Reviewed by: Scythe
Date: 9. April, 2005
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First Impression - 8/10
Mmm. Splash page. A lot of options for resolution and browsers in the requirements. Good, good.

Upon entering the actual site, the first thought that came to mind was that your site outlay is well organized, and that I liked the color scheme. You seem to be on the right track so far. The only thing that really stuck out and bothered me was the font used on the site's title over the navigation. It just doesn't go with everything else.

Layout - 26/30
I'm going to do things a bit differently in this review. I'll list the good and the bad.

The Good: The color scheme is lovely. The green isn't too bright, it isn't too dark, and it isn't too.. green. I like it a lot. Secondly, I really do like the blending done in the graphic. Normally I don't go for them, or find them far too cliche or ugly, but the elements and images used made it quite pretty. I really like the letter overlaying the two characters hugging in the background. I also like the navigation for the image map. The font used on it looks nice, and the cut-out look just looks fetching. Your sidebar navigation is organized and easy to move through, which is always good.

The Bad: Like I said earlier, the font used for the site's title just doesn't fit in with the graphic. It looks, well, tacky against the pretty image. And of course, one of my crazy little pet peeves; your content area's text is over a little too far on the index page. It looks off center, and throws things off just a little. It needs to be moved over to the left some. :3 Oh, and custom cursors are.. ooogly.

Content - 35/40
Romance - I'm not going to address every single section, but I'm going to do a summary of what I thought of it all.

I've never, ever watched an episode of Buffy or Angel, suprisingly enough considering my hopeless obsession with vampires. After reading through the pages of your rather well written character backgrounds and descriptions, I can now understand more of what some of my friends babble about. You include the right amount of information, not to much and definately not too little. Though, some sections, such as the song lyrics in the Buffy/Angel section didn't really appeal to me.. but considering I'm not a fan, I can understand why, so I won't bother to poke at it. I'd also like to say that the organization of this entire section is nice, and not crowded at all.

General - Once again, I won't address all the sections.

This is generally everything that should be expected on a fansite, episode guides, reviews, books, ect. It's organized and nicely done, and the only thing I can find any real problems with are the suprising amount of typos on some of the pages ( Buffy mentionings, for example ).

Media - Sim Skins. o_O; That's something definately new to a fansite. And they're good too. Ring tones, too... actually to tell the truth a lot of things featured here are kind of suprising, and I haven't actually seen them on other fansites before. Absolutely amazing.

Art - Organized and well done. Your HTML Art.. holy hell, how did you do it? o_O; Awesome and unique.

Fun - General fansite stuff. Your games are nicely done, and don't aggrivate me as other fansite games do. Hell, they actually have the fandom's theme for once.

Me - For some reason, I'm always curious about the webmaster of the fansite, and you give a lot of information about yourself and it made me fairly happy to see it. But the only problem is that it seems as if it was a personal website with all the information. Maybe lose or combine some of the sections, like the rants and the Smeagol Immitations. :/

Grammar/Spelling - 6/15
You did have a lot of typos, sadly. but otherwise your grammar was nice and you weren't typing like a ten year old. Just proof read your pages before you post them, and check back on them every while.. that's how I correct and prevent these errors. :3

Coding - 5/5
Looks great.

Grade - 80/100 (80%)

Conclusion
I thought it was a very, very nicely done fansite. It had quite a bit of information on the show, the characters, and all the things surrounding it. It also had some really unique things compared to other fansites. The only real issues were the typos and a little too much personal information on a fan-based website. But like I said, combine things and double check your pages, and everything should be just fine. :3