rev.iew.me is Better than Obama

Seriously, everyone else has been mentioning the new president lately, I felt like I should at least slip his name in there for good measure. Aside from the pointless political reference, one might question what the bloody hell I’m on about? What’s rev.iew.me? Aha! Secret project reveal time! (Except, it wasn’t kept that secret…)

rev.iew.me is the new community web page reviewing website. If you’re into reviewing, into communities, into website feedback and improving your pages, it’s clearly the place for you. Designed by Jacky, who may I say has a fabulous new (recent) layout up at her personal site that totally pwns, so you know it looks good.

A site like rev.iew.me has been on the cards for a while. Many of you are likely familiar with YourSite.nu which, until it was sold, served the community reviewing purpose really well. As predicted a couple of years ago, the new owner was only interested in milking the advertising revenue, and the site has been long dead of any real activity. Although I couldn’t afford to take over YS.nu, I can provide users with the ability to build a similar community back up again, and I hope that the quick code turn around is stable enough to support everyone’s needs.

Given that it’s gone from conception to creation in a matter of weeks (it’d have been days if I hadn’t been ill) there’s likely to be some bugs. There may be things you expect to see there that haven’t been added. There may be times when you wonder what on earth possessed me to encourage certain people to start reviewing again. I am prepared. I am ready for your feedback. I am looking forward to continuing work on my new project :D

So what are you waiting for? Go join!

PS. Aware of IE6 layout issues, am fixing.

Update: I know it still sucks in IE, but since it launched I’ve basically been tweaking and adding features as per requests. I love you all for the huge support you’ve been giving the site already, and I’ve been reading some fantastic reviews. Thank you :)

40 comments so far

  1. Hanna said:
    On 06 Nov at 8:54 pm

    Will we get now world peace?

    (It looks fabulous :))

  2. Vera said:
    On 06 Nov at 8:58 pm

    Yay! Now let the dra– cough fun begin! XD

  3. Luci said:
    On 06 Nov at 8:59 pm

    Looks great, simple and easy to navigate =D

    (Oooh, that rhymes.)

  4. Jacky said:
    On 06 Nov at 9:07 pm

    I plug you, you plug me, we’re a happy family~ heh! I’m so glad that this is up now! Hurrah!

  5. Mimi said:
    On 06 Nov at 9:13 pm

    Ah, hooray! I am super excited! Must. Plug. Brag. Woo!

  6. Melissa said:
    On 06 Nov at 9:14 pm

    You have no idea how much I love you right now, I used to be addicted to Yoursite.nu and I’ve been looking for something similar for ages. Cant wait to get started.

    Oh, and it looks brilliant.

  7. Amber said:
    On 06 Nov at 9:17 pm

    What a great idea!

    The layout looks fab.

  8. Katy said:
    On 06 Nov at 9:25 pm

    I’ll think about adding my blog to the community. The thing is that a lot of review sites review you base on your code and if it’s validated and stuff and I get soo lazy when it comes to that stuff (very bad habit I know!). I guess this is a chance for me to get push myself off my lazy ass and fix all that stuff before submitting my site!

    But anyway, I agree, the layout looks nice and clean plus I love the choice of colors. I always thought YS.nu looked a little too childish.

  9. Carly said:
    On 06 Nov at 9:40 pm

    I lurrrrve it

  10. Angela said:
    On 06 Nov at 10:06 pm

    Oh wow Jem, it looks awesome! Nice job!

  11. Rose said:
    On 06 Nov at 10:09 pm

    I can’t believe it. I almost bought that domain when .me domains came out and then I decided that it wasn’t my top priority for money spending. No joke!

    Looks great. I’m excited :D *joins*

  12. Hev said:
    On 06 Nov at 10:19 pm

    I am joining. I love to review, but I hate getting reviewed cause my site is never completed, lol.

  13. Nyx said:
    On 06 Nov at 10:39 pm

    … I think am stupid. I don’t understand how this work. You just… submit your site(s) you want reviewed?

  14. Belinda said:
    On 06 Nov at 10:45 pm

    Finally! It looks wonderful, I joined. I like love how simple and professional it looks yet also easy to use without all those crappy bells and whistles that yoursite.nu has.

  15. Please rev.iew.me! — another-perfect-world.org said:
    On 06 Nov at 11:13 pm

    […] Jem has been working on a “secret” project, rev.iew.me! […]

  16. Noellium said:
    On 06 Nov at 11:56 pm

    Oh wow. It looks awesome! Great job! :D

  17. M said:
    On 07 Nov at 1:34 am

    Ooh, looks great!

    It’s been a while since I had a site (well not that long – but a site I actually kept updated/designed myself) and whilst I probably won’t be able to spend a bucket of time reviewing, I registered :)

  18. Lydia said:
    On 07 Nov at 2:17 am

    I adore that layout. Everything about it!

