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Site Name: Hard Heart
Owner: Sofia
Reviewed by: Georgina
Reviewed on: 22nd January 2009
- Previous reviews:
- Celeb Designs
Site Name
Hard Heart is a lot better than your old site name “Celeb Designs”. It’s also quite easy to remember.
Coding and Validation
Your coding is validated and your CSS is validated, but that’s because you’re using a template from another site.
I really don’t think you know fully about coding if you’re just using a template. You didn’t code it and it’s not your own, so that just shows me you aren’t confident enough to pull off a layout yourself.
Browser Compatibility & Usability
According to Browsershots.org your site looks the same in most browsers.
Your navigation is large and clear and your default font is of a good size. Then again, your layout isn’t coded by you.
Layout
You’ve used a template so I can’t really review your layout. Writing ‘here’ as a link is unprofessional, you should be crediting Oh Panic.
Your colour scheme is horrible. The purple is too dark and your text is hard to read. They grey contrasts way too much with the purple and black. Try a different colour scheme altogether or lighten the black and purple.
Content
In your sidebar, who’s “Host”? Shouldn’t you address them by their name?!
Ask Me
This is pretty self explanatory. I don’t get why you can’t add your header and integrate your layout into this page.
Visitor
Well, great. Since you haven’t made any of this content, what’s the point of reviewing it? (Yeah, and There is should be There are. )
On your ‘colour codes’ page, again the same grammatical mistake. These colour codes are boring. And the content appears under your sidebar.
‘Plug Me’ is just a plug board, and your ‘Designs’ leads me to an external link to a site that isn’t even up; there is nothing here to review.
Site
On your affiliates page, Apply form should be Application form.
On your contact form page, don’t work should be doesn’t work.
Contests
You have a rather odd contest going on. Win a website? A website or a layout? Think about it. And why does the second prize seem bigger? A whole subdomain?
I’ll not should be I won’t.
Originality & Creativity
There wasn’t anything original here. Your layout was a template, your content ‘wasn’t made by you’, and there was no sign of creativity at all.
Organisation & Errors
Not so badly organised and some errors here and there.
Overall Comment
Sofia, your site has absolutely nothing on it. I don’t even know why you bothered applying for a re-review when you haven’t made the majority of content on your site.
All that’s changed is your site name and URL. Even your content is boring and there’s nothing made by you. You really need to add some unique content or at least some content – whether it be information about yourself, graphics you’ve made, things you’ve written. You need to improve a lot.
Start by brainstorming ideas, and then putting them together. You need to improve a lot, like I said. Please don’t apply for another review until you can code and make layouts on your own, and have added some form of content.
