Falling snow Reviews Review

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?

Enter Page

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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. Let’s go over the spelling errors, shall we? In your welcome message, “veiwed” should be “viewed,” (you made that mistake twice) “olny” should be “only,” and “celeberty” should be “celebrity.” On your navigation, “Reveiws” should be “Reviews.” You made that mistake under that section of your navigation many, many times… Remember, “I before E except after C!” Also, while reading your welcome message, I noticed that you don’t have margins between your text and the container it’s in. This also equals bad, and annoying. Needs fixing! Besides your spelling, your layout was pretttttttttttty good! I’m so glad I didn’t have to critique your entire layout - it’s sooooo boring to do that! Great color choices, great organization, so yay!!!

Content

History:
“olny” should be “only” in the second paragraph. Are you the only site owner? If so, why do you refer to yourself as Lou? Can’t you just say “I” and “Me”? Also, the last line: “Shoe” should be “she,” but it’d be better if you use “I.”

Updates Archives:
Check.

Gifts:
Good… good…

Past Layouts:
In version three, “alot” should be “a lot,” and “some how” should be “somehow.” I love the little bunny rating! It’s so cute!

Contact:
For rule #5, “unappropriate” isn’t a word. “Inappropriate” is. Rule #6 - “…that would make go “wow!” That would make what go wow?
Why can’t people have more than 10 affiliates? That seems like a pointless rule to me. No one’s going to link you if you have that rule, and they’re a popular site. You’re more likely to get visitors if you’re affiliates with a popular site.
Sentence after the last rule - “I you…” what does that mean?
…”I might offer to ask you…” doesn’t make any sense either.
“Requireing” isn’t a word either - “requiring” is correct.
You say to post the website link in the “message” section. There isn’t a message section!

Terms of Usage:
…”I really mean please…” means what?
“If you are not able to live up to these terms and violate them, we may have to ask you to leave.” This sentence sounds a little strange. At first, I thought that it meant it you don’t live up to these terms and you don’t violate them, you have to leave. This would be a better sentence: “If you violate these terms, we may have to ask you to leave.” Plain and simple.
“Follwing” should be “following.”
Rule #1 - “Do no” should be “Do not.”
“You may not crop the image to just remove it. You also steal the credit of the resource from other sites.” These sentences are also a little iffy. It takes some thought to understand it. How about: “You can’t crop the image just because you want certain parts. When you do this, you’re also stealing content from other sites.” I think this is what you mean.
Your rules #3 and #4 contradict each other. Putting wallpapers on your site is your personal use. I know what you mean, but I’d change it to sound clearer.
Rule #4 - “olny” should be “only”… sigh.
Rule #5 - “apoligize” should be “apologize.”
Rule #3 for Silhouette Rules -”veiwning” should be “viewing,” and “olny” should be “only.”

Linkage:
Good.

Credits:
I don’t think that your host is the same anymore, so that needs to be updated, as well as your site URL in the line under it.
In your resources section, the link to Anime Share doesn’t work, and Ping! is closed.
I also noticed just a minute ago that throughout your ENTIRE site, you’ve spelled “silhouette” wrong, you’ve being spelling it “silhoulette.”

Wallpapers:
Wow, you have quite a collection of wallpapers! They’re all great.

Pngs:
Same!

Silhoulette Art:
Well, “silhoulette” should be “silhouette,” but other than that, very nice!
The only thing about all your designs - wallpapers, pngs and graphics - is that they take FOREVER to load!! In some cases, the connection even timed out, a bad thing. Is there some way to make it load faster?

Summary

Well, your site is the first design or anime site I’ve ever reviewed, so it was kind of hard for me to judge since I mostly review personal sites. I thought that your layout was awesome, and that you had a lot of good designs. But the information about you and your site was pretty lacking, and you made A TON of spelling errors… hmm…. Well, I did enjoy your site and had a fun time reviewing it. So this score will be based mainly on how you lived up to a design site. Your an awesome designer, so congrats, and keep it up!

Rating: 3.5/5