The Sailor Senshi Palace is a general Sailor Moon information site done by a webmistress who keeps changing her name. When she submitted the site to me in May, she used the name 'Sailor Pluto'. However, when I visited the site today for this review, I found Sailor Neptune in charge....and a Neptune-ized format.

None of this bothers me...but I wonder what Sailor Pluto will think when she returns...

Down to business. Overall, the site is quite nice. When you enter the site, you are asked to be patient while an animated graphic loads. In reality, you don't have to wait long, and it is worth it. I won't spoil it by telling you too much about it.

The format used throughout the page is quite simple, in form, function, and design, and while for the most part, this is a good thing, in places, it can cause trouble, as we'll see in a bit.

The graphics on the main page are light, nicely-arranged, and well-done. There are no color/text clashes or anything else I could see wrong on the main page in a graphics sense. The main page is also quite short.

I found myself liking the graphics on the "Anime Info" page, then I discovered that most of the content pages on the site use a similar setup. While to a point, this is a good thing, perhaps the graphics themselves could be worked on a tad to make them have less of a jagged-edge appearance and more of a gloss.

I was very impressed that the webmistress put a LOT of work into the multimedia section...going so far as to provide a banner lettering system that completes the banner creation process. Very nice!

There were very few real problems with the site, and I'll run over them now.

While looking through the guestbook, I noted a complaint about the loading speed of graphics. I am using a P3 processor at somewhere in the 300 to 400 MHz range, so the graphics loaded up fine for me, however, unless the person is simply flaming you and trying to be a complete jerk, it is usually good to listen to people when they have constructive criticisms.

The profiles need a bit of work. The information is a bit sparse and shallow, and most of it is things people have seen before and have grown tired of. The next time you find yourself watching the episodes, especially one that seems to focus on one character, that would be a perfect time to rewrite the profiles with a different slant on the character.

Most WPRs, this one included, like to harp about originality, and in a community where we have a limited resource (they aren't making new SM episodes), the creativity of the people in the community needs to be stressed.

When you get into some of the profiles, they have some graphics problems. First, a group of them feature light-colored text on a white-dominated background. The result is that it is hard for me to read the profiles.

Then comes the group that consists of the profile material, a pic, and a background of one solid color. I would suggest a different background for each of these, and especially for the Mars and Venus ones...one does not want to blind people from the glare of the background on the screen.

Last on the graphics list, there is a broken pic in the Sailor Moon profile.

The episode guides are a good idea, but they could be done better. I'd start by spacing out the individual paragraphs a bit, to make it easier to read. I'd then think about converting the pages to HTML so that you can toy with them further...perhaps add some backgrounds and so forth.

That's about it. If you wanted to continue to improve the site, the one thing I would do is put the poll on a seperate page so that the Homestead banner doesn't interfere with ANY of your content. The banner is not the biggest one that I have seen, but it still can get annoying. Without the poll at the bottom of your page, your main page follows one of the unspoken rules of good page building...the less scrolling the better.

Artemis' Score: 7.2