Review 3081

This is a non-weblog weblog. It is a static website with photo albums. There are no dated entries and no text, but lots of photos and one page under the link “other applications” called, “Your Salary according to Romanian legislation.” Since I don’t live in Romania, I didn’t spend too much time figuring out what this was.

The site has a couple nifty design features. You can choose the “color set” and the language for the page. The default color set is the much-loved black, which is my least favorite, but there are seven other choices : white, blue, yellow, grey, orange, green, and navy. Each color set is accessed from a handy pull-down menu in the upper left corner of the page. When you change colors, you also get a new set of photos on the home page. The language choices are German, English, Italian or Romanian. You may change the language by clicking on a flag representing the country where the language is spoken (US for English).

The writing on the page gives the briefest possible description of the photos. There might be one word–the name of city where the photo was taken–or simply a category assignment, such as “animals,” “landscapes,” “autumn,” or “Black Sea coast.” There is no further explanation beyond dates and the name of the person who took the photo.

There is no order to the page and no explicit purpose other than to display the photographs. It appears to be a personal site that a few friends use to upload their photos. There are hundreds of public photos, but there is a link to “private photos” that is password protected.

I’m not sure who the audience for this site is. Some of the photos are pretty and might be worth a look. Since the site is not a weblog, I’m not sure how to rate it. I give a 3.5 for effort.

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