2003-05-02 - just a >>dreamer<< and no one believes me
Layout 87/100: Well done for designing it yourself. It's bright! Red and yellow on a black background. It features a picture of a punk guy and lots of lyrics surrounding him. It's cool, I like it. It's very packed full of stuff though! There's text everywhere. Thankfully, the entry section is very easily distinguishable from the rest, as it is placed to the left hand side. The navigation looks fine where it is, it's easy to use with titles and bullet points distinguishing the different links. There's a lot of links and they all work. I think the author and the playlist bit's look too much. It would look a lot better in my opinion if you removed those bits and put the imood, guestbook form and daily reads bit in place of it. It would look way less crammed that way, and a lot tidyer. Apart from that little modification, I think it's all good.
Content 86/100: I couldn't find links to your older entries. The earliest entry was the first of April but I know that;s not when you started your diary because when I clicked a link in one of your entries it took me to an entry written in January. I wanted to read back further but couldn't. I totally agreed with you on this entry. I like that you put lyrics at the start of each entry, depending on how you feel. I liked this entry. You gave the readers a good insight into how you think. Entries which are insightful about the writer are the most fun to read. I read a lot of your entries (well, as much as I could read) and they were strangly compelling. You mix humour with seriousness and emotions. You write about your day a lot of the time but concentrate on the main bits and don't go into great detail about every little thing. You write about things that stuck out in your mind and why. That's what makes a good diary. I enjoyed reading it. You spelling/grammar is good too.
Insight 83/100: Fairly insightful. You talk about your feelings sometimes and delve into past experiences. Your personality shows through in some of the entries. Some entries were just day to day information and I couldn't tell much about you from those ones. The layout suits you in that you like the "alternative" style and music. It shows what kind of person you are.
Errors 70/100: You missed the "L" off "last" on your last/next links. Also, for some reason your next link didn't want to work for me on the "Gone to NJ" entry, and just refreshed the page all the time, grrr. Everytime I clicked it after that it sent me back to the "Gone to NJ" entry. I think you need to sort that out. I'm classing the fact that I couldn't read further back than the first of April as an error, too.
Annoyances 40/100: The damn next button sending me to the NJ entry all the time annoyed me a lot!
Extras 100/100: Tons.
Total 466/600 - 77.6%
Would I come back? Just fix those errors and you'd get a much better score. I probably wouldn't come back, I'm too lazy.
Reviewed by Bonnie
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