My initial feeling on Pewari’s Prattle was that it had a very simple and inviting layout. It had the “to be expected item†of a blog roll on the side bar. One thing that really caught my eye is how the author found a discrete way to link to the sites archives without stretching this huge list of month, year down the sidebar as well. They were in a simple dropdown menu for quick and easy access.
The blog was created in April 2003, so there is a lot of content on the site. If you select a month from the archives list you will see a brief excerpt of the articles the author presents. This makes it very handy for a reader to see if he or she would want to finish reading the article or move on to the next. The author posts regularly on the site, which always makes for a good blog. It has a green header with the title located in it. A simple white background, where the articles are presented, was used with an olive/green color as a border for the site. The site uses simple black, white, and green text for an easy read. A neat feature built into the site is a blog of the week. This area has a simple screenshot of the blog and a link back to the blog of the week site. Along with the archives drop box, another box appears in the sidebar. It contains category information.
This blog has a lot of personal information built into it, but it does also pose information to women. In the archives, I found a post that lead me to many other posts that were interesting… The top searches for 2005. Being male, I found one of these rather disgusting to read, but I was interested just to see how women talk about tampons and that dreaded “time of the month. The author was surprised that it made the top searched pages, but if you are a woman and you want a review on a mooncup, here is the place to read. Many things are discussed in the blog: husband, child, friends, etc. I feel this is better kept as a personal blog.
The site was designed well and she posts frequently. I would have to say that she has started taking her blog to a new level and developing her posts more than the archives show. Most of the posts are short. She is now starting to pick topics and write about them, as you can see, in the latest post on Feminism. I feel this blog has great potential just for the simple fact that the author does communicate through her blog to her readers. She is always responding to comments on her site, and I feel this helps to make a blog great. She appears to have some frequent readers. Some of the readers post comments to many posts on the blog. I rate this blog as a 3.5.
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