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Review by: Time Bomb Reviews

The following review was completed on July 18, 2008 and is for Version 9: a Gorey Demise

Hi William, I'm Ashley and I will be doing your review. Proceed =)

Homepage

I like the little image you have on the enter page, and I like how organized it is, but that still doesn't draw me away from the fact that I despise enter pages. They don't really show much about the site, but if you chose to keep the enter page (my advice get rid of it) I would remove the requirements part of the page. I sound like a broken record, but it's not to your visitors to change their site in order to be able to view yours. Plus sometimes you don't have control over the requirements. I can't change my site to meet your screen resolution requirement, nor do I want to go back to IE6 just to visit your site. Do you understand what I mean?

Now on to the homepage. I love everything about this page, it's perfect I'd have to say. Well except for 2 small problems. You have your advertising button on the bottom and a link below it, well you can't see the link because it's white on an grey background. And the second problem, is the grey background your blog is setting on. It's hard to read because it's transparent. But other than that, your site looks great.

Layout

What can I say about your layout? Again, it's perfect, unique, amazing, flawless. It has impressed me since day one. It's creepy in that perfect way, and I love it. I love everything about it. No complaints.

Pages

Art: This page is laid out nicely, but there is one thing that I think should be changed. You should have Beware the loading time of doom, and then have (view all thumbnails) underneath it. I think it would look a little more organized. Wow your art is amazing I must say. But what I think you should do is you already have your pages separated about as much as they can go (like the buffy page, goes to another page with links about buffy) I think you should use thumbnails instead of separating the pages even more so.

Plus the images don't fit into the iframe right, so it might make it look a little neater. I know you have a thumbnail version, but .. actually, why don't you just use this instead? It's nicer I think. But keep the main page separated, just to keep the loading times slow. Sorry if I'm confusing you, but I hope you know what I mean.

Reviews: I'm going to skip over the comic books and video game reviews, and check out the movie/tv and novel reviews. Wow you have quite the selection of movies, some for all ages. Who's these other guys you have doing some reviews, Thunderdude and Dweller? Never heard or seen anything about them before on the site, and a few of the reviews done by them don't have grades, so I don't know whether or not they thought it was great or sucky, sometimes just reading what they wrote doesn't give a full insight. But wow, these are really great, you have some extreme talent.

Here is a suggestion that I think would be cool. But it doesn't make a difference really. You should have the reviews separated into their grade, might be a cool idea. But it doesn't matter either way really.

Rants: Not much to say here, seeing how it's just an archive of all your rants. Maybe have other articles here? Instead of just rants, just a suggestion. Nothing else to say really. Oh, so I skipped the part that says 'Browse By Category' haha, but I think that it would be better with that as the main page, but whatever you decide. Another suggestion, maybe have them separated by year? Sometimes you have to much on a page and it just gets crowded. So that might help.

Misc: The tagboard doesn't seem to want to load, which is weird. But not much to say about it, it's just a tagboard. I don't know about the CD Swap idea, you'd really have to trust these people to do that, I would never. I do like the CD Drop idea, that is pretty cool, much safer. Everything else is pretty basic, but important things to have. Oh finally found out who Thunderdude and Dweller are.

Links: Just some pages with link buttons and such. The only thing I don't like about this page is the faded buttons and then when it is scrolled over it goes to normal color. I think it would look better the other way around. Probably not the most original, but with your transparent background its a little to much fading.

Visitor Content

Wow you have a lot of stuff, and it's all original. I cannot complain at all. You don't have a 'content' section, but I will make an exception because it isn't a 'content' type of site. But it's so impressive, I don't even care. I congratulate you on not following the crowd and sticking out. Good job

Creativity and Originality

I don't even have anything to say, cause I've said it all before. But your site is super impressive on how original it is, and how you haven't fallen into the whole trends like everyone else almost. Maybe that is why I adore your site so much.

Conclusion

Nothing else to say, cause this site is perfect. How else can I say that, but give you 5 full bombs.
 

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