Monday, April 2, 2007

Blog Review

We thought we would add a little blog review section to TopBlogMag and so to find our first victim lucky blogger I spent some time surfing to find a random great blog to tell you all about.

And I found it.

Whilst wondering through mybloglog I came across Tiny Voices In My Head and was instantly drawn in. It was something to do with the clean, easy to navigate layout which she designed herself, the lack clutter in the sidebar, the simple colour scheme and then, of course, there was the writing.

Open, honest and unpretentious, you can’t help feeling like you’ve known Webmiztris forever and that you are sitting opposite her in the bar, drink in hand, listening to her share her thoughts and rants about her day with you. Her conversational tone, scathing wit and no holds barred style had me at the bottom of the page and looking for more before I knew what was going on; I wanted to know more about this guitar strummin’, beach dreamin’, never fittin’ in.

There were a couple of negative points about her blog, but these were purely to do with the design. Once at the bottom, hungry for more, there was no ‘older posts’ button to take me further on, I had to scroll back up and click through her archives section. Then, after spending a little time reading through her archives, there was no home button or clickable header to take me back to the beginning. These however are not big issues and certainly wouldn’t stop me from visiting again - in fact I’ve added her to my blog roll, and if that doesn’t tell you how much I enjoyed it then I don’t know what does.

So go on, pop on over and take a look, leave her some comments and don’t forget to tell her TopBlogMag sent you.

What great blogs have you discovered this week? Tell us a little about them.

12 comments:

Top Blog Mag said...

a great blog to chose for our first blog review and a very good review. Well done.

I love the idea of choosing them at random rather than doing them for people that ask.

Anonymous said...

Thank you!! :)

Tug said...

YAY for the Webmiztris!!

MrRyanO said...

Good review! I like the way you presented the good with the bad in a very well written manner!

archer said...

Dawn should be rich and famous.

Dear AL said...

"Whilst wondering through mybloglog I came across Tiny Voices In My Head and was instantly drawn in. It was something to do with the clean, easy to navigate layout which she designed herself"

Top Blog, you stated above, then later state that you had a problem with Dawn's blogs navigation.

Time to cut down on those doobies! Share!

Barb@TimeIsShort said...

I truly enjoy Webmiztris, Tiny Little Voices. She's like a reality show, real life entertainment!

Anonymous said...

I thought this was a fair and accurate review. I wish you guys all the luck!

Not From Lapland said...

dear al - yeah, i see what you mean there. I loved her easy to navigate but clean looikng drop down menus for archives and such but had problems with the no home button or older post buttons.

That is what I meant to say ;)

Anonymous said...

I'm so glad I found this site! That was a very fair review.

Anonymous said...

yoo... luv this !

Anonymous said...

по моему мнению: восхитительно! а82ч

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