Guidelines

Before submitting for a review you should read the following guidelines. Most of them are common sense, but they still need to be addressed so plase read them.
1. I will only review domains and subdomains owned by you. Awardspace sites are also reviewed, I may review Freeweb sites if I think your website is at a suitable standard.

2. Please make sure your website is active and doesn't contain an excessive amount broken links/pages. If you're website goes on hiatus or construction whilst it's on the queue, then please inform me so I can put you on a 'side-queue'.

3. Websites containing inappropriate material such as pornography or racism etc. will not be reviewed. However if for the purpose of art, you have is slight nuditity involved in some of your work, I will accept your application.

4. Please take into account that I am entitled to my own opinion as are you, so I will give you my honest opinion on your website and I will try to give you some constructive critique. My reviews are here to help develop your website, I don't mean to be rude or mean.

5. A link back to my review site is required when you are in the process of being reviewed, a 88x31 button or just a 'text link' will do fine. My link-buttons are located in the Submit page. So that's the main things out of the way, I just want to add on a few things. Echoing what I said earlier, I am just giving my own opinion of your website, I hope you do make some of the changes I suggest to your website, but there is no need to absolutely follow every single thing I suggest or criticize, otherwise you might just end up feeling like you have a website that doesn't feel like your own, believe me I've been there. At the end of the day, you can't satisfy everyone :)

Feedback is always appreciated, so once you receive a review, then go ahead and contact me. I would love to hear read what you thought of the review, was it useful? too harsh? too complex? If you have anything you would like to voice out (except vulgar messages), then come and contact me. I hope I don't come across as bias when reviewing people I know. I will not 'sugar coat' anybody's review and even if you are an online friend of mine, I will still give you my honest opinion and advice.

What I will be reviewing:

Here are the three key things I will review:
1. Your layout - How visually appealing it is, if it's too dull or to vibrant. If it's too big or too small. I'll review how it's positioned, it's overall appearance... That kinda stuff.

2. Your content - Your website doesn't have to have any resources, freebies or tutorals etc. although I would like to see some sort of 'visitor section', it is not necessary. Things I look for in your content, is how organized your stuff is, how well it's written, how original some of your things are.

3. The technicalities - I'll try to spot any spelling and grammatical mistakes, broken links and I'll even try to help you with any coding problems I spot. I'm not that much of an expert in the field of coding but if your website is cross-browser compatible then that is fantastic because that's really what I'll be mostly looking at.

Rating system

At the end of each review, I'll give the website a rating, this is out of 5 stars. Here is the general meaning of each rating you can get:

- Critically Crap Condition
Sorry to say, but your website is apalling, you might not even deserve a 'star'. There are a tremendous amount of problems that need sorting out fast!! Fix most of the problems and you can be ensured that your website will be miles better. Good luck.

- Poor Quality
Your site was boring to visit. A number of problems are evident, some of them may take time to amend but will most definately be worth it, don't give up hope!

- Good
Your websites negatives are noticeably outwieghed by the positives, so it would seem you are on the right track. Carry on developing your website and sort out the few major probelms that have been addressed. You have an 'okay' site, it's not impressive yet, but still has potential.

- Super
You have a website you can hold your head up high with. Your site is well presented and well organised. I enjoyed reviewing it. Take care with the silly errors you made, clearing up the issues will give your site a shiney gloss. Well done.

- Amazingly Outstanding
A very impressive website that I envy, I would definately recommend to others. You have some great stuff, a combination of a beautiful layout and high standard content. I can tell you absolutely cherish your website. You have only a few tiny issues or maybe none at all. Keep up the fantastic work.