Name: Bernadeth
Site: Lofty-Dreams
Reviews on: August 30th
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First Impression (9/10) I think your site looks really friendly and welcoming. The colours are really soft and are very easy to look at. The soft brown colours are very different. Your site straight away strikes me as different and special.

Woah! Thank you for that points, I also love the sot brown color and I’ll keep my layouts that way.

Layout (12/20) Your layout is very personalised but maybe a little bit do personalised? I think it maybe has one too many pictures of you on there. I love the image mapping. This is a great skill to have and you have included it in the layout very well. I think the layout could of done without those little bruhes, you know the cupcake ones? But I like the little camera brush on the main image. The little welcoming box has blue writing in it which I don’t think matches the rest of your layout and your site name at the bottom is way too big. Maybe you could have wrote it in a nice small font in brown and put it in the diagonal corner from the camera brush. You do seem to have three of four different fonts on your layout. Try simplify it to around 2 and it will look brilliant.

If I will use other pictures, it won’t be balance, ‘ye know? But thanks anyway for the feedback and the font is not blue it’s actually dark grey, it’s just looks like blue.  I love the cupcakes too :)

Coding (15/20) Your CSS coding seems to be quite good. Although I wouldn’t have gone with grey for the main body of text. I would have used a dark shade of brown from your layout. I don’t think the blue writing in your main header works either. Where has this blue come from? Your whole homepage is brown. You have a side-bar which requires a good deal of CSS skills which is good. I like the way in your content section you have smaller headers that seperates all the different things. Looks really nice. Your links are a very nice shade of brown. You also have shown usage of textarea, bullets and scripts. This is really good. Maybe you could add some blockquotes? I think these will improve your site.

I’ll try to put up the tutorials for blockquotes soon. And about the blue fonts, try reading my feedback above :) I’ll try to learn more about the coding stuffs.

Updates (2/10) I can’t really see any displayed updates in your side-bar? I think you should add your more receant updates in a little section in your sidebar? I think this will look really nice in your sidebar? You seem to be blogging regulary so at least you are are updating but the blogs don’t seem to have any actual updates in them.

I’m planning to have the update part but twitter is not working when I tested it and if I will use div scroll bar that will be awkward and will look messy, I think.

Content (16/30) Your actual content is under the heading goodies which gives the impression that there is only graphics in this section. I like the way you have some different things in there like plugboard and add your birthday bit. It’s good that you have contests and the fact that the contests don’t require you to make graphics etc. I think this is a really good way of getting people envolved in your site. You have quite a few tutorials. It seems to me that you have concentrated on making Photoshop tutorials more than any other as you have made 18 of them. Apart from these you don’t really have a lot of tutorials. I would really recommend you make some more. Your graphics are of a high quality but again there isn’t a lot. You have about 25 images in the whole of this section. Again I would say for you to add some more. Your downloads aren’t really suitable. Try making some downloads for smilies, scripts etc. This would make a massive improvement on your mark!

I have many PS tutorials ’cause that’s the only program I have here, but I would add more tutorials on different sections anytime. For the downloads, yea I have to agree with you :D but I won’t remove it anyway haha. Frankly, I don’t know how to make smilies and I’m too lazy to make more graphics.

Grammar and Spelling (4/5) Some few typing errors.

My grammar sucks bigtime, I know but thanks for the points!

Overall (3/5) Overall I think you need to work hard on your content. All of it is a bit mumbled and mixed-up. You have wordpress plug-ins but no tutorials or a download link. It just doesn’t make sense. I do however think that your layout is very good. =)

There is a download and tutorials for the wp plugin, try checking it out one by one.

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