| nov: moonfantasy |
theme: graphics
¤ Wow. I'm speechless. Layout is very professional. Graphics are used perfectly to enhance the site.
¤ All I can say is that this is probablly one of the best webgraphics sites around. Not many complaints yet, only comment I have is dealing with the bookmarks. Some of them look as thought they have been saved many times and have a bad res. also, personally I find bookmarks to be a little redunant, but the quotes are interesting.
¤ What can I say? everything works. The quality of graphics is excellent. I really can't find anything wrong with this site. Helpful tips, good graphics, all you could wan't in a graphics site, though adding a link to download Adobe Photoshop 6.0 wouldn't be bad considering you offer tips on how to utalize such a program.
I love your layout with Belldandy from Ah My Goddess! You have a nice intro on your main page. I also like how you have recent updates on your main page. I like the 'you are here' indicator on the top of the all the pages. I like your logo; it’s very kawaii. As far as I could see their were no spelling errors on this site there was only one place where I spotted a mistake, and I’ll get to that later. Everything is fast loading, but one thing I’d suggest doing is moving your site content to moonfantasy.com since right now, most of it is on pinkusagi.com. You also need to put more ALT text on your graphics.
Your terms of usage are very clear and concise.
Past Layouts: I loved looking at your past layouts, they were all pretty. I’m glad that you specified layouts that were used for Moon Fantasy. The fact that you have the date that your layout was launched and a screen shot is impressive. This was the one mistake I found in terms of writing on your site “I'm obsessed with Homestead right then”, it should be I was obsessed with Homestead right then, but no one’s perfect.
About Me: All I can say is that your confidentiality must be important to you.
Backgrounds: The backgrounds were all unique. The tiled backgrounds seemed a little bit too busy for sites to use without putting a table overtop. The bordered backgrounds are kawaii and I’m glad you have them thumbnailed. You should have previews of your backgrounds as they look when they are tiled on a page.
Banners: Most of your banners are kawaii and/or well designed. I liked all your banners except for the banners that were plain white with a picture of Usagi. I like how you had a variety of characters on the banners. Another great thing is that the banners are all 400 x 60. I’m glad that on the banners, you put the characters on either the left or right sides to allow space for text to be put in without writing appearing on the characters’ faces. I hate banners where the characters have text across their face.
Bookmarks: I’m glad that the bookmarks are all thumbnail form. They are a little small though once they are printed out. The banners were kawaii though (I printed out one with Luna and one with Tuxedo Kamen).
Buttons: I could tell that some of the graphics on these buttons were cut from larger banners then shrunk (but that’s okay). Most of your buttons are creative and the size is standard and consistent.
Icons: I really like the icons. They’re very kawaii.
ID Cards: The idea of ID cards is fairly unique. I really like the graphics. (Heck I love pretty well all the graphics on this site)
Image Maps: Your image maps are very nice and you have the HTML to use them. Maybe you should split up the guestbook and splash page image maps into different sections.
Layouts and Sets: Your layouts truly are works of art. The sets are a good idea, but some of the colour combinations like all bright red hurt my eyes.
Siggies: I’ve love your siggies (I think I’ll order one sometime). They’re really kawaii and you utilize a variety of characters on them.
Your info on HTML tutorials and PhotoShop was well done and offered step-by-step assistance. Your useful web design tips were something that many first time web site builders will find particularly useful. I liked your web hosting section with personal experiences concerning various hosts. Personally, I’ve only dealt with Homestead and GeoCities so this is a section I found particularly helpful.
Three sections that are great to see are FAQ, Contact me and Credits. I’ve never seen a FAQ section set up that way before but it certainly works.
Links: The free-for-all links section didn’t work when I went to it, but don’t worry, it wasn’t your fault. For some reason Bravenet was just off-line at the time. All I suggest you do with the links section is to put ALT text on the links.
All in all, there’s lots on this site that would keep me coming back. You have a great layout and fantastic graphics. This is the best site I’ve reviewed thus far in my reviewing career (I’ve only been reviewing for less than a month). There’s lots more to do here then just look at some pretty graphics. You have a nice section devoted to helping out other webmasters and webmistresses on the web. This is one of the best Animé web graphics sites I’ve ever seen!
Layout- Wow. Your layout is beautiful. I love the title graphic.
Coding- You should fill in the TITLE tag on the page that serves as a frameholder page for your main site.
Organization- All of the links are laid out on the left side of the screen, leaving no confusion as to how to navigate the site. Excellent. On the right side of the main page, I was a little confused as to what the "Others" section meant. Do you mean other links?
Content- Not much to say here. You stick to your site's purpose, and your graphics are excellent.
Mechanics- You use multiple spellings of your site's name, including "Moon Fantasy" (title graphic), "MoonFantasy.Com," and "Moonfantasy.com." Try to stick with one conform spelling. Introducing your site as the "ultimate destination for anime entertainment" and then going on to say that you offer web graphics is a little confusing. For me, anime entertainment brings to mind games and multimedia. On the main page, "throgh" should be "through." I'm noticing that you sometimes use the past tense where it is not needed. Try to stick to the present tense for actions in the present. On the "Terms of Use" page and in this sentence: "MoonFantasy.Com offers free linkware graphics to help users who need helps with web designing," 'helps' should be 'help', to agree with 'users'. Also on the Terms of Usage page, in this sentence: "You will not to claim my webgraphics as yours," 'to claim' should be simply 'claim.' I'm running out of steam, but if you want more mechanics corrections just email me: loveprincess@birdangel.net.
You have an excellent site! Since it's obvious (to me, anyway) that your layout and graphic making skills are above par, the only thing I see that you could use work on is mechanics. Great job! I'll be bookmarking you.