First Look: (10/10)
Simple, but lovely splash page. You don't need much here and what you have is perfect. Just note that not having a splash page in the opinion of a lot of visitors now adays is a very good thing. Splash pages are considered to be a little more obselete now than before. Overall, a pretty good impression, but it seemed as if your site was very novice.
Layout: (15/20)
I'm going to grade each skin and take the average for your score (to the next point).
Default Skin/Rose Skin: (16/20):
The first thing I notice is the thickness of the love letter/card. It looks a little thick compared to the vase and rose. I would recommend you to redo that to make the line thinner because it looks really weird right now. There are places where the lines you made formed little "corners", and that looks a little strange too. It's obvious that you're fantastic at scribbles though because your vase and rose are just magnificent! It would also look nice if you put a blue gradient on the top to replace the current blue on the top. I'm also not sure about the "kisses" on the card, it looks weird because it's blue and usually it would be a red. And lastly, I think you should make the left content section (where it says your titles of your posts) extend to the exact width of your box like your sidebar. Overall though, I really love this skin. It's fun!
Sunshine Skin: (17/20):
Well this is really a cute skin! First I have to say that the mushrooms are absolutely precious and I love the color scheme you chose for this skin. But, I'm not so sure about the butterflies and the clouds. The clouds look very blurry on the edges so I recommend you to make it more..like.. sharp and crisp. The same with some of the slanted texts, they look blurry. If you made the angle a little different it wouldn't be blurry at all. My last note on this one is on the right of the side bar, I would add a border like on the left of the content area. This is a very cute skin.
Face Skin?: (10/20):
I really don't even want to say much about this because it's obviously not your best. The idea of it was great, but it just looks like a blurry mess with a classic beginner background that's taken from the last 1px of the image. Please, don't even do that again, it just looks really, really, weird. It would be a lot better if you showed the entire head/face, and it wasn't so blurry. The colors are pretty, but it needs a little more something.
Elephant Skin: (17/20):
I hardly have any complaints about this one at all, it's really cute. The first thing that catches my eye is the color of the elephant's eye, it's purple, you should make it white. It would look a lot better and drag your attention more to the center of the layout. And also, the font you chose for the center "poem" isn't a very good one. It's hard to read, and should be centered. Maybe make it something like Arial, or even something a little more fancy like Monotype Corsiva. It would make it look more like a story.
Abstract Skin: (13/20):
This is very..umm..abstract. I think the concept of it is very fabulous, but the lines of the shapes need to be more smooth, and I would put gray (instead of your monochromatic black/white) only in the background and for the sidebars pick out one main color from your shapes (a lighter version) for your sidebar and main content areas. The black is just very overwhelming.
Content: (15/20) Domain:
Alright, to start off, on your Skins page, you should put each skin on it's own line. Now they're on the same line, and it looks unorganized. On your Current Layout page, I notice that you have a few layouts up that are well over 6 months old, which isn't good at all. After about a month it's time to get rid of a layout, note that please. With your awards page, how it's setup now with all the thumbnails, it looks sloppy again. As I told someone before, try linking the award in a sentence fragment like so:
And of course each award gets its own line. Other than that, this site had exactly what it should have, but try and add more. Right now it's like a bunch of filler content that you just threw together to make it look like there's a lot here.
Me:
Oh my goodness! I have the same blue ladybug bank as you! It's so cute! I love the quote of "My Favorite Things" from "The Sound of Music". The way you have your schedule set up is very nice. I also noticed that we both share a sign, Taurus, I'm also a Taurus. Your desktop page loads really slow, you should make the thumbnails actual thumbnails by shrinking them, or just link them. Remember what I mentioned on your awards page? You should do the same thing I said before on your Gifts page as well. That's really all I can say on this section.
You:
Overall, not a bad section, I just am not sure about the layouts. I wouldn't recommend offering free layouts until you know people will use them, right now some of them might be used, but I'd say only about half of them. And they don't seem to be as good as your most recent skin. The buttons are decent, but they aren't standard sizes (88 by 31, 50 by 50, 32 by 32, etc.), so I'd get those updated because people only use standard button sizes. Your MSN smilies are also just decent, they need some updating as well. It's a great idea, but it needs more. Your MSN background are wonderful though!
Interact:
This is, by far, my favorite section. It looks like you put a lot of thought into this, and you obviously spend time on it because you have to update it constantly. Nice job!
Contests:
Once again, a wonderful idea, but this should be moved to Interactive because there isn't much here and contests are interactive. The SOTF is very clever by the way.
Entertainment:
To start off, there isn't much here. I would recommend you to move the TV Schedule into your Me section seeing as it's more for your personal reference. Not a bad section, but overall I enjoyed your Movie section the most.
Reads:
I love these. I didn't read them all, but I did read Nun Rape and I cracked up. This section is great!
Organisation: (10/10)
Nothing to add here!
Errors: (6/10)
I found quite a few grammatical and spelling errors. You should go through your pages. I noticed things like confuzed, and shes instead of she's. I can tell you're really smart from the vocabulary you use, but people will get a bad opinion of you if you continue to have all of these errors
Coding: (3/5)
The main coding error I found was your need to shrink images by use of coding rather than actually shrinking them. It's much, much better to shrink them with a program because when you just use the code they take forever to load.
Graphics: (7/10)
Your graphics could use some improvement, but overall, not bad for someone who has only been designing for a short time.
Unique: (5/5)
You have a lot of classic things that everyone has, but you also have a lot of very original things. Your site has a lot of originality.
Overall: (4/7)
Overall, you really need to work on your graphic skills and make all of your skins recent because most of them are really old. What you have is great (content wise), but your layouts need improvement and updating.
Bonus: (3/3)
I found the link back to Uptown very easily!
