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Blue Room Review Analysis
Tuesday, Apr. 29, 2003, 8:34 p.m.

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Just got my review from blueroomrevu. The reviewer was very sweet, but I found one comment very interesting. I'll reply in italics, which will be fun:)

Stalking: [ 5 / 5 ]

Comments, e-mail, guestbook, and notes. Yep, I'm stalkable!

Navigation: [ 9 / 10 ]

In the picture section of your table. I counted off one point because it's not really in a convenient place (because of the coloring, it tends to mix with the image a bit, and I didn't even notice it at first). All of the links work, though, so good job :) Very good point. I've moved alot of it over to the main entry section. Hopefully, that will be better.

Design: [ 23 / 25 ]

It's not my favorites design, but it works. Credit to Raging Pistachio Designs. The thing that bothers me the most about any diary I review is when the design is not configured to work in all resolutions. Yours doesn't. Sure, you may have a mondo monitor, but I don't, and so I'm working with two scrolls here: your scrolling entry and the regular scrollbar. That doesn't work for me. There's not really any way that you could fix this problem, unless you changed the margins yourself. The picture is almost two big to fit in 800X600 resolution, but if you changed the margin to about, oh, one pixel, then it would, though your design would seriously look ridiculous then, but...oh well. Two points of for the design not fitting. Yep, I bet it does look bad on 800x600. I actually have my resolution at the next one higher than 1026..it's 11 something. I have a 19inch monitor (oh man, I got it at Overstock.com, regular 600.00 and I got it for 195. Oh yeah. It rocks.) But anyway, I didn't realize it was so bad on 800x600, so I'm glad she pointed that out.

Content: [ 26 / 30 ]

Overall, I wasn't very impressed by your diary. Your poetry was the most interesting thing for me to read. Sadly enough, you leave your readers very vague pictures of what your life is like, because your writing is so "newsy" (written as though it were a commentary, rather than an entry, only made more obvious when you separate ideas by lines). Your word usage is good enough, but I just think you could be less "cold" with your ideas and more forward with your emotion. I couldn't really pick out anything I didn't like, but, at the same time, I couldn't find anything I did like. Lose the reporter attributes in your diary and gain some feeling, and I'll love you forever. If you wrote entries with the same depth as you write your poetry, then your diary would be far more involved, so to speak. This is the part I found very interesting. I never really thought of this diary as lacking feeling. I really don't have any response to that because I can't say I agree with it. I know my more recent entries have been toned down a bit, but I still feel like I'm conveying emotions when I write. But that's okay!

Extras: [ 5 / 5 ]

Too many to count, thus: enough to give you full credit. Yay. Yaay

Rating: [ 8 / 10 ]

I wouldn't be back, but I'm sure you'll get clicks from the review. Not everyone likes emotion, you know :) I feel kinda bad that she won't be back because I actually do think I have emotion. But that's okay.

Updates: [ 15 / 15 ]

Job well done, here. Thank you, thank you

Total: [ 91 / 100 ] Very nice score. Thank you!

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