Main Page
I found it sort of
strange that the bgcolor for this page was black when the background image
is mainly white. The background image is nice, although somewhat large;
you might find it convenient to use an image splicer like Fireworks
to splice it and put it into a table. I like the little Usagi cursor (although
it seems to have something of a quirk when you do a right-click), and the
image map is a nice idea, with the titles flashing as you run the mouse
over them, however I'd suggest changing the image used for it into something
much more colorful. Please don't put the midi on autostart -_-;; , I'm
sure most people don't appreciate that. However, there aren't any big problems
with the main page (and I do like it that there's not too much clutter),
so we'll move on.
Sub-pages
First up:
Images. I can't really read the text because its' too dark, and I can't
really tell what text is links because they're the same color as the normal
text and they're nonunderlined. However, the scans gallery has thumbnails,
which is always nice. The web gallery looks like it's supposed to be an
image map, but there are no links on it. O_o;
TSSG- The
Sailor Senshi Club is next. Pretty nondescript name, but the page is cute
and again, no technical errors that I can see. The graphics are sort of
splotchy, and again we're missing a title ^^;, but the mouseovers work
and they're quite cute. ^_^
Lunrabrat's
Adoption Center is next. Looks cute, but...where are the links? Oh! They're
the same color as the background. ^_^;; Oops! You're lucky I have a habit
of highlighting everything with my mouse, or I wouldn't have seen them
at all! ^_^ For some reason, Netscape won't let me see the senshi pictures
in this section. -_-;; Might want to take a look at that.
Now
for fun! What could the "Sailor Moon Super Scroll" possibly be? Hmm...I
guess I've never seen this before! It's cute, although I don't understand
why the little animated twirly senshi are there, but it's cute. ^_^
We also have a long list of paper dolls - might want to explain how to
use them. ^_^ For some reason, I can't get to the Iron Mouse, Sailor Moon
and ChibiChibi doll. O.o; Some of these look like they were scanned, and
not drawn digitally - if that's the case, you might want to say where they
were scanned from. I can't use the puzzle page because I don't have AOL
4.0 ^_^; Also, the text is not visible on this page. Oh dear, same with
the colorforms page. Plus, the images are broken. ^_^;; Then we have a
silly sort of Sailor Moon Test that works, but... Anyway, the polls page
works quite nicely, and so does the emulator page, and luckily all of the
links work.
Uh-oh...the
Free Graphics page doesn't show in Netscape. -_-;; *pulls out MSIE*
This page is pretty cute, actually! Although the text could be green to
match the background, I like the setup and the clever use of table borders.
It's too bad the pages inside don't follow the same format. The graphics
in here are cute, actually, although they tend to get a bit splotchy at
times. ^_^; But it's the thought that counts, right? ^_^ Just one suggestion...some
of them, especially on the "server logos" page, are really big, you might
want to resize them.
The multimedia page has a bunch of stuff in it...It's all functional, but
devoid of any images, layout technique, etc. Nothing wrong with that, actually.
There are two separate pages for the mp2s and mp3s, but neither of them
has a lot on it...why not just combine the two?
Animated gifs? Sounds good, but....ack! They're all smushed on one page,
therefore making it take forever to load! Solution: split them into separate
pages, separated by character. This is too much for one page and I can
hardly tell where some of them start/end. *_*;;
Positives
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Loading time isn't too bad
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Not many technical errors
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Fairly large
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Few broken links
Things to Fix
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Change the thumbnails themselves; instead
of making each entire image smaller and therefore making a thumbnail, crop
them all to be the same size and then resize them, so that they don't look
distorted. ^_^
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The "image11" link in the scans gallery
is broken.
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The "web" gallery looks like an image
map, but doesn't contain any links.
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The galleries could use titles. ^_^;
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The first fanart in the TSSG fanart
gallery is a broken link.
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On the adoption center page, the links
are the same color as the background.
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In the adoption center, the senshi pictures
don't really show up.
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Please, don't say "your" when you mean
to say "you're". ^_^;
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The text on the puzzle page and colorforms
page is not visible.
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The images on the colorforms page are
broken.
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The Free Graphics page doesn't show
up in Netscape.
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Some of the graphics, especially on
the "server logos" page, are really big, you might want to resize them.
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In the Free Graphics navigation system,
some of the pages that are linked from the main graphics page are not linked
on each individual page. You might want to change that, just for consistency's
sake.
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The thumbnails for the last two corner
layouts are broken images, and the images in them are broken.
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Please split the animated gifs into
separate pages. ^_^;;
Suggestions for the Author
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Find a quality image editor such as
Paint Shop Pro or search for one at Tucows.com to make smoother, less blotchy
graphics.
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Make sure that when you're making a
title image and type text onto the image, you put the anti-alias option
on
(it usually looks like a little raindrop).
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Look at all your pages. If you
can't read the text because the background is too dark/busy, change the
backgound! ^_^;
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Maybe try a font change? ^^
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Try using border backgrounds (ones on
the left and right) rather than busy ones that make it hard to read
text. (You could probably find some at Team
Venus.)
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Why don't you try thinking up a good
layout that you like to use on each of the sections (fun, images, etc),
so they'll match? This makes the page look much more organized.
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