OFFICIAL
76.5
pretty good |
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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
9.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
9.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
2.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
56.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
7.5 / 10 |
| Features : |
2.5 / 05 |
| Design : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
13.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
4.0 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.5 / 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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| Editor: Spencer |
Initial Review: 08-06-07 |
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1. Exclusive niche content.
2. Updates come daily.
1. Pretty small site for now.
2. Videos could use better quality.
3. Navigation could be better.
4. Downloads came a little slow for me.
"Overall it's a nice start for this pinup niche site, and hopefully will only get better in time." |
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Today we're looking at a nice little niche site called Pin-Up Wow. They obviously are showcasing content of women in pinup-style photographs, though this isn't older content here at all. They re-create that old feeling with modern models and technology, so hopefully you can get the best of both worlds. You'll get to see some fancy outfits, makeup, and hair-dos here as the girls show off their stuff. Membership is $20 a month, which is about right for a smaller boutique site like this.
The goods:
- Exclusive niche content. I'm sure it's the reason you came here, and it's their main selling point of course. They have to shoot all this material in house to get it just the way they want it, and hopefully you like what you see.
- Updates come daily. I was surprised to see such a strong update schedule here since the site is so small, but it must just be brand new. They offer seven updates a week, usually of photo galleries of course, but a few videos are thrown in there as well.
The bads:
- Pretty small site for now. Like I said, with the great update schedule they have going, I'm surprised they aren't bigger. Hopefully it won't take long at the rate they're going to grow a bit.
- Videos could use better quality. The actual video stats aren't bad, but for some reason they had a lot of artifacts and jagged lines for me. For the numbers they're pumping out (640x480 and 2000kbps), I think they could look a lot better.
- Navigation could be better. The one thing that really bugs me is that they don't separate their videos and pictures, so it's hard to find the videos here. Other additions would be nice as well to make getting around (and finding specific content types) easier, but separating the videos would be my first request.
- Downloads came a little slow for me. They were under half of our normal speed, which just meant it took a little while for the video to start playing. Hopefully that's a temporary problem and nothing major.
Conclusion:
Overall, it's not a bad little site here. You know going into it that it's not going to compete with the huge mega-sites out there, but for offering some nice niche content, they're doing pretty good. Most impressive is the update schedule, and the content is fun too of course. Hopefully in time the site can be re-done a little, as the rest is pretty solid for now.
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