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Website Name: Confined Dreams
Website URL: http://www.confined-dreams.so-juicy.net/
Type: Personal, Hosted
Skill Level: Average
Owner: Sami
Reviewer: Melanie
Reviewed On: 8/27/06
FIRST IMPRESSION (8/10 pts)
Pretty nice site at first glace. I like your layout...the only problem I can see right off the bat is the text size and link color which doesn't match.
LAYOUT AND DESIGN (45/55 pts)
To expand on what I said above...you definately need a new link color. Its this bright default blue that doesn't match the layout at all. Also, be sure to add a link hover color as well. You should use colors that are contained in your main header image for these. Also, I can barely read the date on your blog and the title of your entries. I had to increase my deafult font size of my browser 2x to read it! lols. So make those a bit bigger. The date should probably be the largest font size in respect to the rest of you text. I do love the layout though, its simple but very pretty. Very pleasent colors as well. On your sidebar, make the headers stand out more...like "the guise" etc. They should be a larger font at least...try using headers such as h1 or h2 around the word.
CONTENT AND ORGANIZATION (20/30 pts)
You should probably put the "actress" link in your header more towards the top since thats usually what should be the first link to go to. Good bio section though...very detailed. The "updated" blinkies in your visitor section should definately be changed to match the layout. They're bright purple! haha. Add more in this section too if you can. I like the layouts you offer though...they're really pretty. Great blends as well. I love the fact that you have a writings section...it adds a touch of uniqueness. =) I also found the titles for you links (actress, chronicles etc) very original...so great job with those. One thing you should do for your content is add a back link so users can easily navigate back to the page they were on before without having to do so in their browers.
CODING, BROKEN LINKS, ETC (2/5 pts)
It doesn't look like you've started to care about correct validation of your coding...which is ok...it'll come with time. Your site has 21 errors in the W3c.org validator.
Here are you results. Your stylesheet also doesn't validate =/
Here are those results. You can look at the stylesheet for my site
here for an example of a validated stylesheet. =) I haven't found any broken links so thats good.
TOTAL (75/100)
Overall pretty good site. The main things you have to do are change the link color, create some sort of larger headers to make you sidebar headers stand out more, and increase the font size of your date and title in the blog. =)
