OFFICIAL
76.1
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
14.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
11.0 / 15 |
| Updates : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
54.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
14.5 / 20 |
| Other |
| Temp Fill : |
7.6 / 10 |
| sub-total : |
7.6 / 10 |
Scoring Criteria
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| Editor: Spencer |
Initial Review: 10-27-03 |
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1. Lots of exclusive content.
2. Cool navigation setup.
1. Lack of personality.
2. No videos.
"A technically cool site that needs some more exciting content to please me." |
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Diana Jameson's English Exhibitionists looks to be a former single-girl site that turned into a standard amateur site featuring lots of English women. Looking around the tour, you get a good look at most of the girls available. The one thing I felt was missing so far is some type of personality for the site in general. While they're all supposedly English exhibitionists, there's just no single glue the brings the whole site together. The site isn't focused on the photographer, or one main model (for the most part, even though Diana herself used to be the main star), or any specific type of girl. Perhaps once I take a look around inside this will become more clear.
When logging in, I did get a few popups - one was detailing her new redesign, while the other was for some spyware program (along with a javascript confirmation box telling me I was infected), bleh. I hate that crap. It looks like she has some kind of sophisticated script running the site, which sure makes navigation nice once you get used to it. She says her members used to complain with the layout, which can be understandable with so many pictures, so it's nice to see her evolving with the times.
The photo galleries are first divided up by year (going back to 2001), and there's also a random sampling of 10 pictures every time you load the splash page. From there, you're taken to the actual set previews with such tantalizing titles as set574 and set541 which are sure to get your juices flowing. Thankfully there's a thumbnail as well. Plus those pesky random images are still there, if you prefer to take your chances on that.
The pictures themselves are good, a bit better than standard amateur quality depending on the set. But true to amateur form they are way too small. The standard size while browsing is 400x300, but you can click them to see the enlarged version which ups it to 600x450 for the new stuff. The pictures are large in size already (75kb+), so why not up it a little more and give us a real photo to look at? Diana gives us a ton of info on each pic with her script such as file size, album name, keywords, rating, etc. This info can be turned off if it gets in the way.
The videos section is all but useless, since there's so few clips. Plus the ones that are up were taken by a digital camera, so they are just bad in quality. Definitely don't join this site for the videos.
She has a few extras inside, including her own diary, a blog, search feature, and more. The search is kinda useless for me because it searches by photo, not by photoset. So if you search for "blonde" or something, you'll get just way too many photos to browse through. I had a hard time figuring out how often it was updated, as there no updates page or anything like that. The 2003 photo album has sets that all say added July 8th, which doesn't help.
Overall, I like the actual site with the navigation and info on everything, but it's the content that doesn't do it for me. I don't feel there's anything connecting it all together. You don't even get a ton of info on each model, and can't search by a model's photosets which was weird. At $20, it's not too expensive, and she has a lot of exclusive stuff available. I don't know if it's just me, maybe you'll enjoy it more than I did. Take a look at the samples, maybe I'm just not into English chicks or something. Or maybe I just needed to hear their accents to put me over the edge ;-)
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