Name: Lisa Mae Site: Murder Review Completed On: 08/10/05 SPLASH PAGE I'm in love with the enter graphic! It looks great, and I love the detailed numbering around the skeleton. You've provided crucial information regarding site requirements in a straight up, direct way, which is excellent. You could maybe make the "visit dani" link red or black though, just so it goes with the graphic more. 9/10 FIRST IMPRESSIONS Just as well your site doesnt work in Mozilla - it's too cool for that piece of shit browser! At face value, your site absolutely boasts creativity, and I'm sure the content will continue this trend. I love the picture of you, you look like a living dead girl! That's a compliment by the way! 10/10 LAYOUT Your layout is definitely one of the most unique I've ever come across. The skulls and the font in particular, convey your personality quite well. The placement of your navigation is even unique in itself; placed on a slight angle vertically across the page. I don't even know how to do that, and I'm finding your skills impressive. The colours you've used go together perfectly - black, white, and ANY shade of pink is always guaranteed to be effective. The only slight hiccup is with the image of the girl - in parts you can see the rough edges of where it's been cut out. This is particularly noticeable around her face. Enlarging the image in whatever programme you use and using a black paint brush to cover up the white pixelly effect would make this image look smoother, and more professional. All in all, you've made a great effort, and it's clear that you have quite the eye for design! 16/20 CONTENT Your creativity and self-expression through images continues throughout this section, as I had hoped it would. You have a different layout per section, and I think that is awesome! I like the concept you've taken with your "About Section" - instead of several links to surveys etc you've written a lengthy summary as to who you are, your opinions, and how you lead your life. Throughout this passage you have provided important facts including your age and where you live, and that's personal enough in my opinion. The other review sites you mentioned that complain that this section isn't personal enough, well, they're full of shit. There's nothing wrong with the way you've chosen to give the visitor more information. Providing an entire library of personal information is pretty pathetic anyway. I realised a while ago that you know, no one REALLY cares a lot. Basic information is fine, but leaving it at that is a good idea, and that's exactly what you've done. Your poems in the "Desire" section are pretty graphic, and in some cases disturbing, but that's the whole idea, right? I liked them a lot. Onto "Mixtapes" now - what a great idea, and how nice of you to offer to make them for your friends. I'd so trade with you, but I don't have any cds - all my music is in mp3 format on the computer, or on my iPod! Do you know the band "Suicide Commando"? I think they're right up your alley, you should check them out if you can. You have some interesting content in your "For L'Visitors" section - nothing I've really seen before at other sites! On the "Top 6 Albums" page, you've even gone to the effort of uploading thumbnailed images of the visitors' favourite albums - thats dedication for you! I'd be way too lazy to bother! I enjoyed reading your articles on the "Vault" page, particularly the "Joys Of Thrift Shopping". Although I don't own anything second hand and all of my clothes are quite expensive, I would buy something from a secondhand store if I saw something I liked. Trouble is, I haven't yet had this opportunity. I'm definitely going to download some of the songs you listed on your "Music I Love" page. I haven't heard of most of the bands but I love discovering new music. The last section I'm going to touch on is the "About The Site" section. I can't believe it - this is seriously probably the only interesting site section I've ever been to. You've been "in the business" for a while, havent you! That really sux how some of your sites got deleted without your hostess telling you - one of the many, many reasons I will NEVER accept hostage! I can understand why some review sites would have a "problem" with the quote, "randomness" of your site, but I think this randomness is a good thing. I'm not reviewing this site thinking that it's a generic personal site, because it isn't. It's artistic, imaginative, and it's so YOU. More sites should be like yours instead of generic clones following the dreary trend. 20/20 SUMMARY To put it simply - your site is coolness personified. Your creativity is enviable and somewhat rare these days with other personal sites. Apart from a few (only two) minor glitches with the link on the splash page and the raggyness of the layout graphic, I found your site to be flawless. You express yourself artistically through images and your personality traits shine through in your writings. To put it more "horrifically" to get into the spirit of your site - Your artistry flows like blood through my veins, cascading throughout my body, my temples throbbing. With a simple but swift slash the blood spurts out everywhere, covering my body in a mass of bloody red. Now dead and zombielike, I feel the ultimate desire to... ahhh, I'm no good at this. I'll leave it to Mae Undead. Keep rockin, sweetheart! OVERALL SCORE: 55/60