Date: 2005-02-12
Site: Shayne-Fans.net
Owner: Mel
review by: Brenda

First Look: (8/10)
Your splash page looks great, just do something about the blue hits link. Your layout looks good, but there are just a few things out of alignment. Navagation was easy, and the colour scheme looks nice. You've chosen to use 2 different fonts, and I think you should just stick with one. I know it would be hard because some of the text looks like pixels. It was really hard to read the text on the left side. Other than that, you're website looks great so far.

Layout: (16/20)
I like your layout a lot. It's pretty original. The Shayne Ward picture looks great, and so does everything else. The only error I can see would be the alignment and the postion of everything. It all seems to be to far over to the left, and I highly recommend moving it over to the right and making it centered. Do something about the 1 Online User and 3726 Hits links. Maybe move them onto a different page, or somewhere else on the site, but they just aren't working for me. They are a different colour then the other links, and the hits counter link is sort of "overlapping" the tag board text. Other than that, your layout looks good :)

Content: (17/20)
You have a ton of stuff on Shayne Ward. I didn't even know who he was until this website. On your "profile" page, the text was really hard to read. Mainly because it seemed to be all bunched together. I don't like how the sub heading is in normal text, and the info is in bold. Make it the other way around. I highly recomend making a break inbetween each thing about him becaus it's hard to read. I think it's pretty original to have icons on a fan site. I don't know why. I've been on a few fan sites, and they never really had icons that they made. Mostly just layouts, blends etc. I think you should do something different for your "gallery" link. The page that comes up looks awful! You have a ton of stuff about Shayne Ward, and a ton of stuff for other fans to take and use.

Organisation: (8/10)
It was very easy to navigate, except for the link error, but i'll say more about that further on in the review. On your Shanye-fans.net page, I think you should have your about page first.I found everything to be neatly and well organized.

Errors: (6/10)
First off, I found several broken links. Not nessicarily "broken" but they didn't go back to the previous page. I don't know if you purposely did that or not, but when I'm looking at a website, I like to be able to go to the previous page. Didn't find any spelling mistakes.

Coding: (2/5)
Found the code! Thanks :) I found the coding error that I was talking about previously. I realized that the code you have for the ..rewind! link, is set to going back to the 2nd previous page. So, if a visitor were to go to your Shayne Ward page, then your biography page, then go to the fun stuff page, and try to click rewind, they'll end up back to your Shayne Ward page. This was really annoying for me, because I had to keep going clicking the same links over and over again.

Graphics: (6/10)
I'm not to sure why, but I don't like your graphics. There's just nothing about them that makes me go "wow, these are awesome". They aren't horrible, but I wouldn't use them.

Unique: (4/5)
I think that the layout is fairly unique. I don't see a lot of websites with the kind of layout you have. Also, because it provides a TON of information and stuff about Shayne Ward. I think just about everything on the fun stuff page is pretty unique for a fan site. I have no yet seen a fan site with this content.

Overall: (5/7)
Your site is the lucky site I get to review before I start working on Uptown Reviews. It was fairly easy to do your review, and I didn't find hardly anything wrong or annoying with your website. The only thing I can't stand about it, is the link to go back to the previous page. I'm pretty sure you know why by now. Your site is unique, and if I were a Shayne Ward fan, i'd probably be here every single day. The colours, html, etc are done very nicely. Great Job :)

Bonus: (2/3)
Yes, because I think your site is unique :)

Final Score: (74/100)
Percentage: 74%