Name:Carly
Site: One blonde from a small town
Review completed on: 03/11/05

SPLASH PAGE

There's a lot of links here, but it doesn't come across to me as looking that messy. I love the "Be nice or leave" sign :) You should centralise the links to your sister sites though. Since everything else on your splash page is centrally aligned, it'd make sense to apply this alignment to your sister links also. 6/10

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

You have a very unique and memorable site name! The first word that springs to mind with your site is "simple". Fortunately, this isn't a case of simple = shit. This actually looks good! Your site has quite a "young" kind of look to it, maybe it's due to the baby blues and pinks as well as the font you've used, which looks like a young teenagers cursive scrawl. 7/10

LAYOUT

The first thing I noticed as I entered your site was the great colour combination of the pastel pink and blue. These colours look awesome together, but using just two colours makes the overall appearance of your site look slightly plain. By just adding one extra colour to the mix would give your site some added vivacity. May I suggest perhaps a dark blue or medium purple? The guitar is a nice touch, by the way. Looks good! Considering the size of the browser window, your layout does look a bit small and cramped into the left. I think it'd look better if you centred everything and increased the size of the tables by just a tad. There's a vast amount of scrolling space too, with nothing there - to fix this you can decrease the height of your tables so that there won't be a massive space at the bottom. As far as organisation is concerned, you've come up trumps! You've arranged everything superbly. 17/20

CONTENT

You've provided a satisfactory amount of content in your first section, "Me". You're the first "blue haired blonde" I've met, lol! That is so cool that your mum breeds parrots. I suppose they even talk, too! I had a budgie once, but it didn't say a word...probably too scared of me lol. Wow, you were born in 1993...I feel so old now! I am way impressed though, you're all of 13 and your site looks like this. Most sites from 13 year olds are those annoying expage doll site ones, so I started to expect that kind of low quality from someone that age. I know that was quite a generalisation for me to make, and I can say that you've so proved me wrong. Yep, you've definitely impressed me here - you're producing a higher quality website than most people your age. I read that you don't like anime - this put a smile on my face. More and more people are realising it's perverted trash, and this pleases me greatly! I can't understand why some people are obsessed with those wide-eyed freaky anime pics, they're creepy as fuck. The "You" section is jam packed with goodies for the visitor, from fonts, graphics, to reads and site resources. About the fonts - did you make them yourself? If not, maybe you shouldn't have them up at your site, someone could see them and get shitty. Your layouts were really good - my favourite was "Sweet Dreams". It was very pretty. Your clocks were impressive, I've never seen anything like that before! It told the time in New Zealand time too, which was cool - a neat lil javascript you've got there. Lastly, your "Site" section. It's always unusual to come across a site section that has some interesting links, these sections are usually really generic and just contain link pages etc that aren't worth mentioning. The "Tisk Tisk List" is a unique and original idea from you, hope you never come across any losers that need to be put there though. I can't think of any reason why you'd get haters anyway. You express yourself in a aggressive manner (that is admirable) on your "Haters Annonymous" page, I'm like you, I don't mind a little chaos every now and then. I even start it sometimes when I'm bored! 18/20

SUMMARY

If you were 18 years old, I'd expect a lot better from you. But for a 13 year old, I'm definitely impressed, and if you can come up with something as good as this at such a relatively young age, just imagine what your website will look like in a few years time! Your site is good, with only a few minor adjustments needed to complete the package. Just think about maybe adding an extra colour, making your layout central and cut the height of your tables. Well done Carly, you've impressed me, and I think you've got the potential to go far.

OVERALL SCORE: 46/60