Neptune

Okie dokie. Title for this page is "Rini's Moon Palace". Me thinks the author adores ChibiUsa. ~_^ Let's get reviewing!

Main page- Background image is of ChibiUsa and Hotaru meeting ChibiChibi for the first time-this is a manga image. It's faded in well but the author still had to make the text pink w/a white type border. I'm gonna continue w/the links to the left now.

"What would you do?"-This I guess, is some type of fanfiction submission as it starts you off as "imagine you are 14 year old Princess Serena...." and send your thoughts to the author. That's all on this page. I will comment that the author is still having her text "highlighted" with various colors. I suggest sticking w/one color that works well w/the current background. OR change the background image to a basic color.

"Do It Yourself"-Gives you instructions to Iron on an image to a T-Shirt. Only complaint is the text.

"Scenes"-An adoption type page. Atleast she credited where she got the sprites.

"My results"-This consists of two images of ChibiMoon/Neo-Princess Serenity. You know when you take a particular quiz you get a "you are" image? Well that's what this page is. Nothing more.

Ok so I'm skipping all the other links as it's taking a bit long to review each link. However I did glance and although it's "original" the only problems are that the text needs to be changed AND at there's this: "Enter content here and Enter supporting content here". The author either doesn't know about that or does and hasn't taken it out. >.<

Overall opinions-Site has it's ups and downs but mostly it's the freaking text that bugs me the most. Again I suggest either changing to a solid color that works w/the current background OR change the background image and stick w/a basic color. Atleast the author made it so I didn't have to highlight the text but it would still make the site better if she would of stuck w/one color. Also, I don't see a credit page. I notice for the images she doesn't credit where she got the images. I've seen a lot of these before on many different sites so I know these aren't taken from her own collection. The author has some nice ideas but I think she could put it together a bit more nicely.

Pluto

Breakdown of site 15/100

Welcome and site Identity 1
The welcome is not inspiring at all. The background is overpowering what content there is, and the white background on the pink text is very poor design and bad practice. The poor grammar is not helping things.

Navigation 2
There are too many links for navigation, in fonts and sizes that vary, which is again, poor practice. The links are not very descriptive of the contents.

Content of Interest 3
There isn't really anything of interest to see here. Poorly done graphics and even worse text with spelling/grammar mistakes doesn't make for a very interesting site that one wants to visit. The text ideally should be all one size, in one font, and one colour, as well as not having the different coloured backgrounds to the text. It just looks like it was designed by a 2 year old. My 7 year old can do better (and has done).

Advertising and sponsorship 0
None

Self-promotion 0
None

Filler 1
Far too much uninteresting filler stuff that has nothing to do with what the supposed purpose of the site.

White-space 1
The site is so jumbled together it's hard to tell. The site is very hard on the eyes with the totally messed up colours behind the text and different sized text.

Other 2
As I said before, this site is very poorly designed and breaks just about every design rule there is in the book. I would advise going to google and looking up html guides and studying and following them very closely to improve the site as it needs it desperately.

Chibimoon

Today for review is Rini's Moon Palace, a, erm... Sailormoon site. >_> In we jump!

Overall Rating: 1.5 out of 4.

Um, okay... I'm not going to be mean with this site. ^_^; Everyone's been at this stage in web design before, I think... even me! Really, it's not so bad, you know. I'd go as far to say that it's a lot better than Sere Cindra's site. Unfortunately, that still doesn't say much, so let me break it down.

Let me first say that this is clearly the website of a beginner, a young fan who is probably a junior high student. With that in perspective, it's really kind of... impressive, for lack of a more appropriate word. If a twelve-year-old girl made this site, I'd actually give her a pat on the back and tell her she's going in the right direction despite some needed improvements, and this could be much, much worse for someone her age with no experience.

The layout. It's a bad sign when the webmistress admits that "I haven't exactly gotten the hang of linking-by-clicking-on-picture yet,but I'll figure it out"(sic). This site was obviously made with a WYSIWYG editor. First things first: the background either needs to be a tiled one, or shrunk and fixed. It's far too large and probably loads slowly on older computers. On the plus side, it *is* faded, so at least you can read the text (though on many of the pages the text has a colored background -- ugh). There is a small image at the top of each page that shoud be changed or replaced with a better quality one... Rini's (as I'll refer to her, since this a site for the dub) face is half-cut off, and for the most part, the image is shrunk way too much. It's a Tripod site so there's ads at the top and bottom of each page, and this can be relieved by switching to one of the many bannerless free hosting sites.

