HI Guys, I am a new blogger and have started this blog in may 2007. Please visit my blog and review it and give your feedback. http://blog.techiezone.in
Don't post video that auto-plays. Too much "visual spam" on the site, just because a blog doesn't mean it needs to be covered in buttons. Everything under your "Subscribe" heading is cluttered, remove unneeded buttons and reduce the size of your RSS icon. The two buttons under "Sponsors" don't line up and look out of place. Snapshots is annoying, don't use it if you can help it/don't rely on it for income. The heading under "Top Post" appear to be nested, if this is the intent, I don't believe they need to be, remove the parent and have "The Meta" and "Promotion" be their own top level elements. Sort your "Promotion" links so that same-size buttons are lined up and non-standard buttons are either removed, replaced with standard size buttons or put in a new line. The background of the site is neither dark enough nor light enough to provide adequate contrast to your main content area. Your footer needs to be either a lighter color unless you change your background color. I know a lot of website do very faint footers, but yours is too fuzzy and too large to be effective like that. The over-use of icons is also distracting. Logos are usually expected in the top left of a web page, but if you would rather have the ads there I don't see a problem with it. "Recent Readers" looks out of place, it should either be textual, larger (to extend the entire sidebar) or smaller. Whilst writing this I really enjoyed how infuriatingly annoying that auto-playing repeating video made viewing your site. It was nearly intolerable and had I not already started writing this I would have surely closed your site and never visited again.
Thanks a lot John, I will definitely implement some of your points but not all. The viodeo is a swf file so thr is no way to control the autoplay feature.
I believ Johnxstone hit all the points. I have a similiar site www{dot)techalot{dot}com/ that focuses on technology so I can relate to all of his comments. I have been there.....
Hi, You have a nice set up on your blog but I would try and maybe add a header image with a slogan in it. This will give it a little more color. As for the rest, it looks fine to me.