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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
15.0 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
62.5 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
4.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
7.5 / 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. Good quality, especially for a magazine site.
2. Lots of content to check out.
3. Good update schedule.
1. Navigation is a bit difficult.
2. Video quality could be better.
"A very nice offering, especially for a magazine site, for all you eighteen (18) lovers." |
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To underscore the importance of the age here, 18 Eighteen lists the age of their models twice in the title. Or perhaps it's for those non-English speaking surfers out there since numbers are universal? Either way, it's clear what they've got going on here. The Score magazine people are behind this site where they showcase legal teens from their magazine of the same title. I liked the last site of theirs I looked at, even though the niche wasn't one of my favorites, so this one should be fun as well.
Like most magazine sites, they basically present the content from back issues online. Most of the problems on these sites come in the form of price (which is a little high here as well at $30 a month), and small pictures (that look even worse since they're usually scanned in). Here they seem to offer all of the 18 Eighteen issues (which come out once a month) from 2001 to the present in addition to some old issues of a magazine called BabyFace from 1998-2001. That adds up to quite a few issues available online, which may be the reason for the higher price.
Pictures can be found by browsing through the issue number/date, or by the model's index if you know the girl's name (and they only list first names, so there may be quite a few of her name listed). Once you find an issue, you're taken to the overview page which has links to ten galleries. Each gallery comes with two picture-size options: 800x600 and 1600x1200! Each page also has a zip file download link (both sizes are available), though you'd need to download several zips to get the whole gallery. Some of the links are hard to find, but once you do they're always in the same place for each gallery.
You can tell the pictures are scanned and not shot in digital format from the start, but the quality is better than most for this method. On the smaller photos, you can barely tell if you're just viewing them online. Quality is pretty decent here, especially for a magazine, and the galleries tend to look like pretty standard magazine layouts. There is some hardcore available, though it's definitely not a majority here, if you want to seek it out.
There's a nice separate video section to check out, which makes finding them a lot easier than on some other magazine sites. They seem to offer Quicktime and Windows Media formats in two quality options each (although some aren't available at times). Actually once you look at actual file names, you'll notice that some with the WMV logo are actually MPG. Just label them right people :) On the first clip I checked out, the "low"-quality WMV was a 640x480 450kbps option, which isn't too low-quality to me. The MPG was good as well, with a good mix of action around (although browsing through the separate video sections is a bit annoying).
The usual magazine extras can be found including stories and articles. There are also a few special sections to check out with some bonus content. Quantity is good all around here with all they give you, so they probably almost get away with charging a bit more than some. They update the site quite often (with each month's magazine being spread out over the whole month it seems - plus the extras like video which obviously aren't in the mag). A good offering from the Score Magazine people for those of you interested in the younger ladies.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 02-02-07 |
Things look pretty good, but similar, around here since last time we were here. The site is bigger than ever of course with all their regular updates, and the quality seems to be upgraded with the times as well thankfully. Pictures are larger, videos are clearer, and 18 Eighteen continues to impress me considering that they're a magazine-based site. Much of my original review remains, so no need to rehash everything here. It remains a good destination for a lot of exclusive content!
Score decreased from 85.6 to 85.5.
| 2nd Follow-Up Review |
Review: 10-22-08 |
With more content, a lower price, and a small bump in quality, things are looking good here at 18 Eighteen. The basic site remains the same, and the updates continue to roll in five times a week. The pictures look a little better these days, and my guess is that they may have switched to all diital photography or something similar. The site itself could still use some tweaking to make getting around a little easier, but at least they offer a lot of content and updates here. The new price is $20 a month instead of $30 a month, which makes it that much of a better deal!
Score remains at 85.5.
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