The Weblog Review

After reading through the weblog entries, I learned that this site is in it’s youth, with the author still learning HTML and other web design techniques in general. That explains some of the basic design no-no’s, such as the dark green text on the black background and the request that you install “comet cursors” when loading the page.



The weblog entries themselves were far more entertaining, giving the site something worth visiting. Rarely does a weblog actually make me laugh out loud, as this one did when I read such lines as, “my ass is expanding. not in an i’ve-been-wearing-a-butt-plug kind of way, mind you. more the someone’s-been-injecting-it-with-silicone variety.” Few weblog authors are willing to put it out there like that and make fun of themselves for the benefit of others. Thank you, enchanting_devil.



Reading further into the archives, I found more nuggets of humor, and grew to end up liking the weblog author for her spunky personality and wit. When a dismal design can be redeemed by a clever author’s weblog entries, you know you have found a site with promise. Given some time and persistance, this fledgling site will certainly be one for the bookmarks; it just needs to get ripe first.



enchanted, i’m sure

I had to review this site because for a long time it was a regular read of mine. Then some time later I lost interest in the site and only periodically checked it out.



Design:

I like layouts that can give the feeling that there was some work done to make it look good, without the gawdy ‘artsy type sites’ that take a month to download even with high speed access. This site achieves that. She’s got a good use of colors and icons and the layout is easy to follow. From what I recall re-designs are plentiful so by the time you read this the big funny cat may be gone.


Content:

Like so many blogs it’s really more of a means to communicate with people she knows than to provide any definable content. I don’t say this as a bad thing but to find something that interests me (being an oustider) was hard to come by. That said, I like her style of writing all the same. Be warned that she wasnt kidding when she warned The Weblog Review that she’s a potty mouth.


Extras:

There are plenty of links to rings and cliques if you you’re into that sort of thing. But I found her gallery to be the best extra on the site. She complains ‘its a peice of..’ wait, I cant post that here. But whether she likes it or not it adds value to the site for sure.



One thing that was missing for sure was an ‘about me’ type page or section. I realize that there’s a cam shot and you can tell a lot about a person that way but I want more details. I need to be involved with the person I’m reading if I’m going to read often.



Overall:

A good site for casual viewing. Myself I check back almost exclusively for the photos, but I’m wacky like that, I like to see other peoples pictures 🙂



Take a look for yourself at the site, depending if you’re in her age group (which I’m clearly not) will have some bearing on if you consider it one of your regular reads.



cozmik.gerl

It’s definatly unique. I can tell you that much. I played an exciting game called “Find the Navigation Bar, win some pride” took me a while, but hey I managed. Actually, if you are faced with the same problem as I was when I visited this site (hard time finding the nav menu) it’s right under the top ‘contemporary art’ peice with the green background.



I would also wish people would use the cellpadding feature that comes along with HTMLs table code. Not much to do on this site, not very long posts. I doubt it will keep it’s visitors, there’s nothing to do. I suppose it’s all based on opinion though. I like the layout, and graphics.



All in all, I would give this site a 3.5 because of the design structure and lack of posts. It appears that this site is slightly unfinished.

abstract outlet

This is my first review here and I’m glad to say I got a nice site to review.



The Blog is quite interesting and funny at times however there is an alarming long

section on airports in one of her recent posts.

The layout is pretty much like a standard blog and although the colours are very plain

(cream ? and white ) it does look very nice indeed.



It doesn’t appear to be updated daily but when it is updated you can expect a lot of

text and although normally I don’t like long posts , I actually found this very

interesting. There was a section about “Night terrors” which I really enjoyed reading

about as I have had a few of these.



Might not be of interest to everyone but it is worth at least one visit.



Unpack the Luggage

As the title suggests, this is a weblog that is actually funny for once. A very entertaining read, I was immediately struck by the first post on the page, about a scene in an episode of Magnum PI (a show i’ve never seen):



“There was a big musical montage for that scene, and I always thought the music they used kicked ass. So today I’m talking to this dude who lives in my building about it and he says, ‘Yeah, that’s ‘The Brazilian’ by Genesis.’ Then later on, he lent me the cd… and I’ll be damned if that ain’t the song. This might seem like small potatoes to you chickenfuckers, but this song has been haunting me for years. It’s like, I can finally rest in peace.”



The page looks something like a Blogger template, but with a few added visuals.

The design is not very eye-catching, but it can be pulled off because the content stands alone. He continues to talk about his experiences with bums, which could be exaggerated, but who cares, it’s still interesting to read. Definitley a divergence from all of the “my life sucks, feel sorry for me” weblogs around today. I’d definitley recommend this site.My So-called penis