Junior Pro Blogger

Review2

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About

Site Owner: Sarabeth
Site URL: http://juniorproblogger.com
Review Completed: April 28, 2007

First Impression

Thanks for making me wait eons before your site actually loaded. And just to let you know, I have hi-speed internet, and not dial up, so I don’t get why it took your site so long to load!

Layout

Banner and Background. Ooh the cartoon at the side is the adorablest thing ever! I love it. Not fond of the font you used for “JuniorProBlogger.Com,” “Dear Diary…” or “Sarabeth.” The site title should be made bigger. It looks like it’s hiding away from the “scary” little pigs. Ohh and can I tell you a secret? -bat eyelashes- Shh.. I’ll tell you anyway.. Anti alias is your best friend! Haha, make sure anti alias is checked on Paint Shop Pro (Or whatever program you use) to make your text look smoother. Your body background is also quite boring. Add some colour or something - plain white is not your friend when it comes to backgrounds. However, I love your content background! The pixeled notebook spiral looks really nice.

CSS and Colour Choice. Nothing really wrong with the CSS, it’s just fine. I just don’t think the pink and the purple match well with your banner, or how the hover cursor is a question mark. If you want to keep the pink, change some of the image colours on your banner to pink. I also noticed that you use [div] classes for your headers. [div]’s are not meant to be used as header codes, even though they look the same. Try switching to [h1], [h2], etc.

Content and Organization

Sidebar

Both of your sidebars are very disordered. “Author” should go before “Site,” and both should go before the navigation and Google search. Speaking of search bars, I really don’t see the need for two. “Rotations/Joined” should go on the right sidebar where all the links and site stats are. “Joined Contests” links should go under the “Rotations/Joined” section, instead of having a section of it’s own. I mean, it only makes sense. In your navigation, “Webmistress” should go before “Domain” since blogs are about the site owner’s life. People go to blogs to read about the person - not the site.

Domain

The “About” and “Current Sites” pages don’t work. They redirect to the main page. Also, this section should be called “Site” and not “Domain,” since not just information on the domain is included.

Webmistress

Very short information provided here. Try elaborating more on each page. The “Likes and Loathes” page does not work, and links to the main page.

Tutorials

The “Pixeling Hearts” tutorial redirects to the main page.

Recipes

Mm, the Oreo Cheesecake recipe sounds good. I’ll be sure to try it, I love cheesecake!

Ask Me

I do not recommend you to use Wak’s Ask & Answer Script. It is very easy to hack into, and the coding and outdated. I suggest switching to Lirae.net’s Easy Ask & Answer script.

Exits

The “Affiliation” page does not work.

Unless that’s what you want, having commenting available on each page is very annoying.

Conclusion

All of your pages took very long to load. This could cause losing your potential visitors. Elaborate more on your pages, right now it’s very basic and short. More tutorials would also be a bonus. A lot of your pages redirect to the main page, so I suggest fixing those broken links. You don’t have much, so there isn’t really anything I have to say. You have a lot to learn.

Rating
1/5