Archived Review
- Reviewer: moneypenny
- Review date: 28th Nov 2008
Wow, that domain name totally makes me want to read about you and your life...
The layout is clean and simple, and not unattractive. I like the pale blue but think there is room for more colors. The pale blue links are a bit hard to read; I would darken them to increase the contrast between them and the white background. The sidebar font is tricky to read, being so small and with such pale links.
I don't like how the dotted border under 'Flickr' in the sidebar rubs against the solid border of your photos. I would put space between them.
It looks like you have two separators between "Posted in ..." and "% comments": a period and the little empty-set looking sign. Why have two separators? The period looks like a mistake; I would remove it.
Like the blue links, the light gray text under each entry title is too light to be easily readable.
The layout, while not ugly, is also not very exciting. The color scheme is very bland: just white, gray, blue, and light brown, it looks like. The header image could be more exciting, but that's up to you to figure out how. You have a clean layout, there's not a lot of clutter, and you could probably do well with a minimalistic look if it was pulled off right. I think big, bold text and bright colors used sparingly would work all right, and then you wouldn't need fancy graphics to have a sleek-looking, attractive site.
I don't like the harsh black underlines on hover in the main navigation. It doesn't fit with the pastels used everywhere else in the layout.
Your About page is only four paragraphs, but they are pretty long looking when compressed into that narrow column. They aren't broken up by any kind of image or easy-to-digest list, and so I don't feel very invited to read the several paragraphs of content; it just feels like too much work for a lazy site skipper like me. It would be nice to see a photo of you on this page, too, and that would help to break the flow of the otherwise straight text. Also, like I said before, your site title "zero personality" does not inspire me to find out more about you, so you have to overcome that visitor assumption in order to get them to give your blog/about page/other content a chance.
Crochet patterns? I admire you for being able to do that; the most I was able to produce in my short jaunt with crocheting was straight, narrow bracelets. :D This is also some unique content that I don't think I've seen before on a personal site, so it's a great thing to have because it makes your site unique. I would put thumbnails on the Crochet Patterns page, so a person can view them before clicking each link.