The navigation is tricky and ambiguous. It’s the single most paralyzing and frustrating feature of this site. The drop-down Javascript menu is clunky and actually ceases to work after clicking several of the links requiring a refresh.
The ambiguity of the navigation is another stumbling block. The top level categoes are not intuitively named: SITE, CONTENT, JESSCA. And there are ambiguous subcategories therein: Weblob, Weblog Archives, My Diary. Also, “layouts” and “past layouts” are in two different categories. Very unintuitive.
The author creates website layouts that are actually very good.
The blue text on the lighter-shade-of-blue background is draining to read and could benefit by a higher contrast color scheme.
As far as content goes, the majority of the entries can be described as “reactionary”. The site is chock full of (quality) links and her sentence or two response to them. Very little substance. The links were enjoyable to visit.
After reading the entire site I didn’t feel like was any closer to knowing the author.
The layout is rather bland, (surprisingly considering the author’s obvious design talent) but promising. Once the links are fixed, the sections are fleshed out with content, and the navigation is less ambiguously named, this site holds a lot of promise.
fin.
jessca.com