September 1997
Laura D's Sailor Moon Page
URL: https://members.tripod.com/~HenryD/index.html
Created by: LauraD
Discovered by: Mamoru
Overall Rating: 1.83 Pans
Why it's UGLY:
Positives about the site:
This page is the victim of a BAD layout!
The content isn't so bad, but the main page layout is pretty scary. One mistake
is putting the whole song she wrote on the front page, before the links to the
other content! If you're going to put something of that length on the main page,
then at least put it AFTER the links to the other content. Or better yet, put it
on a separate page, with a link to that page. Also, the magic "T" word...thumbnails!
Use them!
The technical problems on this page seem to
run rampant. There is a real need for thumbnails in the image gallery,
and there are a few broken image scattered through the site. Not to mention the
whole long poem and the credits on the front page! Both these things need to
go on a separate page, it would make for better organization and shorter
scrolling on the front page. Fixing the broken images and arranging them to
complement the text would do wonders for the look of the page.
All I can do is repeat what the other two
said...THUMBNAILS and ORGANIZATION!! Don't feel the need to load down the
front page with a lot of stuff! If people WANT to look at your song or your
credits list, then they WILL! And make it easy for people to get to the meat
of the site, they'll appreciate it! And why is there such an overuse of the
line tag at the bottom with the listing of all the Sailor Moon Rings
or yadda yadda? Ditch all the dividing lines, there doesn't seem to be any real
purpose to having them. Less IS more!! The problems don't quite seem two-pan
worthy to me, but that's just me, so 1 1/2 it is.
Why it's UGLY:
Positives about the site:
This site is actually pretty decent,
the content was decent and there was some nice stuff to look through.
BUT (of course there's a "but"!) the front page gives a pretty bad
first impression! My main beef with this? The fact that all the text
blinks, not to mention the fact that the majority of the text is HUGE!
I know for a fact that we state in our page criteria that too much big
and or blinking text is a real annoyance to viewers, and this combination
of the two is way too hard on the eyes!
My brain cells are still reeling thanks
to this page. All the gigantic blinking text warped my eyes for the next
year or so. And why the haphazard image arrangement in the middle of the
page? This page has an image gallery, so the big cluster of images should
go there. If you're going to decorate the page with images, then spread
them out!
This page was created by Mars!