Title Now I behold thy lovely body. Version 8. Created in Photoshop CS. Best viewed at any resolution, any browser. In use since March 18, 2010. The brushes are my own. The textures are my own. The stocks are from here, here, and my own collection.
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This is my webhost. Surprise!
I don't remember! I've been to this site quite a few times before, so my "first impression" is lost. Shhh.
Navigation
This site is very easy to navigate and is organized well. There are links at the top of the side bar (which are very descriptive!) and
various links in the sidebar one can click. I've always thought a lot of links makes it appear cluttered, but to each her own.
Header
The header is nicely made. It seems a bit blurry to me, but that is probably just the blending. I really like the complexity of the image
one notices when they stare at it for a bit. The header features the site's name in a nice handwritten font, which I personally find important.
I don't think it needs the extension, but it's not affecting my opinion.
I am not too hot on the dull colors of the header (you know I like my vibrant colors), or on the pink/grey content background. Kind of makes me
feel gloomy. Colors do have an effect on how people feel, just keep that in mind.
Coding
The coding matches the header and is easy to read. There are also varying fonts and text effects (my favorite).
I love the dark turquoise and light pink colors together. Not too sure where the bright turquoise came from, though (it still lookes nice). I would have liked
some green to show up in the coding since there is a large spot of green in the header.
Not surprising there aren't any errors in the CSS (she's quite vehement about correct CSS and HTML).
Content
Note Interact & Contests, Services, Quizzes, and Articles are featured here, but I prefer not to critique these. I did look through the articles
and they are interesting and helpful. The quizzes also seem fun.
Graphics and Resources
Avatars The bulk of these are well-made (I especially enjoy the food avatars). There are quite a few though that are fuzzy and/or
grainy. Nearly all are bright, which is nice, but I think they could use some more interesting coloring and textures.
Cursors These are very nice! No complaints on these.
Emoticons I really like these, especially because they all look alike but are actually different. They remind me of Chia pets.
Icons These icons are pretty nice, but a few of them aren't very sharp images.
Pixels This is a really nice collection of pixels. These are very, very well-made.
Stock Images There are three different pages for stock images, but I'm going to critique all of them here. These are all very nice, and
I can see many of them being useful. The images in the School/Education/Art section are a bit blurry. Overall, this is a nice collection of stock
images. Well, except for the close up of feet. I just can't seen that being used.
Website Material These are very nice pixels as well. A few of the bullets look a bit too big to be bullets. I'd
like to see more color variety here because these are really nice, but there are really only seven colors available per pixel set.
Tutorials
Note I am not going to go through and list every tutorial here.
These are interesting tutorials! I had no idea FanUpdate randomly made entries disappear. These are very helpful tutorials; well written,
easy to follow, and laden with screencaps and codes. There are quite a few based on HTML, but not just the "This is how you do bold!" tutorials that most sites have.
I'm very impressed with these!
Summary
Heartdrops is a well built and organized site, heavily geared toward visitor needs. The pixels on this site are definitely top-notch,
and the tutorials are very helpful, too. I would definitly have a look if I were you. Certainly there's something you'll find to entertain yourself with.
Suggestions
I know you aren't huge on graphics, but try to use textures and more "interesting" coloring (play around with Selective Color, it works wonders).
Some of your avatars and icons were blurry. Use images that are sharp quality to begin with, and sharpen them after resizing/cropping if necessary.
When you save them, save them at the highest quality (12 on the slider that pops up in Photoshop).
I'm curious as to where you got your quiz script? Unless you scripted it yourself which is really nifty.
