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Sector404 is the well designed site of ‘Phil’. Phil the man with an online wish list totalling $1,048.74US! Crazy. I dont even have a wish list. If I did, I would wish for an automatic weblog reviewing tool 😛



Content:

That aside, lets talk about the content of the site. I found that there is a lot of information here. Many, many, links and news related items. In fact he reminded me that I had missed my flight to the webby’s (happening tonight) where I was to collect the ‘weblog god of all time’ award. But I digress. He has an online gallery of photos, tons of good links and a discussion area. The site has a lot of content but none of it overwhelming or ‘deep’.



Design and Usability:

A great design. Simple as that. It allows for a ‘swaggle’ (my word and no you can’t use it!) of information to be displayed in a format that makes it easy to read and find. Not an easy task. Not at all. The navigation is good but not entirely intuitive. I went into the gallery and it took me a second to understand how the pictures were to be found (instinctively I clicked on the big picture that said “gallery”). Once in, I had a wee bit of trouble finding the home link. I did find it but not until all the methamphetamines wore off and I could calm down enough to actually LOOK for the word home. Speed junkies will not like this website!



Style:

I give some bonus points here for having a good choice of colors and style. It isnt an ‘artistic in your face style’ but a calmer organized-together style. I can respect that and you should too.



Myself, I dont really follow the news and/or the ‘link de jour’ if you will, so I didnt find a lot of content that got me excited. I prefer to read about the persons thoughts and feelings. I do keep several sites in my bookmarks that I know are good sources of links and I think I might just add this site to that list. Take a look for yourself, what do you think about Sector404?sector404.org

mrpaTTo obeys all the rules of a good weblog:

–write a mix of personal stories and opinions about what’s going on in the word

–keep it interesting

–keep the design simple

–make it easy to navigate.



It’s easy to mechanically complete each one of these criteria, which is what a good deal of sites do. However, to do it with style is a little harder, and is what separates one site from another. That is precisely what happens with mrpaTTo.



At first, the site looks too simple. A white background. Georgia for headings, grey, red and blue for the colours. But it works so well, and there is a hidden depth to the site. One glance at the source code reveals the proper use of css; the source code is not much more than the content itself.



Aside from the blog, the highlight of the site has to be the pictures section, with some well composed shots of Australia that demonstrate the awesome beauty of the country.mrpaTTo

this site is a classic example of having too much of a good thing, it very crammed taking away from a simple yet tasteful design and makes it seem brash some posts shouldn’t make it on the site at the risk of offending readers I love that this site is jammed packed but only too a pt. the quirky headlines from around the world are fun and amusing but it soon wears thin, it makes the reader wonder that with all the pictures where is the content? my least favorite weblogs are one’s with just a journal and nothing else, this is one of those and it can only entertain you so much, I think readers of this site would appreciate it if this obviously intellegent person had more to say than just quirky headlines and offbeat pop- culture refrences.

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A very well done web site. Kyouki has a very nice look, and the structure and navigation are well executed. The time spent in making and maintaining the site is reflected by the long time I spent looking at it.

The weblog content was full of interesting anecdotes, articles, pictures, and links. The author writes the entries well, and obviously puts a lot of time and thought into each post. So many weblogs these days contain short, trite entries when the author runs out of ideas. Kyouki has good entries every time.

Probing deeper into the site, I found more interesting links and info. The author has spent a lot of time collecting lists to funny, odd, and random websites.

Kyouki is definitely a site worth checking out. I was duly impressed with everything from the layout and design to the content and information offered.Kyouki

A highly resource intensive-site used as a showcase for tricks with Flash and dhtml. The site crashed my browser on my laptop, so I had to come back and check it on my desktop. Not a very good sign if a wide audience is the goal.



The weblog links to Flash games and animations the author has created. I’m not really a fan of chasing dots around the screen with my mouse, or voting for the button that moves the coolest way when clicked, so this site was quite disappointing. The flash is done well, but it’s nothing that hasn’t annoyed me before.



Not much in the weblog that is of use unless you want to see what the author can do with flash.



Annoying colors, browser crashing popup windows, and loads of Flash is what is in store for you if you visit Koert. koert