http://www.acornrack.com/bend/
For now I'm trying to do sites of different themes or genres as often as possible which lead me to this site, Lost Days. This is an RP based off the hit Nickelodeon show, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
The AD for this particular site, basically is just stating that the story of the show is playing over again and at this point I'm not buying the whole "loosely based off the show" bit. But anyway, at least they put a nice gradient for the text at the top. Onwards to the review!
First Impression:
Left-oriented. The layout as a whole is fine, but I would have like it have been more centralized. It isn't that much of a problem and they tried to offset it a bit by extending an image across the page. The text however still draws you to the left.. at least for the front page.
The Public Area:
The Story, I read it and aside from it being 200 years later it's more or less the same as the original story. The text spread across the whole page is a little disorienting from the front page.
Rules, the first problem I have is the order of the rules and placement of the godmoding and powerplay rules. The first "rule" is actually not a rule but an explanation of the rules page. Another small point is that you say "((Again, look at Ty Lee))" however I have no recollection of Ty Lee being mentioned before. Under posting you say to post 2 paragraphs, 8 sentences total... it's always been my understanding that 8 sentences minimum is ONE paragraph.
("Lightning" is spelled wrong in point 3.)
I generally like OOC rules to come first, then IC rules after. Also this gets rid of the redundancy of essentially having "no powerplaying" in two different locations.
(Spelling/Grammar Errors: "skill" in the fourth point, fifth point - grammar, "person" in Character point 1, "quotations" in Posting point 2)
The Benders, a somewhat organized list of people on the site. However at the top the text is a little wierd for some reason. And also.. you state if you want to know more about the benders go into the private area to look and decide, those pages can't be seen by visitors.
Information page, again wonky text in the first sentence. I'm not sure that encouraging people to break copyright laws is also something you should be having on the main page. Alluding to it is fine, "You should watch clips of Avatar on certain video sharing sites" or something like that. The link to the creatures, that page is deleted AND you probably should have summarized the information on your own and placed in on this page.
The Application:
Normal application.
The Private Area:
FIREFOX ERROR (Edit: ERROR on MY END! VLC PLUGIN FOR FIREFOX) ! Not sure what causes this, but might be something to look into, also layout change! There are no new pages to look at because as I've said even though they tell you to look here, the pages are blocked from view. At least there is what looks to be an upgraded cbox, it refreshes on its own.
Forums:
Giant Text Wall. There are a good amount of forums and descriptions but as I said it's a giant wall of text. The sections aren't spaced out from one another and I'd like to see hotlinks because of just how many forums there are. The headers for each section are bold and a bigger font but I'd like to see a little more distinction.
Other:
For some reason the member list is causing my firefox to crash when I go to there from a member page or going to a member page from there. So something to look into there. At this point I used Internet Explorer for the rest of the review. (Edit: AGAIN, ERROR ON MY PART. VLC PLUGIN FOR FIREFOX)
The member list is your basic listing of information and the profiles are filled out decently.
Roleplaying:
From the posts I read I categorize the level of RPing as Intermediate to High Intermediate.
Rating: 5.5 out of 10 Points.
Overall the site was fine, allowing people to play the Avatar story in their own right and distancing themselves from the Canon timeline. The little problems around the site including the crashing of my firefox (twice) brought down the score a little bit but not enough to dilute the overall impression.
Reviewed by: The Jello Emperor
For now I'm trying to do sites of different themes or genres as often as possible which lead me to this site, Lost Days. This is an RP based off the hit Nickelodeon show, Avatar: The Last Airbender.
The AD for this particular site, basically is just stating that the story of the show is playing over again and at this point I'm not buying the whole "loosely based off the show" bit. But anyway, at least they put a nice gradient for the text at the top. Onwards to the review!
First Impression:
Left-oriented. The layout as a whole is fine, but I would have like it have been more centralized. It isn't that much of a problem and they tried to offset it a bit by extending an image across the page. The text however still draws you to the left.. at least for the front page.
The Public Area:
The Story, I read it and aside from it being 200 years later it's more or less the same as the original story. The text spread across the whole page is a little disorienting from the front page.
Rules, the first problem I have is the order of the rules and placement of the godmoding and powerplay rules. The first "rule" is actually not a rule but an explanation of the rules page. Another small point is that you say "((Again, look at Ty Lee))" however I have no recollection of Ty Lee being mentioned before. Under posting you say to post 2 paragraphs, 8 sentences total... it's always been my understanding that 8 sentences minimum is ONE paragraph.
("Lightning" is spelled wrong in point 3.)
I generally like OOC rules to come first, then IC rules after. Also this gets rid of the redundancy of essentially having "no powerplaying" in two different locations.
(Spelling/Grammar Errors: "skill" in the fourth point, fifth point - grammar, "person" in Character point 1, "quotations" in Posting point 2)
The Benders, a somewhat organized list of people on the site. However at the top the text is a little wierd for some reason. And also.. you state if you want to know more about the benders go into the private area to look and decide, those pages can't be seen by visitors.
Information page, again wonky text in the first sentence. I'm not sure that encouraging people to break copyright laws is also something you should be having on the main page. Alluding to it is fine, "You should watch clips of Avatar on certain video sharing sites" or something like that. The link to the creatures, that page is deleted AND you probably should have summarized the information on your own and placed in on this page.
The Application:
Normal application.
The Private Area:
FIREFOX ERROR (Edit: ERROR on MY END! VLC PLUGIN FOR FIREFOX) ! Not sure what causes this, but might be something to look into, also layout change! There are no new pages to look at because as I've said even though they tell you to look here, the pages are blocked from view. At least there is what looks to be an upgraded cbox, it refreshes on its own.
Forums:
Giant Text Wall. There are a good amount of forums and descriptions but as I said it's a giant wall of text. The sections aren't spaced out from one another and I'd like to see hotlinks because of just how many forums there are. The headers for each section are bold and a bigger font but I'd like to see a little more distinction.
Other:
For some reason the member list is causing my firefox to crash when I go to there from a member page or going to a member page from there. So something to look into there. At this point I used Internet Explorer for the rest of the review. (Edit: AGAIN, ERROR ON MY PART. VLC PLUGIN FOR FIREFOX)
The member list is your basic listing of information and the profiles are filled out decently.
Roleplaying:
From the posts I read I categorize the level of RPing as Intermediate to High Intermediate.
Rating: 5.5 out of 10 Points.
Overall the site was fine, allowing people to play the Avatar story in their own right and distancing themselves from the Canon timeline. The little problems around the site including the crashing of my firefox (twice) brought down the score a little bit but not enough to dilute the overall impression.
Reviewed by: The Jello Emperor
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