Out the Window Review
We've already discussed the limitations for this review, so the shortness of it is understood by both me, Lucy, and the reviewee, Georgie.
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Site Name - 7/10
Out The Window is a simple and easy-to-remember name, and yet original enough that visitors will distinguish it from other simple ones, so good job on that. However, your url is going to be hard to remember because it has nothing to do with the site, at least not that one sees upon entering. It would be better if your subdomain of puresnowz had been "georgie" or something that someone may more easily associate with Out The Window, since I do agree Out The Window would be too long for your url.Layout - 15/20
This layout is very blue and grey, two colors I like very much. I also like how the pictures are of you - it definitely personalizes the look, and it looks good that the pictures are presented differently, such as some being Polaroids and one being paperclipped to the layout. Good job on putting subtitles on some of them and not on all of them: makes it look very realistic. I do think however that, say, the paper the one picture is paperclipped to and the Polaroid images around the pictures should be a different color. That way the effects will stand out a little bit more and look more done instead of looking as though you just put pictures on the header.I like the navigation - it's very easy to find and very clear and to the point. Maybe your site name should have been a different and larger font to stand out more from the navigation.
I like that on the side you have quick updates, so visitors on the fly can see what you've newly added without having to read your whole blog. It's usually good that you have an alternate navigation, but in this case it isn't really necessary, as the alternate navigation is harder to read than the one in the header.
As for the CSS in your layout, the grey and black are easy to read with any text size, so very good job picking out those colors. The dark blue headers are easy to read and were obviously pulled from your layout. The links, however, are not so great. They're very hard to spot and you can only really read them when you hover over them and they turn grey. If you change anything, I would change that. And your underlined text, which is a darker blue than the headers, is easy to read and yet is not even close to any other blue in the layout. It looks like the standard indigo blue you might see on unchanged freewebs links and isn't drawn from the layout, so doesn't match. The italicized text is a little too light, but not nearly as bad as the links. Rating: 15/20
Content - Rating Not Applicable
I was able to view your Superbear site layout by clicking on the link in your quick updates, and I must say, this is an extremely cute layout. It's better than a lot of layouts I've seen, except I don't really like the font. I almost like it better than your current one because everything is easy to see.Your blog is a bit long. However, you do a good job of making the paragraphs agreeably short so visitors can coast through them and read what they want to read.
Looking in your quick updates, it's obvious you have a great variety in your content, which is good as long as you keep up with all of them regularly.