Name: Jim
Site: Uncontrollable Lust
Brief Description: A Fansite of the celeb/divas I like.
Date of Review: 08/18/02

Splash: I like your splash image. Very stylish, and the colors work nicely together. I have two suggestions for improving this page. First, you have a lot of buttons here, which makes the page look a bit cluttered, and also makes it larger than even my 1024x768 frame. I would recommend putting these nomination/review buttons in a pop-up, because your splash would look much cleaner without them. My second suggestion is that you add site requirements to your splash. Your site has a lot of requirements (visitors won't be able to see any of your content without pop-ups, for example), and that's the primary purpose of a splash page ... to advise your visitors in advance about what they're getting themselves into.  3.0

Layout: On my first visit to your page, the link images on the main "Divas" and "Celebrities" pages jumped all over the place and rearranged themselves whenever I moused over them, which was extremely disconcerting! It made it very difficult (and frustrating) to view your content, when the link images ran away whenever I tried to click on them. On other visits, I didn't have this problem, so I'm not sure what caused it, since I don't remember seeing this problem before at other sites. I notice that many of your pop-up layouts are credited as having been designed by other people, so I'm not sure if you yourself designed the ones that don't list the name of the designer. At any rate, the layouts of the pop-up windows are very very pretty, and I like how you have a unique layout for each person covered on your site, but always with the same basic navigation categories to give the site continuity. Unfortunately, some of the layouts are too big for their pop-up windows (for example, Lita), and others make the text difficult to read (for example, Shakira) by having the color of the text too similar to parts of the background color. I also found the navigation buttons a bit difficult to read in some of these layouts (for example, Michelle Branch), because the font was too snazzy. Most of the site *looks* great, but I found some of it difficult to actually *use*.  3.0

Originality: I found your site quite interesting and original in its look (even if the layouts were primarily designed by others) and content. I liked the combination of wrestling divas and women celebrities, with the common theme of beautiful women. Perhaps it's just because I'm not a wrestling fan, but I'd never seen a site quite like this one before. And you actually got me interested in your subjects, which is impressive!  5

Content: Wow. You have a *ton* of content! I was simply stunned, especially by the pages and pages of text content. Your "Divas" section is particularly impressive, with its extensive biographies, photo galleries, and creative pages like "Claim to Fame," "Stephanie's Slap," "Recipes," and "Match History." (I especially enjoyed "Stephanie's Slap," though I'd never heard of her before.) One suggestion I have is that your "Divas" section (10 entries) is considerably larger than your "Celebrities" section (4 entries), which makes the celebrities seem like a bit of an afterthought. I'd recommend expanding the "Celebrities" section a bit to give the site better balance. Also, quite a large number of your images had broken links (especially in the Stephanie McMahon, Molly Holly, and Britney Spears sections), so you should check those out and fix them. (Angelfire does not allow direct linking anymore, I believe. You should put the images on your own server and link to them there.) Your text content has a few spelling and grammatical errors, but not as many as most sites. Overall, I thought your content was excellent, except for the broken images.  4.0

Navigation: I found your main page after the splash confusing, because your navigation bar is *so* pretty that I thought it was just a display image. It took me a few minutes to figure out how to find the content of your site. If I hadn't been reviewing, I might have given up and moved on to somewhere else. I think the navigation bar is gorgeous, and once I figured it out it was very easy to use to move between the major sections of your site, but I would recommend putting something on that first page that directs visitors' attention up to your navigation. Once in the pop-up windows, navigation was usually pretty easy. And, again, I liked that you kept the primary navigation categories consistent for all the women throughout the entire site. Nice continuity, which made it easy to find things.  4.5

Various Comments: I am still reeling at the sheer volume of content on your site. You've done a great job at making this site attractive and interesting. Fix those broken images and spiffy up the layouts a bit, and this site will completely rock!

Total Score: 4/5