Autumn Sky
STATS
Website Name: Autumn Sky
Website URL: http://autumn-sky.org/
Type: Personal, Domain
Skill Level:: Advanced
Owner: Meli
Reviewer: Melanie
Reviewed On: 8/9/06
FIRST IMPRESSION (10/10 pts)
Well I've been to your site before and I ADORE this layout. Its so simple, but it looks amazing. I was actually thinking about doing something with stars hanging down from strings for my site =) So so far...I definately like what I see.
LAYOUT AND DESIGN (55/55 pts)
As I said, this layout is great. Its simple, clean, and cute. I love how the "Its reflecting in your eyes" part is actually reflected...thats a really neat effect. You made great use of the color gray, using different tones of it for your header and making it fade from dark to light. Very cool. Everything is just perfect about this layout...I would be lying if I said there was a problem with it. haha.
CONTENT AND ORGANIZATION (29/30 pts)
I really like the way the hovers are for your navigation links. And I love the star bullets! (I have the feeling its going to be really hard to find problems...haha).
Lets see...we have the same name, are the same age, and were both born on 11ths. I believe we are awesome. haha. I like the information you've provided in your basics section. The pros and cons section was a pretty cool idea too...I was thinking about adding a likes and dislikes section to my site, or something to that effect, so I think this has inspired me to finally do that. haha. By the way is "i" a number? hmm. I have a lot of the songs on your music list. =) This section was pretty good but maybe adding a longer autobiography of yourself would be a good idea. You already have a "basics" page...which in most cases is followed up by another page with more description.
Wonderful icons. I loved the Peter Pan ones...that was such an adorable movie. And I love the National Treasure ones! Very helpful tutorials as well.
I see you've repeated the tutorials section in both your navigation and your visitor section. It should be fine with just being in the visitors section...I'm sure people will know to go there for tutorials. But its ok if you feel you have to double it up...but I think it would work without.
Yay a portfolio. My favorite part of websites. I loved your music videos! Especially the National Treasure one...Riley is soo adorable. hehe. I think I'm going to download the song you used in the "Song for Aslan" video cause that song is awesome. And I have the Peter Pan OST...isn't the music from it beautiful? This section was very original...I loved it.
Your links and resources section had a lot of helpful websites in it. You might want to put it after your "domain" section though so it can kind of be a way out for people after they have finished viewing your site.
CODING, BROKEN LINKS, ETC (3/5 pts)
You have a couple errors in the
W3C validator. They seem very minor though and theres only two so I'm sure you can clear that up. Your CSS validated perfectly!
This probably isn't your fault, but a whole bunch of the links in your "links and resources> resources and credits" section are broken so you should update them or delete them.
TOTAL (97/100)
Well ok your site was amazing. I'm glad we're affilates because I will definately visit many times. Everything was just about perfect and the layout is beautiful. You've obviously worked very hard on your site and it most certainly shows! Keep up the great work =)
