Doctor Rumours

Info

Site Address: http://www.doctorrumors.blogspot.com/

Web Host: Blogger

Run by: Jake

Opened: September 2008

Review

Owner

The owner of Doctor Rumours, mostly, greets people in the cbox, but not all that often, but we can establish that he takes pride in the visitors that the site has already got. Jake also talks a lot in the cbox, but lately, it has not always been about new visits. He sometimes includes his own life in the posts made, which is good, and occasionally makes the site feel like an actual 'blog'.

Layout

The layout works nicely for the site. There are many colours, but none of them are too bright. There is no colour scheme as such to Doctor Rumours, but the background colour is a darkesh blue, with the post section black, and sidebar a green and a blue lower down. I think there needs to be a little sort out to colours, as I don't think the variety at the moment attracts visitors to the site too well. There needs to be some sort of format, to just make it look a little tidier, perhaps?

News Posts

I wouldn't say that there were a lot of news posts. Occasionally there are, but it's mainly about news on the site or information and news that the owner has just found randomly. Now, I think by the name of the site that it's supposed to be rumours from the Whouniverse, but it is still slightly confusing to try and latch on to what the main theme of posts are. The posts themselves are brought out pretty regularly, but there hasn't been all that much on news recently. It all needs to be a bit more clear.

Spelling and Grammar

Spelling mistakes don't occur all that often, but there are a few points on grammar. Capital letter misuse occurs quite frequently, putting small case letters at the start of a word meant to start with a capital and stuff like that. Also, it's all a bit jumbled up, if you know what I mean! There doesn't seem to be a lot of structure, so it would be nice to see improvement on this topic. But I don't want to sound negative!

Pages

A new page, the Banner Designs page has recently launched. The whole idea is for people to ask for a banner, made exclusively by the owner, for his or her site. This is a great idea, and I hope the owners of other websites like them. One query on that matter is that the banners made don't seem to fit the size of the site they are aiming at. They all seem a bit big, but I won't dig too deep into that, as it's for Jake and the other website owner to talk about.

Sidebar

The site's sidebar has a lot of gadgets in it for information and just for fun. It contains a welcome sign, again, welcoming people to the site, the owner's email address, so that you can contact him if need be. Next Time videos remind you of the next episode to be broadcast, of all shows; Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. Also details are shown under each video of what the episodes are. Visitor information ends the first part of the sidebar, with page hits and who's online at the time of your visit. The site has only been running for just over a month, so I'm not suprised that there aren't that many visitors, but as the site grows older, I'm sure the figure will get bigger. Following on from what was in the first half of the sidebar, a picture and dates show the next episode of all shows. This should possibly be with the videos, but not a major matter. The cbox is in use a lot of the time for chatting, and is also good for opinions and views on the site from visitors. There is a regular poll, and a list of useful websites. A great feature from Blogger shows which Doctor Who, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures episodes were shown on this day. At the bottom are a few links to random things, like scripts from Doctor Who, found on The Writer's Tale website.

Other Features

Banner; The Banner for Doctor Rumours is quite good, but is a little large. It means you have to scroll down a bit to get to the main part of the site. The design of the banner is great, though. It has Mr Smith, but in the screen it has been changed, having the site's logo, plus all three show's ones too. Cleverly, the site's name has been edited into the keys at the bottom of Mr. Smith, which looks great!

Copyright Notice; Just a notice showing that all the shows are copyright BBC and such.

atts key suggestions

• Sort colour scheme
• Sort out a few other things like Posts, Grammar and Sidebar
• Just mostly everything I have said above

Note - these are only suggestions, which you may or may not want to take into account.

Overall

A lovely little site, that seems to have a variety of different posts and great features, but a little more work would make it even better! 

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