Spillit - Full Review Spotlight
Spillit Full Review by Lucky!
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I would like to preface one thing, and it's kind of good. I was looking through Spillit for 30 minutes before starting this review and I would like to state that this review may not be too long for the reason being that there really isn't much to comment on and because I cannot find a lot of things that warrant a negative score. However, I will try my hardest to make this full review somewhat long, kinda. Scoring:
First Impressions & Appearance – (18 out of 20)
Before I start, I would like to say that I had been on Spillit before and have always been fond of the overall look and appearance of the layout. Starting with the navigation, everything is laid out really well and I like the shade of blue that you have chosen for the background color. We have a couple of links that lead to different areas of Spillit, which I would expect. Going down, we have some sort of welcoming area that gives a quick synopsis of what Spillit is and gives the guest a quick way to create an account, which is really important in hooking guests. Keep scrolling and we see yet another area that lists some of what Spillit has to offer and links to those parts of the site that allows guests to get a chance to explore before signing up. I really like this approach because the same thing works in selling items, if they customer can touch it and hold it, they are the most likely to purchase. Nearing the bottom, we get a really easy and quick form to fill out should one want to register an account. Overall, when I first load up Spillit, I am very happy with how everything looks and it makes me want to stay and look around mainly because I know exactly what Spillit is about, because it's right on the homepage. The colors work really well with each other and everything just flows together for an overall great first impression! I like what you did here!
Site Layout – (18 out of 20)
Now, I would like to say that this section is going to be fairly brief. The reason being, there really isn't much to comment on. The navigation bar consists of four links, excluding the login and register, that users would use often if they were already logged in. This enables users to quickly jump between pages without having a lot of links to choose from. What you have left on Spillit are the different pages that users can view, such as the live feed and their own page where I am assuming their answers would feed. What I like about the lack of pages is the fluidity that comes with a simple site layout. You have pages for the basic things that make Spillit tick and then the standard links in the footer. Aside from that, that's all there is in terms of pages. I really like this part of Spillit, it's, and I have to say it like this, it's stupid easy to navigate. Everything just makes sense, and I just have to commend you on that. You did a really, really nice job on making sure everything has a place and that it's easy to get to.
Statistics and Activity – (18 out of 20)
Upon looking all over, I was unable to find any type of statistics section to inquire about users or their posts. However, one thing that I was able to look at was the live feed, which was just buzzing with new content being shown. As I am typing this section, I am looking to my other monitor, which has Spillit shown, the live feed just continues to update with new content, which shows that your users are active and are posting answers a lot. Since I don't have much to go by regarding stats, I will have to stop here. However, from what I can see, very nice job activity wise.
Content – (18 out of 20)
Again, there really isn't much to touch on here. All of your content is user generated which always has some drawbacks. However, I find this area of the review hard to properly fill out mainly because the genre allows for short little blurbs of content to other users, I mean that's what it here for. I wouldn't expect full on content on Spillit just because that's not what it's meant for. It's more of a confessions box that you can share what you think about someone either anonymously or not. Because of this, I will leave this area rather brief because there isn't much to talk about. The genre doesn't allow, and it's not a bad thing, a lot of content to be posted that could be rated on the quality and quantity of content and so on as much as you would on a blog or a forum.
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism – (20 out of 20)
Apart from user generated content, which isn't bad on Spillit, everything looks great. I looked over all of your pages linked in the footer and used software to look them over and we both cannot find anything to correct. I can tell you took the time to read over what you wrote on these pages before publishing them. I like when webmasters do this because it shows they took the time required to fully look everything over in detail before showing the public. Again, not much to touch on.
Total Score - (92 out of 100)
Final Remarks: I really love what you have going on here with Spillit. Everything is very well done and it shows that you have taken emense time to make sure everything not only works like it should, but the attention to detail is amazing. Thank you for allowing me to look over Spillit and I hope you enjoyed!
Strengths:
- The overall theme - How everything is laid out - it just makes sense
Weaknesses:
- To be 100% honest, I really cannot think of one.
