Review of Blog About Your Blog
This afternoon I reviewed Blog About Your Blog, a blog written by several bloggers and is about blogs, blogging and bloggers.
The first thing I see when the blog loads on my screen is the header. It contains an image of a man at a laptop set against a background containing gold with data and bits and bytes (1010…) and the word domain. It’s quite fitting. Blog About Your Blog is currently on a two column theme made up of shades of green and white. It takes me twenty clicks to get from the top of the blog’s home page to the bottom.
The sidebar is on the right and is uncluttered. In fact, it is so neat that I have not a single suggestion for it except one to consider for the future. As you have continue to write you may want to consider putting your archive in a dropdown box. Right now at a little over a year there are fourteen links there. Imagine how long it would be at three and four years. Maybe leave the current month and past year open, and then each year in it’s own dropdown box. But if I had to guess, I’d guess you’ve already thought that far ahead and know how you’re going to handle it.
Blog About Your Blog has an About page. I love About pages. In this case the About page offers information on what the blog itself is about. Very nice. There is also an Authors page, that lists the contributing authors. When you click on the author’s name you are brought to the posts they have written. This is a nice feature but if they wanted to enhance that they could include a short blurb about the author under each of their names, stating a little about the author, their area of expertise, what other blogs they might run, or other similar information. There is one other thing about the pages. If it were possible to alter the theme just a little to make the sidebar remain white even on a shorter page it would give the additional pages the finished look that the front page has. I’m referring to pages that don’t contain posts such as the contact page. I do understand that this is happening because the pages this is happening on are short. I’m not criticizing the blog or the writing here, simply suggesting a tweak in the theme.
The blog is almost always updated daily. The writing is original and seems honest to me, and the posts have good length. As I read back several pages I learned a couple of things I didn’t know and I had a couple of laughs. I particularly enjoyed the 12/23/07 post on Flock vs Firefox Round 1.
Grab yourself a cup of coffee and check out Blog About Your Blog. I’ve added them to my feed because I think they offer some good info. When you do visit their site, please tell the Blog About Your Blog crew that valmg sent you.
