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Content
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| Quality : |
17.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
14.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
62.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.0 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria New
New Update!
As of Aug 15th, 07, price of a site is no longer factored into the overall score/rank. |
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1. Helpful model directory.
2. Complete issue archives.
3. High quality pictures.
4. Lots of picture & video content.
1. Confusing video navigation.
2. Posed magazine style content.
"An impressive teen niche site for those who like the look & feel of magazine content." |
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First things first, 18eighteen.com is indeed the official website of the print magazine "18Eighteen". It's produced by Score Group whose flagship product is Score magazine and the Scoreland website which focuses on huge boobs. This 18eighteen.com site features a combination of content from both 18Eighteen and Babyface magazines.
The most important content is the magazine archives which make up the "Photo" section of the site. Back issue archives are offered for both 18Eighteen (monthly from 2001 thru current month, plus holiday issues) and Babyface (monthly from Oct 1998 thru May 2001). Each issue features a brief summary plus all the photo galleries. I'm not familiar with the print issues, so if there are articles and other sections, those didn't make it to the website. Each averages about 10 galleries of a lot of softcore and some hardcore action. The style is worth noting, they are very professional and magazine-ish. Everything is staged and done in the style of what you might see in a polished and airbrushed magazine. Amateur and off-the-cuff poses are nowhere to be found. For a picture site, 18Eighteen gives users good viewing choices. All pictures can be viewed online at either 1600x1200 or 800x600 resolutions. They can also be downloaded as zip files in those same resolutions.
In addition to the nice picture options, the issue archives are nice because they're easy to browse. A searchable and alphabetized model directory is available with bios and links to all galleries where the model appears. The two other main parts of the site, "Video" and "Features", aren't so user-friendly. In fact, I found them to be rather confusing.
The "Video" section has movies in three sections: Best Sellers, Specials, and Live Sex Shows. We can dismiss Live Sex Shows right off the bat since those are links to 3rd party feeds. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the organization for either Best Sellers (which has 10 sub-categories) or Specials (which has 4 sub-categories). Those two sections combined are a jumble of solo girl, lesbian, and hardcore scenes. Some seemed original and other stuff I'd seen before. Formatting is WMV and QuickTime, although I noticed many videos where WMV only had low quality clips whereas QT had high and low.
The site's "Features" area is equally as baffling as the videos. Stories, articles, Q&A, and pictures are some of the items found there. I didn't find anything in there that was overly entertaining and even the pictures take a back seat to what can be found in the issue archives. At $29.95/mo I'd recommend this site mostly to those of you already familiar with 18Eighteen's work. If you like their product then this site should be a good compliment to your print mags. Otherwise, I think the content might have too much of a professional feel for you dudes just surfing the net for a good teen site.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 01-26-07 |
18 Eighteen keeps rolling along as they continue to build the magazine archives every month for the 18 Eighteen publications. The older Babyface archives are still available as well. The updates page shows that they're continuing to update every one or two days with a good balance of photo and video additions. While the video portion of the site is still a bit confusing as far as organization goes the total number of movies is now over 300 - an impressive number. The balance of hardcore and solo girl shoots in there is nice as well. 18 Eighteen remains a solid site for magazine style content.
Score increased from 81.7 to 83.0.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 10-14-08 |
This is TBP's third look at 18 Eighteen from he Score Group and although the basic foundation of the member's area has held steady with magazine issue archives and a collection of both pictures and videos. The videos have in-browser Flash formats now in addition to the full-file WMV and QT formats. Updates continue to be made every weekday with a complete log of archive postings. The picture quality seems to have been fine-tuned and increased on the newer galleries. They seem sharper and less grainy than I remember back in the archives. Basically 18 Eighteen is larger than ever before and they've bumped up some of the content options and quality. It remains a solid teen site from a well established magazine publication company.
Score increased from 83.0 to 84.0.
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