This review of Calvins Corner V3 is brought to you by The Weblog Review blog and website reviews. Get your site reviewed within 4 days by using the 'For Faster Service' link on the left menu.
Calvins Corner V3
First off, I would not have been able to see this site at all if I didn't change the 'C' in 'calvin' in the address to a lower-case 'c'.
Calvin's Corner started with a disclaimer. This disclaimer immediately put me on the defense, before I even entered the site. Being told that I shouldn't complain or be offended by the design was quite humorous, considering the main site popped up in a non-resizable window that wouldn't fit the content without scrolling left and right. As the disclaimer stated, I would have happily clicked "on the 'x' in the top right corner," but alas, I have no 'x' in my top right hand corner. In fact, I have no 'x' in either corner, being on a Mac.
Nevertheless, I started reading through the weblog, which seemed to be a collaboration between Calvin and Randy. The weblog entries were not very interesting, mostly being short comments about recent events.
I went to the "About" section, realizing I had no Back button to get me to the front again. Having to command-click to navigate is a pain. I left the site and slid over to my PC to give it a shot, hoping that the site had been designed to work better in Windows.
Unfortunately, the PC window was the same: too small to fit the content, not resizable, and no nav buttons. I didn't even bother checking out the rest of the site.
Maybe I should have listened to the disclaimer.
This site was reviewed on 2001-09-25 by Will.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Will felt that Calvins Corner V3 deserved a rating of 1.
This site was once sent to us and was reviewed before. Then it got a 2 on the rating scale, and now, it doesn't even get that. The problems of before were of design and links that weren't there. Well now links are there. Yay.
So why a lower rating this time? First thing I see when I get to the page is a splash page. If any of you reading this have read any of my reviews, then you know that I hate splash pages. They serve no purpose other than to ad another page view to the person's counter. But this one was unique in that it had a nice little disclaimer.
Disclaimer... yadda yadda yadda, I take no reasonability if you get hurt... yadda yadda yadda, if you don't like what is posted, click on the "x" in the right hand corner... yadda yadda yadda, boring stuff in the disclaimer. No reason to have it.
So I close the disclaimer, and I click to enter. What do I get? A nice little pop-up window that is already sized for me with no navigation bars. The webmaster is using a javascript trick that many people used back in 97 to control the look of their site. However, in 97 the reason for this was because the background was an image, and everything was positioned around that background.
I start reading and there really wasn't much that interested me. Maybe it was because I was so frustrated by the disclaimer and splash screen? I don't know.
So I decide that I am going to explore the site. I click about. This part I almost liked. Great break down on the history of the site and what have you, but every other line was "like" this or "like" that like you know what I mean? A page has an almost professional disclaimer, and yet in the writing, its like that valley girl talk you-know.
Check out all the rest of the links, nothing is there except for a brief description of what will be there. So I go back to the "news" section and I notice something with the layout. The window was sized for me so I couldn't change it, and yet, there was a scroll bar to move to the right. If you are going to give me a new window and not let me re-size it, set it to the correct size please!
I have to agree with Will on this matter, I should have just clicked the "x" in the corner, but alas, I too am on a Mac and have no "x".
This site was reviewed on 2001-09-25 by Brent.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Brent felt that Calvins Corner V3 deserved a rating of 1.
2 reviewers gave Calvins Corner V3 an average rating of 1.0000
Site Stats
Site Category: Personal
Reader Rating: 0.0000 based on votes
Report URL
Cast your vote
Sorry you need to log in to vote.