Previous Page Reviews

For October, 1998

http://www.idiom.com/~didogart/hilda/hdindex.html

Rating (out of ten): 9. This page is very easy to navegate and includes many different great
poems by H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) a writer who deserves to be remembered! These poems are
accompanied by an extensive list of page that have to do with various things in H.D.'s life, or H.D.
herself. Read a little about her. She's a marvelous writer. The only slight problem is that there is not
quite as large a selection of H.D. poems as I might like.

Poetic Relevance: 10. The author of the page does not deviate from her subject. Even the links
all lead to more H.D. sites, poetry sites, or sites about the lives of poetry. (with an occasional one
slipping off into other relevant sites having to do with poems, such as mythology sites for the
mythology poems)

http://bbs.purenrg.com/rose/default.htm

Rating: 9. This is a marvelous page for poetry! It includes beautiful poetry, a contest, and even a
book in the making that you can submit your own poems to. The layout is easy to use and the pages
load fast. It's updated so often that practically every time I go there I find something new. The few
problems, for me, appear in how there aren't a huge number of poems as of yet.  Also, I am not
completely certain how well I like a number of them. However, for a non-profit organization that
manages to run a free contest (and if you think that's typical, you're in for a surprise) and relies on
submissions for its collection of poetry, that's pretty impressive.

Poetic Relevance: 10. 11. 12. How much more relevant can you get?

http://www.denimandpearls.com/enter.htm

Rating: 3. The page is difficult to follow due to the pictures without the words in their little blocks.
 It either loads slowly with pictures, or loads quickly without them, but you can't read anything. The
author also shows very little tact in putting all of her web page awards on the first page and pointing
out that she must belong to at least four billion different "save the something" clubs. It's not that
I mind the clubs or the awards; I merely mind waiting an hour for them to download.  I'd prefer
them on another page so that I could quickly look at the page if I was intersted. After that, the
poetry page is hard to navegate! Instead of just putting the names of the poems out and letting me
browse, the poetry is hidden at the bottom with little markers. And then, when I get to the poetry,
it's not even good. What a waste! The only redeming aspect of this page is the beautiful decorations
it gives. Yes, the creator of this page does know how to design a homepage. She just doesn't know
what to do with one.

Relevance: 4. Yes, there is poetry. Unfortunately I do have to claw my way through the page to
get to it. Actually, the author seems to care more about what awards she's won and what groups
she belongs to than what she's writing.