Responses

These are responses I have written to my reviews I have received. This is just a way to clear up some misunderstandings and vent some frustrations. You are welcomed to post comments to the responses wither you disagree or agree I don't really care.

Foobar Reviews Response

I don't like it when some people don't really use their eyes and can be so arrogant about it. This whole site is mainly experimental and I don't take it too seriously, after all it's only a website.

By the way who said those leaves are only limited to being "Autumn leaves." Last time I checked there are also leaves in summer, just with more colour. The leaves are also like a signature and also blend this layout in with the last one, kind of like an on going presence to link each layout.

I actually didn't leave the space gab between the navigation and the content to make way for the drop down menu. If you use your eyes and see that the site's logo goes over into the content area, that is why there is that gap. If I did move the content up it will overlap the logo.

When you talk about my links and tell me to remove some of them, nice suggestion but my site so I'll link to whatever site I feel like thank you. Also I find it kinda weird as you tell me to move my contact page to my FAQ where no one will read it anyway, but then you tell me to move my terms and conditions out of my FAQ as no one will read it there, so what use is moving the contact page there then?

I don't see any need for an intro paragraph to explain what the site is. There is all ready a page devoted to that and the intros always look to tacky and don't work when you're using Cutenews. There are also visual clues around the whole layout to what the site is about, if you bother to really use your eyes, it's bluntly obvious that this is a graphics site when you have the latest wallpapers and layouts the very first thing on the right hand side.

The About me section is fair enough as just before you started reviewing I changed that page to make it appear 3rd person so so didn't get much time to edit it. I've changed it back now.

Another thing that annoys me with this review is the fact you just don't get my humour and you think my FAQ is just stupid, it's like that because it's purposely written like that in a comical sense. Not everything on the net "has" to be boring and serious. It makes the content more enjoyable to read. I also tend to write a lot of shit and I don't care.

Then when you talk about my graphics I agree with the whole blowing up images thing but because I don't make graphics of just anime like most sites, my subjects are very limited in file quality and size so I have to make do with what I can get, which isn't much. In fact on my recent two Lithium theme wallpapers I had to take my own screenshots.

I will not be "pruning" my graphics as it is stated this place is also like a portfolio, and a portfolio doesn't necessarily mean "only the best" it means a collection. This is a collection of all my works good and bad. Leaving the bad ones up show how much I've improved and what works and what doesn't. besides what you might think is crap is not necessarily the opinion of everyone.

Good call on the "Bolts From the Blue" layout. Like I said I write a lot of crap and opinions can change. I'll admit I should have asked if I should use that image, but we all learn from mistakes and grow and move on.

The birds and leaves in my works are like a a subtle signature, you might not like the constant reputation but I do. It's so if someone does remove my obvious signature people can still see that the work is still mine. Also don't dictate what brushes I can and can not use, like I said before your opinion is NOT the opinion of everyone. I will use whatever brushes I want how often I want.

When you suggest to remove dead links for the sites I have awarded with my awards, it might seem like a good suggestion, but you need to really think. Most of those sites are gone so if I remove the links it would look like I haven't awarded any sites, so stroked out text works just fine.

Thank you for telling me there is a problem with the Dixy Pixy review, but it would have been nicer to help find what the problem was so it makes things easier.

I also appreciate your spelling and grammar fixes.

This is a response to the site review written by Foobar Reviews

Posted on 31 Mar 2008 by Woody | 8 Remarks

Dixy Pixy Response

I appreciate any review that always points in a direction of improvement rather than just criticising what you haven't done, so I respect that. I also enjoy your honesty and you aren't too hush and thanks for picking up on the spelling and grammar. With a big site like this it is very hard to keep control of the simplest things, so I'm not an English expert, who is on the net? I'm only human.

But I don't agree with the whole validating bit, there needs to be a line drawn at human error and machine error. I'm not going to regularly validate my code on some check site. The human eye can do the same thing. The code might not be "your way" of coding or might look messy but if it works it works.

The one thing that aggravates me so much every time I read this review is the fact you make fun of my music taste. If anyone ever said Evanescence was "Emo Pop" to my face, they would be missing a nose. The fact that you referred to them as "Emo Pop" shows that you don't really know much about music styles at all. Evanescence are a rock band, period!

This is a response to the site review written by Dixy Pixy

Posted on 31 Mar 2008 by Woody | 0 Remarks