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Site Name: So Facetious
Owner: Kristi
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 17th August 2008
Site Name
I’m very fond of it and it’s really unique. I remember your site when you were hosted last year and loving the name!
Layout
I like how you’ve used your own photos. I think it was a great idea to put images along the side of your layout rather than as a header, because a lot of people make headers that are too big. It’s a little hard to read ‘version ten’ on your header. But I like the fonts you’ve used and all the purple, especially how it’s brought out in your sister’s headband. I think the polaroids could have been improved because they looked a little simple, but that was only on close inspection. 
I like the little intro about you, and how you’ve got just a small section of your photo as well.
Your CSS is excellent. I am viewing your site in Mozilla Firefox and your blog titles are significantly larger than your normal text (which I assume is how it should be) but when I look at it in Internet Explorer your blog titles are as small as your regular text. When they are that small, they don’t look too good with the ‘<3 Kristi’ you have ended each blog with. I personally thought that your signature was a little too big, it looked even bigger than your header. A suggestion would be to make your header a little bigger but of course, it was just a suggestion.
I was liking the ‘teh’ in the sidebar (because it’s a little unique) but it’s a little too much because you’ve got it on every header. When I look at your layout from a glance, I think maybe the sidebar and content could be made a bit wider, but since my resolution is an insanely large 1152×864.. actually I just took a look at your site in 1024×768 and it looks good, so ignore what I said.
Content
I wouldn’t say the bullets are necessary as your content is mostly centred, but that’s my thought. A comment on your SF awards and cam etc, these are a good idea but I won’t be going through them in detail. I like the layout on your awards site, however categories is spelt with an ‘e’. I like your cam because I don’t see many around.
MRS.KAT:
I liked your ‘basic stats’ page, your facts were really quite interesting. I like how you’ve set out your portfolio, and the captions on your photographs page. Your ‘cast’ page was an excellent idea and the way you’ve set it out is great. You seem to have wonderful family and friends. 
A couple of gifts on your gifts page extended past the layout, maybe you could make them as thumbnails, like the pictures on your wedding page. Same with your photographs page – make these into thumbnails as well. Your playlist should probably open in a popup-window because the player is also wider than your layout. On your ‘Matthew’s Basic Stats’ page I couldn’t see the picture of your dog because the link led to a 404.
CONTENT:
On first impressions you have a lot! I like how they are organised. I like your selection of fonts and downloaded some myself. Your smilies are good, I thought you could have made a purple set to match your layout. Your tutorials are really good and the screenshots do help. I also use leechFTP, I was thinking maybe you could put it up for download as it’s such a small file. Your games and reads are excellent and kept me occupied for a fair bit.
Your cursors don’t work in Firefox (as most do) but of course they are fine in IE. It might be an idea to include a little note at the top of the page about this (only .cur cursors work in Firefox, apparently).
Oh no!!!! I found the turtle at the bottom of your embarrassing moments page but it led to a 404! 
When I clicked on your Evan Almighty movie review I got a 302 found. That needs to be fixed too. Also, the Pandora radio station is an invalid link. Your Google page ranker doesn’t open in a new window as you stated.
DOT ORG:
One of your awards is a little too large for your layout again. Also some of your hostees come up with 404s, I think you need to clear out the page, some of them have also moved sites. Otherwise this section was well done.
Originality
Perfect! I love the way you’ve set out things, and you’ve got loads of unique stuff, everything’s yours, your layout is superb. Really no complaints here.
Errors
Just those 404s I mentioned in the overview of your content. Otherwise, everything is okay and top-notch!
