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The first thing I noticed about the site was the design of it. The flames on the left were really cool. I get the idea that he wanted them to look like they came from some graphics program from back in the Atari days, as that is how it looks. If he didn’t, then he is a really bad artist or good depending on how you perceive art.



Get to the weblog portion and I had a hard time reading it. The entire thing read as if it was an instant message or something. I really hate it when people write things like thx or l8r because they are too lazy. What happens when you actually go to write a paper and you have to write the word thanks or later? Will the teacher appreciate the letter z substituted for the letter s? I doubt it.



So after all of the problems of translating I found a pretty good weblog to read. A freshman who is scared to go to college. Aren’t we all? Hopefully he gets on the net soon so he can start posting some more about his college life. Ah the freshman years, wish I could remember most of it, but I can’t (yes I did say years). Should be fun to re-live some of the events that freshmen go through if he gets back up and running.

another stupid weblogq

Out of Phase is a bare-bones

weblog with posts that range from

not-so interesting to rather

informative. Based on a Blogger

template, the looks of the site were

rather unoriginal, but there is

something to be said for simplicity.



I have to give the guy credit for the

effort he puts into writing his weblog

entries. He is willing to say what is

on his mind, which is always better

than attempts at writing for the sake

of writing. Most of his entries were

about his friends and the path his life

was taking. As a musician, I was

able to identify with his writings about

equipment and what not.



The only link the site offered was to

the radio station for which the author

worked. No bio, pics, or anything

else, except for the obligatory link to

Blogger.



Nothing special or out of the ordinary

about Out of Phase, but nothing very

horrible either.out of phase

There’s a lot to be said for being concise. But there’s a certain talent that goes along with being interesting when using as few words as possible. Let’s get to the chase.



The design is fairly contemporary, meaning it includes E.E. Cummings style lack of capitalization and Verdana, sized tiny, for the font. Hey, look, there’s also a fancy little comment box. I love those things.



Content. You know, if I had a tendency to be enraptured by talk of RedHat Linux and other geeky things, I may very well be in heaven. But as luck would have it, I’m not. The writer seems eloquent enough, but he isn’t using it to his advantage. The entries lack, well, entertainment value.



I will say one thing. By reading this page, my theory that all major metropolitan cultures are basically the same was reinforced. Mentions of Fray Day, pop porn diva Annie Sprinkle, and various famous web design people were evident. I didn’t see a whole lot of original content, although a few of you might argue that name-dropping in lieu of substance is acceptable.



Okay, so it isn’t bad. But it isn’t the most original or interesting thing out there. I’m pretty sure i’d be more entertained by anything TheSpark.com. And that isn’t saying a lot.evanrose.com

I loved the name of this weblog. It epitomises the whole weblog idea, in my opinion. “OddSocks” has a disclaimer stating “OddSocks” will be a total mess for awhile”, and it is.

The orange type on white background makes for an unusual reading experience.

Overlapping and having to scroll right to read the whole page is bothersome, but I thoroughly enjoyed the section titled “The Good, The Bad, The Reviewer”. Twelve second reviews are something enjoyable, even if having to scroll right to read.

Some of the entries in “List-o-Links” were so good that I bookmarked them for my own pleasure at a later date.

The “Archives” section contained good reading in a lot of areas, but the overlapping type and scroll right problem is still evident.

I’m looking forward to delving further into “OddSocks” when this site has finished it’s revision.

OddSocks

I love flash introductions, it makes the site you are viewing more exciting and enjoyable. In The Slippery Path, the intro flash is excelent, it is very well made and I love his graphic. I had a little trouble clicking on “Enter the Slippery Path” text in the flash introduction. It was a little too small, and I couldn’t quite hold my mouse over the text very steadily (maybe it’s just me) so I resorted to clicking on ‘Skip Intro’ when the introduction flash was done playing. I enjoyed reading his posts, they are basicaly short tidbits about his day. Things that took place, things he thought about, and things he saw. All around, very nice blog site.



I started looking around and noticed that the Journal page’s background color was different then the background color of every other page. Another thing I couldn’t help but notice was that the main table is a little ‘misaligned’ and it’s quite noticeable when you switch from page to page the main content table shifts a little to the left on other pages.



The background color on his graphics were also slightly off from the main content table’s background color, it’s not really noticeable, and you’ll live. The site has very nice photography sections in it, with pictures anywhere from flowers to destroyed trucks to a Van Gogh art gallery.



His site provides excelent and rather memorable quotes that everyone should read, they are very insightful into the lives of peoplr from the past, the present and quite possibly … the future. The Slippery Path