Vanessa Del Rio Review
Date: December 22nd, 2006
Score: Full 4/5
Niche: Classic Pornstar, Mature solo (1974-Present)
Design: The design is dark and a bit busy, with lots of buttons and links and random things to look at. It can be a bit of a distraction away from the content of the site. However, It's an amateur look that shows pieces of Vanessa's personality, as she runs the site by her lonesome. It's always nice to see the heart and soul of someone in their site design. Her latest news and cam schedule is at the top.
Pictures: Vanessa Del Rio has 19 picture albums that cover the vast years of her porn career, from 1974-2001. She also has a collection of her more recent pics in the albums. She offers Behind the Scenes, hardcore, softcore, magazine scans, and tons of other photos of her work. These were provided by various sources, so again the quality is all over the place. There's truly some great work in her porn pictures, though. The newer photo sets are contained in a seperate section, and there are 75 sets of these. It's a good mix between masturbatory action and Vanessa's everyday life at conventions and events.
Movies: While she isn't actively involved in any movies (only her cam shows), Vanessa does have a big collection of movies and cam clips for your viewing pleasure. They are gathered from various sources, so the quality varies throughout all of the clips. Most of them are pretty nice, though. The movies are divided up into small clips for downloading, with cam clips in WMV format and movie clips in a lot of different formats (because of the sources they were received from). The only streaming option is from her theatre, which features two of her movies (but mostly serves as an upsell to her ppv theatre). She also has a seperate section of yummy retro fetish pictures.
Speed: The site is responsive and fast.
Navigation:
The site can be quite overwhelming at first. There's a ton of sections to go through, and every one of them oozes her sexual personality. This is truly a great collection of everything and anything Vanessa Del Rio, all in one convenient site.
Originality: This site is Vanessa Del Rio through and through, with both non exclusive and exclusive content. If it's about Vanessa, she most likely has gotten her hands on it and put it up on her site. This is truly one hell of an experience, and you really get to know the woman as both herself and her pornstar self.
Overall Ease of Use: Once you got used to where everything was, the design seemed to fall into place a bit better. It does have a bit of a learning curve with is a bar to user friendliness.
Main Draws: Learning all about Vanessa in picture, movie, and story form.
Updates: Her diary is updated weekly, and the site gets new additions every month it looks like.
Bonus Fun: There's a ton of extras, both about Vanessa herself and random stuff that she finds interesting. You have stories, friends links, interviews, art galleries, a Vanessa Del Rio store, an advice column, live webcam shows of her own along with friend's cams, and a diary that she updates often.
Annoyances: The photo and video quality were all over the place, so you are never quite sure of what you're getting with each picture set. The site design itself does take awhle to get used to, and there is no uniform layout or navigation throughout the various sections.
Is It Worth it? Vanessa is a very strong willed woman and incredibly comfortable in her sexuality. Her personality can be found in every aspect of this site, and that alone makes it a very enjoyable experience. The fact taht she's still around and happy in the porn industry says yet another thing about this awesome lady. If you love touching base with classic pornstars and seeing what they're up to today, you're going to love this site. Just be prepared to spend some time getting used to the site layout.
Price: 24.95/month recurring with a free signed color picture, 59.95/3 months (and 19.95 every month after) with two free signed pictures, 89.95/6 months (non recurring) and get a free video or DVD.