The Weblog Review

The title says it all. But, it doesn’t say enough. Truth be told, an addition of the word “Lousy” before the title of this blog would serve well as a warning to prospective readers. The language within the entries of this blog does universally qualify as foul; the content of the entries is so deeply mired down with vulgarities that individual posts are difficult to read, harder still to digest. The content itself is typical of a journal: Daily events, gay humor, and bits of disturbing personal insight (Example: The post of 10.17, where the male author remarks that his 16 year old daughter’s boyfriend is “hot”.) Readers must wade through the drivel to discover the better entries, of which there are few.



FoulMouthBitch utilizes a standard Blogger template; not much to look at, but practical. It views equally well in MSIE and NS, though one might not wish to view at least one of the photos which the author has posted. The archive links do work, yet the author has failed to provide links for all archived pages. Also, there is no background information on the author and no external links save one ring located at the bottom of the page. Without more insight into the author, the reader is left to draw conclusions based solely upon the author’s entries. These conclusions will hardly be favorable.



FoulMouthBitch earns its score based on entry content, style of writing, presentation, lack of links, and all-around poor taste. There are better blog to read — Thank goodness! foulmouthbitch

Leeks and Roses? More like “Oak Leaves in the Fall”, until it loaded fully and then I really liked it. The text floating on the fall colored leaves made me want to dash outside, but we don’t have leaves falling where I am for another month or so, so I just rolled around on her site instead.



At times I felt sad at some of postings and wanted to help. I haven’t hung fascia board, but I can try…and I totally agree with your decision on what to do about the novel.



My advice on the birthdays is to not have any more, or…have them, but don’t count them. THAT last one was the pits.



Very easy to navigate site, writing that touched the emotions, and weekly and daily links that take off to some other very nice sites, but coming in off the weblog I almost missed some of the best of this site.Bulletproof & Bleeding

My Will is, quite frankly, very pretty with its varying hues of pastel blue, cute anime graphic, and layout. It views exceptionally well in MSIE 5.5; however, it lacks tremendously in NS 6.1 where the dropdown information links display all at once and the overall format is skewed. Nonetheless, MSIE browser equipped readers will find My Will to be a visual treat. This is a good thing, for what My Will offers in style and layout, it lacks in sophisticated content. Unless, of course, the reader is between the ages of 12 and 16 and has an interest in anime and/or daily teen life.



My Will’s 15 year old author does offer insight into the mindset(s) of today’s teens, which can provide for an interesting read; but, there seems to be so much going on in the author’s life that she cannot possibly put it all to post without losing the reader somewhere along the way. Here and there, sprinkled throughout the bulk of the author’s posts, are references to friends and events — most of which are not highly detailed. It is annoying to the reader to have to backtrack every few posts to ascertain to whom or what the author is referring. My Will offers itself up as an antithesis to the “less is more” trend in weblogging. Perhaps, if the author were willing to streamline her posts by better detailing various events and people in separate, stand-alone entries, My Will would possess a more reader-friendly and less confusing flow.



Despite her tendency to ramble (or, post in a manner which seems to ramble), the author is both intelligent and creative. She is not without a sense of humor, nor does she offend with poor grammar, syntax and spelling. My Will is appealing in design and concept and, with more concise and better detailed posts, may have a secure niche among teen weblogs.My Will

First thing I said when the page loaded was damn that is a nice design. Can I take it? Of course I could (nature of the internet) but what would I use it for? I don’t know.



So I set off to read all about Sweatdrop. Like most two column layout blogs, one is for the blog itself and the other is for what ever else the author wants to put there. First thing that was in this other column was a little background on where the name Sweatdrop came from. I was very pleased to learn all about the name.



Read all of the other stuff down that column and then proceeded to the blog. Almost every post is about some Anime is my best guess. Since I don’t follow anime, I really don’t know. But for the most part it is all about the download conquest and which vids are good and friends watching them.



If you are looking for news and what not about anime, you really aren’t going to find too much of it here. The author instead decides to focus on her love of the animation style.

Sweatdrop

What the hell is that on the index page?



Other than THAT, anyone who names a section “for mom” can’t be all bad. Unless it links to a wishlist for Amazon.com. Quite clever, wish I’d thought of that myself, but my mother doesn’t know how to use her credit card on the internet.



On to the “review”:

A consistent weblog of nearly a year’s length, bolstered with regular entries, including a hilarious conversation with his parents about a cordless phone during August of 2001 and “Dream Gifts for Mother’s Day” sent me a visual headache.



Nice site design, clean and uncluttered, with easy navigation, and articles by Druzba worth reading.



PS…I figured out what the hell that graphic is!



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