2004-03-15

2:27 p.m.


Cramatic: Re Review

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CONTENT 55/70
Entires are very concise, and usually to the point. You're a real minimalist, trying to say a lot with as little as possible. However, I was hoping to see a bit more depth this time around... There are certain topics that you touch on very briefly, and then neglect to elaborate. When you're writing, try not to think so much about what you have to say, but how you're going to say it instead. I mean, there's a million ways to say "I love you," but each one can be interpreted differently depending on who says it and the way they say it. If you focus more on the interpretation of your work, you could come across more clearly.

STYLE 8/10
Again, very clear, and concise writing, but it doesn't leave a lot of room for further interpretation.

DESIGN 8/10
The white gives your layout a very clean look, but at the same time, it makes it seem... well.. Sterile. It's very still, with little frills. But thankfully, you made up for that will the image on the right hand side. If the white background was boring, the picture of these two (girls?) kissing was anything but. However, it kinda got to the point where that was almost all my eyes wanted to look at, which can be dangerous. When shopping for designs, you have to make sure that the eye is following a logical path about the site. That means having an eye-catching image that grabs attention, but at the same time, you've got to make sure that it doesn't completely overpower the most important part of your diary--the actual entries themselves. It's a balancing act, I know. But I think that if you managed to accentuate the background with some color (either the green or the purple seen in the girls' lipstick), you could offset the natural tendency for a person's eyes to lock solely on the image alone.

I also like your link roll-over effects... The pink highlight is very shabby-chic, and I love it. If you'd just incorporate the pink into some overall color scheme, you could avoid the barren sterile-ness that comes with the white.

NAVIGATION 4/5
Not hard at all. I give you credit for not having any broken links or erratic combinations of extras. But just what is going on with the archives page? The numbers you've assigned for particular archives don't necessarily match the order of the "older" pages themselves. And you left out numbers 2 and 3, going straight from 1 to 4. It's confusing, to say the least.

FREQUENCY 3/5
Towards the end of last year, you seemed to be pretty regular, updating several times a week. But since this past January, you've slackened the pace. What happened there?

posted by April at 2:27 p.m.
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