Name: Kitty
Site: Kitty's Voice
Review completed on: 09/06/08

I have to warn you that this is going to be a very short review since this is purely a blog site. I should have checked your site out before I added it to the queue, but if I remember correctly I added your site along with a whole bunch of others, and this was during the time in which I had limited time online and....blah blah blah. In short it was a mistake that I added your site to the queue in the first place. It's not your fault, I'm just sorry that I won't be able to provide you with a decent review. I'll cover what I can, but I doubt that will be much.

To say that your site is busy would be an understatement. There's so much going on here, so many colours, so much text - even a marquee in the mix to add to the distraction of it all. Where to begin? What to look at first? My eyes are finding it hard to focus on anything specific, but going by what I can see your blog resembles that of an explosion - with a mass of bright pink and cyan debris. The three G's come into play here - glaring, garish, and gaudy. The fuschia pink font you've used for your blog text is shockingly inappropriate - large text bodies should always be in an acceptable black / medium black / white / any shade of grey, certainly not pink.

The layout consists of three fairly wide columns. Ideal for visitors on larger resolutions but on 1024 x 768 (which is still the standard size) and lower there are noticeable scrollbars on the bottom of the window. I can only see the first two columns and a fraction of the third without having to scroll. It's annoying to say the least. Since this is purely a blog site, there's no need to have three columns containing filler crap like plugboards, tagboards, hug counters and the like. I personally consider it cheap and tacky to display such content on the main page of a site - they're best stowed away in a separate section. You could get rid of the plugboard and the awfully tacky hug counter (people are sad enough to use these?) allowing you to use the area for all of the stuff on the right hand sidebar. That way you won't need an additional sidebar at all, because your site won't be overflowing with as much tacky crap as it currently is.

That's a nice kitty image on the far left. Did you draw it yourself? Well done if you did. The pixeled kitty on the right sidebar however, looks a bit blurry, as if it was originally a smaller size and you've enlarged it.

You could easily have a pleasant looking blog site here, you just need to tone down the garish colours, ditch the three column getup and reduce the amount of items that aren't related to your blog. I highly doubt people even care about the additional items anyway - after all, they're here for your blog, surely.

Umm, what else can I review? Your blog I suppose? I've never reviewed a blog before.

I notice that the majority of your blogs receive zero comments, and I think I might know why this is. Your blogs, in my opinion, do not really appeal to the visitor. Your latest blog for example mainly consists of a meme - also known as a guaranteed turn-off for the discerning blog hopper, and most of your other blog topics revolve around movies, studying, and your boyfriend. It's okay to mention these topics occasionally, but when you blog about the same topics nonstop people tend to get fed up and bored. You've got to keep it interesting for the visitors if you want your blog to be successful. Try to change the topic from time to time, cover a broader range of topics instead of the same old same old.

A change of layout structure, an increased variety of blog topics and finally a re-evaluation of your colour choices would surely make your blog more successful.