This site does what this one does, but to movies, music, mp3 players. All kinds of stuff. The reviews of the items they choose can be real in-depth or short and sweet. Sometimes, I wish that some of them were longer, but that is because of the author that writes the review. The site is very clean and well done.
However, I almost think it should be database driven with each review in its own instead of just one big blogger page. I think if they did this, then they could almost get people to send them free stuff to review. The site has potential to just be one big review site where people send in requests and companies send them products. Who knows what will happen with it.The Critics
Month: September 2001
Review 63
The thing I liked mosted about this site was the layout. It’s very simple and has just a few areas. I liked the little graphic for the title of the site. The author also has a little menu on the left side that slides when ever you scroll down on his page which contains 3 little cute graphics leading you to 2 other areas of his site.
So the blog itself is nice. I liked some stuff about his posts, esp the one about going to a bachelor party for the weekend and how his buddies couldn’t party as hard as they could in college and such. “My deepest point of embarrassment came when I had to remember to leave the toilet seat ‘up’.”
Anyway, this is a nice, casual blog. One to stop by on.
widepipe.org
Review 52
Here is an interesting site. The author, is currently looking for hosting so he has decided to drop the weblog down to one page and no images. That works for me as the page loads really fast.
To make up for it however, there are a lot of dhtml/css tricks all over the place. Also there is a ton of stuff all on one page. I really think it needs a better layout to have all of the stuff that it does to be on one page.
Also, the colors that he is using. I am not a big fan of white, black, and orange combo. I don’t know why, maybe it is because at work I am forced to look at ugly orange stuff. I just don’t like orange that much.
Good news is, the author writes really good stuff. I got caught up in it real quickly and kept reading. Hopefully he will get hosted soon and all the problems will be solved. machete2