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Content
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| Quality : |
17.5 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
7.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
59.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
9.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
15.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 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. Good quality content.
2. Exclusive, amateur content.
3. Zip file options for downloading images.
4. Smooth site design.
1. Videos are DRM protected.
2. Image size could be even larger.
"A clean amateur site with very nice quality content & one super busty babe." |
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DawnsPlace.com is the home of amateur Internet model, Dawn, who's one strikingly petite, big breasted brunette at only 5'4" tall and a 32DDD bra cup. Her 32DDD's "are 100% real and love to be sucked and fucked!" She loves showing off her body and having kinky fun since she is "always horny". Her site offers both a Silver ($24.95, recurs at $19.99) and Gold VIP ($29.95) membership option. While the Silver membership option gives you access to Dawn's most basic site/features, the Gold VIP membership gives you access to higher quality images & videos, as well as better download options (downloadable zip files). Either way, both memberships offer access to the 10,000+ images and 350+ short video clips here as well as Dawn's audio files, diary, message board and more.
Without having access to Dawn's Silver membership site I can only really comment on her VIP Gold member's area, which has been skillfully designed. I will go as far to say that the Silver site offers a more average amount of quality to the content, with images up to 720x480 pixels and videos streaming at up to 450k (information taken from her join page). And although the site design is professional and functional, I feel that specific categorical breakdowns for the content would make browsing the images & videos much easier. As is stands now, photo galleries are listed in chronological order and there's over 37+ pages worth of them (10 per page). When it comes to actual super high res image options, only the latest 30+ galleries have it but all subsequent updates galleries should be following suit and right now you have a choice between a large image (720x480) and a X-large image (1024x683) and a zip file download option for each. You'll find a lot of softcore, posed sets here with ton of focus on the chest area, as well as themes like stockings, outdoors, latex, blowjobs, cum squirts, up skirt, dildos, lingerie, girl-girl and more.
Same here goes for the videos which are listed on 36+ pages (10 short clips per page). It would really ease up the navigation here quite a bit more if she placed her content into specific categories. Since you're paying for the super-high quality downloads here for the VIP Gold membership, I thought it was important to note that even though her VIP member's 1000k option goes all the way back to her first videos, the quality clearly isn't 1000k at this point, though that was to be expected, I just wanted to point out that the option is there. In fact, even some of the newer videos don't always look as "high quality" as they should streaming at 1000k, but don't get me wrong, they're still nice. Unfortunately, all of the video content here is DRM protected which means once your membership expires, so does your ability to view the content. As for the type of content to be found in the clips, there's quite a variety here as well, with even more hardcore here than is found in the photos.
Dawn's Place is pretty big for an amateur site so it goes with out saying that there are plenty of extras here including bonus content, feeds and more. She's got an online diary which appears that updates have slowed down a bit as the last one is about 3 months old now. On a more positive note, it looks like Dawn does 2 weekly live cam shows and offers a cam archive for past shows. Overall there's just a lot of content here and I can't really comment on the site design of her Silver membership site but I can say that her VIP Gold member's area is designed pretty well even though I keep on complaining how I'd like to have the content broken down into categories. I'm not really sure how I feel about having a choice between memberships, though. I honestly think that $30 bucks per month is simply too much for an amateur site no matter how many high quality options are offered. If she made her VIP Gold membership a flat $24.95 per month, I'd say that she easily has one of the best amateur sites out there but overall her site is still damn good even if it is more expensive than just about every other amateur site out there.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 05-11-07 |
It's been more than 2 years since we've had the pleasure of looking inside Dawn's Place and I see a lot has changed. In addition to the 22,250+ images and 445+ video clips that are now offered, Dawn has even gone to great lengths to improve how all this content is showcased. Her clean and smooth site design allows members to view her image content in a number of different ways, as well as offering both small and large sizes. And while I'd love to see her offer even larger sizing for the images, her newest video content does look amazing, with streams as high as 1100k. Unfortunately these still come with the DRM restrictions attached, which I don't get why, but after watching one great titty fucking segment I think I have an idea of where her head is. Regardless, I think most member's would agree and hope for the removal of licensing restrictions.
Unfortunately it also looks like live cam shows are no longer being offered, but Dawn does post an audio journal entry every now and then. Finally, the last bit of change is the pricing structure. It looks like she's done away with the VIP membership and instead offers either a recurring price of about $30 bucks a month or you can recur every 2 months for $40 bucks each time. So it’s slightly more pricy than last time, but now all members get access to the same quality content. There’s still room for improvement but overall I’m impressed with the direction she’s going here.
Score decreased from 84.1 to 83.0.
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