The first thing I noticed when I got to A Shout in the Dark was the background of the page. There’s an image of a laptop, and the text (that’s directly over the image, with no sort of blogbox to make it easier to read) is white. Typically I’m not too fond of having to highlight text in order to read it.
Once I get to reading the entries, they’re fairly concise. I wouldn’t call them posts so much as articles, however; the author (Charles) seems to take random items of news, tidbits of information, or other facts and strings words together about them. Some have pictures to aid in the visualization of the situation.
The layout, as I mentioned, isn’t very easy to read, and the colors clash a bit. The sidebar is mint green, white, blue, and purple… shades that don’t compliment each other very well. Along with the posts being difficult to read, this is a bit of a setback.
There aren’t many plugins, except for links to different things. Since this is a WordPress blog there are other pages, but they don’t match very well (or, rather, at all) with the blog itself.
This blog just couldn’t catch my interest very well. Between the less-than-user-friendly layout and the posts having little to no consistency as far as relationship goes, I couldn’t really get into this blog at all, and I’m sorry to give it a 1 out of 5.NULL