Month: January 1970

A vanity plate for a girl with no internal monologue. That’s the tagline for this weblog. The anonymous other of this weblog is an English teacher in the South Bronx — infdicating she is perfectly capable of putting the “smack down” on me if I dangle a participle in this review.



I will start with the design. The design is Blogger Template: Blue. Not very inspiring, and it appears that not a lot of time is spent working on the design. Of course, that can be forgiven, because Blogger is designed for people who are not necessarily interested in spending hours working on their site design.



That being said, design is really an integral part of expressing the personality of a weblogger. Poor design, sends negative connotations, regardless of the writing quality.



The author approaches her content almost as though she were relaying stories to her friends over the phone. The writing is very informal, and easy to read. The English teacher shows in the above average sentence structure and absence of spelling mistakes.



The entries are interesting, but standard fare for a weblogger in her 20s. I would like to see more entries though, and the archives section is broken, it took me a couple of tries to get the links for last year to work.



Over all, I am going to give this weblog a 2.5. If more effort was put into the design, and there were more entries this could easily be a 3.0+ weblog…to.

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Sylvia claims to be really good at making hideous layouts – at least that’s what she’s put in her site’s banner. I’m disagreeing with her, though, because the layout for her weblog wasn’t hideous at all. It was the exact opposite. The colors worked very well together, and the layout was just as simple as it needed to be.



The layouts on the other internal links throughout the site weren’t consistent, and some of the different formats made the actual text difficult to read. Those were the only glaring design factors that I personally would change.



There’s a weblog, a bit about Sylvia, and a few links to the rest of the ‘net. That’s the extent of the main page. And, truthfully, that’s all the weblog needs.



The entries are funny. Sometimes, I think Sylvia uses her weblog as a distraction from her homework, but those are the entries that I found the funniest.



From her cursed pants she picks up from the thrift store to her subtle obsession of Conan O’Brien, the weblog entries are all varied in length and content.



By visiting Sylvia’s weblog, I can almost guarantee you’ll find something that makes you laugh. And, sometimes, you’ll even find yourself still thinking about a post a while after you’ve read it.icey: i can’t explain, yo

I started to review this site a few days ago, but Jordan was still working on a layout. Today, when I checked in, all was well with the layout, so I proceeded with my review.



And the new layout, in my opinion, works quite well. It’s simple, not at all distracting, and the colors on the main banner and throughout the weblog page worked very well together.



This is your simple, everyday weblog. Jordan updates several times a day. The posts are all relatively short, which makes them easy to read. Even though they’re brief, you can definitely get a good laugh out of some of them.



My favorite posts were the ones in July 2001, where Jordan sometimes featured conversations between an image of Jesus and an image of a cell phone ad model. They were absolutely goofy, and made me giggle each time I saw either of the images in any of the rest of the posts.



Jordan’s one of those most faithful webloggers I’ve seen in a long time – posting throughout the day, and not keeping anyone in suspense as to how her day’s going or what she’s thinking.



I really liked this site for a good chuckle! 🙂patrick swayze super mullet

My first thoughts? “Yay! Basic, nicely colored layout!” But then I realized it might just be too basic. The colors were very simple, and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that aspect of the site. A few graphics here and there would have been splendid, and given this site the extra kick that it needs.



Hyperlinks throughout the text are underlined by a dashed line, which is a nice effect. It was sometimes hard to distinguish between the hyperlinks in each weblog, and the linked date the breaks apart each weblog entry. Even just a solid line between entries would have made it much easier to read and follow.



The posts themselves don’t really have much to them. The majority of posts alternate between sending you to another link on another site, or a dozen word insight to the author’s life. And, for me, niether of those types of posts force me to become attached to the writer, and that’s what I like to see.



The other sections of waferbaby.com are more entertaining than the weblog. A couple of my favorites: the “brainstorm” section includes user-submitted answers to questions that the author of waferbaby as posed or the “howto” section, where you can read up on how to smuggle drugs in jello, how to hate someone unreasonably, or how to train an aardvark. Now, I don’t know about you, but I always need to know how to train an aardvark!waferbaby

“Gibberations galore from a regular down-to-earth kind of guy who is constantly pursuing a balanced life in the best of all possible worlds…” That’s what it says on the top banner of this weblog, and that’s the most appropriate phrase that could be used to describe this weblog.



The layout is *very* easy to look at and to navigate. Right away, I noticed that each weblog entry is archived in not only a monthly history, but also by catagories. These catagories range anywhere from Science to Dreams to Life in Holland to the Meaning of Life.



My plan was to read a few of the entries from each catagory, but it’s not that easy in Kiffin’s Blog. Once you read the first one in any catagory, you want to read another, and another, and “just one more”, until you’re finished with that catagory.



The writing style at Kiffin’s Blog is a very easy one to understand and read – it doesn’t talk over your head, but yet poses questions from time to time that you find yourself thinking about even after you’re finished reading.



I also took a look at the main homepage of the site, and it is very extensive! Each extension of Kiffin’s Blog is just as complete and interesting as the weblog itself.



I liked this site. I liked it a lot. And if you’re looking for a weblog that’s not your everyday “I had fish sticks for dinner” weblog, this is a site I’d suggest you visit.Kiffin’s Blog