Falling Snow Reviews

Site Name: Reverie’s Dreamland

Date Completed: March 8, 2008

First Impressions

When I first entered your site, I immediately noticed that your layout isn’t centered. Tsk, tsk. That’s not good, Lou! I also found four spelling mistakes (on the homepage!!) without even scrolling down. Uh-oh…

Also, when I go to your site, a little bar pops up at the top of my screen and tells me that your site require certain plugins that I don’t have. Do you know what this is?

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Layout/Design

Like I said before, your layout isn’t centered. This equals bad. Please! Center it!!!

I really like your color scheme! That’s a first! Thank you for not making me redesign your entire site…

Your navigation is pretty well organized, I’d switch the “Reviews” section with your main content section. I’d also rearrange the main content navigation - how about Home, Update Archives, Past Layouts, History, Gifts, Linkage, Contact, Credits, then Terms of Usage? Just seems to make more sense to me. Also, when I roll over links on your navigation, the navigations moves up and down a little bit. Any way to fix that?

Your header’s well designed, a little big for my taste though. I would like to see the “Reverie’s Dreamland” text larger than your layout version, just because your site name should always be big so people can tell what the name of your site is.

But I’d like to see a footer. When the navigation just ends abruptly, it looks weird and awkward.

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Site Name: Dancing in the Rain

Date Completed: March 2, 2008

First Impressions

When I first came to your site, I thought it looked strangely like Final Stop. I searched a bit, and found that you use the same template.

I also thought that your site used some, er, … bright colors.

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Layout/Design

Your layout is a template, which is okay, but not the best. I won’t mark you down for it though. I’m guessing that you can customize it, so I will give you some suggestions.

In the color scheme, there’s a bit too much going on. All your colors are pretty bright, and they don’t match perfectly. I mean, you have brown and pink and blue and green, all in one layout! It’s very distracting. I’d pick about three colors, colors that match, and put those in your layout.

If you like the pink, you could keep the two shades of pink you have in there, and black or white.

If you like the green, you could use pale shades of green and blue, plus the blue you have in there.

If you like the blue, you could use the blue you have, a paler/darker shade, and white.
And if you like the brown, you could use what colors you have, but just get rid of the blue outline.

Here are some examples below. Unfortunately, your header was too complicated for me to match it to the color scheme, but you get the basic idea! Also keep in mind that you’d change the text colors to match the color scheme.

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