Apologies for the delay. Last few weeks have been crazy.
@edenwax and I both collaborated on this review.
First Impressions:
My first impressions of Senseless Blogger is that it's a smorgasbord of styles, designs and ideas that buries good blogging. I really like the content that you've got on your blog, but everything around the content feel like sort of a mess. To your credit, the site performs pretty well, despite getting a low pingdom tools score (67). Overall it's not a very memorable or polished website.
One of the first things I noticed was this:
The fonts look different, and I'm not really sure as to why.
Average
Design Quality:
The design feels outdated and as mentioned before and there's so many different design languages going on at once. The base theme uses an all caps Oswald font, the logo uses a hand-written-esque font and an unknown(Segoe UI italic, maybe) font for the slogan/title text, the Blog titles use Poppins, the body text uses Domine and various header tags use Playfair Display. While these are good fonts, I'd like to see the total number of fonts being used to a limit of 3. I'd recommend keeping Poppins, Playfair Display and Domine. The layout feels pretty solid, everything is spaced out pretty nicely and flows well. I'd also like to see more colour included in the design. Black/grey/white/pink is a fine combination, but I'd like to see some more pink in there. Not a whole lot, but perhaps text links in your blog posts or something. Overall the design needs work, but I think with the proper amount of polish you could make it look amazing.
This is the image of the fonts differing:
Average
Site Structure:
The overall structure of the site is great. Everything is neatly organized, and also gives a glimpse into the uniqueness of the website. The design of the website is rather simple, so there's not too much going on. It does look somewhat similar to every other blog out there, which can be a bad thing. I think it's just because of the overall look of Wordpress blogs, so even with hours of customization work, it will still somewhat depict WP. I just wish WP had more abilities to completely redesign the homepage, rather than just keeping the sidebars. I do think that it looks a bit outdated, or too similar to other blogs that have been out for years. I think dropping the sidebars, and making the main content portion larger would actually help out with the overall look of the website. I was just never a fan of the sidebars on WP like this:
I think this is just my issue with how WP looks, rather than the site so I'll keep it to myself.
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Good
Originality:
While the content on the website makes it look rather unique, the look does not do it justice. I think if you approach it differently, you'd surely gain more active users. It looks too similar to other Wordpress websites, and the design isn't
that unique. It's fairly simple, with a few colors changed. I don't really see anything that separates it from other blogs. Some of the content, such as this:
The site really needs a purpose, rather than just random posts. I think you should focus on specific news in your neighborhood, as I'm guessing that's where the idea for that article came from. It would help give the site a whole purpose.
Poor
Business Sensibility:
Not really sure if this website would be the best to make money off of in it's current state. The site still doesn't really have a purpose in my eyes. I think once the articles settle into a specific niche, and the site is based on that specific topic, it'll become a great website. I think the writing style of the site is excellent. I truly enjoyed reading the content. I think before money is considered, the site needs to be revamped. It looks rather too simple, and this could harm SEO ratings. Since it's a personal blog, I'm not entirely sure if you'd want to make $ off of this or not?
Average
The thing I liked the best: The content is unique, and I like the wording of the posts. It is definitely fun to read, but after reading through a couple of posts it does kind of confuse me based on the changing of topics constantly between each post.
The thing I liked the least: The different fonts, and there really is no continuity between articles. It seems rather all of the place, but it is a personal blog so I sort of understand the reason behind it.
Overall Mark:
Great start to a personal blog, but it does need design work. The content is good, but it should have somewhat of a niche, or continuing story. I think it's still a good site overall.
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