Fuki Blog opens to an attractive header with an American flag motif complete with one eagle-eyed eagle. Unfortunately, things go a bit downhill from there as far as visuals are concerned. The three column page minimalizes the blog text which gets crammed in between a mind boggling number of links, logos, buttons, polls and a frustrating list of blog links that are unreadable unless you highlight them. Navy blue font on black background? Can we re-negotiate that decision?
Adding to the confusion, the left-hand side bar is blue and the right one is red. It’s just too hard on the eyes really. The one thing I’m giving points for is the fonts are of a readable size. Thanks for that.
Our author is a proud Libertarian and posts clearly written political opinion, laced with moderate numbers of links to articles he has run across. His ideas are cogently presented and in no way to be considered rants. One gets the feeling that a differing opinion would be welcomed and responded to with respect and intelligence. He also posts a few personal entries about day to day things in his life in a lighthearted style.
He seems a bit obsessed with his traffic numbers and muses out loud in several entries on ways to increase them. One tactic is a decision to post a “Girl Friday” cheesecake photo.
While these photos remain in the tasteful category, they ARE after all, mostly, or completely bare naked ladies. (And in one case a bare naked guy) I think it’s a silly way to get numbers when those numbers probably don’t guarantee that visitors are actually reading what he has written. And the presence of several photos on the site makes the page load time annoyingly slow.
Overall, I enjoyed his political opinion, and the way he presented it in writing. But the look of the blog and the bare naked ladies got in the way of this. If I have a suggestion, it would be to make up your mind what kind of blog you want.
A soft porn site with a lot of superfluous traffic, or a pretty darn good Libertarian blog with real readers.