The Sailor Moon Pocky Box : Reviews

Eternal Love

Date Reviewed: November 10, 2005

Category: The Bad

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Layout & Design

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

Viluy

The site splash page doesn't inspire me. The image is too dark for one thing, and that rainbow effect looks lame.

Wow, what a blinding site. The rainbow effect really does NOTHING at all for this site. It makes it too harsh to read, the lettering in the bottom corner is almost impossible to see, let alone read, and it just looks awful. Michiru looks like an alien - I almost didn't recognise her. The rainbow blinkie avatar doesn't look all that good here either. It's just too much rainbowy stuff, and too dark for it to work well. Try upping the levels or something (saturation/light). ALso, get rid of the little sparklies or stars or whatever that cover the entire page. It adds to the confusion and is another way of making sure visitors don't get a good look at your layout images. Sometimes less is more...or so the saying goes. That would certainly apply here.

The menu structure is still a bit disorganised. I like the categories, but the subcategories could be consolidated, making it cleaner in appearance. As it is, there are too many pages, too many links, and too much usless stuff.

In the credits section, you really should credit where you got your information, media files and gallery images from. It just makes you appear rude and ignorant by having the statement up that you do have. If you don't remember, then approximate. It's not THAT hard to have a look around and think about where you got stuff from. I always bookmark sites that I've taken stuff from, just in case. I may never go to it again, but if I use it, then I can credit it properly.

Consolidate the links pages and the affiliations, as well as the fanlistings all onto one page, and the about/contact me pages could be consolidated as well. I see there's both a tagboard and a guestbook, which is a bit redundant and makes for easier spamming by spambots and idiots. I suggest taking one or the other down, you don't really need both.

The fan stuff you could consolidate onto pages called 'fan works', graphics and media. This makes it easier to deal with as a webmaster, rather than thousands of little sub-pages. Especially when there's not a whole lot of information on those pages.

For the fanlisting, it doesn't say whether you're affiliated with TAFL (The Anime Fan Listings) or TFL (The Fan Listing). It makes it a lot better if you are affiliated with a fanlistings organisation - you get more members, and better quality affiliates out of it. Plus it just plain looks better from a membership point of view. People like to see things that are listed somewhere vaguely respectable.

This site has quite a ways to go before it even remotely becomes a good site in my eyes. A lot of work to be done...

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

Alright, let's do this section-by-section...

Site:
"Affiliation" is spelled wrong in the menu. On the actual affiliation page, it is spelled correctly. This person did, however, spell "address" incorrectly on that page. Also on the affiliation page, "Have to update your website reasonably" is not only a sentence fragment, but the adverb "reasonably" is used incorrectly. "Not like once a year" is a sentence fragment as well. In the credits section, "than" is used rather than "then." On the Links/Fanlistings page, you should capitalize "Moon" in the Sailor Moon links section.

MOI Fanlisting:
In the about section, this person should decide whether this is a clique or a fanlisting; both words are used. Uranus should be capitalized in the first sentence. "Or go to the rules" is a sentence fragment. In the rules, "Moon" should be capitalized in "Sailor Moon" on rule 3. In rule 4, "your" is used instead of "you." In rule 7, it should read "if you have any...." rather than "if any..."

Sailor Stuff:
In the profiles section, "Haruka" should be capitalized on the "Profile Select" page. Why even list their Japanese names, if all of the information within is based on the North American version? On the actual profiles, it should be noted that it is the NORTH AMERICAN version of Sailor Moon, not the "American" version. The North American version applies to Canada as well, which is not America! In Amara's profile, the Negaverse never appears in Sailor Moon S - it's the Bureau of Bad Behavior. "Mina" should be capitalized. In Michelle's profile, "Pisces" is spelled incorrectly, and once again, the Negaverse does not appear in the third season of Sailor Moon. On Hotaru's page, "Hotaru" and "Sailor Saturn" should be capitalized. "Unconciously" is spelled incorrectly, and "Misstress 9" is written rather than "Mistress 9."

In the section entitled "The Love," "Japanese" should be capitalized, and this person should remember to use spaces before and after parenthetical phrases. About the relatoinship change in the dubbed version, this author states that "this was just changed because of little kids watching the show." This statement is purely conjecture. It could have been changed for any number of reasons, including the fact that North American adults (not children!) have a major problem with homosexuality.

Overall, the profiles and information in this section are written very poorly. They are vague at best, and give no real information about the characters other than basic statistics.

For You:
Ok, no way am I reading all the fanfiction. But I wanted to say that on this page, the info about sending stuff in isn't written very well. "Story can be about anything. Doesn't even have to be about Anime!" - these are sentence fragments. On the fan art page, "SAilor Moon" should be "Sailor Moon."


On this person's profile page, she says that she's in an English Honors class, but that's definitely not showing here!! There are tons of grammatical mistakes that I didn't even list, and the writing is extremely unclear. This person needs to brush up on her English skills, and it is my opinion that the whole site should be re-written (which shouldn't be very difficult, as there is VERY little actual written content to begin with)!

Visual Content

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

Cyprine

I don't know how many more times I can say this: thumbnail your damn galleries!!! This site again offers galleries of images, and again, the images are not thumbnailed. Moreover, they are presented in full-size format in an iframe, leaving no easy way to view the images or save them to one's harddrive.

The images are not credited, and we even see animated .gifs mixed in with static images and transparent .gifs. There are also very few images.

There are some midis offered in the music section. Again, I'm not quite sure why you would want to download midis in this day and age.

The fanart section contains fanart which isn't terribly good. However, we do see from this fanart gallery that the webmaster obviously knows how to make thumbnailed and linked galleries.

There are... exactly... two sprites in the sprite gallery. Also, I find it really ironic that the site is offering a lovely site award which has this criteria: "Your website must have either elegant things on it or the colors go well with each tother and isn't ugly." How amusing, considering how totally ghastly this site's pink/green/random hues of fluourescent ickiness colour scheme is.

The site offers a a Who Am I quiz, some really ugly wallpapers, and some random graphics stuff in the Factory section. Again, the webmaster doesn't know how to break out of their iframes; the pre-made layout (that has nothing to do with BSSM by the way, what is it doing here?) preview links into the actual iframe so we can't see how the site would look in real-life.

Overall, this site has several desperate stabs at multimedia content, but nothing of note.

I will leave this review with this last thought: people who aren't funny shouldn't try to write "funny" captions.

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