Blogging is an art. You have to have the right balance between visual appeal and content. With excellent visuals and sloppy content, a blog will not hold on to its readers. While if you have a blog which is over-run with text even though the content is of the utmost profound nature, people will not even bother to attempt your jumbled mess.
The layout of fellow Rhodes students’ blog, Write Side up the categories application, makes it easy to find blog posts with content relevant to the individual. Unfortunately, I was unimpressed with the overall appearance of the blog, as it lacked pictures and extra links.
The blog is far more light-hearted than the members profess it to be, and although the approach was refreshing I found my attention wandering to what the Smuts dining hall would do to make lunch unappetising today.
The blog burnt holes in my eyes with its incomprehensible use of text colour for a few of the older posts. This was to be the only impression of the blog to be left branded at the back of my brain. Not a good start.
As I paged through the blog, I noticed that there were empty posts, headlines without content and no indication as to who wrote particular posts. This blog is shabby and neglected.
Among all the negativity, there shone out a few interesting and amusing posts, an overall entertaining read.
This blog is one to view, but not one to particularly follow religiously.
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