01-07-05 | 1:49 a.m.
selfbiased
Name | selfbiased
Title | The Fading Beacon
First Impression | Image maps... not my favorite thing. I like the purpley colors, though. ||3/5||
Template / Layout | Well, it's original and I'm guessing it's self-designed. That's a major plus. It all seems to fit together nicely, and I'm guessing it serves it purpose well. Decent enough. 9/10
Hm. Even with all that, I can't seem to wrap my mind around this layout. There is something about it that irks me, but I can't quite put my finger on it. The colors are nice and all, but the image map links and the way they are labeled just kinda jumps out at me and I think, "ugh." I think maybe the white labels of the links should be toned down to fit the layout a bit better or something. Maybe make them a light grey or a light purple... then they wouldn't pop so much. Yeah. I also think a colored scroll could add to this layout as well. 7/10
TOTAL OF LAYOUT ||16/20||
Contacts | E-mail. I think that's it. ||1/5||
Navigation / Organization | It's pretty easy-peasy as far as navigation goes. The archives seem a bit confusing at first glance, but when I stopped and looked at them they made sense. So all in all, it's pretty organized and shit. Decent I guess. ||9/10||
Errors | None as far as links and layout go. No capital letters... grammar seems decent with a few spelling mishaps here and there. ||3/5||
Content | Your entries kept me reading, but I didn't feel like I could relate much. At times I was left wondering just what exactly you were talking about or whom exactly were you referring too... but it was interesting to say the least. I didn't, however, feel like I learned much about you from the entries I read. Maybe I should have delved farther back into your past entries, but the ones I read kind of didn't dig too deeply into your head, which left me feeling, oddly, disappointed. 18/25
You write well. Your entries flow and don't tend to jump around like some other people's do. It was simple to just sit here and read and get the gist of what you said. And you wrote in such a way that my interest was kept. My mind didn't wander and I didn't end up skimming over any of your entries... which, in all honesty, is saying a lot. 19/20
TOTAL CONTENT ||37/45||
Extras | At first I didn't think you had any except for a cast page. ((due to the link labeled theatre and when hovered over says "cast")) But upon clicking said link, it led me to a page that is full of all sorts of neat crap. Maybe you could alter your "theatre" link to be something that reads "extras" or something. Make things a bit more clear. Then I think you should split up all the stuff on that one page and give them individual pages. ((As in having just a cast page, a page for your former layouts, a page for reviews, etc.)) ||4/5||
Repeat Visits? | Doubt it. Maybe, but doubt it. ||2/5||
Final Score | Seems this is a growing trend in my reviews... ||75/100||
Comments | The way you referred to your girlfriend in the entry where you stated that you wouldn't be seeing her till the end of January just about felt like a punch in the gut to me. I wish someone would say that I set their soul on fire just by holding my hand. Man o man. What a lucky girl. ::sigh::
Reviewed By | Tracey