Review #1: In the Middle of Scattered Stars
Overall statement: A general SM site with pictures, information, etc.
This looks to be a nice lil' page, and the title definetely caught my attention.

The entrance page is pretty good; the graphics aren't that great, but the ones with the resolutions on them are nice. What you could use is Paint Shop Pro, I believe it has anti-aliased text, which is text that doesn't look grainy. Might work in this situation. 
Major points for having choices for people with different screen resolutions ^^, however I don't know if many people are using 1280 x 1024. The more common screen resolutions are 640 x 480 (bleehhh), 800 x 600, and a few people have 1024 x 768. Anyway, I'll choose the 800 x 600.
We have frames that actually look pretty nice, even though they don't serve much of a purpose. Ah, well, don't take 'em out. ^_^ The main index-type page is fairly nice; the font might be changed to Arial or Verdana, since those are the most common among all computers. I don't really understand why there's separate logos for the photo gallery and the ratings and rates pages, and I also would change the text link colour, it's a bit hard to read. And on the image map, I can't even see the green text, 
I didn't even notice it for a while.
The intro page could use a black background and change of font, also the link at the bottom gives me a frame within a frame. You should link back to the frames index page so that another frame doesn't open. 
Umm, there's a background image on the updates page but it's just black...but at least you've updated recently. Another frame within a frame link. ^^;;
On the synopsis page, make the fonts a LOT smaller. I dunno if it's supposed to be in Times New Roman or not, but that font is getting really boring. And, um, in the North American version, there was only the first season and then the American equivalent or Sailormoon R. No Sailormoon S.
When using unusual fonts like Curlz MT for titles, I'd recommend just making an image instead, since a lot of people probably dont have the font.
The name page was interesting. ^_^ But again I'd change the font size.
Hmm...about four pages are down. ;_; 
The title on the "contest zone" is in black, I can't see it, and I can't see the links, they're purple.
There's a broken image, actually a lot of broken images on the lyrics page.
You have some intersting free graphics, I think you've gone pretty far with what seems to be a stinky image editor. Again, I'd recommend Paint Shop Pro.
I like how the profiles have opinions and stuff on them, rather than just stats. However, I would strongly discourage mixing information from the North American version and the Japanese...they're just not the same.
A lot of the links on the Chibi-usa page are broken....actually, a lot of the links on the profiles are broken. ;_;
::wonders what "character assailments" could possibly be:: There's a broken image on that page, BTW.
Ohh, they're attacks and transformations...rather overdone. Almost all the pages I've seen have this type of thing.
The coloring book is kinda neat, I like it, but it could definetely use some more pictures. ^_^
Ooohh, quotes. From the North American version...certainly haven't seen that before. They were actually ok. The other quotes were nice, too. (Except I don't really understand why the logo on the non-SM quotes page has SM characters on it ^^;;)
The mailing lists page was helpful...eep. There's a hidden MIDI on the awards page on Autostart. Pleeeeeaase don't do this, it's annoying because I can't urn it off.

All in all, this page is getting there. ^_^ I would suggest you take a look at my own help section, get Paint Shop Pro, and pleeeeaaase fix all the links that give me a frame within a frame. Remember, when you link to a page that contains frames inside a frame, it makes more frames inside the frames until I can't even read anything. Gah.

Also, originality is ALWAYS a good thing here on the good ol' SM-Web. Try thinking of 
a few original features for your page, and the more you have the better your page will be.

^_^ Anyway, so far so good.

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