Kerry @ JunkExtreme.info
Site Name: Junkextreme.info
Date Reviewed: 26/6/09
Browser: Mozilla Firefox
Resolution: 1280 x 800
First Impressions
I like this layout it’s clean and simple, perhaps not as bright as I’d like personally but it doesn’t make it bad.
Layout & CSS
I actually don’t have anything bad to say about this, I was going to say that I didn’t like the link colour too much but in looking at it I’ve come to the conclusion that it actually looks alright. I like this layout it’s simple it’s clean and the only things I can really say I don’t like are the background and I wish it was a little brighter, but that’s not to say your layout’s bad because it’s not, I’m just nitpicking now so I can say something.
Coding & Validation
Your XHTML and CSS is valid congratulations!
Congratulations, you haven’t got any warnings or cautions on the website optimiser and your site loads at an average of 9.78 seconds with a 56kbps modem. I can’t really say anything else about this. According to cleancss you could optimise your CSS by 8% and mainly you can optimise this by changing #c0c0c0 to silver.
Content
About
I like the way this page is laid out you have some useful links at the top of the page and it’s a little bit different to how I normally see about pages. You don’t have an owner page? I really like getting to know the owner of the website but if you don’t want one then I guess it’s your choice. I’ve not much else to say about it really it’s neat, there’s no spelling errors, perhaps you could add something about the site’s history, I’m not talking about how you came from Piczo blah blah but maybe something about what inspired you to make this site etc.
Articles
WHOA! You have a heck of a lot of articles, which is great for visitors as there’s a lot of choice but bad for me haha! I like how you’ve split them off into categories too and they’re in alphabetical order?! *love*
You’ve got some great articles! I won’t comment on them all because your spelling and grammar is immaculate and your organisation of these makes me so happy. I so agree with your “closed- I have a life” so many people are like I’m closing exams are too hard, but what about all those other people who keep their site’s open yet still manage to get good grades (slight blowing of my own trumpet here) That’s awful about the abortion I didn’t know that’s how they killed them at 24 weeks. I do agree though the limit should definitely be lowered.
Just a note the “hosts” article is a broken link so I think you should fix that.
on celebs and media
you my despise
should be you may despise
Ask
I’m not going to review this section for obvious reasons
Resources
Brushes
You have some great brushes here I like how you offer them in loads of formats. However I think some of the brushes are better quality than others, some of the hand drawn ones could be better, perhaps if you go over these with a thick marker and rescan them?
Layouts
I like all your free layouts they’re great and you have a wide selection too.
Navigation Packs
I’m not quite sure what these navigation packs are, is it just a home button?
PSP Scripts
These PSP scripts are good, I can tell the difference between them which is good because so often I see some that are all the same.
PHP Scripts
Did you make phpmail yourself? It doesn’t say. Also the link to the download doesn’t work.
Smilies
Ooh I love these smilies they’re great especially the bunny ones.
Web Icons
Not much to say about the web icons.
Wordpress
Aren’t these Wordpress themes just the same as your free layouts, couldn’t you have put them together instead of having two separate pages. Also I’m not keen on the pink gradient one; maybe this would be better if it was a solid pink header instead.
Affiliate icons
though they’re slightly different from others I’ve seen they don’t really stand out to me, they don’t showcase your true potential
Bullets
I like these bullets they’re cute.
Button Bases
Your button bases, again meh, they’re okay I guess.
Cursors
Your cursors however are great though I’m not sure that people would use the pencil ones as they’re a little on the large side.
Wallpapers
These wallpapers are good but they’re a little boring, but don’t get rid of them instead make some more complex ones to balance out the number of them if you get what I mean. Also why don’t you just put one screenshot of each wallpaper and put all the different resolutions as links underneath instead of taking up space on your page.
Favicons
These favicons are quite cute though I’m not sure about the last squares at the bottom.
Icons
These icons are cute but I don’t really like the 3D ness of them, apart from that though they’re great, very unique.
Icon Bases
I don’t really like these icon bases at all, probably the only ones I like are the bottom set, so you could perhaps do them in more colours. Perhaps you could use the top line of icon bases as icon textures instead I’m sure they’d work quite well.
Icon Textures
I like these icon textures and if you added those ones I said from your icon bases you’d have a pretty good selection here.
Paypal Buttons
These are great too; often people don’t want to use the default orange button Paypal give them so these are great alternatives. Just one thing though on your buy now and pay now buttons there’s a little white pixel in the bottom left and top right corner of each button, can this be erased?
Textures
I like these textures too, nothing else to say about these really.
Glitter Names
These glitter names are cute too, perhaps you could do some more in some different styles.
Contact Tables
The contact tables are great too, you should do some layouts to match these.
Tutorials
I’ll save us both the trouble and not go through each individual tutorial but I’ve been through all of them and they all look great, the tutorials are clear although your XHTML ones confused me as they all seemed to be talking about the same thing more or less. Also perhaps you could explain what Vistapanel is, is it an alternative to Cpanel or is it to do with Windows Vista?
Spelling & Grammar
Your spelling and grammar is great I hardly found any errors at all. I’ve nothing else much to say about it, keep going the way you are!
Conclusion
Overall I struggled with your site, your spelling and grammar was practically error free and I didn’t really find anything bad to say which was really hard. So I’m going to give your site 5 out of 5 based on the fact I couldn’t find anything that really stood out to me as something that would bring your site down.
To improve you should:
- get rid of or change some of your resources such as your affiliate images and your button bases
- make more resources!
- continue how you’re going
