Will and Seb

Info

Site Address: http://willandseb.blogspot.com/

Web Host: Blogger

Run by: Will and Seb

Opened: June 2008

Review

Owners

For a change, there are two owners of Will and Seb, and they are, frankly, Will and Seb! They are both very devoted to their fantastic site, and produce absolutely amazing stories, that so much hard work goes into. It is very clear that both of them like writing their own unique stories very much. They are always talking to themselves and others on the cbox. Not only that, but they are always very polite and kind, as well as replying to comments people have left on posts. This always makes me, and I'm sure others as well, feel very welcome, and shows that the owners are respectful towards visitors, and take pride in new ones arriving.

Layout

Will and Seb have a simple but effective layout for their site, which looks good. It may look a bit dull, but I think it's the content that really matters. It has a light green background, posts background in black, as well as the sidebar. The main problem is a lot of writing, and not enough pictures, which may put new visitors off. I can understand fully what the site is meant to be for; fan fiction; so there isn't anything they could do to make it look better really. It would take too long to put pictures in every story, plus they haven't got the right ones, so this can not be helped. Although, there could possibly be more colourful pictures in the sidebar, and tidy the sidebar up a bit, putting all parts of stories into pages and linked to the posts. But more on that a bit later.

Posts/Stories

Since the site had started, there has been so much put on the site it's unbelievable. It's not only stories either. They have just started reviews and there are a wide variety of different news posts created. This can be off-topic Doctor Who, or asking opinions of their stories from readers. But the main ones are stories, obviously. They are most definitely among the best fan fictions you could find across the internet, and you will always enjoy the variety of different stories. They are still on their first series of stories at the moment. No past companions have been used again in the stories, but they have made up their own. This is great, and you can really get a sense of feel of what their personalities are like. They are so interesting and engrossing, and will just make you want to read on and on once you get started. The frequent parts to stories help to keep the flow going, so you won't forget the story from one part to the next. The reviews are fabulous, as well as the animations they have made by themselves. All this comes together to form one tremendous compilation of material. One point I might pick out is the colour. In all posts, the writing colour is red, which makes it slightly hard and challenging to read.

Spelling and Grammar

As far as I can see, the spelling and grammar is perfect in all stories and anything else they come out with. Every post is well structured, but everything is written in the same size. This is fine, apart from some things may need to stand out a little more than others. But anyway, great!

Pages

I don't think you could say that there were any 'pages' on the site, but a few specific things are linked of the sidebar. This is like navigation, but there are so many different things to see!

• Firstly you get all the stories, and there are eleven so far, each one with five parts to it.
• There are different features to fan-fictions, talking about different characters and enemies, as well as their own spoilers, timeline and costumes!
• The Reviews of merchandise and episodes provide a good source of information and their thoughts on different things.
• There are then the animations they have produced. They are quite fun.

I would suggest making actual pages for each section, so the sidebar can be tidied up and to make all the features easier for access.

Sidebar

There are a number of different things in Will and Seb's sidebar. The site must be brilliant to have won three fun awards visitors have sent. They have won 'Witty Blogger Award', 'Blogger Cleverness Award' and a 'Mid-Air High Five', and the certificates are all located at the top. I might suggest moving them down, as they look a tad out of place at the top, where the welcome message should have been. You can read about the 'contributors', and I think you know who they are! They have a section on the next time Doctor Who video... but it's not actually embedded on the site for some strange reason. Then there's the colourful cbox and the poll on a topic related to the stories they produce. Every section on the site is then listed below, but it looks a bit messy because there are no pictures to break up the text. Then the archive and the owners' favourite websites. Bear in mind that they are not all Doctor Who related. So, a good sidebar, but a bit of tidying up needed in places.

Other Features

Banner; The banner for Will and Seb is nice and simple. It gives the name of the site and a short sentence of what it is.

Quote of the Time; At the very bottom of the page, you can see a random Doctor Who quote, which is a nice feature.

atts key suggestions

• Sort colours, in layout and in posts plus post tidy (read above in posts/stories)
• Tidy up the sidebar, putting related topics into pages
• More pictures, less writing on the homepage

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

Overall

You can spend days on this website, due to the amount of stories and other content. You probably won't get bored either, because of the variety. Then you get pulled back to it because there are always new things. Super!

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