I had no idea what this blog would be about upon reading the title, and even after the initial page loaded, I still wasn’t 100% sure what the point or the main subject of this blog would be. I did the best thing I know how to do with something like this – I dove in head first.
The layout is a bit cumbersome. My screen resolution is set at 1440 x 900, and even with that much room, my screen still looked cluttered as I scrolled through the last two months or archives. It looks to be one of the infamous standard Blogger templates with more information added into the sidebar then it was designed to hold.
There were seven different links across the top of the design that I thought would lead me to different areas of the site, where I could find out more information, since this topic is something I’ve never done any reading about. When I realized that all seven of those links were different Blogspot hosted URLs, I didn’t even bother clicking on them. It seemed like a pretty lazy way to let people work their way through learning about the site at hand.
According to some information the author’s placed in the sidebar, the idea of this particular blog is as follows: “My plan is to each day try to find out something new to research – a place, a person, a house, an idea – anything that interests me.” With the self-description, it becomes obvious that this site has been created for the author’s own personal use, rather than to involve any regular readers he might have.
The author, I found from the sidebar once again, is a an architect in a Malaysian private practice. Learning his occupation explains why this topic is so fascinating to him to some degree, and my engage readers who have similar background to his.
Overall, I can’t say I’d visit this blog again. Having not one ounce of knowledge on the architectural subjects the author mentions, I wanted to find a post that would excite me about the topic and pull me into want to learn more. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. For those in a related industry, maybe that doesn’t need to happen, and this site will be just fine the way it is.NULL