Thirty-Something webite review
Posted by Lindsayanng on February 25th, 2009
So i think that this is one of the sleekest blogs I have seen so far. I love it. I have to start from the top because its the only way I can make sure I catch everything.
Your header is very unique and you have a nice and memorable font with your blog name and a good illustration in which the style matches your site and it’s theme. The city, thirty-somethings.. PERFECT. Did you do that graphic yourself? Its a great graphic with enough detail to make it interesting but not too much to make it busy.
Your ABOUT ME – CONTACT – SUBSCRIBE – TWITTER links are VERY VERY hard to read. If you want to keep that same font, make them bigger or bolder, or both.. There is no reason they could not be bigger because you have enough “sky space” to do that.
There is something rather curious about your pages though..You have your ABOUT ME section which has a nice e-mail form to contact you with, which I think is a GREAT idea.. but your CONTACT page just has an email. You seem to be SOO good at giving information about how to find you on your main page in that little top box, and then you dropped the ball on the CONTACT page. Odd. Maybe you thought that people would have already found that information on your main page, but maybe they didnt!! Your CONTACT page should ALSO have a contact form, a link to your twitter, a link to your store, and then some. ANY way that you are publicly accessible, you should give it to your readers. Especially since you are sharing those things on the main page of your blog anyways. It might seem redundant, but these things are things that you don’t have to feel bad about repeating. They are things that people will WANT to find and will seek out if you don’t put it out there anyways.
I love that your advertisements match the look and feel of your blog, and the content is relevant to your blog as well. The amazon thing is a good idea!
You should add an email subscribe option to your SUBSCRIBE blog.. I, along with many others, prefer email subscriptions over RSS because we check out email way more than all the feed readers out there. I think it would be a good addition, FEEDBURNER has a bunch of information.
Now, you are yet ANOTHER person who feels that categories are not that important. Your categories are VERY VERY important. I can not tell you how many times I landed on a blog, read a post, and wanted more posts like that about that subject and could not find them. OR i land on a blog and see the main page with a few posts that are somewhat relevant but can not find the rest. Its good that you HAVE categories available, lots of people don’t, but you can probably put the categories above the SUBSCRIBE because when people choose to subscribe, they will have already looks through a lot of your website and will probably have see the subscribe many times before they actually did.
You can also move your PAGES down or get rid of it entirely. You can use the remaining spots for advertising or even just inner website advertising. For instance, if you do giveaways, or have a special post, make an advertisement for that particular thing that you REALLY want people to go to.
I also really like the “about this entry” box on the right. Its a very nice little touch!
Overall, VERY nice. You seem to have a great grasp of design and layout.
Want to know who is offering this awesome content? Here it is! Someone who is relatively new to web design. I am new enough to still remember how absolutely frustrating it was to try and get anything done in this field, but have also been around long enough to be able to help those that are where I was a year ago.
Aside from web design, I run the office of my dad's engineering business, and do book keeping by trade.
I love my pets.. All 6 cats, 1 peg legged dogs, and 1 hedgehog. LOVE THEM!!
Oh yea, and my husband. He lets me chase my dreams and I let him do the same. We are happy people because of it. Read more from this author
