The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Sailor Firelight's Sailor Senshi Homepage

Date Reviewed: February 16, 2005

Category: The Bad

Pluto

First Impression:
What is the person thinking with this?!

Design and coding:
First off...What design?! This site really hurt itself with no type of design to contain its content! The coding is generated which means the site was built with a site builder.

Content:
The content is loose and unorganized and needs to be formatted within a menu.The midi's need to be in its own page and not cluttering up the main page! The Message Board is gone. The site is not in uniform at all the with the Adopt a Small Senshi page. The content is horrifically outdated, with broken images, and basic. The cotnent needs some serious revamping.

Overall:
This site is ugly design and content wise! This person needs to have the site reconstructed and reorganized with better content to get out of this category.

Saturn

Alrighty..... another Tripod site. Once again people, I praise Service Pack 2 and its popup blocking abilities. Well I can't count how many times I have seen this main image on a site. Hell back in the day I used to use it as well but it was set up as an image map for my site. Ahh.... those were the days... Anyhow. Whereas this setup isn't overly difficult to navigate, I am laying on my scrollwheel. There is a plain white background, black text and blue links. I like simplicity, but this is so simplistic that I wonder about it. If it weren't for the Tripod banners on the screen it would have decoration at all. This place houses a LOT of midis, but who uses midis in this day and age.... Oh well, I am trying to find more content for this page, but the rest of it is a real joke. I am not even bothering. And no this isn't a cop out, it is just that there really isn't much here. I mean there are a few links, some "adopt a small senshi" and some banners and links. Other then that, there really isn't anything.

Uranus

Hmm. . . how should I review this site? There's nothing here to write about. Should I just do one line on it, something along the lines of, "There are a few midis here and some site stuff and that's it."? No! I must look deeper and find something to write about.

For instance, I could start with the big graphic on the home page. I might say how it's possible that this is an actual graphic from Sailor Stars, and not a cobbled together banner. In that case, it means that Sailor Saturn is shorter than Chibimoon, wind can blow in different directions depending on if it's hitting Sailor Pluto, Sailor Uranus, or Sailor Mars, gravity has a different effect on Sailor Venus than everyone else, and that Diana and Chibimoon hung around to meet the Starlights, who, being from a different planet, have heads half the size of Earth people. But maybe this isn't a pieced-together banner. Then why does Star Healer have her hand on Sailor Jupiter's backside?

Or I could talk about the midi jukebox, which is a fine name, although the word jukebox inspires an image of bright lights and colors that certainly aren't here. One universal characteristic of jukeboxes is how all the songs are organized in parallel, instead of one after the other, center-justified. Also, for some reason, some are on the home page and most are on their own page. Why this is the case is a mystery.

I could try to ignore all that and just go down to the links. There are senshi profiles here, but only the dollbox stats. They're written in Courier font (the one that looks like a typewriter made it) and have no backgrounds. They freely mix dub and original, like saying that Taiki is smarter than Amy. Hard to say if that's true when THEY'VE NEVER MET! There are also a lot of categories that are marked with question marks, and many more which are filled with information clearly made up out of whole cloth.

If I could piece together a review with all that, I could finish up with my One Good Thing, how it talks about being against anti-Sailor Moon sites and even has a link, and then slip in my little underhanded point about how even the good thing is done badly, in this case that the link is broken. But no, I think the best description of this site from a visitors perspective was my first impression, so here then, in its entirety, is my review of Sailor Firelight's Sailor Senshi Homepage:

There are a few midis here and some site stuff and that's it.

Neptune

Layout-There's no layout setup here. A whole bunch of links on top is all with some information. And that's just the "Midi Jukebox". Underneath that are more links. I'm not sure why this is like this. Note to author-try combining the links and having some sort of menu. The MIDIs could go under "Media" and go from there.

Content-Not much is here to choose from. I've heard all the MIDIs before and I've seen the Character Profiles as it's on every other site. The background is poorly done-the image is tiled so it looks choppy. It also makes the text hard to read. I suggest keeping a solid color (white is good) and black text. That way people don't have any problems viewing your site.

Her free banners are not much to look at. The images are poorly put together-maybe they were made a long time ago. Hey everyone starts off somewhere.

I'm not going to read any of the fanfiction as I don't read fanfiction in general. What I don't like seeing here is the Adopt page. Those images are from other sites and not something she (or he, sorry) didn't create. I thought having a site that has Adopt a Sprite needed to have sprites created by them. Maybe I just read that somewhere else or I'm nuts.

Overall Opinion-The site needs a layout of some kind. It's a bother to have to click the back button to get to the other links. I also suggest creating a better menu system. More content will also be nice as there isn't much to choose from. Keep with a solid color for backgrounds as pictures have a tendency to mess everything up.

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