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Layout: Heh, you must really like shiny, sparkly things, don't you? The banner's an interesting touch, but the fact that the edges are obviously cut off makes it look less charming. Actually I think the banner would look far more classy if it didn't have a background at all, and it would match your layout better. The colours you used match nicely, but the transparency on the entries just seems unnecessary. It slows down the scrolling, and lowers the contrast, making it slightly harder to read. Hmm, I'm not sure whether its supposed to work like that, but hovering over your info/website links makes the friends/calendar links disappear, and vice versa. Rather inconvenient. Also, it doesn't look very neat that you've aligned the textboxes to the left, and aligned the text to the center. The alignment would look better if it matched, either both in the middle, or both to the side. The bottom scrollbar is also rather distracting, and should not be there. Another small inconvenience is that your link text doesn't differ from your regular text at all except when highlighted (not counting lj tags). That makes your comment links somewhat hard to find. Other than that, not bad. 5/10
Entries: Right away, the first thing that distracts my attention in the use of all the squiggly lines (~) and asterisks (*). Really, used once in a while they're okay, but seeing them all over the place makes them less special and more annoying. Well other than that, you keep your entries short and not very in-depth. I must say, I only find some of them interesting though. Besides that, grammar and spelling seem pretty good.5/10
Icons: Well right away I like that you give credit to the makers, and you did use all three slots. Your default, the Sabrina one, matches you layout nicely on both the colours you used and the sparkliness (we'll make that a word now). The eye is also very nice and subtle, though it doesn't really match your layout. Hmm, now the Justin icon i just can't bring myself to appreciate fully, mostly because I find the guy himself appaling. Two of the images in that icon I can live with, but the picture of him with the dolphin just looks out of place. 7/10
User Info: Nice. I see some information about yourself, as well as a whole lot of pictures. And most of those are nice pictures indeed, but I really think they outweigh the amount of information you put in. I think you could tell a bit more about yourself. Hmm, I do like that you gave credit to people who deserved it though. 6/10
Mood Theme: My favorite theme :) It matches your colours nicely, although the transparency you have makes it look a bit bland. 7/10
Extra Bonus Points
An Interesting journal title. - 2
Custom cursors. - 0
Interesting quotes - In user info. - 0
Use of credit - If you've used something from someone else. - 2
Use of lj-cuts - Pictures, lyrics. - 2
Customised comment links. - (they don't seem to match anything) 1
Total Mark - 37
(by the way, this is a closed community that we want to limit just to the maintainers. If you're really interested in helping out, you can contact myself andthingindacorner. Thank you.)
Entries: Right away, the first thing that distracts my attention in the use of all the squiggly lines (~) and asterisks (*). Really, used once in a while they're okay, but seeing them all over the place makes them less special and more annoying. Well other than that, you keep your entries short and not very in-depth. I must say, I only find some of them interesting though. Besides that, grammar and spelling seem pretty good.5/10
Icons: Well right away I like that you give credit to the makers, and you did use all three slots. Your default, the Sabrina one, matches you layout nicely on both the colours you used and the sparkliness (we'll make that a word now). The eye is also very nice and subtle, though it doesn't really match your layout. Hmm, now the Justin icon i just can't bring myself to appreciate fully, mostly because I find the guy himself appaling. Two of the images in that icon I can live with, but the picture of him with the dolphin just looks out of place. 7/10
User Info: Nice. I see some information about yourself, as well as a whole lot of pictures. And most of those are nice pictures indeed, but I really think they outweigh the amount of information you put in. I think you could tell a bit more about yourself. Hmm, I do like that you gave credit to people who deserved it though. 6/10
Mood Theme: My favorite theme :) It matches your colours nicely, although the transparency you have makes it look a bit bland. 7/10
Extra Bonus Points
An Interesting journal title. - 2
Custom cursors. - 0
Interesting quotes - In user info. - 0
Use of credit - If you've used something from someone else. - 2
Use of lj-cuts - Pictures, lyrics. - 2
Customised comment links. - (they don't seem to match anything) 1
Total Mark - 37
(by the way, this is a closed community that we want to limit just to the maintainers. If you're really interested in helping out, you can contact myself and
thingindacorner. Thank you.)