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First thing I noticed when the page loaded was a kick ass picture of an atom from circa-day-parents time. Well to be honest, around the 50's I think. I like it when people can have an original logo with their title.
So the rest of the page takes a long time to load. Why? Because every single post is on the main page. I definitely recommend investing in some archives. Good part though is it makes it real easy to read every post.
The author lets us in a little into her life. Loves James Dean and that time period. But for someone so into retro, the cam pictures don't reflect it. Oh well. Yes I said cam pictures. She is contemplating whether or not to make the cam a live image. It would be the first weblog that I have seen do it, so I say go for it if you are comfortable enough to do so.
Design wise, the site needs some help. If you are going to have a page be 10 print pages long, do something with it. Adding archives, shortening up the length, lots can be done when it is more set. Plus, unless you read every post, you aren't going to see the bottom of the page (unless you scroll) and see her disclaimer.
This site has a lot of potential and a lot of good things. I hope that soon, the author takes out the bad and replaces it with more good. The site would be killer then.
This site was reviewed on 2001-08-14 by Brent.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
Brent felt that 1atom12 deserved a rating of 2.75.
The front page of this site is, somewhat ironically, a relic of a bygone era in web design. The logo beckons you into the "atomic age"; which was exactly the thinking behind a large proportion of sites from the Internet's infancy, a time when everything was futuristic and space age, and everywhere made use of the space age metaphor.
Unfortunately there are a lot of reasons why this wasn't true. In the fifties we were promised hover cars but ended up with the petrol crisis; in the nineties the Internet was promised as new, fresh and instant, yet what we in reality saw looked decidedly amateurish in comparison with magazine print, and was far from instant.
That is entirely the case with 1atom12. The logo is thoroughly uninspiring, and the page itself takes far too long to load. Since all the content on the front page (and there is a massive amount) is contained in a table, you don't see any of it until it has all downloaded, it seems as though you are waiting for nothing, and I'm sure many will be inclined to reach for the "Stop".
Though the content does go some way to making up for such lacklustre design and style, the navigation is based too much on guesswork so finding off-blog material will prove tiresome.
This site does border on the "Adult" from times, with a cam view showing semi-exposed breasts, but there isn't enough to warrant such a label.
Whether or not there is enough on the site to warrant a visit is dependent on taste and patience.
This site was reviewed on 2001-08-12 by chrisw.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
chrisw felt that 1atom12 deserved a rating of 2.75.
2 reviewers gave 1atom12 an average rating of 2.7500
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