Crazy Zeta (review)

Crazy Zeta, a new website by white_raven
Well, this is a nice site. It looks like Raven is going to be working hard on making some graphics for others to use on their various lookups, as well as club layouts, backgrounds, and adoptables. I can't wait to see them! So far she has only gotten up some user lookups, but (while they are not my style) from what I see, her lookups will be very popular.

Other good points to the site, of course, lots of great help articles, including gaming guides; copyright notice and images hosted on her own site; clean layout; and something I really like: on her "hidden areas" pages, she states that the various images are hidden or old and may be getting a makeover for future use. I have seen a lot of sites which show the older world maps and claiming that they are "new" and will be going up on the site in the future, but this is simply not supported by the facts. All of these images were on the servers before the downtime, and the staff don't tend to put images on the servers until just before they announce it.

Okay, so the bad points: Part of this is beyond her control. Apparently Tripod does some weird stuff with their hosted sites and the page reloads several times while you're looking at it, which means that if you want to use your browser's Back and Forward button to navigate (as I like to do), you end up getting annoyed by having to click back through three versions (or more) or every page. Raven has tried to alleviate this by having very comprehensive navigation, including Back links. I also wish the page layout was a little more original. I know that it's hard to come out with a layout that doesn't look like a half a dozen other websites on the web, but this particular layout reminds me of hundreds of other petsite fansites I have seen. Nothing really bad, it just irks me a little. And lastly, there's a lot of things still left in the under construction phase, which is a problem that will of course be cured by time, but it would be nice if these linked to an "Under Construction" page, instead of back to the same page or a blank page.

Overall, great page. I would heartily recommend it. One paw up, prolly two once the rest of the downloadables get up.

Kitaro 10:00 AM