Another plus is that it's got a navigation bar on the right, as sloppy and large as it is. That means no back button, no reloading the main page every time, etc. That itself bumped this page up from a 1 to a 1.5 out of 4.

The content. Okay, this site is what you might call a "fansite"... I guess *every* site is a fansite, but what I mean is a site whose content is revolved primarily around the input of the webmaster and fans who visit. The problem is that if you have few visitors, then you have little content. She has several contests on this site with no entries, a slim fanart gallery, and an Awards page with no recorded winners. Besides the fan-dependent stuff, there is the usual sections, such as image galleries and episode summaries. However, I suspect her episode summaries were cut-and-pasted (since they're so long) without credit given, and if they were, they were taken from a crappy source since they sort of suck. On top of that, she has a useless "Scenes" page where she pasted a bunch of Lycentia sprites into Paint and made, um, "scenes", and laughable Site Badges and Poetry sections. Probably the worst part of this website is the "My Results" page -- honey, we *really* don't care what your results were more some cheap Quizilla quiz. As for the image galleries, and most of the images used on this site, the quality of the images is *awful*. It looks like she might have blown up or shrunk some of them in the img src tag, which is definately a no-no. Actually, I'm really surprised there isn't any "Scouts" bio pages here -- that's what I'd expect the most from a page like this, and I'm relieved there arn't any.

All in all, this is a site with "good" beginnings. The webmistress has some sense of organization of her essentially contentless website. What I would suggest is a splash page, shrinking the navigation bar by linking related sections on a seperate page devoted to them, deleting sections like "Scenes" or "My Results", getting a better background, and improving the quality of the image galleries, if not just deleting them too.

A message to the webmistress: don't get discouraged, kiddo. This looks like your first website. You have a lot to learn, and I hope you take our criticism, as biting as the Outer Senshi's might be, to heart. Update your site with our suggested improvements and maybe we'll comment on it again!

Uranus

Chibi-Usa. Perhaps no Sailor Moon-related name inspires more conflicting positions. You either love her or you hate her. And as for the dub version, Rini, well, there's some downright nasty feelings there. So in that context, let's check out Rini's Moon Palace.

Oh, my, clearly we don't know HTML. Or we do and we just have terrible taste. There's a tiny little cropped picture of Sailor Chibimoon at the head of the menu for no apparent reason, and some big honkin' text for a welcome. Big as in eight lines takes up half the screen. And the lines aren't even transparent-there are big paint strokes of color wherever the text is. And then there's the menu. Nasty, black splotches with text in carying shades and sizes, like some pastel rainbow of the damned. These are the links because, and I quote, "I haven't exactly gotten the hang of linking-by-clicking-on-picture yet,but I'll figure it out."

Holy cow, the big text goes on throughout the page. I'm going to do the rest of this review sitting two meters away from the monitor just to save my eyes. And as for content, well, if the idea was to show us what a webpage would look like if designed by an 8-year-old who spent her entire life secluded in a palace with no Internet, mission accomplished. There are parts of this site that I'm actually blushing in embarrasment while reading. Like "Destiny Songs," the lyrics to some pop songs the author thinks have a vague connection to Sailor Moon. Like "Print-out Bookmarks," complete with misspelling. Like, "Scenes," with the informative description, "A Scenes page is a page of scenes." In actuality it's a page of small graphics arranged into groups, with weird captions. And trust me, these are the highlights of the page. And it might well go without saying, but this is a dub-only page; I doubt the author could even pronounce Usagi, and I'm quite certain she would misspell it.

If all this isn't enough, there's the shocking news that this site has won awards, mostly "good effort" ones. My guess is that soliciting these is what the site owner was doing instead of, say, learning basic HTML or coming up with content people might actually want to see. This site needs to be pulled down and retooled from the first word to the last, before it's fit for human consumption. And as for one good thing. . . um. . . hey, the new Aino Minako song came out this week! And it was really good! OK, for real, one good thing, that eyesore of a menu is in the right place, on the left. Too bad it leads to nothing good.