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Type of Site: Performer  
Address: www.kylacolesite.com 
Price:
$6.95/7-day trial; $23.95/month  
Date of Review:
March, 2005
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

"Kyla Cole Site" is Penthouse Pet Kyla Cole's official site. The reason it has the somewhat awkward name (it's also KylaCole.net) is that KylaCole.com (which also bills itself, falsely, as being "official") is being run by Stephen Hicks. Kyla, as you probably know if you're reading this, did a lot of work with Hicks early in her career, and indeed there are a lot of photosets here that are from DDGirls. Without going into any details, they had a falling out and now they aren't getting along at all. Suffice it to say that this is Kyla's official site and the only one updating with new material.

As far as performers go, Kyla is very glam. "Glam", when used to describe Internet porn, usually means the following: well-known models; high quality photography, usually by well-known photographers; softcore content; and less personal involvement in the running of the site. So what surprised us the most was the amount of Kyla we got with this site. She isn't just sitting back and letting somewhat else run the show. Her News and Updates page frequently posts diary updates, with photos, of what's going on in her life (the actual diary, on the other hand, seems more like a bio). And, even more surprisingly, Kyla is also very active doing cam shows. We didn't see any advance schedule (beyond the date and time of her next show), but if her cam show archives are any indication she seems to be doing one show a week (with breaks when her personal schedule gets too busy). That's pretty good.

The presentation is very professional throughout. A lot of work has gone into making things like Kyla's bio look nice. As far as the different sections are concerned, the main ones are the photo galleries and the videos. When we visited they were up to 8,792 pics in 262 galleries, with 1,585 pics in 47 backstage "reportages". The gallery pics are all high quality studio sets, around 1000x800 in size. Almost all of it is solo, softcore posing ("artistic nude photos" is how they are described), though Kyla has some sets where she appears with another girl. Nothing too kinky, even in terms of toy-play. The "fetish" galleries mainly have to do with bondage gear, smoking, or pictures of Kyla's feet. There aren't a ton of pics in each gallery, but the photography itself is very good (she works with a variety of name photographers) and we didn't mind missing huge sets of near-duplicate shots.

We had some trouble with the photo gallery navigation. While very bright and attractively designed, the thumbnail sheets for the photo galleries are overdone. You know when the thumbnails are cut into little shapes so that half the actual picture is not represented? That happens a lot here. We find this style of presenting things to be less than ideal when you're looking for the perfect shot. A simpler layout would be better.

We were also a little confused by the way the main photo gallery index takes you into sub-indexes. If you click on the Fetish thumbnail, for example, you don't get a single fetish gallery but links to 24 sub-fetish galleries. Since these links didn't have thumbnails we were really on our own at this point.

As for the videos, they are the only real disappointment. There aren't enough and they aren't the best quality. When we dropped by they had 14 clips. Playback was only 350 kb/s in the stuff we saw. Didn't look like anything was being produced or short specifically for this site. Most of it was either backstage preparation or television appearances. Nothing hard, or for that matter even sexy. So there's definitely room for improvement here.

The extra stuff is surprisingly good. As noted, the News and Events section is like a photographic diary, and is updated every few days at least with a short message. Updates, usually in the form of new photosets, are being added fairly regularly. Looks like a couple of sets a week. There seems to be a cam show happening once a week, and you get a very full library of pics from previous cam shows as well. The biography (what is labeled as her diary) is one of the most complete we've ever seen.  The Backstage area is also very well stocked, with over 1,500 personal behind-the-scenes pics. Again we were impressed with how much personal Kyla material there was here.

This level of personal involvement will be important to sustain. Kyla seems to have a number of more mainstream interests, and her schedule does seem kind of busy. But at least for now this is a nice little fan site.

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