To be up front with this review, I don’t do very well reviewing weblogs of teenagers. I have nothing in common with the majority of them, and their lack of care for punctuation and spelling is enough to drive me crazy. Unfortunately, this weblog, called “Southern Comfortâ€, was no different.
The layout of the site is very nice. It’s hosted by WordPress, and I believe the template was one that is features on WordPress’s site as one of their contest entrants. I only know this because I look at them constantly for ideas on my own site. The light green background surrounding the white box that’s used for all the text is a very nice color, and matches well with the watermelon graphics used throughout the site. The author does a nice job of not cluttering up the sidebar with a bunch of links to every single site she’s ever visited, and that’s much appreciated by reviewers and random visitors to the site.
This is the author’s second go around with a weblog. In the first post of Southern Comfort, she mentions this, along with some brief autobiographical information. I enjoyed getting to know more about the person who runs this weblog. The background specifics always helps give readers an idea about the author that they may not gather on their own from just reading through entries.
The author, who is going through her mid-teenage years, shares her day-to-day experiences with her audience. She writes typical teen fodder: dreams and nightmares she has or forgetting her book at home and being unable to do that night’s homework. From time to time, she also fills is on her favorites in the music industry by celebrating an artist’s return or letting us know about her current favorite music album.
The apostrophe key seemed to be missing in action for a good part of this site, and I often had trouble translating a sentence or two that was full of spelling errors or slang I didn’t quite understand. These two things can really distract from the content of a weblog.
I’m less than ten years out of my own teenage years, but that doesn’t seem to matter. It’s still too large of an age gap for me to enjoy a site that is written in the same manner Southern Comfort.
This is a site that will probably only be enjoyed by those people that know more about the author of the site than a random reader does.