  19. Mimi said:
    On 07 Nov at 2:51 am

    I made a couple of buttons and a banner if you want them, if not it won’t hurt my feelings. :) They are here:

    http://i35.tinypic.com/30jqlpc.jpg
    http://i38.tinypic.com/35bs46f.jpg
    http://i37.tinypic.com/n6p5d3.jpg

    And Jem, you totally made Obama cry. You’re so mean!! :’)

  20. Mimi said:
    On 07 Nov at 2:54 am

    Crap, I don’t think my comment went through because I posted 3 links to link buttons I made for rev.iew.me. Ok so let me just say this, if you are interested in them just contact me if you get a chance and I can send them to you. I also posted tinypic URL’s to them in the tagboard, but it might get pushed off before you get to it.

    I also said that you made Obama cry because you’re so mean. :’) Hehe!

  21. Katy said:
    On 07 Nov at 3:26 am

    I am slightly amused/concerned that people will actually review my (now removed) unfinished site. fools.

    but yes, good stuff, if you’re into reviewing. Which I am not :P

  22. Roxanne said:
    On 07 Nov at 3:59 am

    @ Katy – If it was unfinished, why did you post it up in the first place?

    Great job on the design, Jacky and the back-end, Jem. It looks like it was an instant success! My only concern (that’s probably not the right word) is the descriptions for the website are hard to read in a white font color on top of the graphic background. Other then that, love it! =)

  23. Katy said:
    On 07 Nov at 4:11 am

    ‘cos I was helping out with testing stuff, innit :)

  24. Roxanne said:
    On 07 Nov at 4:16 am

    @ Katy – Ahh…gotcha.

  25. Stephanie said:
    On 07 Nov at 5:01 am

    Huh! I shoulda known you were getting back into reviewing again, somehow. And has it really been a couple of years since YS.nu went down? I never was a part of it, but whoa. Time goes by too quickly. Looks nice!

  26. Mat said:
    On 07 Nov at 6:04 am

    Nice nice, good to see it out the bag. not that i agree with review sites as we discussed ;)

    Jacky: Fantastic job on the design :)

  27. Courtney said:
    On 07 Nov at 6:42 am

    It looks great! I don’t know if I’ll join ’cause I’m kinda scared of being reviewed, but hey, I’ll probably pop in and see what’s up.

  28. Julie said:
    On 07 Nov at 6:58 am

    Oh, shiny! Another incentive to finish that damn site I’ve been working on for months.

  29. Louise said:
    On 07 Nov at 7:52 am

    Yay! This is great! :D

  30. Mumblies said:
    On 07 Nov at 9:56 am

    Meh!

  31. Rilla said:
    On 07 Nov at 10:22 am

    I like this as a forum for casually expressing my gibberish. A waiting list full with requested reviews freaks me out! I like to review when I *want* to review. Yay!

  32. Vixx said:
    On 07 Nov at 10:28 am

    There’s long since been a need for a new review site, so kudos to you for putting one out there. I don’t really ‘do’ reviews anymore, but it’s great to see a quality site for people who still do. :)

    V xx

  33. Meggan said:
    On 07 Nov at 7:58 pm

    I love this, seriously. I really like reviewing sites (and I feel like I give good feedback) and this is a perfect avenue for doing so. Plus, I LOVE hearing feedback about my own site (haven’t had an actual review in FOREVER) because it motivates me to fix and improve things. Huzzah!

  34. Audrey said:
    On 07 Nov at 8:11 pm

    Awesome site. You don’t understand how awesome Obama is to us Americans, obviously. :b Deal with Bush leading Your nation to doom.

  35. Maria said:
    On 07 Nov at 9:12 pm

    That’s such a cool site! I love reviewing sites, and feedback is deffinetly the best way to improve yourself. I’m joining now!

  36. Julie said:
    On 07 Nov at 10:09 pm

    P.S. And you will be severely punished for such blasphemy! (see title of post)

  37. Elea said:
    On 07 Nov at 11:03 pm

    I’m so out of the web scene these days. I love the site’s look and feel, but I’m afraid there’s just not enough time to participate, so I guess I can just lurk now and then…much like I’m mostly doing with other people’s blogs and whatnot anyway. ;)

    And, way to milk interest in the new US president with a throwaway line!

  38. Peter said:
    On 08 Nov at 2:19 am

    *coughanythingisbetterthanobamacough*

  39. Adrianne said:
    On 08 Nov at 7:36 am

    Thanks for the invite! I’m not very pleased with YoursiteNU nowadays that I’m ending up reviewing sites that aren’t active anymore.

  40. Chantelle said:
    On 08 Nov at 3:00 pm

    I don’t know about rev.iew.me being better than Obama, but it is awesome. I’ll sign up when I feel like working on my webpage again… Thanks for making another useful/wonderful site. :)