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Content
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| Quality : |
17.0 / 20 |
| Quantity : |
12.5 / 15 |
| Entertain : |
13.5 / 15 |
| Updates : |
6.5 / 10 |
| Exclusive : |
5.0 / 05 |
| Download : |
4.5 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
59.0 / 70 |
| Navigation |
| Easy : |
8.0 / 10 |
| Features : |
3.0 / 05 |
| Design : |
5.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
16.0 / 20 |
| Other |
| Originality : |
3.5 / 05 |
| Hard Facts : |
3.0 / 05 |
| sub-total : |
6.5 / 10 |
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1. Content quality is good all around.
2. Good network of sites.
3. Good eye candy.
1. Journal and board is kinda dead.
2. Site is pretty small.
"A cute girl, with a mediocre site, that's part of a great network." |
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Ok, I haven't heard of many pornstars, but I've really never heard of Shelby Bell. Today we're looking at her official site, but I don't know how much that means on the internet these days. Her site is produced by the same people that brought you Christine Young, Peter North, Silverstone Video, and more. Their sites usually look pretty slick, with good content. You also now get access to those other sites with your membership, which makes the bang for buck factor even better.
Looking over her site, I gotta say I like her looks. I don't usually take looks into account, but I figured I'd mention it since she's a little hottie. According to her bio, she's been in the porn scene since 2001. People such as Hustler and Ed Powers have shot her, and she's been in scenes with Peter North. I guess it's safe to say she's a pornstar for sure, and no amateur.
Her site is setup about the same as the rest of the sites. A little too much attention is paid to the network updates, rather than the updates of Shelby Bell's site specifically. I didn't see any of her own updates here, which scared me a bit (but once I checked the news section, I saw that she updates about once a week with a couple sets or so). The menu up at the top makes it easy to get around the site without any problems.
The photo section was surprisingly small. There's only six galleries on each page, and only four pages listed right now (the last one is only half full!). That adds up to not enough picture content for me, especially when the site is based around a single girl like this. The sets that are available are about an even mix between pretty pro looking stuff, and amateur girl-next-door type sets. Both types look pretty good though, as usual for this company. The photos are 800x600, which aren't huge, but I wouldn't call them too small either. Most of the sets are solo, but a few hardcore and girl/girl are in there too. Nice looking pictures, overall.
There's almost as many videos as there are photo sets, so I guess that's good. The count right now is at 21, and they add a new one semi-regularly (looks like they do it in spurts). There's a much higher concentration of hardcore and multi-girl scenes here, so if you're into that you know where to look now. In typical fashion, there's lots of video quality options. They have four Windows Media options ranging from 56k to 700k, and two MPG options from 128k to 650k. The looks pretty good, especially the higher-end ones obviously. Picture quality is good, and frame speed is good as well! This is just what you need to watch all that hardcore fun stuff.
With this site being on the smaller end of things, I think the other network sites are where it's all at. You get access to seven other sites, and they all have the same type of content you get on Shelby's site. The cost to get into the site is $25, and that's a pretty good price considering all the stuff you'll be getting. Her site just needs more stuff to stand on it's own. The diary and message boards are kinda dead. There's a live cam thing that says she'll be on, but for now it's just empty. Plus the content sections are smaller than I'd like to see. Once this site grows more (and hopefully gets some more interaction with our star model), I'll definitely like it more. Until then, it's decent if you're way into Shelby, but otherwise I'd just consider it an ok part of the bigger network.
| 1st Follow-Up Review |
Review: 04-05-05 |
Well, as you know we love the Brain Pass network here, and Shelby's site was one of the earlier ones we looked at. There's been some growth here, but not as much as I would have expected. Both the photo and video sections grew a bit, but I don't think it's at a weekly pace which is too bad. With the expansion of additional sites, it seems they have a bit less time on each specific one.
The goods and bads are all still the same here. The network as a whole bumped its price to $30 a while back, but with all the new sites it's not as hard to swallow. Overall, I think this site is on the decline a bit. I wouldn't join for this one specifically, but the content that's here is worth it for sure as a very nice addition to their other stuff.
Score decreased from 84.4 to 81.5.
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