Violin Star

Violin Star


Site name: Violin Star
Owner: Sakura
Reviewed on: Sunday, September 18, 2008
Scored with: Percentages

first impressions

I'm greeted by a splash page... of sorts. I'm not a fan of splash pages. There's a personal blog part, a collective page, a coming-soon portfolio, and hosting. The greeting message is on the image, which makes it hard to read.

layout

You have different layouts for the three sections on your site. I'll review your Personal layout first.

Personal - Screenshot for personal layout. So it's pink. I'm no fan of pink, but that won't affect your score. The black balances out the pink, however, and the Hello Kitty that's featured adds a nice Sanrio-air to it. Oh yeah. My link isn't up anywhere.

Collective - Screenshot for collective layout. I like this layout. It's somewhat mellow. But the divs seem off and the text is over each other, which makes things hard to read.

Hosting - Screenshot for hosting layout. This layout looks WAY too much like Dev @ La-Renaissance's old layout. The colors aren't that alike, but it seems too similar.

pages/content

All right. You've got a lot of content, I guess, so I'll start out on your personal section of the site.

Your Sakura page has a lot of pages on it. The stuff you've got there are a lot of random stuff, like your Zinkys and adoptions. Again, lots of random stuff. Both of your compositions links don't work, too. The photocams' description texts are way too large.

You don't have much content. They're mainly reads. The resources are pretty much recommended stuff, and some of these are reads rather than resources.

The domain part of the personal site is all right, for lack of a better description. All of a sudden, I see something called "Sweet Patronus". What's Sweet Patronus? Another site? I'm confused. Sweet Patronus is not explained. I'm beginning to think it's another site, but I'm still confused.
I finally see a reviews page under Domain. I open it, but my link is not up there either.

By this time, I feel a headache (possibly from all the pinkness of your layout?) coming on. Thank goodness that Linkage is self-explanatory.

I skim through the rest of the site (Collective and Hosting) and find no errors of consequence here. But by this time, my headache is seriously pounding in my head from switching to personal site, to splash page, to collective site, to splash page, and to hosting site. I haven't been annoyed by a splash page this much in all my webdesign experience.

organization

Sakura, you DEFINITELY have to work on your organization. You should get rid of that splash page, first of all. Most of your resources count as reads. Some of your links are redirected to a 404 error page.

spelling/grammar

You don't have that many errors in spelling and grammar that are of consequence, which is good, considering how much my head hurts.
Read some of the compositions that I wrote when I'm in secondary school?


Change that ? to a ., please!

Zinkys should be Zwinkys.

suggestions

PLEASE get rid of the splash page :)

overall

Sakura, I like you as a person. Writing this review, however, has put your site into a whole different perspective. There's a few errors that I really hope you can work on a.s.a.p.

Usually, in a review, there's an error that I keep repeating to fix. I'm pretty sure this review's repetitive error is the splash page. Just add your collective, hosting, and portfolio links to your personal page :)

Re-reading the review, your score ends up to be 79.5% :)


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