10 things I hate about your site

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The blogosphere, for all of it’s bloggers, can be a small world. Our next site review comes via a theme I chose to use for one of my other blogs, The Web-Betty Blog. There were quite a few comments regarding the Unstandard theme and how to modify it. A few of these comments came from Tracy Rosen. She provided some good info that really helped me modify the theme to my own liking.

That said, I’m going to find it difficult to provide an unbiased review as she has been oh so helpful to me. Since I’ve been asked, however, this is my way of returning the favor.

10 5 things I hate about your site:

1. Holy navigation, Batman! You have quite a few navigation buttons.
2. Busy, busy, busy. There is a lot going on here.
3. Gray, highlighted text.
4. Too many formatting styles in a post.
5. Overall layout—are you making the most of your blog real estate?

Don’t be mislead. While there are only five items listed, they cover a multitude of sins.

While the main purpose of this blog is to spout my opinion, I truly do want it to be a resource for people who endeavor to make their sites and blogs better—better design, better usability, better content, better whatever. To that end, I’m going to start featuring a resource, on a weekly basis (ok, hopefully on a weekly basis). There will be no rhyme or reason as to what I decide to feature on any given week. Whatever suits my fancy; whatever mood I’m in; whatever I’m working on. These will all be deciding factors. So, without further ado, this week’s resource is

From TechRepublic:

“Many novice Web developers use CSS positioning and layout directives without a sound understanding of how they really work. A brief introduction to the box model explains what it is and how you can use it to make better decisions about positioning your HTML elements on a Web page.“

What is this, anyway? Well, I’ll tell you. I joined several blog communities the other day, in an attempt to gain viewers/comments/social acceptance/etc. Having three blogs already (this is my fourth—I guess I have a lot to say), I do find myself getting distracted as there are so many people out there, blogging away, on so many interesting and significant (and not so significant) topics. In my meandering, I came across a discussion entitled “10 things I hate about your blog.” Of course, this discussion had hundreds of bloggers commenting and waiting their turn for public humiliation.