Review #1: Sailormoon's Silver Palace
Author: Evelin
Review by: Chibiusa
The elegant layout of Sailormoon's Silver Palace
Content: ***
Originality: **.75
Design/layout: ****
Technicality: ****1/2
Overall statement: A well-designed combo site, with your usual features
(plus some interesting insights).
(The maximum amount of stars is five.)

This site is one that seems to be very pleasing to the eyes, but not to the mind. The splash page gives us a few options: sign/view the guestbook, or move on to the Entrance Hall. There are also updates listed on this, which are fairly recent. Good maintenance. The background, although having nothing to do with Sailormoon, is very pretty and goes well with the edited Eternal Sailormoon picture, which by the way is gorgeous. The title picture has a blue aura about it, and for some people may be
hard to read. This would be very beautiful, however, if you many toned down the shadow. Nice color coordination.

We move on to the Entrance Hall, where we are struck by yet another beautifully edited graphic, of Neo-Queen Serenity. The title graphic on this page is also nice, much better than the splash page. A similar background to the splash page's is seen here (and on all of the other pages), but on this one it doesn't quite match. I'd suggest getting rid of the reddish-pink hearts, they don't quite go (but it's really fine, very subtle). I love the graphic of the Moon Kingdom next to the comments at the
bottom, very nice. Hmm.. I need to learn how to edit like this! ^^

The first section is called Fire and Water. This section is on Mamoru and Usagi's relationship. No beautiful title graphic here, only normal text. *waa* I'd suggest making one, it would be very nice. ^_^ Evelin explains here that the page is named after the couple's zodiac signs, cancer (water) and leo (fire), which makes sense. Not too many authors use this concept. She uses their zodiac personality traits to describe why
water and fire are perfect for each other, contradicting what mose people
claim. There are a few minor spelling mistakes that should be fixed here... not to say that I don't have spelling mistakes on my own page. *_* Although the concept is nice, this page doesn't really describe Usagi and Mamoru as a couple. I'd like to see more information on them as people, their real lives. It's said that more info will be added soon, so maybe I'll re-review then.

We now move on to Palace Service. This is a page mostly for helping other people build sites, with a Message Board, Mailing List, and HTML  Help Page. No title graphic on this one either! It looks okay, but I really like the ones that you made for the main pages. Make more, make  more! The Message Board has a very cute background, but it's sad that no one posts there besides Evelin herself. Maybe I'll drop a note...  There's a basic ONElist Mailing-List, which is fine, I have no problem with those! It's not very clear what the Mailing list is for, though, maybe you should state a little more information on this. The HTML help page gives you a self-made, very nice form to fill out, describing your  problem. A nice idea, although it's one that I've seen before. Judging from the looks of the site, Evelin will give good advice.

The "Enchanted Gallery" is a page where the pictures within change monthly. It looks to me like these pictures are for the month of January!  Please try to update these monthly things, it's very important that you do, otherwise page-viewers get bored. Again, nice background, and no title graphic! There are six pictures here, all of which are very common. But the thumbnails are nice, and Evelin went the right way when making smaller graphics of the pictures when not knowing how to make actual thumbnails. Kudos! Most people only resize the images.

The Contact and About page gives simple information about Evelin, the author. *Yay!* A nice title graphic! This one is cute. Again, though, the background doesn't really match the Usagi graphic. The "In a Nutshell" page gives info on the author, very nice, no problems here. Copyright Information just gives your basic disclaimer and credits. No problems here, either.

The Silver Palace Court Yard just gives basic links. I don't think putting a midi here is a very good idea, most people get annoyed with them and turn down the volume. Maybe giving viewers an option of stopping the midi would be better. No title graphic here either.. *pout* All links work, no problems.

Overall, this page is very nicely designed, but runs low on content. It doesn't have much information on Sailormoon as a show or as the character. More information and opinions would make this site a lot better! Just sit down and think, and the ideas will come to you.

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