Most of the weblog entries begin with the title of a song and who sings it, which I’m assuming this is what Amber’s listening to while she writes in her weblog.
From time to time, Amber will do what she calls “social logging”. This is a concept of comments, opinions, or just casual blurbs aimed directly to specific people that Amber knows and reads at her website. I’d never heard it called anything like “social logging” before. Amber does it from time to time, but certainly doesn’t go overboard with it.
Her posts are very well written. Everything revolves around the typical teenager’s day, but Amber spares us the drama of all the “he said, she said, but then he said that I said” business and just updates readers how school is going, what’s going on in her life, and just general musings.
The chosen layout colors of this site are certainly bright. That was ultimately my first thought when this weblog loaded on my screen. At first, I thought it was a bit much, but it eventually grew on, and I realized the fluorescent pink, red, and orange were a nice dynamic contrast to the white background that’s used through the rest of the design. The font is quite small, but there’s always the option of making it bigger through your browser’s tools. I tried this, but due the stylesheets that were used, the lines of text ran together making it just as difficult to read as the tiny text.
All of the external links that the author has linked to – mainly other weblogs – are listed in the right hand column. However, the URL or the title of the site isn’t available, instead there are almost 50 “X”s listed that lead to a different site. While artistically, it does add a little something to the site (perhaps mystery?), I found it to be slightly annoying as I was trying to find an about section, or something more to this site than just a weblog.
Amber does do a lot of web design. As I browsed through her weblog, I found several links leading to other sites that she’s responsible for. A shrine for the anime character Cowboy Bebop and a site devoted to making desktop wallpaper were two that I found to be the most eloquently designed and easy to use. Amber does have top notch design skills.
Overall, this is absolutely a site worthy of visiting. Amber posts often, and she does a nice job maintaining her site. I’d put this weblog in a category for people 16-21 to read, but it’s still one I would recommend checking out at least once.
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