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Review by Daven, 2003 October 08 (Updated: 2003.11.26)
Layout: 4
Single page scheme on everything, with content changing as you click through. Backgrounds are uniform only that they tend to be black, but it forces new backgrounds to load each time. The content is centered in a table in the middle of the page, only so that the background can be shown off. It leaves a HUGE amount of space on the right and left sides of the page, wasted. On a T-1 connection, load time for the average page was about 2 seconds due to all the graphics to load, I shudder to think of what it would be like on a dial-up. (Update: She changed the layout, putting all her art under one link, all her pagan stuff under another. This cut the size of her page by half, but it STILL takes a gawd aweful long time to load. She also changed her guestbook to another, proably to cut down on the load time, but it didn't work.)
Navigability: 4
All kinds of links from the front page. It's a straight drill in, and you have to back out. About half the time you get a disclaimer on the page you are trying to get to (for the Wiccan content), and then you have to back through it too. (Update: index page after index page, after index page is her navigation scheme. I hope that you have a good search engine on there soon.)
Colour Scheme: 7
Light text on black backgrounds. With her colors of the various paragraphs, it's not an eye strain, but it's close. This scheme is getting overdone. Small text compounds this problem.
Semantics: 9
I have to give her credit here, there are very few misspellings or gramatical errors. Words are used properly and in context.
Originality: 4
Her artwork is original. Her poetry is original. Her BOS stuff is parroting of other's thoughts or a direct taking of their material. The only thing that she has going for her is the parts where she is being "attacked" by Christians or Pagans. (Update: I finally looked at her artwork, and I wouldn't want to have any of it, not because it's not my style, but because it's not well done. But I guess beauty really IS in the eye of the beholder. I also note that most of the obviously stolen material is gone now, now it's just the subtile theft)
Delivery: 4
She didn't write most of this, others did. So the delivery is so-so. I counted off since it's someone else's tone. Where she wrote something, it comes across as whiny and immature, a Wictim. (Update: despite massive updates to her site, this has not changed any. The pages I see where she is talking, instead of copying and pasting someone else's work, they still come off whiny. See "To whom it may concern" and her "fluffy page" for examples.)
Knowledgeability: 4
Once again, I can't judge since all this material (including her "herbal") was written by others. If she had her own material on there, it may score higher. At least it's not a repetition of "9 Million European Women Died". Although I should count off since she reproduced Norm Vogle's work which just stinks. (Update: She had taken down most of the stolen material, but there is more that is there which is obviously not hers, like the herbal. )
Style: 1
What style?(Update: I wish I could score this lower.)
Fluff Factor: 1
By parroting others, she scores REALLY high on the fluffy factor. Lack of original work. (At this point there are two pages that are not juvenile level stuff that is original, a page on "candle spells", a page on "dandelion dreams" and her guestbooks/message boards, although she deletes any post that she doesn't agree with. Mostly those tend to be ones that don't stroke her ego and tell her how wonderful her site is. She has dollz pages, adopted pets pages, poetry pages, "vote for me" pages, and (shudder) a "best pagan page" section now which is only a popularity contest.).
Cool Factor: 2
Let me put it this way, I would never willingly go there. At least she got rid of the falling stars that she had on her site. (Update: I still wouldn't go there voluntarily. But this is like insulting a blade of grass, it doesn't do anything. I'm done reviewing this site, even if it improves I won't review it again.)
FINAL RATING: 40% or ![]()
I still havn't changed my opinion of this site from when I reviewed it on the Church of Kern. I don't think I will. She repeats others endlessly and then attributes it to "unknown". It would be nice to see her work here.
I had tried to help her improve her site, and got accused of being a Pagan bully for my effort. Oh well. The real irony is that she has awards to give out. Ohhhhhhh.... What an honor....
Then the message board. Two posts, both by her. Then the disclaimer about how others should behave on her site. Okay. If you don't want people to be honest, get rid of the message board and the guest book. Don't threaten to delete what you don't like. She used to have a huge page of disclaimers about how evil Christianity is, but apparently she pulled it due to multiple complaints.
Review by Obsidian, 2003 November 21, Win 98 SE, IE 6.0, 1024×768, Cable Modem
Layout: 3
The layout isn't horrendous, but there's nothing special either. The animated background is enough to make me nauseous.
Navigability: 5
No broken links, but navigation is completely disorganised and there are no frames or anything to assist you if you get lost.
Colour Scheme: 2
Colour schemes are yellow on grey, giving me this "mustard and cement" feel. And that's only if she sticks to her regimen. She has random paragraphs of text in white, pink, blue, purple, green and other nausea-inducing pastels that make you think she's writing with a cotton candy pencil. I like the background, but that's about it.
Semantics: 6
She almost understands the English language.
Originality: 2
She rips off several authors, the easiest to notice of which being Scott Cunningham. She pretends that either she wrote it or the author is conveniently "unknown". How hard is it to credit those you quip? That, and there's nothing that stands out about this site other than the fact it's not on GeoShitties, but on Osage.net, her local town's ISP. She drew her own dragons, and made a half-decent background image, but that's about it. Everything else is ripped off of somewhere else.
Delivery: 2
If I didn't know better, I'd say she'd been researching the Craft for two weeks, and never made it past Silver RabidFluff's works.
Knowledgeability: 3
I'm running out of things to say without making this sound redundant. Her site has virtually no original content save for her "artwork", if you can call it that, and basically her site offers no substantial information. It's a waste of webspace, and it's a pity that the people who run her ISP haven't closed her down for wasting their webspace.
Style: 1
Style? She's got style? Exactly, Daven: what style? Where? Oh yeah, her style is to trash people anonymously in other people's guestbooks. That's her style. Fucking coward.
Fluff Factor: 1
On her rules page, she has Thumper, who epitomises the "fluffy bunny". I quote: "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all." Nuff said.
Cool Factor: 1
This little bitch is a coward who flames other people's guestbooks and tell us what a bunch of "stupid losers" we are at the Mirror, yet refuses to have the honour or the courage to come to the Mirror's board and say her piece like an ADULT. No, she has to play silly child games, and hide under animated images of pixie dust and fluffy bunnies and rainbow text and drawings of happy dragons. Cool factor is in the toilet, on its way to being flushed.
FINAL RATING: 26% or ![]()
You are one sad creature, Dragon Goddess. One sad, sad creature. Your site reflects this. There isn't much else I can say to drive this point home, except to say that Daven, you were WAY too nice to our beloved Dragon Goddess.
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