Review of Enchanté

• Site name: Enchanté
• Site owner: Chloe
• Date reviewed: December 30, 2009

Site Name

I like your website’s name because it is original. You don’t see too many one-word names, and even fewer site names in French. My concern with this though is that many people may not know how to pronounce your site’s name. I do because I can speak a lot of French, but I know that French pronunciation is not instinctual for people who don’t know it. Also, while the E accent aigu (é) can be typed in a word processor such as Microsoft Word, it cannot easily be typed on the internet. I have had to copy and paste your site’s name ever since I first got your review application. If I am on MSN, Twitter, etc. and I want to tell my friend “I am browsing Enchanté”, I won’t be able to do so easily!

I also dislike how your URL has absolutely nothing to do with the name of your site. How is someone going to remember to type “lavendergrl62″ when they want to visit Enchanté? It’s illogical! Even I forgot when I was starting this review and had to instead click your link in my queue. It is quite easy to create another Freewebs account with a username like “Enchante”. However, enchante.webs.com already exists. Maybe you should consider a new site name altogether! Something without accents that are nearly impossible to type, and with a url that matches. Alternatively, you could apply for subdomain hosting somewhere else and not have to change your site’s name just to have a unique URL. There are many hosts who do not require that you make your own layouts, such as Kya at Bubble.nu.

Layout

Since you are using a premade layout, I will skip this section and the two that follow (cross-browser compatibility and coding). However, I would like to ask why your credit to the layout’s creator in the footer does not contain a link to the maker’s site. You say “Design by SweetAlacrity 2009 All rights revserved”, which by the way should say “reserved”, not “revserved”. Why is “SweetAlacrity” not a link to his/her website? This does not seem fair to the owner of this website, who put lots of time and effort into creating the layout that you are using. Plus, what if others want to look at the other layouts he/she has to offer because they really like the one you’re using?

Do you have to have that networking bar across the bottom? It’s pretty annoying, even though you can click to hide it.

Content

Info: I like the name of this section. “Info” is nice and generic so it can cover information about both the website and its owner.

It took me a while to notice the links across the top of each page here. I think you should somehow make them more prominent, for example by making them bigger.

About the Site: “a site that” should be “a site where”

About Me: “best selling” should be “best-selling”

“infront” should be “in front”

Contact Me: Your button doesn’t even have an accent! See what I mean about it being difficult to type?

Credits: Oh here is the link to your layout’s designer. You really should link to her site in your footer. Just placing her name here is not enough.

Why do you have so many websites listed as “N/A”? If their credit is not applicable, why have you listed them? If they provided resources for a previous layout, you should list that.

Advice: “experiance” should be “experience”

“annonymous” should be “anonymous”

When I click any of your advice categories except for “family”, the only navigation that remains to the left is to go back to the advice page. What if I wanted to go somewhere else?

I know age is but a number, but since you are only twelve I would feel uncomfortable asking you for advice. Do not forget that many of the topics that could be brought up could be more mature than you may be ready to handle. Giving advice to your sister, who is even younger than you, does not necessarily qualify you to give advice to others. This service is great for people about your age though.

For obvious reasons, I will not review the advice you have given.

Journals: I think this section would be more aptly named something like “articles” or “opinions”. When I clicked journals I wasn’t sure what to expect.

50 Things That Make Me Smile: “affilates” should be “affiliates”

“Aeropostale” should be “Aéropostale”

“tha” should be “that” or “the”

Blog Smilies: “empahzsize” should be “emphasize”

Capitilization: “Capitilization” should be “Capitalization”. I’m really sad that you misspelled the title of your article.

Every instance of “capitilize”, “capitilization”, and “capitilizing” needs to be changed to “capitalize”, “capitalization”, or “capitalizing”.

“A in Anne capitizized” should be “A in Anne capitalized”

“coverup” should be “cover-up”

“othrwise” should be “otherwise”

Cliques: “well written” should be “well-written”

“to be in their clique” should be “from their clique” – You exclude someone FROM something.

“steryotypes” should be “stereotypes” This should be fixed many times throughout the article.

“”average’” should be either “”average”" or “‘average’” You have done this multiple times throughout this article.

“kind hearted” should be “kind-hearted”

“eachother” should be “each other”

Every So Often Blogs: “detication” should be “dedication”

Finding a Writing Topic: “surprised to” should be either “surprised at” or “surprised by”

“Infact” should be “In fact”

“abpout” should be “about”

“coaters” should be “coasters”

“ralitives” should be “relatives”

Makeup at a Young Age: “eleven year old” should be “eleven-year-old”

“Infact” should be “In fact”

“whatgirls” should be “what girls”

“look more presenting” should be “look more presentable”

“thus, make” should be either “thus making” or “to thus make”

Exits: “Affilates” should be “Affiliates”

Aww, I appreciate the comment you made about reviewers. You’re welcome!

Overall Impression

I was disappointed to find so many spelling errors in your “journals”, since yours is a writing site. I think it is really important that you fix these errors if you want this to be a showcase of your writings.

In regard to originality, I find that your writing topics are original, but it seems like you lack something to keep visitors coming back. You don’t have many articles/journals, and there is really just nothing to draw visitors to your site repeatedly. You should add more “journals” as well as more varied content to keep visitors coming back to your site.

Your website is well-organized and easy to navigate, besides that one issue of the sidebar when I click an advice category.

I have chosen to award your site three out of five doughnuts, because although you have potential, your site is severely lacking in content right now and you need to proofread your writings. Like I said before, it is extremely disappointing to find so many errors in your writing when this is a writing showcase.