The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Layout & Design

Is the layout intuitive and easy to navigate? Is it compatible across all browsers and resolution? Is it aesthetically pleasing?

Viluy

For this site the layout is what I am working on this time. Overall it's pretty, but just ok too. You see, I love the set up, I love the colors and that cropped picture of Chibi Usa is so adorable! My only issue is with the space on the right hand side. I really believe that this site would look just as nice if it spanned the whole page and not just part of it.

This is a good example of making sure your site looks nice, not just on your computer but for everyone else. Which is hard to do really, especially if your working on a smaller screen.

The next issue, or rather small issue I have is that green background. It would look nice if there was a little of it showing, but with all that space it just looks bad with the colors of purple that are already playing in the main part of the layout.

The navigation is nicely set up, everything is easy to find and it sits nicely off to the side.

Over all I love the purple colors, especially with the image of Chibi at the top. I like the main idea of the set up, but I feel it could be better if the extra space was used in some sort of way.

Written Content

Is there lots of written information? Are all profiles, back story, and other textual content accurate? Does the site offer fanfiction or other miscellaneous written content?

Tellu

Wow, there's a lot of info here!! I'm not going to take time to list everything, but trust me... if you want ChibiUsa information, this is a great place to go. For the manga section, I think this could be improved by making the thumbnails lead to larger pictures. For example, why even put a picture of one of ChibiUsa's attacks (to show the attack), if the picture only shows her head!? That doesn't really demonstrate what the attack looks like, so the pictures are really pointless. I'd also like to note that Sailor ChibiMoon is never called "Sailor Star ChibiMoon" in the manga.

Ok, moving on to the anime section. This section seems to be missing a lot of content. There is a lot of info about her forms, items, and powers (and a few other things), although the images don't work in some of those sections. I really, really hate going to a website that looks like it has links for things, but there are no links; it's just plain text. Why are you advertising what your site is LACKING?

In the Sera Myu section, there's the same problem - it shows text links for the forms, powers, and actresses sections, but there are no actual links. Once again, you're only advertising what your site is MISSING. This section still has some information, however, which is great. It shows ChibiUsa in different musicals, and I relaly like that.

The games section is probably the most complete, and most UNIQUE. It shows information about different Sailor Moon games that ChibiUsa is in. There was some interesting reading here :) I thought the merchandise section was just as unique as the games section... just somthing different! I liked seeing images of all the different toys and things here. It would be nice if there was some sort of price guide here, or links to places to purchase these things, although that's just a suggestion.

The last section is "paralleled," and there's nothing there. Basically, the only thing in this section shows how the relationship between ChibiUsa and Neo Queen Serenity is similar to that of Princess Serenity and Queen Serenity. And the site only shows ONE instance and TWO pictures. Why even put this section up if there's so little content? I advise taking it down until it can be expanded a little.

Overall, I didn't see many spelling or grammatical errors, so that's good. This site is a little weird in that in some ways, there is a lot of content but in other ways, there is very little content. Some sections certainly need to be expanded, and those plain text "future links" need to be removed until you get some actual content there.

Visual Content

What kind of visual content is offered? Is it efficiently organized and intuitively accessible? Are all visual media offered legally?

Tellu

You're so lucky... you get a double dose of Tellu this week ^^; So now I'm doing multimedia, and I'm going to go straight for the galleries. Apparently I can enter the site's "extensive Chibiusa galleries through all mediums" by clickcing the link on the galleries page, but unfortunately, there is no link. -_- It SAYS "Enter the Galleries," but it's not a link! That's one big huge strike for this webmaster. How am I supposed to look at the images if there is no link to the galleries? And since I'm already annoyed by this, I'm going to get nitpicky. Why the heck is there a splash page for this? This is the most pointless little page of all time. Just go straight the galleries... if I click "Galleries" on the menu, I expect to go to the GALLERIES, not to a "splash" page for the galleries with a link (except that there is no link right now).

Ok, now that that rant-fest is over, I'll move on to the downloads page. There are some desktops here that are ok, and two desktop icon packs which are zipped. I didn't download them, so I can't review the actual sets, but it seems like there should be more if you're going to make a whole section of the site dedicated to that. And finally, there are apparently some winamp skins, but I wouldn't know, since the link takes me to a fanfic. This is the second link problem I've seen on this page already, and it's starting to get a little old. o.o

When I click on "music" in the menu, it tries to get me to download a ZIP file called music.zip. I'm counting this as ANOTHER link problem. I'm not going to download this zip file because I have NO idea what I'll be downloading, or even how long it will take. MIDI files? MP3 files? WHAT IS IN THERE?! Could you be any more vague with the file name? Ok, I'm starting to get really fed up with this page.

When I click "lyrics," I get a 404 error. Things are NOT looking good :(

The sounds page has nine WAV files. ::yawn::

Ok, the videos page may be the best (and arguably ONLY) multimedia content on this page. There are eight RM files from Sera Myu, which is pretty good, and makes me feel a little better about this website overall. This section could be improved with some clips from the anime also, but I think the Sera Myu clips are cool.

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