Spun of Silver and Shadow/Imagination, Poetry, and Art: A Castle in Cyberspace promises that you will "Leave Not Unenlightened" and the slogan delivers! Its appearance is a product of very good HTML, though the art could use height tags, original artwork and large type. As for content, you will find several original digital art pieces of the kaleidoscopic variety, with promise of more to come and original poetry with a medieval flavor. Overall impression is "very nice".

Euphoria sports excellent HTML, no right-click, sensational splash page image map, use of status bar, use of http://www.macromedia.com, excellent Javascripts, excellent frames, and striking colors on a dark background. As for content, deep inside under "My Words" is the introduction to the site, where the author interviews himself. Also find a submission form and a published section. The site desires to present his own work and that of others, and accomplishes that beautifully. Impression: "a pleasure."

· Craig Bradshaw's Family Home Page came up in a random search of the HTML Writers' Webring. The site features excellent HTML, an auto-redirect splash page, coordinated colors, popups, excellent link validity and a unifying scheme of original artwork. Its content includes HTML and Javascript experiences that illustrate his fine talent, in photos, games, webcam, action figures for sale and personal links. Overall, it is a "carefully crafted" site, not to mention attractive!

· Castle in the Sky features excellent graphics, a beautiful layout and HTML and good link validation. The content of this site highlights a mythological maze using random links that is beautiful, plus selected HTML help, and a personal journal, called "ramblings." There is an overdue promise of much more to come in graphics, leadership, awards and mayla, and I really hope the author comes through. This mellow site is "very appealing."

Staz's Writing Nook is laid out well, has excellent HTML, is organized, sports a gr-r-reat sitemap and is a fine example of the results of using a webpage generator. For content, the author is very active in causes and writes original poetry and essays which I found to be immensely readable, entertaining, full of imagery. It is also a resource for INXS fans and shows extensive involvement in the Internet Writers' Guild. No guestbook! Overall, the site is "rich."

Kathi is technically excellent, with a unified scheme, fine Javascript and HTML and presenting a gold on black scheme that is pleasing. The content? This web developer provides an excellent, evaluated listing of HTML help sites and tools, and an extensive tutorial on active server pages (ASP). The author is exhaustingly active on the web, personally and professionally. Her site promises to pass on tips for web design and links, and she delivers! My impression is "excellence."

Micha is very sparse on content at the moment, but it is so promising that I want to return and see if it keeps its promise "to be continued". The site features a gorgeous splash page, and interesting treatments -- from numbered pages (just numbers!), to eye-catching backgrounds. First impression is "stunning," and I will update.

Robert Kogan's attractive site displays a captivating picture and a pleasant song per page of poetry, relating to a single or several poems. It contains many works, all original, and the author is highly regarded. I return to this site regularly, especially the page "Love Poem Collection" and specifically the poem "Your Strength." Impression? "Elegant."

At Andromeda's site, click the link for graphic sets and you will be impressed. This artist also taps classical resources to excellent effect. The layout is exciting, and the owner cannot be blamed for broken webring links. This site was a perfect match for a Yahoo search I once made for "French Rose background". Once you see a site like this, your tolerance for other graphics sites diminishes. Impression: "talented."

Create-It 101: Conservatively, I guess 25,000 GeoCities site owners may have gotten their start programming HTML from this site. I know I did. And with a counter over 200,000, who knows how many times they returned? It is very friendly, from its soft pastel color scheme to its relaxing style of writing. HTML is broken into manageable chunks. For a new site owner taking a daunting first step, this is a great site. My overall impression is "simpatico."

Chemicalhamster speaks to me ... "I think therefore I hurt" and "I don't feel that I wrote these ones. I bled them." Hey, I'm better off than that, so it makes me feel good! It also draws me in. The design is technically good which is a pleasure (especially the pasteboard effect of the Notebook), though that is not what the site is about. There is content galore! What more can you ask? I am left with an impression of "curiosity."

· Page Works - Many, many personal homepages offer GIFs, but rarely will you find a special site. Here it is! The splash page is unique, clever and witty, the music is appropriate. GIFs, animated and not, are very organized. The selections are original and unusual; see esp. "Computer". My impression is no surprise -- "great fun." Keep up the great work, Kitty.

Of Ages Past is a quarterly historical fiction site that accepts submissions. Book reviews point to Amazon.com, believe it or not, attractively! The award archives steer you to more fabulous sites of this genre. Very pleasing throughout is the gold and aqua on black and a strict adherence to scheme. I will update with the new address when known. Overall feeling? "Impressed."

· Web Site Assist: This is a pleasant surprise. While the site is not drop-dead stunning, it is perfectly programmed, highly organized, very well written, useful and unified. Everything works, nothing is broken. Someone can put up a webpage with this information and come back for a refresher. It is recently updated. The detail is excellent. Overall impression is "impeccable."

· Garden of Galatea (update: now moved to Dreaming Pool 2/20/00) sports gorgeous graphics, Javascript and clean HTML to give us a site chock full of literature submissions. Maintaining a submission site is a tremendous amount of work and, not only do the editors handle that, they've also redesigned the site five times, better every time. There is a place here to meet the editors, too. If you want to read or submit, this is a fine place to go. My impression is "lovely."

Firethorn has graphical and written art galore. The setting is a green, gold and gray embossed linkware set, but I believe this talented artist will be creating backgrounds someday. Take a look at the 3D paper dolls, poetry, and the story about strays that seems to go on and on.... Overall, I left feeling "enchanted."

· Atomic Arts is carefully laid out -- links work (lots of links), buttons in place, tables of graphics that are scrupulously organized. The entire site screams, "My owner cares!" Besides the buttons, banners, backgrounds and fonts offered, the site specializes in custom-creating these objects for you. See the form on Design Center page. Now, how many homepages do that? My impression is "way to go."

· Mesweet's HTML help and graphics site makes no excuses to viewers without Java-enabled browsers. I like that. She is a research machine, bringing you a table of 28 HTML help sites, 26 Javascript sites (introducing 'Steal My Javascript') and, get this, links to 800 awards sites with evaluations. What can I say except "nice work."

Hmmmm, "interesting" is my impression of Making Money Surfing. The owner claims to be making money from these links that are provided with evaluations, and invites you to try them. There are MANY. It's a very nice idea, if you are interested, LOL. Nice binary design, mouseover Javascript buttons, very nice banner. You just might find a new career!

Be still, my heart: Dalityapi is a literature and digital photo site designed with loads of the very best Javascript you ever saw. Programmed amenities include mouseover for previous version homepages, hidden menu, animated dropdowns and random page selection. Makata is the submitted poetry section and the works are breathtaking. Direct your eyes to the lower right corner for options. My impression is "blink, blink, I can't believe it." : )