (re review)

The Studio Fairy

Site Name

No problems here.

Coding and Validation

Your HTML is valid.

Your CSS is valid. There are 24 warnings. I know you are able to fix these – sort out the colours, quote fonts with whitespace, and provide width for floated elements.

You have a few pieces of styling outside of your stylesheet. Where possible, try to place them in your stylesheet.

Browser Compatibility & Usability

According to Browsershots.org your site looks the same in most browsers.

The navigation is in an obvious place but the text is very small and should be made bigger, particularly because it is the navigation. Some padding should also be added so it doesn’t look squished.

Layout

It’s aligned to the left, which is different from your other layouts. You can still center the layout and it would still look the way you like, but that’s up to you.

The layout is fairly simple in terms of its elements – the sidebar is kept neat – I see you have removed some of the plugins and widgets you had previously, which is good. I have to say, that large survey banner looks tacky.

The affiliates would look neater if they were in alphabetical order, though.

The header image is nice; the images are blended well and I like the way you have arranged the text. Some nice textures are used without being too intruding.

The stylesheet is done fairly well. Colours are chosen from the image, and a good choice of colours is made too. A variety of fonts are used.

Content

About

Under “about me”, over react should be overreact. A sentence also looks like this, with a line break in the middle:

Ignorant jerks who play too much and do
not know when to stop.

You have a similar sentence on the affiliates page:

You do not become an affiliate and then
suddenly just quit coming to the website.

Your awards on the awards page (that you received from me) show the sample images and not the actual awards that I rewarded you.

On the terms of use, Credits,images should be Credits, images.

Ask Me

Pretty self explanatory.

Challenges

On the icon challenge page, a photos should be a photo.

I believe you have to update the Site of The Moment page, as you informed me the other day.

Resources

On the headers page, “click thumbnail for full image” would be handy.

On the symbols page, a few of the symbols appear as question marks for me.

Some of the textures are a bit fuzzy but otherwise, you have done a good job.

Tutorials

Under WordPress tutorials, Number Of Post should be Number Of Posts. On the tutorial itself, Setting should be Settings.

It’s good to see you are correctly displaying code with code and that you’ve fixed most of the errors. As I mentioned in your previous review though, making bold or quoting commands such as “install now” and “activate” would make them clearer and easier to skim through and follow.

I have looked through most of these and I don’t notice any new problems – make sure you proofread before publishing your work.

Advertising

Anybody should be Everybody.

Hosting

On the small hosting plans page, do not includes should be do not include. The pages are set out very neatly though.

Originality & Creativity

You have quite generic content but you have a very individualistic style. You have unique graphics that are very creative.

Organisation & Errors

Well organised, just a few errors.

Overall Comment

You’ve got a great site Isi, so keep up the great work. Continue adding works. I believe graphics are your strong point, so adding more free layouts and designs would be a great idea.

Make sure you proofread everything you write, even if it is just pasting it into a Word document to check.

You’re always very creative with layouts and content so keep it up.

Rating

(out of 5)