Very small text was my first impression when I opened DelightzNET. I have 20/20 vision and I found myself squinting on a few occasions. Also every time I attempted to click on a link in the blog’s menu the whole thing moved on me. I’m not sure if it’s a glitch in the layout or if it serves a purpose I am unaware of, but I felt like a cat trying to swat at an unreachable piece of string. Other than that the layout is clean, basic and done in WordPress. It freaked me out a bit to see a young person holding up a Bush/Cheney sticker in the author’s pic, but to each their own.
The blog chronicles the life of a college senior attending Mason University in Virginia. Since this reviewer never attended college, I take note that it is always interesting to live vicariously though others. Learning about the stress of managing real life, midterms, and a job is always worthwhile. It seems that Stephanie, the author, has just recently decided to breathe new life into her domain and is not at all a stranger to blogging. She has only been posting again regularly for the past two months, but does a great job in her initial post of getting her readers caught up on her life.
The posts are in diary form, with a few reviews and rants mingled in here and there. Like so many young Americans, Stephanie seems to be on the path of attempting to find herself. In one of her posts she says, Is it possible that I’m realizing where I always thought I needed to be – is no where near where I really to be? , this seems to sum up her current state of mind.
The design of this blog is fitting for the type of entries it contains. The entries are written well and allow you to get to know the author on the surface. It is one of those blogs where you feel like you are ease dropping on someone’s life with one eye closed. I personally think that diary type blogs should contain a bit more depth to them. It seems like there is so much more that Stephanie could be telling us. Readers yearn for those things that lie beneath the surface. Speaking of surfaces, there are no extras involved with ths blog. It is categorized by topic which is always nice, but nothing out of the ordinary or different from all the other basic blogs out there.
The author categorized this blog as “Teen.” I would think that in would fit better in the “Personal” Category. This blog is about one person and their struggles, their loves, and the decisions that face them. The great things about blogs is that we are allowed to peek into people’s lives. We get to see how different we all are and how similar we can all be. It’s not a blog that I would revisit, but it seems to be a needed outlet for its author. It serves it’s purpose for her and her life. When we get down to basics, isn’t that what blogging is all about?
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