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Site Name: Lishedoutlove
Owner: Lish
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 10th July 2009
Site Name
Very nice name, and very unique. I don’t usually like the owner’s name in their website name but yours is very nice.
Coding and Validation
Your coding has 70 errors and one warning. All these errors need to be fixed. You’re neglecting to quote any elements in your HTML. For example, <div id=container> should be <div id="container">. You must do this with all tags.
Also, all images must have an alt specification. Screen readers such as those for the blind will be able to read these more effectively and give a better description if you put some alternative text on your images. Images must have the slash at the end of tags. In summary, an image tag would look like this:
<img src="image URL here" alt="My house" />
You’re missing your character encoding, which defines the character set of your webpage. The most common one is UTF-8. You should place this in between the head tags.
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
You’re missing a </a> after your first two navigation links.
In XHTML, <br> should be changed to <br /> and all tags must be in lowercase.
Attempt to use <strong> instead of <b> and <em> instead of <i> from now on, for semantic – more meaningful – purposes. As I mentioned with screen readers it does give more meaning for them.
Your HTML specification reads:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" <lang="en">
This is incorrect and should be:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
You have an extra </div> at the end of your coding. Your page is very basic, and if you just clean up your coding all these errors will be fixed. You must quote all URLs and values in tags.
Your CSS is valid but has just one warning. Place Century Gothic in quotes, as fonts with whitespace must be quoted.
Browser Compatibility & Usability
According to Browsershots.org your site looks okay in most browsers.
The text in your blog and in your general content section should be aligned to the left. By convention, people read from left to right, and having your text aligned to the right is extremely uncomfortable to read. The sides of the layout could do with some padding so the text is not squished on the sides.
The text size and navigation are fine, though.
Layout
The layout is very simple. I like the choice of images for the header, but it would be a bit nicer if they could blend together.
Other than that it’s very simple but neat. The stylesheet could do with more excitement – a variation of fonts and colours would be great.
Content
Movies
I won’t be able to watch these videos due to my slow connection at the moment. Perhaps a little insight into the video, or a brief paragraph outlining its content, would make it more interesting and appealing.
It appears that the first video has been removed, according to YouTube.
Visitor
The textures are nice, but the furry one is a bit… well, fuzzy.
The second, third and fourth pieces of writing aren’t integrated with the layout. It would look neater if they were.
On the MySpace/Facebook article, Faceboo should be Facebook.
On the tutorial, make the images as thumbnails so that they link to the full image.
Portfolio
Nothing much to say here – the work looks fairly good. The pieces aren’t amazing but they’re most certainly interesting and a good selection to display.
The ‘about me’ page should go in your main navigation, and I believe you should also include a page about the site. The “affie” (which should be affiliate) application should be part of a website section as well.
Originality & Creativity
Everything you have, even though it isn’t much, is definitely original and creative.
Organisation & Errors
Organisation was okay. The alignment became very annoying after a while; please align your text to the left.
Overall Comment
There wasn’t much on your website but your website wasn’t a “disgrace”. There are things you can improve, particularly with coding. You can easily fix up your coding so long as you follow the basic rules.
There isn’t much on your website, as I mentioned, but more content would be great. Perhaps some stock images or photography would be good to include. I’m not sure if you use your own photography for your manipulations and works, but if so, stock images would be great to include.
1 Comment so far — leave one?
Lish says:
You’re very good at writing reviews and explaining what people can do to fix errors on their websites. I’m very glad I applied, I’m going to take all of this into mind as I’m making a new layout and adding some more stuff.
Thanks so much!
–Lish
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