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Site Name: FluffyToast
Owner: Kat
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 26th July 2008
Site Name
FluffyToast has always made me smile. It’s very cute, and it’s one of those names people won’t forget easily, and is unique. =)
Layout
Your layout isn’t totally amazing. But I like the simplicity of it, the colours you used are really good. However I don’t think the background quite matches, it’s a little too bright for everything else. I think it should be a light blue or a light green instead. Also with your ‘back’ buttons, they matched the background, but not everything else. I like the spots on the background itself but it clashed with the flowers on your sidebar. My thoughts are that the flowers shouldn’t be there, or you could change them to misaligned spots too (aligned ones would be too uniform and wouldn’t look nice).
Other than that, your layout is very cute. The shading is very good, and I like the font you used on it. Your CSS also matches the layout perfectly but I’d prefer it the headers weren’t outlined so prominently – maybe they’d be better off bigger and bolder, like your back button would look awesome. Your transparent .pngs (layout header and back sign) don’t appear transparent in my version of Internet Explorer so it would be considerate for visitors to let them know, on the sidebar perhaps, that things look better in certain versions of IE and Firefox. Or you could quickly change them to transparent .gifs which work in more browsers better. I also don’t think it’s necessary to put text underneath the buttons on your ‘joined’ section in your sidebar, especially when it’s already on the button eg. Soda Pop is on the button but you had ‘Soda Pop’ under it as well.
I love the jellies everywhere though =D. Considering you have a jelly theme, it would be nice to see some jelly-related thing as the links instead of just ‘Creator’ and ‘Visitor’, etc.
Content
SITE:
This section is quite well done and quite organised. I like how you’ve provided a code for your link buttons (some people get lazy). Your past layouts page is good, I like how you’ve actually put up the layouts as they really would look (even if it’s a little unnecessary and uses up space) and not as a screenshot, which is what most people do. And to see your old site was very interesting as well. Some of your ‘disappeared’ affies have completely dead links – their site has disappeared so they probably have too. I think you should delete these because they are taking up too much space on your affies page.
I enjoyed reading your history of FluffyToast, it was quite interesting to know you were into dolls before! =P. I like how you thumbnailed your gifts too (I went and grabbed the gifts I hadn’t got hahaha). Also your ‘received gifts’ has some SOTM stuff in it. I think these should go on a separate page of ‘awards’ that your site has received.
Also, plug-board.com doesn’t exist anymore so you might want to remove your plug board or find another site for that.
CREATOR:
This section was also quite good. I like how you put adored sites, and proud memories, because it sort of fills up the section. Normally people don’t put much in their ‘about me’ section. I thought your toybox shouldn’t have that one award in it and you should put that on an awards page.
VISITOR:
I loved this section! You have a lot of graphics that are all very good. You’ve got really good downloads too. Your tutorials are very good and easy to understand, but I think you should put the screenshots on your page instead of letting them open as a separate graphic, so it’s easier for people who are using them. If they are too big, you can thumbnail them and put a little note that you can click them to make them bigger.
Ahahaa I loved your ‘don’t click’. It was hilarious and the longest I’ve seen. I read it all the first time round, then just held enter on my keyboard cause I knew I had to get back to reviewing. Hope you forgive me =p. But what’s the letter W mean? Is it still valid and stuff?
Your pixels are excellent, like I said. They are SO cute and amazing. The tetris blocks are cute. I love the fruit juice and all the food. They look yummy but too cute to eat. However your ‘rules’ image needs a little editing, it’s hard to see the text. You have a second page of pixels, as well as your ‘retired pixels’ and ‘big pixels’, and I think you should put a link to these on the main ‘visitor’ page as they are main pages too. Your ‘Extras’ page has a lot of avatars on it which would be better in their own section as some people wouldn’t know where to look in case they were looking for them.
Originality
I actually really like the way you put an attachment field on your forms. And the way you anchored many of the pages was quite good, like your reviews page. And that you put a tutorial for it was a smart idea as well. Your pixels are very unique, they’re not the normal character pixels many sites do, and you have many of them too.
Errors
You still need to change my link on the sidebar =p. (I didn’t take a mark off for that though.)
On your ‘Family’ page, you’ve put a long === as a divider which is too long and stretches past your layout limits. With some of your glitters, they are really large so they also do this. I recommend opening them in a new window, or widening your layout a little.
You also have some dead images on your affie page, and on your sidebar.
Overall most things are fine, just a few things here and there and issues regarding organisation of content in your ‘visitor’ section, as I outlined above.
