Lemon-Breeze;;

[Breeze]

Hey ^^
Just done most of my website now.
Can I have some comments and CC? (Constructive Criticism)
^^
Thanks

[Eri]

Constructive Criticism? Are you sure? 

Well, first thing I noticed is the color scheme itself. I have a bit of a pet peeve against sites with color schemes that almost have the same shade. For instance, you've got black and gray as your major colors. There's a general rule with art and design in general--- text should have the opposite color scheme against the entire layout or the background color because I can barely read the text. I can even barely see the sections of your home page too. What can I say... I have very bad eyesight.

Speaking of text, your text is also too small, which even makes it a lot harder to read. It seems a lot of people think the small text would make the entire site layout look amazing, but in reality it isn't, especially for the people who may have disabilities (partially blind, for example), people who use different browsers that can change certain formats of a site's layout, especially the text ((View from Firefox 3 // View from Google Chrome // View from Opera <--- Speaking of the Opera view, did you use colored scrollbars?)); and also for people who care more about your content than your entire layout.

I'm also not very fond of the marquee scroll on top. I just use a small "update box" at the top of a sidebar (Like what I did here) and just manually update it. Not only that the scroll is annoying but it's also hard to read at the same time (black over dark gray....? Why....?  )

Also I suggest you center your site as well.There's too much space on the right that seems to have no purpose with your entire layout at all, unless you plan to add something in there in the later future, but other than that it's better if you have your layout centered.

Viewing your source code, I notice that you have an external stylesheet (stylesheet.css) and yet at the same time I see this...

Code:

<div id="updates" style="position: absolute; left: 264px; top: 317px; width: 370px; z&amp;rarr; index: 1; height:577px; z-index: 1">

You already have an external stylesheet. You don't need to add additional CSS attributes within your HTML tags such as this one on your index page. Get rid of all that and leave it as...

Code:

<div id="updates">

.... while you turn this...

Code:

style="position: absolute; left: 264px; top: 317px; width: 370px; z&amp;rarr; index: 1; height:577px; z-index: 1"

... in to this...

Code:

#updates {
position: absolute;
left: 264px;
top: 317px;
width: 370px;
height: 577px;
z-index: 1;
}

... in your external stylesheet. Since you already have an external stylesheet, put all of that "style" elements in there like what I showed you before. It makes your code a lot cleaner and organized and easier to correct errors when you run your entire markup through the validators.

Also, you need to clean up your code as well because in all the browsers I check I'm seeing this (the one highlighted) in there, which messes up some things. Just get rid of gibberish like that in all your other tags.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing your site or anything. I'm just trying to help you make your site better. I don't know if this is your first website or something but despite of the "not-so-positive" review I really do think you have to consider what's pointed out here.  On the positive note though, I do like the flower graphic you used on your layout.

Also, I recommend validating your site through W3C validators too (http://validator.w3.org and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator). In that way you'll know if your site will work with all browsers or not. It's wrong for the web designer/web mistress to force their viewers to use another browser to view the site correctly. Just in case you're unfamiliar with W3C they're the creators and the authority of the HTML, XHTML, and the CSS, which means their standards is "law" to us web designers and developers.

Since your site is one of those freebie sites (as in free graphics and layouts) and tutorials (we have too many of them already... why are we having more when a lot of the sites I've seen have tutorials duplicate to other people's tutorial sites too.  ) your main target audience are aspiring web designers who love anime, manga, videogames, and the likes. Because you are making this site for them you should at least consider cleaning up your code and fix your layout to make it more user-friendly to your potential viewers since not all of us use the same browser, not like back then when we only had IE, Netscape, Opera, and such as our browsers of our choice. As time changes, so does the standards of websites, and as web designers (be it your hobby or if you design them for a living) we have to catch up to the standards.

So, that's my review. I really do hope you consider fixing your layout and make it more user-friendly, thanks.

[nightingale]

It looks alright ^^
but the text is kind of hard to read ^^'   

[cdim]

Make the text larger and lighter in color.  It'll go a long way =)

Also, your links are hard to distinguish from other text.  I don't know why you changed the link cursor to be the regular pointer either. 

Your contact us form input is somehow messed up -- they only accept click input when close to the left of the fields (at least in FF3).  It'd be nice if you made it not require javascript as well.  Generally speaking javascript should be an enhancement on top of an already working base--not required for stuff to work. 

Following some web standards like Eri suggested is a good idea.  Just be aware that even if everything validates different browsers have a lot of different rendering quirks that you're bound to come upon if you keep doing this stuff.

[Ammi-K]

Interesting layout.. I like how you layed out the navigation. I think you should make the text 1 or 2 pts bigger though.
The header looks a bit awkward, its bright and then everything else blends in with the background.
The colours are nice but a bit boring, the colour scheme.
The affie buttons also look weird with the layout. again its too bright for everything.
I'm not too crazy about marquees..
I'm using firefox, the navigation is too far down. it should be moved up so it doesnt look like theres a big space.
Cute though. x]

[alioki]

like most have commented, the layout is pretty dark and monotone. The main image seems out of place because of this. Maybe you could tie in more color by changing the link or text color. Even f you just made the font white or something. Nothing pops out but the main picture, yah know?