Deadly Review

By Shaz, at Deadly Reviews and Gillian Filan's Place [closed]

Loading and first impression 5/7
Your site loaded really fast, no problems. Seeing as you have your own domain, there’s no pop-up’s which is a plus ;) The splash page is really nice, neat and organized. But at the same time it looks a bit empty, I would make a bit bigger enterpicture so it wouldn’t look so empty.

Link 5/5
Link is there so full points for that! ;)

Layout and design 11/15
The layout is very nice, original and eye-catching. Shane’s face looks a bit weird though, lol. I like the roll-over effect on the navigation but maybe you could use different pictures from the same event/place instead of just random pictures? That would kind of blend in with the layout. Where it says “Site stats” the font looks really weird... maybe you could fix that. And you can’t click on your affiliates buttons where your banner-thing is, is it supposed to be like that? I think it would be better if it was a link which would go to the site, instead of just the button. When you click on More? It comes up in the same frame, and it’s a really small one! Maybe let it open up in the main frame... Otherwise I really like the layout.

Navigation 5/5
The navigation can be found easily, it’s neat, original and cool.

Content 15/17
We’ll go in order,lol. About: There’s info there about The Filans but there could be more, it looks kind of empty,lol. News: This section is really good! Everything is in order, organized and updated. Full of news! Wedding: I feel you don't need to have a separate button for the Wedding section in the navigation, you can for example put it in above so when you click on Wedding, you come to the page where there’s info, pictures etc… just a thought. Otherwise there’s loads of pictures, information etc… Pictures: I think you have almost every Gillian/Shane and Gillian picture collected in your gallery! It’s full with nice pictures. I first noticed that only some of the pages open up in a new page, not all of them as it says in the top. But then I understood that only the fan pics was in a new page because of the copyright thing. Maybe you could write that ONLY the fan pic sections opens up in a new window? Fans: it’s only three sections there, you could put it together with the Funsection or add more. But I like all the fanstuff in there. Fun: I like the graphics there, really nice. The quizzes are also cool. Site: there’s loads of info here. Can’t find anything I don't like here, lol.

Originality and creativity 23/25
I have only seen one Shane & Gillian site and it’s this one so it’s quite original. There’s loads of original and creative stuff around the site.. graphics, info and layouts. Not much to say.

Errors 5/10
I had some really annoying problems with the links around the site! When I hovered the link (like when I wanted to click on Back in the Fan meeting sections) the link moved up and down and when I tried to follow it, it went back to it own place again. A thing you could do is to put a alt;BR> again between the link saying: My Dublin Trip and the link saying Back. I don’t think there was any grammar/spelling mistakes. Just some small ones..

Overall 13/15
I loved your layout! ;) There wasn’t any big things I didn’t like on the site, overall it was a really cool one! Just try to add some more info here and there and fix the small problems…

Extra Points 3/10
I’ll give you 3 extra points for the original site and the layout! ;)

Total without bonus 82/100
Total with bonus 85/110

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