As I was thinking about Spriteboy World, I thought the name sounded familiar. Where was it I had heard this before? Why was I drawn to this blog like a magnet to a fridge? What was it that made me want to read it?
They say that first impressions are the best impressions, or at least the most memorable. Spriteboy World has a very nice, clean, hip layout that loads very fast. At first I was a little turned off with all the green, but then it grew on me as I read the archives. More on the design later.
One thing I hate is a splash page. It serves no purpose. Spriteboy World gets around this issue by actually posting real information to the first page. So its not so much a splash page as it is more of a directory. Where would you like to go today on this little website of mine? Of course I went directly to the biography section to find out a little more about our Spriteboy.
Birthed from a mother who is Mexican chihuahua and a father who is an Irish leprechaun, I immediately knew this was going to be one fun ride of a blog. And this also explained all the green on the site. But there is more to Spriteboy (aka Chris) then just his heritage. He lives in New York and seems to be in the loop with some semi to very famous people.
The blog itself is about his daily life. Most of it is told as such as it is a summation of what is going on in a funny way. Just the good parts are what is typically featured here but of course with a funny spin. He took a break in March of this year, only to return in May. The posts since his return were the most enjoyable for me. More depth into who he is, more opinions on what is going on, some good realizations about life in general, and it was refreshing to read about someone else coming to grips with similar things. I would go into detail about the major event that is going on his life, but I don’t want to tell you everything.
I have one complaint about this blog. It is surprising that I only have one problem considering most blogs have numerous faults. The problem lies with the archives. You can only access them one post at a time. This is annoying and creates a lot of work for someone to go through a site’s history. Imagine if you had to turn the page of a book every paragraph. Yeah that was how I felt with this. Put the archives in a monthly format so we can just read the site. It is enjoyable to read, it is not enjoyable to do work just to read.
By now it is very obvious that I enjoyed this site. I would have given it the perfect score of a 5 but the archive situation really annoyed me and threw me for a loop. Spriteboy has an amazing site. Oh yeah, remember my question earlier about why this blog sounded familiar? Yeah it was because he was reviewed a year ago. And since that review he has grown a lot and I really enjoyed reading this site.Spriteboy World