Blog Review
First Impressions
The first thing that hits me is the banner, to be honest .. it’s awful, and needs replacing. The text above the banner is just a repeat of the banner, and is not needed.
I’m also a bit sceptical of the teal and grey theme, especially as it’s not carried through the rest of the blog, which makes it all a bit disjointed on the eye.
(Score: 14/20)
Appearance
The choice of theme is not a good one, there are a lot better Wordpress themes out there, which say “Professional Site” a lot better, four shades of gray (gray)/black also plays havoc with my eyes, it’s five if you include the background with the cross hatch style, I find it all a little distracting from the point of the blog.
As in a lot of Forums/Blogs I find the Navtabs a bit on the large side, you don’t need 3sqcm to click on, in this case less is more.
(Score: 10/20)
Content
At the moment there is not a lot of content, due to it being a relatively new project, I would hope with this amount that it is still pre-launch, and has not been fully released yet. As this is a restricted niche content is always going to be difficult to find, it will be a lot of hard work to keep this fresh, to succeed you will need to be on top of the game and ahead of the competition
(Score: 15/40)
Comments
Comments are very few and far between which suggests a lack of SEO and advertising, Wordpress has some very good plugins to help this, however choice of keywords and tags are paramount.
(Score: 10/20)
Total Score
49/100
Final Remarks
The concept is a very good idea, and it should work, however this blog needs a lot of work to make it more presentable to the viewers, paramount is the banner and theme, the banner is just so out of line it would appear it’s had no though put into it. The theme just doesn’t work, I would suggest finding one that has more Mac/iphone/apple theme.
You need traffic, so my idea would be to promote articles on the blog in the sister forum, start a facebook page, Google +1 and don’t recommend Chrome, if you must recommend a browser choose Firefox, in my experience Wordpress is best viewed in Firefox.
Reviewers notes
In my view this blog was not really ready for a review, even though it met the criteria stated, this is reflected in the low mark, if the Admin had looked at it first with a more critical eye then the mark could have been higher, the banner is a good example, the sub text being so out of kilter with the rest of the banner is honestly appalling, even if it's meant to look like that.... believe me ... it's not a good look.
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