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A Shout in the Dark
This is a re-review of A Shout in the Dark
“A Shout in the Dark” is a re-launch of a blog that has been reviewed last month – new URL, new content management system, and a new design. I was anxious to see the author’s new beginning would bring a weblog I could not stop reading. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite accomplish that.
Since this revamped site only hosts less than two months of archives, it did not take long for me to read them each individually. Charles, the author, keeps the entries short and to the point. He’s a working man, and also going to school, and, speaking from personal experience, that doesn’t leave much time for unnecessary weblog rambling.
The way I like to rate weblogs is easy. If a personal site, such as this one, can keep my interest and teach me something, whether it be about the author or just about something the author is interested in, I feel like I’ve just read a good site. The only thing I could remember from this site after reading it is that Sean Paul and Shaggy are both up for Grammy nominations in the reggae field this year.
Wordpress is the content management system of choice on this site. It is a nice change from the standard Blogger templates that are so popular. Charles has done his own tweaking to the layout, adding his picture, some additional links, and pictures in the header image. The author has also done some work in adding additional pages to the site – a biography page, some news links, and his resume, for example. Along the sidebar of this two-column layout, he also includes links to his favorite website and some pictures he has uploaded onto his Flickr site.
This site is still new and still growing. Charles is doing his best to find time in his schedule to update somewhat frequently. As time goes on, this site has the absolute potential to grow. Until then, though, I can only give it the average 3 as its score.
This site was reviewed on 2005-12-14 by Wendy.
They felt this site belonged in the Creative Writing category.
Wendy felt that A Shout in the Dark deserved a rating of 3.
The first thing I noticed when I got to A Shout in the Dark was the background of the page. There's an image of a laptop, and the text (that's directly over the image, with no sort of blogbox to make it easier to read) is white. Typically I'm not too fond of having to highlight text in order to read it.
Once I get to reading the entries, they're fairly concise. I wouldn't call them posts so much as articles, however; the author (Charles) seems to take random items of news, tidbits of information, or other facts and strings words together about them. Some have pictures to aid in the visualization of the situation.
The layout, as I mentioned, isn't very easy to read, and the colors clash a bit. The sidebar is mint green, white, blue, and purple... shades that don't compliment each other very well. Along with the posts being difficult to read, this is a bit of a setback.
There aren't many plugins, except for links to different things. Since this is a WordPress blog there are other pages, but they don't match very well (or, rather, at all) with the blog itself.
This blog just couldn't catch my interest very well. Between the less-than-user-friendly layout and the posts having little to no consistency as far as relationship goes, I couldn't really get into this blog at all, and I'm sorry to give it a 1 out of 5.
This site was reviewed on 2005-11-17 by babz.
They felt this site belonged in the Creative Writing category.
babz felt that A Shout in the Dark deserved a rating of 1.
2 reviewers gave A Shout in the Dark an average rating of 2.0000
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Site Category: Creative Writing
Reader Rating: 2.2500 based on 2 votes
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