April 1998
URL: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/5783/ Created by: Bryan Tupper.... Discovered by: Mercury Overall Rating: 3 pans! |
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Onegai!!! Please stop loading! (Calms down)
The (useless) index page is already ugly! As soon as you see
the javascript, "PLEASE ENTER YOUR NAME" (in capitals) you can predict how terrible the
site will be. This javascript is not cute - it's old - and writing things in capital letters
is equivalent to shouting. I'd like to take this opportunity to say that "Please click the
picture"
is
really stupid. Is it the point to show off an image? (that doesn't even look good!)
Unless you have a choice of frames or nonframes or something like that it's useless,
unless you need to place some banner exchange. In
this case, this guy is just showing off an image! On the
main page the introduction is written in an incredibly disturbing font size along with
the italic code. Everything else is also in gigantic font. And the table is the worst of all,
every image is resized by width and height tag, making it look ugly. Some images are
from other servers (image theif?) and some are actually large in regular size!!! (Calms down
again). Ugly? In my opinion, "YES".
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URL:http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/4185/ Created by: Goddes Michi .... Discovered by: Mercury Overall Rating: 2.5 pans |
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As you get into the main page, the first thing I noticed was the font. Oh how I hate
the h3 flag when it's used as normal text. It's only for headers!
Tip: (For everyone, and I hope you're listening Goddess Michi) replace it with something like,
<font face="arial,helvetica" size="2">
Things might look nicer if they weren't under the center tag - it makes it uncomfortable.
The manga image of Sailorsaturn could be aligned left so the text appears on the right instead
of below it, this should help the long scrolling problem. The image links
to the sections are too large and take too long to load. There are also so many
unnecessary graphics and text included on this one page, which I won't name. And lastly,
the midi doesn't sound a thing like Kaze ni Naritai (I want to become to the wind,
which is what she calls it) 
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URL: http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/4644/index.htm Created by: Super Sailor Mercury.... Discovered by: sigh... Mercury of the M Squad Overall Rating: 2.5 pans |
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In honor of my new M Squad alias, Mercury and my chance to review ugly pages, I discovered
(on accident really) this Super Sailormercury temple thingy. Well, you can sort of forgive
the awful design because it was done by Geocities (stupid) EZ editor. However, two images of
the Hikawa Jinja type of entrance was from The Original Sailormars shrine - and
linked from their Geocities account! On the main page, "SUGGAISTIONS" should be
"suggestions". Another problem with the centering tag. Well, in my opinion, the title (Super
Mercury whatever temple) should be centered. The links below shouldn't. That might make things
look nicer. And as for font - use a_font_face. Plain text just looks ugly most of the
time. Try "arial,helvetica" or "comic sans ms", those are popular fonts that most people have.
The mini-movie room is nothing except a long loading animating gif palace - tip, use text
links instead of the image tag. I could go on, but I think I've said enough.
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(Mercury here, if you are
wondering why everything was discovered by me this month it was because overall, we only got
one nomination for ugly, which I decided not to post because it wasn't as ugly as the
3 pages...
Goodbye to the old Mamoru... I must say, Mamoru was really nice and was the first person
to welcome and assure me that I would get into the M Squad... but a nice warm
welcome to the new Mamoru)