vicky's review

first impression

mark: 16/20

I like the colour scheme of the layout, the background is a good choice and I like how you can see some of it through the sidebar & blog. Not too sure about the font use for 'ohpanic.co.uk'. I thnk it would have looked better without the drop shadow & perhaps an opacity of 70? The feathering of the PSD could also have been done a bit better but overall the layout looks very clean and inviting, less is definitely more here. The CSS goes really well with the layout, nice and simple as well. Lovely first impression.

content

mark: 34/40

The graphics section is well organized, I like how you've said how many number of each graphic you have beside the link. The affiliate buttons and bullets are all made well in a variation of colours and sizes. It would be nice to see some button bases in perhaps 100x35 but the 88x31 ones are all very useable and of a high quality. Plenty of colour schemes, which is great, all very well put together. perhaps some 4-colour schemes would be nice and more useful, but aren't a major neccesity. The extended backgrounds are a very original idea, I don't think i've seen them before, which is great. I love them and hope you keep adding more. The gradients are nice but I think a lot of them are defaults in Photoshop anyway? Perhaps some more unique/different colours would be better. The icons are all very lovely, if a little plain. I think a texture or two on some of them would really go a long way. They're great icon bases though, if you ever thought about that. Lastly in the graphics section are the pixel texts. They're all pretty plain, i'd love to see some effects or animations on them, to make them more unique and different to other sites. You have have obviously taken a lot of care with the tutorials and put a lot of thought and time into them. They're well organized into different sections and all very well written as well. You have a great range of tutorials for begginers, intermediates and advanced which is very impressive. I hope you keep adding tutorials, particularly advanced ones which can't be found elsewhere, as you have a real skill for them. The PNGs have all been cut fairly well, i'd just suggest feathering them a few pixels or running a blur tool over the edges so soften them up. Otherwise, I love the previews and it's clear you've worked hard on all of these. The HTML section is very unique and I love it, you have some very useful codes here and i'm very impressed. Lastly, the downloaded. The coded layouts have all been made to a very high standard and are great resources. I think you could perhaps add some CSS templates to help those who need a bit of a start to making a layout, but don't want a completely premade one. For example, two columns, one column, header image etc.. The free programs section is a good idea but i'd advice writing a few words underneath each program about what it can be used for and what you think of it. The PSP scripts all look great and are very useable. Lastly, I love the smilies. They may not be the most complicated or decorative but they're very simple and clean and look very good.

blogs

mark: 9/10

You blog regularly (if a little too regularly) and your blogs are always very interesting and informative. You include both site and life updates and provide readers with a lot of material to comment on. I particularly like how you ask questions at the end of every blog.

other pages

mark: 17/20

The domain section is well organized, you have all the necessary pages. I would like to see different sized link-back buttons and I was a bit dissapointed there's no section about you! You're very important as the webmistress and I really think you should have a page about yourself. Your reviews section looks great, very well organized and all your reviews have been written with thought and care, thought are perhaps lacking a bit of description, particularly in the content section. You offer good quality hosting, no problem there. The Ask & Answer script is a really great edition to your website and works very well.

other opinions

mark: 10/10

You seem to be a very good affiliate and everyone I asked said you always return comments, which is a great quality in a webmistress. One of your hostees also said you taught them a lot about PHP and FTP which is very kind of you, she also said your tutorials were useful but a bit hard to understand? Overall though, very good feedback and you seem like the perfect affiliate & host.

Total marks: 86/100

You have a very successful site which you should be extremely proud of. Your content is both original and well-made and your tutorials are all written to a very high standard. If you keep adding to and perfecting your site you could take it to another level. Well done and best of luck for the future (: