Website Review

When I first started working on this site, I spent many hours cruising the internet looking for useful information.  I wasn't looking particularly for fish information, what I was really looking for were nice sites that had added to the hobby.   My intent was to create a site of my own that would emulate the best traits of other sites.  While I was looking around, I bumped into Rainbow Fish on-line.   This site is a Rainbowfish lover's dream.  Unfortunately, I thought I had been dreaming as I went looking for the site again, but could not find it.  Rainbowfish online had moved servers and gained more information, and that is again available as what I believe to be perhaps the best aquatic site on the internet.

Original Content (10)

Rainbowfish is written much like an in-depth college report.  There is so much good information, you'll find yourself wishing you could purchase it all in book format.  I'm certain that if it was available as a book, the 200+pages would sell amazingly well.  Every aspect of Rainbowfish are covered on the site in great depth.  Care is taken to cover the origins of the fish, how to keep and breed the fish, how to raise the young, and of course a nearly limitless amount of information on nearly every species of Rainbowfish.  In addition, there is information on common gobies and gudgeons in the area as well as an unparalleled section on feeding fish in general.  (though it is intended only to cover Rainbowfish)  That section includes information on raising every type of live food you can imagine in addition to providing information on making your own fish food.   No detail about Rainbowfish and their surroundings have been left out of this site.   The content is singular to the site and of utmost quality.  

Value to the Hobby (10)

My intent in creating my own site was to add value to the hobby.  I feel I have done so, but I would not have even begun a site if every category of fish had a site like the Rainbowfish site attached to it.  Whether you are new or old to the hobby, you will learn massive amounts of information at this site.   In fact, if you had no knowledge whatsoever of Rainbowfish, I am confident that you could spend a day at the site, and it would take at least a day to read it all, and that after your day at the site, you would be one of the most knowledgeable people in your state in regards to Rainbowfish.

Design (Visuals/Navigation) (10)

The site visuals accomplish exactly what they set forth to do.   Rainbowfish are of course very colorful fish, and the site plays off the Rainbowfish name by creating different sections that are each highlighted with one color of the rainbow.  The effect allows you to always know where you are on the site while keeping the site together and making it interesting while you tour the site.

Overall (10)