Soundless Tears
Information:
- URL: http://www.soundless.fictionalescape.com/
- Owner(s): Julie
- Site Category: Literature Collective
- Reviewed By: Sakura
- Stats:
Interesting. At first glance, I would not stay, and I’ll tell you why: I have no idea what your site is about. I would think an owner would want people to stay at their site, but the first thing I saw were banners leading out off the site. I suggest you move those banners to another page, like one called “Links Out” or something, and replace it with a short introduction as to what your site is about. Also, the banners seem to be “stuck” together. Add some space between them; they like their space. ;)
Your layout is not repulsive, there’s no splash page, the text is readable, it’s centered, and it works. Wow–that’s good.
The Layout–Design (15/20)
- Your banner is decent. While it’s not the best I’ve ever seen, it’s far from the worst.
- I’d like to be able to actually read your site title. Try stroking the text (adding a black border).
- Your banner would look nicer with a border.
- The background is kinda…plain. No, you don’t have to add flapping butterfly wings, but try changing the color. How about #dbc5c8?
- I would also change the background of the footer to match that of the navigation and content.
- It’s alive!!! The navigation moves when I hover of some of the links. I’ll discuss that later.
- I’d really like to see a larger navigation header. Try 15px, and with only the bottom border.
- Your text isn’t tiny! It doesn’t hurt my eyes! Yay!
HTML
You’re missing a DOCTYPE. Also, get away from tables! They are not for layouts.
Keep in mind that lists are your friends, it’s good practice to put your values in quotation marks.
Instead of using < td class="nav"> for headers, you can use a much shorter tag: < h1> < /h1>.
CSS
You’ve got to be kidding me… Remove these because HTML does not belong in a stylesheet.
Always specify alternative fonts. Also consider removing the scrollbar properties. They do not validate or work with some browsers.
One should never do this: text-align: justify;. Why? Your navigation is narrow. There’s not much text, to justifying it creates unnatural gaps. Combined with font-weight: bold, it also moves text. When I hover over “Given up on love,” the whole column moves.
Since A:link, A:visited, and A:active are all the same, and font-weight: none; is not necessary, just replace them with a {color:#5D3D43;text-decoration:none;}.
I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again: A shorter stylesheet will make your life much easier.
Content (27/40)
About me:
“name” should be “Name”
“date of brith” - “Date of birth”
“favorite subject” - “Favorite subject”
“current grade” - “Current grade”
“objectives” - “Objectives”
“Publish my writting as eather Poerty or Songs.” - “Publish my writing as either poetry or songs.”
“Take English Litterature” - “Take English Literature” “facebook” - “Facebook”
Consider adding more stuff about you. What do you like to do in your spare time?
Contact me: Wow. What a short page. Combine it with your “About me” page.
My Inspirations:
“insperations” - “inspirations”
“thier pain” - “their pain”
“evanescence and within temptation” - “Evanescence and Within Temptation”
“Its been easy” - “it has been easy”
“To be honist” - “To be honest”
“Celebraties” - “celebrities”
“need, frozen and some other’s where inspires by someone I barley sopke to, my eleventh grade mathamatics teacher who lost controll of the class” - “Need, Frozen and some others where inspired by someone I barely spoke to: my eleventh grade mathematics teacher who lost control of the class”
“certan person” - “certain person”
Thank you:
“thank thoes” - “thank those”
“suppored me” - “supported me”
“you’ve help me learn to spell better I love you” - “you’ve helped me learn to spell better; I love you”
“Thank you, grandmother” - Thank you grandmother,”
“others you’ve sorta supported me specially when it comes to stories, the fect you” - “others. You’ve sorta supported me especially when it comes to stories. The fact that you”
“your an awsome poet too don’t stop writing” - “you’re an awesome poet, too, so don’t stop writing”
The link to your poem “Secret” doesn’t work.
- Quality (10/10): I’m judging the quality of your poems, not layout.
- Updating (0/5): I have no idea when your site was last updated.
- Quantity (5/5): Enough.
- Site Grammar/Spelling (2/5): There are so many typos that I got tired of pointing them out. Proofread, proofread, proofread. Watch your capitalization. For example, “tainted Mirror” should be “Tainted Mirror.” Since your site is mainly your writings, I was expecting fewer errors.
- Creativity (10/10): Again, that of the poems.
- Our Link (0/5): I couldn’t find it.
I wish I could write poems like you in such a short time. (Need I say more? A bonus 5 points for you!)
An Overall Wrap-Up (14/15)
Writing is something you should continue on doing. I love some of your poems (”Soundless Tears” being one). Just work on your spelling and stuff, and you’ll be great.