Archive for November, 2007

Review #2: Spirit Wish

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Site Name: Spirit Wish

Date Completed: November 23, 2007

First Impressions

When I first came to your site, I was confused for a brief moment. Your navigation bar was in the center of your layout for about a second! I was also a little disappointed - I was hoping your layout would look like your favicon, which is really cool! But, it didn’t. That would be a good choice for your next layout (hint hint).

Enter Page

N/A (Good choice!)

Layout/Design

Your layout is kind of boring. While your color scheme is okay (American flag colors! :) ), I wasn’t overly impressed with your layout. I’d like to see a full length header in place of the sign in the left corner. What is that red text next to “Spirit Wish?” Does it say something?

Blue, red, and white look good together, but I think you have too much white. A pale blue would look good as the page’s background.

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Review #1: Clemwalrusness

Wednesday, November 21st, 2007

Site: Clemwalrusness

Date Completed: November 21, 2007

Clem - I just want to start out by saying something important. I read Mari’s review of your site, and while reviewing your site myself, I was very surprised to see that you didn’t make the changes that Mari suggested - even the little grammar or spelling errors. Have you just not gotten to them yet? I hope you’ll get to them soon - Mari gave excellent suggestions!

First Impressions:

Hmm… this will be hard for me since I’ve visited your site so many times, but I’ll give it a shot. When I first enter your site, I see…. blue. Lots and lots of blue. More on that in the layout section…

Enter Page

THANK GOD you don’t have one! You got rid of that along with the iFrames. Good call… they’re SO last year. :)

Layout/Design

Header and Footer

Your header is okay, but it’s fairly boring. If you enlarged and centered “Clemwalrusness” that’d both improve the header and make sure your visitors know the name of your site.

I would like to see the footer be a different color. Since it’s the same color as your main section’s background, it just makes your layout look more crowded.

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Open!

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

Falling Snow Reviews is officially open! So please submit!

I know last time I reviewed sites, I wasn’t very helpful or critical. This time I promise to review your site truthfully so that you can improve it.