Appearance and Style - (Out of 20)
I like the fact that you took a very popular and
tried to change it around a bit. I really like the logo, it stands out and goes with the theme perfectly. From what I understand, it's a personal blog and I believe the style is very expedient. However, I never appreciated the use of a open source theme with bare customizations. You should definitely consider customizing the theme more, such as the green bars can be made into a shade of blue, in which I think would look much better.
(Scored 18/20)
Blog Layout and Categorization - (Out of 20)
When I first visited your blog, I was literally lost. Your index page contains a small message about advertising, an image of something and a banner underneath. I wasn't sure what to get out of that. and to make the case worse, you have a menu on the right and the left with an unclear title "Right Menu". After while, I realized the right menu contains your blog's categories, which didn't really fasnicate me either. I think your index page should contain your latest blog entries and keep the menus on one side, rename "Right Menu" to "Categories". You're categories are very vague & stagnant. You should rename your category "Weird" to "Miscellaneous" and "SOTW" to "Site Of the Week" as someone who will be visiting you blog for the first won't have a clue what SOTW stands for, like I didn't.
(Scored 12/20)
Commenting Activity and Other Interactions - (Out of 20)
Amazing activity for a blog this young, just amazing. You have around 5-6 comments per blog entry, this will instigate new readers to post comments. Another thing that fascinated me was the activity in your GameZone. However, I took a look at your only poll, about using twitter, and it only had 2 voters(excluding me).
(Scored 17/20)
Quality and Frequency of Posts - (Out of 20)
I was really saddened here, you don't actually have any actually articles posted for readers to read, rather questions for them to answer and rather inanely proposed questions. Looking in your "Weird" category, you have two articles posted, both of which are not written by you, nor do they have your thoughts on the article. Then I found some articles under the "Uncategorized" and I don't really get posts like
http://oscarg.fi.st/?p=50 but I finally did find original posts like "Who Invented the Kite". So far you've had articles posted frequently everyday, which is really good for a starting blog like yours.
(Scored 15/20)
Spelling/Grammar - (Out of 20)
You're spelling seems fine to me, however something that bothered me was your titles weren't in proper grammar, titles have every word capitalized. Reading your blog didn't give me that professional feel nor did it keep me interested, solely due to many grammatical errors. But your spelling was very good, don't think I noticed any misspellings.
(Scored 17/20)
Total Score - 79(Out of 100)
Final Remarks:
What was most liked about the blog:
Few specific posts & the logo.
What was disliked most about the blog:
Blog not be organized neatly.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to read my blog?
Use a bit more attractive theme, organize your blog categories and post "meaty" articles.
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